Against this background, the half-day online conference “Understanding Institutional Racism in Comparative Perspective: From Lesson-drawing to an Agenda for Change” on 20 April 2021 aims to further the national reflection on issues of racial discrimination. Organised by the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights at the University of Luxembourg and the NGO LëtzRiseUP, the conference brings together a number of leading international experts on questions of institutional racism to present their understanding of the problems and the challenges going forward.
The presentations will allow both for a deepened understanding of different national experiences and of the transversal lessons that may be drawn across those cases and potentially applied in the context of our own distinctively multicultural society.
15:00-15:15
Introduction by Professor Robert Harmsen, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg
15:15-16:15
At Least We Don’t Do That Here’ How Europe Mis(Understands) Black America, Professor Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
16:30-17:15
Black Lives Matter, Social Justice, and the Limits of Multiculturalism, Professor Debra Thompson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies, McGill University
17:30-18:30
BLM:A Transnational Movement that Changed the Dutch Landscape, Professor Halleh Ghorashi, Professor of Sociology, VU Amsterdam
18:30-19:30
Combating Racism in the Land of MultiKulti, Sandrine Gashonga, Antiracist and Intercultural Trainer and Consultant