10th Annual Summer School on Black Europe Interrogating Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Relations,June 26 - July 7, 2017, The Netherlands

Publish Date: Nov 03, 2016

Deadline: Feb 01, 2017

Information about application

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.

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, course readings, a public transportation pass, and travel costs and entrance to museums and exhibitions during excursions.

The excursions are coordinated through Black Heritage Amsterdam Tours.

Tuition does not include travel to and from Amsterdam.

About the Center

Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial 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.

Who Should Apply

The seminar is open to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, junior faculty, professionals with MA, teachers and policy workers. The seminar will be limited to 30 registered participants. Preference will be given to students based on the following criteria:

  • Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in relevant disciplines (social sciences and the humanities, professional schools (preferably law, bio-technology, business schools), interested in questions of Black Europe and the African diaspora;
  • Post-doctoral candidates already engaged or seeking to engage work related to Black Europe and the African diaspora;
  • Junior Faculty from all over the world;
  • Professionals with MA degrees already working or interested in working in education, government institutions, NGOs, corporations;
  • High school teachers and university professors;
  • Policy workers seeking deeper understanding of factors shaping citizenship and inequality;
  • NGOs working against xenophobia in Europe.

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Disciplines

European Studies

History

Political Sciences

Social Sciences

Eligible Countries

International

Host Countries

Netherlands