BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news126@genderstudies.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200419T091701 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20200429T181500 SUMMARY:VERSCHOBEN Body Flow- Everyday Racism and Politics of Mobility DESCRIPTION:Roundtable with: Philomena Essed (Critical Race\, Gender and Le adership  Studies\, Yellow Springs) Vanessa Thompson (Sociology\, Frankfu rt)  Claudia Wilopo (Cultural Anthropology\, G3S\, Basel) Henri Michel Y éré  (African Studies & Sociology\, Basel) / Moderation: Serena o. Dank wa  (Journalist and Social Anthropologist\, Bern)\\r\\nWhose bodies trave l seamlessly across borders\, and whose bodies are systematically stopped\ , policed\, and surveilled? Who tends to be granted subject status\, and w ho is methodically likened to movable/tradable goods\, thought of in terms of the social and economic value that can be derived from them? This roun dtable discussion aims to dissect the politics of “body flow” in its r elationship to colonial history\, racial capitalism and commodity racism. In line with the international decade for people of African descent\, we w ill focus on manifestations of institutional racism – from economic disc rimination and educational disparities to practices of racial profiling – and various forms of othering and s/exotization that impact the everyd ay lives of Black women and men in particular. We will ask how experiences of everyday racism form part of the politics of “body flow” and the w ays in which they are informed by gender\, sexuality\, class\, nation and skin complexion both historically and in today’s increasingly visual cul ture. Finally\, we will address the potential and limits of art as interve ntion into structural racism in Switzerland and beyond. X-ALT-DESC:

Roundtable with: Philomena Essed (Critical Race\, Gender and Leadership \; Studies\, Yellow Springs) Vanessa Thompson (Sociology\, Frankfurt) \; Claudia Wilopo (Cultural Anthropology\, G3S\, Basel) Hen ri Michel Yéré \; (African Studies &\; Sociology\, Basel) / Moder ation: Serena o. Dankwa \; (Journalist and Social Anthropologist\, Ber n)

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Whose bodies travel seamlessly across borders\, and whose bodie s are systematically stopped\, policed\, and surveilled? Who tends to be g ranted subject status\, and who is methodically likened to movable/tradabl e goods\, thought of in terms of the social and economic value that can be derived from them? This roundtable discussion aims to dissect the politic s of “body flow” in its relationship to colonial history\, racial capi talism and commodity racism. In line with the international decade for peo ple of African descent\, we will focus on manifestations of institutional racism – from economic discrimination and educational disparities to pra ctices of racial profiling – and various forms of othering and s/exotiza tion that impact the everyday lives of Black women and men in particular. We will ask how experiences of everyday racism form part of the politics o f “body flow” and the ways in which they are informed by gender\, sexu ality\, class\, nation and skin complexion both historically and in today ’s increasingly visual culture. Finally\, we will address the potential and limits of art as intervention into structural racism in Switzerland an d beyond.

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