In_equality magazine no. 7

Diversity and Inclusion play an important role in research projects at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality". For example, Christina Felfe de Ormeño studies whether diversity in the classroom automatically leads to greater tolerance among school students.

Other studies examine potential ways to reduce the gender pay gap or focus on gender-specific differences in applying for a promotion.

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University of Excellence in Konstanz

Recognized again and again: Being a University of Excellence means we support our members in the best way possible as they make their ideas reality. Our concept creative.together describes how we promote top-level research, exceptional teaching and innovative ideas – for a culture of creativity.

The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany and has been successful in the German Excellence competition since 2006. Our two Clusters of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour and The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies stand for our interdisciplinary and internationally oriented cutting-edge research.

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Internationalization is key for us. This is why we promote international cooperation in research and student mobility, recruit excellent international (early career) researchers and work to increase our international visibility.

By successfully participating in the European Universities Initiative, we have taken another important step towards a joint European Education Area: Within the university network European University for Well-Being (EUniWell) learning, teaching and researching across borders will become a reality.

Decolonizing Race: Perspectives from Latin America and beyond

The last event in the framework of the event series "Racism in Academia" was a panel discussion on "Decolonizing Race..."

The panel discussion on "Decolonizing Race: Perspectives from Latin America and beyond" took place on Wednesday, 23 June 2021.

About:

Much of the discussion on race, racism, and anti-racism in Europe and North America relates to theories and practices conceptualized in the USA, a land affected by the legacies of slavery and racism. However, this context generates a particular view of racism that can be complicated by local specificities in other contexts. Latin American intellectuals have challenged "Northern" epistemologies through a decolonial approach: knowledge can be derived from different vantage points and from different traditions. Moreover, in a diverse continent as South America, indigeneity, mestizo identity, and legacies of slavery constitute an assemblage of diverse understandings of race, often contrasting with the US, but also in dialogue with the latter. Are North American perspectives of race hegemonic? How can we understand race and racism if we change the vantage point and look from the South? (How) can that help debates in Europe? Join us at this discussion about race and racism from a decolonial perspective, featuring thinkers from Latin America and beyond.

Panellists:

- Graziella Moraes Silva (Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland):
"After Mestizaje? Old and new dilemmas of antiracism in Latin America"

- Sérgio Costa (Professor for Sociology of Latin America at Freie Universität Berlin and Co-Director of the M. S. Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America [mecila.net]):
"From race to inequality regimes: Racism in Latin America"

- Mariana Morena Pereira (tbc):
" Black identity and anti-racism in Brazil"

- Jonathan W. Warren (ethnographer, heterodox sociologist, and digital story-maker who has spent the past thirty years researching race matters in Brazil, the US, Vietnam and Germany):
"Key insights from race studies in Latin America"

Moderation: Gruia Badescu (Research Fellow / Dept. of History and Sociology)

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