The Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network (ARE) invites you for a workshop at Sabancı University, Istanbul.
Program
08:30-09:00 / Light breakfast
09:00-09:15 / Opening remarks: Ezgi Guner, Haverford College
09:15-10:15 / Jailbreak! On marronage and (mobile)undercommoning
Keynote by Ida Danewid, University of Sussex
Break / 10:15 -10:30
10:30-12:00 / Panel 1
Border policing
Cohabiting with Italian Immigration Detention Facilities in Northern Albania
Sofia Franchini, University of Cambridge
Coloniality and Refugee Education: Power, Policy, and Persistent Inequalities
Adnan Turan, Arizona State University
Incompleteness of Citizenship: New Carceral Regimes and Gendered Refugees from Turkiye in Canada
Nezihe Basak Ergin, Giresun University, and Ebru Ustundag, Brock University
Discussion / Souad Osseiran, Bogaziçi University
Lunch / 12:30 -13:30
13:30-15:00 / Panel 2
Migrant racialization
Transience and Blackness in Istanbul: West African World-Making in Istanbul
Alize Arican, The City University of New York
Affect and Movement in Times of Deportation: Ethnographic Insights into Confinement and Refusal among Atghan Migrants in Istanbul
Alexander Halldórsson Ephrussi, Geneva Graduate Institute
Whiteness on the Border: South Asian Migration and the Production of Stratified Subalternities in/of Eastern Europe
Alexandra Oanca, KU Leuven
Discussion / Damani Partridge, University of Michigan
Break / 15:00 -15:30
15:30-17:00 / Panel 3
Gendered refusals
“No Birth is a Strike”: Reproductive Refusal and the Biopolitics of Racial Capitalism
Bodong Zhang, Geneva Graduate Institute
Queer Refusal in Pakistan: Colonial Legacies, Racial Capitalism, and Strategic Invisibility
Natasha Gilani, University of Toronto
Practices of No Future: Queer-Feminist Self-Defense and the Stake of Hope
Mel Kalfanti, University of Thessaly
Discussion / Elif Sari, University of British Columbia