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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b style><span style="COLOR:#943634;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt">The Department of Sociology presents a public lecture on:</span></b><b style><span style="COLOR:#943634;FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></b></font></div>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><font face="Calibri">Racism in Europe: Humiliation and Homogenization</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"><font face="Calibri">Speaker: Professor Philomena Essed</font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Date: Friday 2 March 2012</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">The European unification has been foremost a project of whiteness. Notions of tolerance, multiculturalism and antiracism, somewhat popular in the 1980s, have all but disappeared from political agendas. The turn of the century has been witness to the emergence of what I call entitlement racism: the idea that majority populations have the right to offend and to humiliate the ‘Other’. Expressions of this form of racism vary according to racial, ethnic and religious group attributions and can range from assimilative paternalism to extreme cultural humiliation. The Netherlands is a case in point.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="COLOR:navy">Philomena Essed</span></b><span style="COLOR:navy"> is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership studies, Antioch University (USA), <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. Her research and teaching transcends national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Well 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. 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; Understanding Everyday Racism</i>; and <i>Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture. </i> Co-edited Volumes<i>: Race Critical Theories</i>; <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><span style></span></font></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="COLOR:navy">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><span style></span></font></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="COLOR:navy">As an expert witness on race, gender and racism in Europe Essed addressed among others The </span><i><span style="COLOR:#000090">European Parliament </span></i><span style="COLOR:#000090">(Brussels, 1984);<i> The United Nations Economic and Social Council</i> (New York, 2001); <i>The House of Representatives of the States-General </i>(The Hague, the Netherlands,<i> </i>2004<i>);</i> and<i> </i></span><span style="COLOR:navy">the </span><i><span style="COLOR:#000090">United States Helsinki Commission</span></i><span style="COLOR:#000090"> (Capitol Hill, Washington, 2008). </span><span style="COLOR:navy">In April 2011 The Queen of the Netherlands honoured Philomena Essed with a Knighthood.</span><span style></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"><font face="Calibri">For enquiries contact: s</font></span><a href="mailto:elvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"><font face="Calibri">elvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au</font></span></a></p>
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