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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">This is a call for an expression of interest from academics and doctoral students wishing to participate in a workshop on everyday racism with Professor Philomena Essed. Please email the workshop convenor a statement of your current research project(s) highlighting specific links with the theme of the workshop or Essed’s work by 13 February 2012. Successful applicants will be notified by 15 February 2012. The workshop number will be capped at 20 participants. Attendance to the workshop is free and includes lunch and afternoon tea. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">The Department of Sociology, Macquarie University and School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney jointly presents:</span></i></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Everyday Racism: a workshop with Philomena Essed</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Preference for sameness, normative expectations, and subtle exclusions can be invisible to dominant groups but overwhelmingly present in the everyday experiences of non-dominant groups. Everyday racism is not about extreme incidents, it is a process of numerous day-to-day violations of the human right of ethnic minorities to live in dignity. It is expressed in and outside of institutions, in schools, at work, through the media, shopping, or in the neighbourhood – there is no relief. Everyday racism adapts to the (gendered) culture, norms and values of particular European societies as it operates through the prevalent structures of power in society.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Required Readings:</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Essed, Philomena, 2004.<span> </span>Naming the Unnamable: Sense and Sensibilities in Researching Racism. M. Bulmer & J. Solomos (Eds.) Researching Race and Racism. London: Routledge. Pp 119 </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Essed,Philomena. 2005. Gendered Normativities in Racialized Spaces: Cloning the Physician. John Solomos & Karim Murji (Eds.). Racialization: Studies in Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford UP, pp 229-249 </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Essed, Philomena and Nimako, Kwame. 2006. Designs and (Co)Incidents. Cultures of Scholarship and Public Policy on Immigrants/Minorities in the Netherlands. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Volume 47 (3-4). Pp 281-312.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">Philomena Essed</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt"> is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership studies, Antioch University (USA),<span> </span><i>PhD in Leadership and Change Program</i> and affiliated researcher, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) <i>Graduate Gender Program</i>. She has a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">Her research and teaching transcends national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Well </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">known for introducing the concepts of <i>everyday racism</i> and <i>gendered racism </i>in the Netherlands and internationally<i>, </i>her work has been adopted and applied in a range of countries, including the US, Canada, South Africa, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the UK, Switzerland, and Australia. </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">She has lectured in many countries - from Germany to Brazil; from South-Africa to Canada – and published numerous articles in English and in Dutch, some of which have been translated into French, German, Italian, Swedish and Portuguese. Her books include <i>Everyday Racism; </i></span><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">Understanding Everyday Racism</span></i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">; and <i>Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture. </i><span> </span>Co-edited Volumes<i>: Race Critical Theories</i></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">; <i>Refugees and the Transformation of Societies; </i>and <i>A Companion to Gender Studies </i>(‘outstanding’ 2005 academic reference, American Librarian Association). Volumes in progress include <i>Clones, Fakes and the Posthuman: Cultures of Replication</i> and <i>Dutch Racism. </i></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">Essed has a life-long commitment to social justice. In addition to her academic work Essed has been advisor to governmental and non-governmental organizations, nationally and internationally.<i> </i>She is currently a deputy member of the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission, where she participates in hearings on all forms of structural discrimination. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">As an expert witness on race, gender and racism in Europe Essed addressed among others The </span><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:rgb(0,0,144);font-size:12pt">European Parliament </span></i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:rgb(0,0,144);font-size:12pt">(Brussels, 1984);<i> The </i></span><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:rgb(0,0,144);font-size:12pt">United Nations Economic and Social Council</span></i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:rgb(0,0,144);font-size:12pt"> (New York, 2001); <i>The House of Representatives of the States-General </i><span>(The Hague, the Netherlands,<i> </i>2004<i>);</i> and<i> </i></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">the </span><i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:rgb(0,0,144);font-size:12pt">United States Helsinki Commission</span></i><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:rgb(0,0,144);font-size:12pt"> (Capitol Hill, Washington, 2008). </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">In April 2011 The Queen of the Netherlands honored </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt">Philomena Essed with a Knighthood.</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';color:navy;font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:12pt">Workshop Organisers: Selvaraj Velayutham and Ellie Vasta</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au</font></a></p>
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