Diversity and inclusion

Visuality and Raciality

Seeing Race Through Anti-Colonial and Global South Perspectives

Lunch Talk | Bocafloja

17 March | 12:00-13:15

Bocafloja, independant scholar and artist, explores the relationship between visual culture and race, asking how images shape the ways racism is produced, understood, and challenged. Drawing on Global South and anti-colonial perspectives, it examines how visual art can reinforce racialised power relations, but also how it can open space for resistance, re-imagining, and change. 

Focusing on questions of representation, identity and power, the talk invites critical reflection on who is seen, how they are seen, and who controls these images. In the context of Anti-Racism Month in Belgium, it considers the political possibilities of visual practices for unsettling dominant narratives and contributing to anti-racist dialogue within and beyond academic spaces. 

With Jordanian‑Belgian poet and activist Inès Al Share as moderator, and a concluding reflection by Amal Miri, postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice (VUB).

This Lunch Talk is organised in collaboration with Nuff Said. Come and listen to our unconventional guest speaker while enjoying a free lunch.

Bocafloja | Amal Miri | Inès Al Share

Bocafloja is a Mexican rapper, poet and spoken word artist. As an independent scholar, Bocafloja’s intellectual production has been able to generate relevant processes in the context of racialized epistemology and decolonial thought. 
Amal Miri is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice (VUB) and holds a PhD in Gender & Diversity from Ghent University. Her research sits at the intersection of migration, critical feminist theory, and participatory methodologies, with a strong focus on amplifying minoritised voices through co-creative research in academic and community contexts.
Inès Al Share is a Jordanian-Belgian poet, activist and project manager of WeDecolonize at UCOS (VUB).

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(old library, Paardenmarkt 94-2000 Antwerp)

This Lunch Talk will be held in English and is open to all students and staff of UAntwerp and AUHA.

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Visuality and Raciality | Bocafloja | 17 March 12:00-13:15

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​This project was made possible through Global Minds funding from VLIRUOS