In collaboration with the Research Unit for the History of Political and Economic Ideas at AU, AIAS is hosting a series of research seminars on racism and anti-racism in the Spring Semester 2021. The seminars are co-convened by Stefan Bargheer and Kei Hiruta from AIAS, and Casper Andersen and Mikkel Thorup from the Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at Aarhus University.

We will discuss the following texts at this week’s meeting: Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992); and Sara Ahmed, ‘A Phenomenology of Whiteness’ (2007), Feminist Theory 8(2): 149–168.

The seminars are open to all AU members. If you would like to participate, please contact Kei Hiruta: kei.hiruta@aias.au.dk  

Next seminars are: 

5 May  

26 May  

16 June