Coloniality, (de)colonization and every day’s racial injustice

February 29th: 14.00-16.00 at C102 

Jerry Luther King Afriyie is the Co-Founder of Nederland Wordt Beter. Jerry has been actively involved for almost twenty years in de-colonial and anti-racist campaigns in The Netherlands, with particular emphasis on de-constructing the origin and implications of 'zwarte Piet'. Jerry will be sharing his experience and insight in order to provide intellectual tools to be deployed during the lecture (and in the following seminar) for individual and collective self-reflection on current forms of coloniality that still surround us, from our university to the city where we live.

Climate (in)justice

March 14th: 14.00-16.00 at C102

Alba Kapoor is the Head of Policy at the Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading race equality think tank, managing the policy function for the organisation. She delivers large scale pieces of policy research and works to set out Runnymede’s anti-racist agenda. As part of this role, she led the English civil society submission to the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination on Racial Discrimination.

Intersectional (in)Justice 

March 28th: 14.00-16.00 at C102

Jana Nakal is a PhD student at Ljubljana University and member of the Secretariat of the World March of Women. She a feminist urban planner and researcher. She has published in several Lebanese and regional newspapers and magazines on urban and feminist issues. Her research focuses on housing, public spaces, heritage and culture from an intersectional feminist perspective. She is specifically interested in the concepts of gender and space, and the spatial rights of disenfranchised communities, and organizes trainings on intersectional feminism, agroecology and ecofeminism. Jana is also on the editorial board of Watch, FIAN’s journal, and Public Works Magazine. 

​​Development and Cooperation in the pursuit of global (in)justice

April 22nd: 17.00-19.00 at KS204

Dr. Rosalba Icaza Garza is professor at the ISS, and her research and teaching lie at the intersection of global politics, feminisms and decoloniality. The field of global politics analyzes interactions between power and knowledge under conditions of globalization. The field of feminisms investigates the gendered inequalities in such interactions. Feminisms in plural indicates Prof. Icaza Garza’s long-term interest in the plurality of approaches reflecting and acting upon gendered inequalities across the Global North/South divide.