Uppsala Workshop 2023, Program

NOS-HS exploratory workshop: Resilience, Racism and Colonialism

31 October - 1 November 2023
Uppsala University
Main building, room IX

Program

Tuesday 31 October

9.15 – 10.15 Welcome!
Keynote speech: Racism as Technology: on the History and Definition of ‘Race’ and Racism
Prof Mattias Gardell, Centre for the Multidisciplinary Studies of Racism (CEMFOR), Uppsala University

Break

10.30 – 12.00 Presentations, session I

Melting Pot’ or ‘Salad Bowl’: Conceptualizing Social Integration and Art of Living Together
Azher Hameed Qamar, Lund University

The Finnish Labour Market Hegemonies and Nuanced Racial Microaggressions: Institutionalised, Systemic and Structural enablers of neo-colonialism
Frank Ojwang, University of Lapland

Resilient Organisms and "They the Refugees"
Elena Ćirković, Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law

12.00-13.15 Lunch (offered to the presenters)

13.15 – 14.30 Presentations, session II

“A Resilient Europe”? Problematizing Resilience in the EU Policy Documents
Monica Colombo, University of Milano-Bicocca

Posthuman security in the digital Anthropocene: Military governmentality at the human-machine-nature nexus
Claes Tängh Wrangel, Uppsala University

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee & snacks

15.00 – 16.30 Presentations, session III

Far-right localism in France: Identitarian ecology as a resilience strategy
Lise Benoist, Uppsala University

Embodied Resilience – Embodiment as resistance in today’s social justice movements
Susanna Jussila, University of Jyväskylä

Rethinking Nature in the Context of Climate Change and ‘Green’ Transformation: An Indigenous Peoples’ perspective
Marlene Payva, University of Lapland

Wednesday 1 November

9.15 – 10.00 Reflections on the dynamics between resilience and colonialism
Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, University of Lapland

Break

10.15 – 11.45 Presentations, session IV

Resilience and blackness
Enock Mathapoly-Codjoe, University of Lapland

Decolonization, Structural Inequality and Sami Experience of Discrimination
Assi Harkoma, University of Lapland

Mixed-relationships and racialised boundaries in European Societies (1920s-present)
Iris Wigger, Loughborough University

11.45 – 13.00 Lunch (offered to the presenters)

13.00 – 14.00 Presentations, session V

Race, Resilience and Oxytocin Receptivity: Towards an Interdisciplinary Synthesis?
Julian Reid, University of Lapland

The Great Crisis Show: Displacement and Projection of the Crisis Concept in Swedish Political Debate?
Erik Hansson, Uppsala University
Gustaf Persson, Jönköping University
Claes Tängh Wrangel, Uppsala University

14.00 – 14.30 Coffee & snacks

14.30 – 16.30 “Writing clinic”
For those wishing to discuss academic writing.
The writing clinic also supports the development of a special issue on the theme of the POWERS network.

16.30 Closing words & thank you


Welcome to join!

The POWERS network:
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, Marjo Lindroth and Julian Reid, University of Lapland
Claes Tängh Wrangel, Uppsala University
Frank Sejersen, University of Copenhagen