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Understanding Institutional Racism in Comparative Perspective: from Lesson-Drawing to an Agenda for Change 3:00PM-7:30pm 20 Online Webex Event APRIL https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/onstage/g.php? 2021 MTID=e9fb14c614c71a8cc94e26724b137937f DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Understanding Institutional Racism in Comparative Perspective: From Lesson-drawing to an Agenda for Change UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg, Lëtz Rise Up United Nations UNESCO Chair Educational, Scientific and in Human Rights Cultural Organization Concept The brutal killing of George Floyd by attitudes and behaviour which international experts on questions police in Minneapolis in May 2020 amount to discrimination through of institutional racism to present triggered a wave of global protests unwitting prejudice, ignorance, their understanding of the problems under the emblematic banner of thoughtlessness and racist and the challenges going forward. ‘Black Lives Matter’, drawing renewed stereotyping which disadvantage The presentations will allow both attention to longstanding issues of minority ethnic people.’ for a deepened understanding of racial injustice and inequality both in different national experiences and Here in Luxembourg, questions the United States and internationally. of the transversal lessons that may of racial discrimination were While the US debate inevitably be drawn across those cases and prominently brought on to the reflects the country’s own particular potentially applied in the context of national agenda by a 2018 report of historical experience of slavery and our own distinctively multicultural the European Union’s Fundamental segregation, the events have also society. Our final session will present Rights Agency surveying the demanded renewed critical reflection the conclusions of the ‘Racismes experiences of people of African on Europe’s colonial past and – Comprendre pour Agir’ training descent in 12 EU member states contemporary realities. workshops held in November- and published under the title ‘Black December 2020 as the first stage of In terms of public policy, the in the EU’. The survey reported this project. Through our discussions attendant debates and discussions comparatively high levels of and exchanges, we hope to provide have often focused around the perceived discrimination in the new insight into the issues, frames, concept of ‘institutional racism’. case of Luxembourg across a range and policy instruments necessary to The term, first seminally used in of categories, including instances move forward this important national the American context by Stokely of racially motivated harassment dialogue. Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles and conditions shaping access V. Hamilton in their 1967 book Black to employment, educational and Power, has in the ensuing decades other opportunities. Following on acquired a much wider international from the report, the November resonance. On this side of the 2019 conference ‘Being Black Atlantic, the 1999 UK inquiry into in Luxembourg’ provided for an the death Stephen Lawrence, for important public airing of issues that example, found the existence of a have to date received comparatively culture of ‘institutional racism’ within little national attention. the Metropolitan (London) Police, It is against this background that the defining the concept in terms that present half-day online conference is have acquired a broader significance: organised with a view to furthering ‘The collective failure of an our national reflection on issues of organisation to provide an racial discrimination. Organised by appropriate and professional service the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights to people because of their colour, at the University of Luxembourg and culture, or ethnic origin. It can be the NGO LëtzRiseUP, the conference seen or detected in processes, brings together a number of leading Programme Speakers 15:00 - 15:15 Robert Harmsen Introduction University of Luxembourg Professor Robert Harmsen, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg Robert Harmsen is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg, where he has 15:15 - 16:15 also held the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights ‘At Least We Don’t Do That Here’ since 2019. Professor Harmsen has published How Europe Mis(Understands) Black America extensively on aspects of the European human rights regime, the processes of European Professor Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester integration, the rise of Euroscepticism, and comparative and international higher education 16:15 - 17:15 policy. His current research focuses on the dynamics of judicial globalisation in relation to the diffusion of Black Lives Matter, Social Justice, and the Limits of fundamental rights, as well as on the role of human Multiculturalism rights in the policy process. Professor Debra Thompson, Associate' Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, McGill University 17:15 - 17:30 - Break 17:30 - 18:30 BLM: A Transnational Movement that Changed the Dutch Landscape Professor Halleh Ghorashi, Professor of Sociology, VU Amsterdam 18:30 - 19:30 Combating Racism in the Land of MultiKulti Sandrine Gashonga, Antiracist and Intercultural Trainer and Consultant Gary Younge Debra Thompson University of Manchester McGill University Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor Dr. Debra Thompson is an Associate Professor of of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly Political Science and Canada Research Chair in a US-based columnist and editor-at-large at The Guardian, Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies at he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, McGill University. She is a leading scholar of the the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and an comparative politics of race, with teaching and Honorary Fellow of the British Academy. He has research interests that focus on the dynamics written five books: the most recent, Another of racial inequality in democratic societies. Dr. Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Thompson’s award-winning book, The Schematic Short Lives, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the from Columbia Journalism School and Nieman Census (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is a study Foundation. He has also written for The New York of the political development of racial classifications on Review of Books. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and and The New Statesman and made several radio Great Britain. The book maps the changing nature of the and television documentaries on subjects ranging census from an instrument historically used to manage from gay marriage in Kentucky to east Europeans and and control racialized populations to its contemporary Brexit. He studied French and Russian at Heriot Watt purpose as an important source of statistical information, University in Edinburgh and Newspaper Journalism at employed for egalitarian ends. Her research has also appeared City University in London. After 12 years reporting from journals such as in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, South America for the Guardian, he moved back to London in 2015. Atlantic Quarterly, Social and Legal Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, among others. Dr. Thompson previously taught at the University of Oregon and Northwestern University, and held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship with the Abstract Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University in 2010-2011. European views on Black America are informed by a range of contradictory tendencies: amnesia about its own colonial past, ambivalence about its racial Abstract present, a tradition of anti-racism and international solidarity and an often fraught geo-political relationship with the United States itself. From the vantage As a model of social inclusion developed in the late twentieth century, point of a continent that both resents and covets American power, and is in little multiculturalism is a form of diversity management that provides different position to do anything about it, African Americans represent to many in Europe forms and levels of public recognition to cultural communities. The first two a redemptive force– living proof that that US is both not all that it claims to be decades of the twenty-first century have revealed, however, that the politics and could be so much greater than it is. of recognition are wholly insufficient to challenge persistent racial economic This sense of superiority is made possible, in no small part, by a woefully, wilfully inequality, rampant political suppression, and the frequent, violent encounters incomplete and toxically nostalgic view of Europe’s own colonial history which with the state experienced by Black citizens in the United States and beyond. has left significant room for denial, distortion, ignorance and sophistry. This lecture contends that Black Lives Matter, one of the most important social The result, in the post-war era, has been moments of solidarity often impaired movements of the twenty-first century, has exposed the conceptual limits of the by exocitisation or infantilisation in which Europe has found it easier to export multicultural model. It explores how the demands of the Movement for Black anti-racism across the Atlantic than to practice it at home or export it across the Lives go beyond liberal multiculturalism and instead propose a more radical Mediterranean and beyond. approach that emphasizes the political,
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