Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies Presents
New Racisms II: Neoliberalism and its Others
Silverstone Building (SB)
University of Sussex
PROGRAMME
Full programme downloadable as PDF
Day 1 – Thursday 9th June
09:00 – 09:50 Registration and coffee (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)
09:50 – 10:00 Introduction: Naaz Rashid & Malcolm James (SB121)
10.00 – 11.30 Film – ‘Everyday Borders’ and discussion with Rita Chadha (RAMFEL), Don Flynn (MRN), Richard Williams (Sanctuary on Sea) (SB121)
11:30 – 12:30 Plenary 1 – ‘Islamophobia as an Ideology of Empire’, Arun Kundnani (NYU) (SB121)
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)
13:15 – 14:45 Panel 1 – Racisms, Refugees and Borders (SB121)
Shirin Hirsch (University of Glasgow) - Racism, borders and the refugee ‘second generation’ in London
Nina Mickwitz (London College of Communication) - Patrolling Borders and Constructing Fences: the construction of Others in European television drama
Kostas Maronitis (Leeds Trinity University) - The Migration Crisis and the Racialisation of the Neoliberal Order
Malcolm James (University of Sussex) – Everyday care and cruelty: the intertwining of racism and humanism in Chios, Greece
14:45 – 16:15 Panel 2 – Neo-nationalisms / Anti-Muslim Racisms (SB121)
Sivamohan Valluvan (University of Manchester) - The Ideological Multiplicity of New Nationalism
Ariana Solé i Arraràs & Martin Lundsteen (University of Barcelona) - Islamophobia, anti-Muslimness and neoliberalism in Catalonia (Spain)
Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills & David Miller (University of Liverpool and University of Bath) - Contesting racialisation: Islamophobia, social movements and the practice of the state
Manal Massalha (LSE) - Into the abyss – Is Israel’s institutionalised and normalised racism a problem of far-right chauvinism?
16:15 – 16:45 Tea (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)
16:45 – 17:45 Plenary 2 – ‘Argumentum ad Misericordiam – the Critical Intimacies of Victimhood’ – Sally Munt (University of Sussex) (SB121)
19:30 Conference Dinner (optional) – Lucky Star, Trafalgar Street, Brighton https://www.facebook.com/Lucky-Star-Brighton-108461539316197/
Day 2 – Friday 10th June
09:00 – 09:30 Tea and coffee (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary 3 – ‘Racial Capitalism’ – Gargi Bhattacharyya (University of East London) (SB121)
10:30 – 12:00 Panel 3 – Neoliberalisms (SB121)
Raven Brown (Milano School of International Affairs, New York ) – The inevitability of crisis: alternatives to the hegemony of capitalism and democracy
Gareth Mulvey and Neil Davidson (University of Glasgow) – The British state, neoliberalism, immigration and EU Referendums
Terese Jonsson (University of Portsmouth) - Feminist politics and racial neoliberalism in Britain
Ben Pitcher (University of Westminster) – The racial politics of welfare in neoliberal Britain
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)
12:45 – 14:15 Panel 4 – Anti-Muslim Racism and Gender (SB121)
Naaz Rashid (University of Sussex) - Veiled Threats? Producing the Muslim woman in the UK public policy imaginary
Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester) - Phobias and Phantasms in Rochdale: Gendered Violence under Racial Neoliberalism
14:15 – 14:45 Tea/Coffee (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)
14:45 – 15:45 Plenary 4 – ‘The continuities of apartheid and neoliberal imperatives in South African higher education: Some thoughts on decolonizing curriculum’ – Tamara Shefer (University of the Western Cape) (SB121)
15:45– 17:45 Film – ‘The Hard Stop’ and discussion with Adam Elliott-Cooper (University of Oxford) and Fahim Alam (Dir. Riots Reframed) (SB121)
18:00 Wine reception and launch of Cosmopolitan dharma: ‘race’, sexuality and gender in British Buddhism (2016) (eds) Sharon E Smith, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Sally R Munt (2016) (Social Space, SB, 3rd Floor)