Thank you for the reminder Angela Shaw. Every year I say I am going to take this course one summer. I have to ensure that it comes to pass.
7th Annual Summer School on Black Europe
Interrogating Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Relations
Amsterdam, Netherlands – June 23 – July 4, 2014
The Summer School on Black Europe is an intensive two week course offered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The 7th annual Summer School on Black Europe will take place from June 23rd to July 4th, 2014 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in collaboration with The Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues (Barcelona, Spain).*
The Summer School on Black Europe will be held at:
Lombokstraat 40, 1094 AL Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The overall goal of this course is to examine the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora (and “other” immigrants of color) in Europe. We will focus on and discuss the origins of Black Europe and investigate the impact of these legacies on policies, social organizations and legislation today. This course will begin with a historical overview of the African Diaspora in Europe that traces the involvement of European nations in the colonization of the Americas. We will address the migration and settlement of Blacks in Europe, and examine immigration and citizenship laws that regulated their settlement. We will also look at anti-discrimination laws as they have arisen in various European countries. We compare the history of regulation and management of race and ethnic relations and the discourse surrounding the concept of Blackness and self-identification. Historically, social forces and social movements within Europe have given rise to policies to combat racism. We will trace the chain of events following social and civil conflicts that prompted these policies and analyze the legislative and intellectual discourse produced in the aftermath. In addition, we will explore notions of Blackness as official categorization; as a social construction employed by the dominant groups to indicate (non) belonging; as a Diaspora living within Europe; and as a contestation of the dominant (White) paradigm. In this way, we examine the social mobilization of Blacks to resist domination.
The above issues will be considered in light of the immediacy of contemporary global and European forces, including competing issues and discourses on Islamophobia, increased non-Black migration into and across Europe, and the debt crisis in the European Union.
This course will also seek to address the dimensions of race and ethnic relations that are unique to Europe; examining the ways in which conceptions of the “other” are institutionalized and reproduced; the rise of xenophobia in various EU countries; issues such as global racisms, everyday racism and epistemic racism; the legal definitions and discourse surrounding the conceptualized “other”; and examining the ways in which each country has dealt with issues of race and national identity. To this effect guest speakers for the 2013 program will be drawn from Germany, Italy and Portugal for case studies in those countries.
Affiliated Faculty Members include:
- DR. MARTA ARAUJO, UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA (PORTUGAL)
- DR. PHILOMENA ESSED, ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY
- DR. JEANETTE DAVIDSON, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
- DR. DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- DR. RAMON GROSFOGUEL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
- DR. DIENKE HONDIUS, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM
- DR. KWAME NIMAKO, UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
- DR. STEPHEN SMALL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
- DR. MELISSA F. WEINER, COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
- DR. GLORIA WEKKER, UNIVERSITEIT VAN UTRECHT
- DONNA DRIVER-ZWARTKRUIS, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT
Tuition
The tuition for this course is € 1600 (or € 1300 without housing) .
Tuition includes housing, the opening reception, lunches on all class days, weekly get-togethers with faculty, a course reader, a public transportation pass, and travel costs and entrance to museums and exhibitions during excursions (excluding an optional excursion to Paris).
The Paris excursion includes participation in a workshop on Migration and Social Movements at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris.
Tuition does not include travel to and from Amsterdam.
For more information over the Summer School, please email:
blackeurope [at] dialogoglobal.com
K. Nimako, Director
Email: obee [at] telfort.nl
Mano Delea, Project Manager
Email: mano.delea [at] gmail.com
Camilla Hawthorne, Coordinator North America
Email: camilla.hawthorne [at] Berkeley.edu
Giovanni Picker, Coordinator East/Central Europe & Russia
Email: giovanni.picker [at] gmail.com
About the Center
DIÀLEG GLOBAL –
DIÀLEG GLOBAL (Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization promoting research, knowledge-making, education (through seminars, workshops, exhibits, round-tables discussions, publications and video-making) and public policy to invent and work towards non-competitive horizons of life, of socio-economic organization and international relations. Non-profit and non-governmental organizations emerge from within civil and political society to address issues that are not supported or attended to by government and corporations. Their function is crucial in building futures that are beyond the regulations of States or the needs of the Corporations. In order for civil and political society to become relevant actors in social transformation and pointing out the limits of corporate values and state regulation, it is necessary to create institutions of knowledge-making not at the service of the state or corporations, but to the benefit of the civil society.
For further inquiries and information, please send e-mail to blackeurope [at] dialogoglobal.com.
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During the Summer School, we will also be hosting the International Symposium on Black Europe 2014. The 2013 Symposium on Black Europe was titled, Inside Black Europe: Racial Configurations in the Post 9/11 Era (in Europe). Click here for information on the 2012 Symposium.
