Join us on January 13 at 12:00 pm (noon) for a virtual Ziegler Lecture featuring Fatima El-Tayeb of the University of California San Diego. This talk is part of the Social Justice Institute’s Noted Scholars Series, and co-organized by the CENES Department. It is also co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster (supported by the Public Humanities Hub) and Institute for European Studies.
RSVP by January 13 at 10:00 am: https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/rsvp-queer-of-color-activism-in-decolonial-europe-dr-fatima-el-tayeb/
Title: Queer of Color Activism in Decolonial Europe
Abstract: This talk explores what a decolonial strategy focused on Europe might look like and suggests that the practices of European activists and artists of color can offer potential answers, exactly because of the peculiar position in which continental structures of racialization put communities of color, not quite fitting either dominant models of Europeanness or of racialized minorities.
Bio: Dr. Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work deconstructs structural racism in “colorblind” Europe and centers strategies of resistance among racialized communities. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of UnGerman. The Construction of Otherness in the Postmigrant Society (Transcript 2016), European Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (University of Minnesota Press 2011) and Black Germans. Race and National Identity, 1890–1933 (Campus 2001).
