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The Apparatus of Racism – comments on the racial-colonial

In March 2017, I was invited to participate in The Apparatus of Racism, a two-day symposium held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt on the NSU Complex and the embeddedness of racism in the German state and its institutions, particularly the police. On the second evening, I participated in…

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The Disruption of Postracial Certainty as an Antiracist Urgency – Keynote at the Berlin Jewish Museum

On 12 November 2015, I was honoured to have been invited by the organisers of the international conference, ‘Post-migrant Society?! Controversies on Racism, Minorities and Pluralization’, held at the Berlin Jewish Museum, Yasemin Schooman and Riem Spielhaus. The opening event at which I spoke was filmed and can be viewed…

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Europe calling

I’ll be in Europe giving a few talks and things in June/July. If you’re in Berlin, please come to the Institute for Cultural Inquiry on June 30 to hear me talk on Race, Post-Race

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Teaching in the Sun

Race, gender and sexuality at Bebel Platz
Race, gender and sexuality at Bebel Platz

The first teaching day of my Erasmus Visit to the Transdisciplinary Gender Studies Institute at the Humboldt University in Berlin got off to a good start yesterday. The first session was held at Bebel Platz, opposite the main building of the University on the famous Unter den Linden. We met the students and picked up a megaphone and went to the Platz where we settled on the steps of the Church. Amused tourists passed by, literally walking over the students to get into the church. The point of all this?

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Berlin, June 2009

I am engaged in an Erasmus Teaching Visit to the Institute for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University from June 15-19. Due to a national education strike being called in Germany this week, the seminars will be held in public spaces on the Humboldt University site. The first seminar…

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Alana Lentin