10.00 – 11.00:
Keynote by Professor George J. Sefa Dei:
“Anti-Racism Education as Decolonial and Anti-colonial Practice”.

• Room: Auditorium 1.008 (Building A)

ABSTRACT
The presentation focusses on making discursive links between race, Indigeneity, decolonization and anti-racist education. The session engages key concepts of race, [anti-]Blackness, Indigeneity and decoloniality for thinking through and working to create equitable learning outcomes for students and educational practitioners. We highlight crucial sites for anti-racist and anti-colonial interventions and the intersections of Indigeneity and decolonization for new educational futurities. The learning objective is to acknowledge the importance of anti-racism and contribute to theoretical and practical tools for thinking beyond Equity, Diversity and Inclusion [EDI] models from an anti-colonial lens. In the discussion, we ask: how do we develop our research and scholarship for decolonial and anti-colonial framings of anti-racism?  In what ways can institutions support this work? And, what next steps are required as ‘Way Forward’.

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor at the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of several significant works examining racialization, education, and inclusive schooling, more than a dozen scholarly books, as well as the recipient of numerous academic awards.

Professor Dei’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of anti-racism and domination studies, the sociology of race and ethnicity, international development, indigenous knowledge and anti-colonial thought, political ecology, ethnography, and minority schooling.

Dei has served as the Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at OISE, was appointed a Fellow by the Society for Applied Anthropology and, in 2012, received the honorary title of “Professor Extraordinaire” from the School of Education at the University of South Africa.

11.00-11.30      BREAK
 

11.30-12.30      PANEL 1

• Room: seminarrum 0.06 (Building B)

Jin Hui Li, Aalborg University:
“Space and time – experiences of racially belongings through Danish schooling”.

Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen, University of Southern Denmark:
“Educating for the “integration sector”? The Danish BA programme Intercultural Education seen in a postmigration, decolonization and anti-racist  perspective”.

12.30-13.30     LUNCH
 

13.30-15.00      PANEL 2

• Room: seminarrum 0.06 (Building B)

Mante Vertelyte, DPU Aarhus University:
“Have we lost the Sense of Humor?! Affective Senses of Racial Joking in Danish Schools"

Tine Brøndum, University of Copenhagen:
“Disruptions in time. Past, present and future in refugee narratives”.

Iram Khawaja, DPU Aarhus University:
“Memory Work as Engaged Critical Pedagogy: Creating Collaborative Spaces for Reflections on Racialisation, Privilege and Whiteness”.

 
15.00-15.30     BREAK
 

15.30-16.30     PANEL 3

• Room: seminarrum 0.06 (Building B)

Dorthe Staunæs, DPU Aarhus University:
“Hopeful things: Affective Interventions in Diversity Work in Education”.

Mira Chandhok Skadegård, Aalborg University: “Ignorance and Ignoring: Educator practices, (mis)interpretations, and reproduction of racism and discrimination in Danish higher education classrooms”.

Please contact Research Assistant, Hatice Filikci, haticef@ikl.aau.dk if you have any questions about the arrangement.