<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(148,54,52)">Macquarie University - <span style> </span>Department
of Sociology presents a public lecture on:</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(148,54,52)"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Racism
in Europe: Humiliation and Homogenization</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Speaker:
Professor Philomena Essed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Date:
Friday 2 March 2012</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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Macquarie University Art Gallery (Building E11A)</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/maps/">http://www.mq.edu.au/on_campus/maps/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><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. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><br><span style="color:navy"></span><span style></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><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:rgb(0,0,144)">European
Parliament </span></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,144)">(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:rgb(0,0,144)">United
States Helsinki Commission</span></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,144)"> (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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">For enquiries contact: <a href="mailto:selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au">selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au</a> </span><a href="mailto:elvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style> </span>Department
of Sociology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style> </span>Macquarie
University</span></p>
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