Programme

Internal Event

Workshop on “Approaching Race and Racism in Classrooms and Research Contexts”

12:30 – 14:30 General Introduction and small Apéro

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 16:00 Lecture by Prof. Bandana Purkayastha

16:00 – 17:30 Discussion and feedback

17:30 – 18:00 Closing remarks and Apéro

09:00 – 09:30 Check-in

Panel 1 - State Law and Policy: Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Religion

(Panel chair: Dominik Folger)

09:30 – 10:30 The Human Rights Paradigm of Knowledge Production: Decolonization or Colonization of Knowledge? – Nazneen Shifa (online)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 11:45 Decolonization, Human Rights and the Limits of Liberal Governmentality: Hijras and ‘Third Gender’ Laws in Pakistan – Dr. Salman Hussain

11:45 – 13:00 Lunch break at Rämi59

Attention room change: The afternoon session will be held in room KOL-F-117 (same building, different room)

13:15 – 14:15 “Not Yet Subjects”: How Denotification Legitimises Objectification – Bharat Hun

14:15 – 15:15 Egypt’s subaltern LGBTQIA and the national framing of queerism into an anti-Western Discourse – Dr. Shaimaa Magued

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 Keynote by – Prof. Maitrayee Chaudhuri

16:30 – 16:45 Check-out

08:45 – 09:00 Check-in

Panel 2 - Decolonising Intimate Encounters: Frameworks for Future Research

(Panel chair: Dr. Banhishikha Ghosh)

09:00 – 10:00 Decolonising reproduction: Some notes on gender, caste, family and law – Aishwarya Chandran

10:00 – 11:00 Colonial Laws and Sexualities: Sri Lankan Nachchi (transgender) Sex Workers’ Everyday Engagements with the Law – Dr. Kaushalya Ariyarathne

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15 Keynote – Prof. Navaneetha Mokkil

12:15 – 13:45 Lunch break at Rämi59

Panel 3 - Decolonising Academia: Methods, Methodologies and Research Ethics

(Panel chair: Dr. Paridhi Gupta)

13:45 – 14:45 Decolonising the performance of teaching. Using bell hooks and theories of Third Space to teach gender and sexuality in the European classroom – Jessica Albrecht

14:45 – 15:45 Free labour and lack of accountability in the Decolonial university – a critical approach – Dr. Annapurna Menon, Arshita Nandan, Jo Krishnakumar

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote – Prof. Bandana Purkayastha

17:00 – 17:30 Final discussion