When: Wednesday January 15th, 2025 at 15.00-16.30 GMT.

Where: This is an online event on MS Teams.

Event Details:

Join Professor Angelique M. DavisLink opens in a new window and Dr Rose ErnstLink opens in a new window to learn more about racial gaslighting, which they define as “the political, social, economic and cultural process that perpetuates and normalizes a white supremacist reality through pathologizing those who resist” (Davis & Ernst, 2017, p.1). This one-hour talk will cover the origins and definition of racial gaslighting and how to recognize it. This includes how racial gaslighting was utilized in the US legal cases of Korematsu v. United States (1944) and Kentucky v. Braden (1955) and how it continues today. We will also discuss how to distinguish racial gaslighting from other forms of racism, such as microaggressions, and briefly introduce our 5-D framework that participants can use to respond to this manifestation of white supremacy.

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Angelique M. Davis is a Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Seattle University. Her research concentrates on racial gaslighting, dehumanisation, apologies and reparations, the socio-legal construction of race, and the reinvention of white supremacy in the twenty-first century. In addition to her academic pursuits, Professor Davis served as a Commissioner on the Seattle Civil Service Commission (2013-2022), owns Exhale Academic Writing Retreats, and is a coach and campus workshop facilitator for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD).
 

Rose Ernst is an honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Rose was previously the Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Seattle University. Her research empirically investigates and theorises political phenomena traditionally ignored or hidden in public policy debates. Such subjects include welfare politics, street-level bureaucracy, race, gender, and class inequality, antiracist social movement organising, pedagogies of intersectionality, processes of racialisation, and racial gaslighting in the United States.

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

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You are warmly invited to an online research seminar entitled

“Travelling Theories: The Affective Politics of the Circulation of Feminist Ideas”

• Friday, January 17^th
• 9.30 to 11.30 (UK time; to convert this to your time-zone, click here)
• Online event via Teams

How can feminist theories, ideas, discourses, protests, demands travel from one context to another? What happens to them when they travel? How are they negotiated in different locations? How do they open spaces and become incorporated in local power dynamics, producing potential complicities? There have been many critiques of the geopolitical inequalities reproduced when feminism travels from ‘West’ to ‘East’ or from ‘North’ to ‘South’ – but what other forms of travel may we consider and how do they complicate our analysis of the politics of circulation of feminist ideas? This roundtable features three speakers who will engage with these questions from different perspectives, but with a shared focus on the affective politics of past and present forms of international circulation of feminist ideas.

Speakers:

• Demet Gülçiçek is an Honorary Researcher at the University of Warwick and Assist. Prof. at Munzur University, Turkey. Her book Travelling Theory and Women’s Movements in Turkey: Imagining Europe is recently published (Routledge, 2024). She also analyses affective political commitments in her article ‘The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a “mood of commitment”’ (The Sociological Review, 2022). She currently works on conceptualising popular feminism and anti-gender movements in Turkey.
• Srila Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her latest books are the award-winning Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press, 2022) and the co-edited, Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022). She is currently writing a book on Southern decoloniality, transnational feminism and higher education for Wits University Press.
• Akane Kanai is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. Her recent Australian Research Council fellowship explores the contemporary knowledge cultures of online feminism and popular culture. The project podcast, Feminist not Fearless, is available through Spotify and Apple Podcasts. She also is an investigator on another Australian Research-Council funded project investigating changing understandings of embodiment and selfhood in young people's selfie and image-editing practices.

Mary Evans will act as a discussant.

This seminar is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

The Teams link will be sent to registered participants the day before the event.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

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For information on the speakers and abstracts, see here.

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