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Free Speech and Religious Freedom after Charlie Hebdo and Section 18C

Published April 28, 2016

On April 7, I was invited to participate in a round table on ‘Free Speech and Religious Freedom after Charlie Hebdo and Section 18C’ at the University of Wollongong by Tanja Dreher and Michael Griffiths on the occasion of Anshuman Mondal‘s visit to the University. Here are the slides from my brief presentation which touched on recent events in France and made an attempt to connect them to issues arising from the theorisation of the postracial.

I also gave a response to Mondal’s lecture, ‘Freedom of Expression and Religious Freedom in Contemporary Multiculture’, the text of which I reproduce here.

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

Published January 17, 2016

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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CFP: ‘Are We Really Post-Race?’ Graduate Training Workshop

Published August 7, 2013

Are We Really Post-Race?: A Transnational Perspective

 A 2-day research training scheme graduate workshop

 2-3 December 2013, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta South (PS-EB.G.17)

Organised by Dr Alana Lentin, Senior Lecturer in Cultural & Social Analysis,

NB: This event is for UWS doctoral students only

Rationale

Since the election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency in 2008, and his re-election in 2012, the idea that US society has moved beyond the stratification caused by race has become the orthodoxy. ‘Postracialism’ as it has become known has parallels in European, Australian and Canadian discourses of anti-multiculturalism and ‘anti-white racism’. The concept has thus become highly relevant for scholars of race, ethnicity and multiculturalism. However, the analysis of its impact on the study of these themes, often marginalised within disciplines, remains nascent.

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