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In this live streamed lecture, Sara Ahmed brings together stories about making complaints by academics and students of colour to show how universities remain hostile environments despite or even through official policies on diversity and inclusion.
“I explain why doors keep coming up in stories of complaint with specific reference to the “diversity door.” People of colour are assumed to enter that door, which is often shut by appearing to be open“. Sara Ahmed
The online talk explores how complaints about hostile environments are made in hostile environments and how those who complain become strangers or suspects, “persons to be interrogated.” This talk draws on Ahmed’s ongoing research project and investigation into complaint, inspired by her own experiences of supporting university students. Ahmed’s talk ‘Complaint, Diversity and Other Hostile Environments’, will be followed by a closing Q+A discussion moderated by Zélie Asava, Independent Scholar, Film Classifier and author of Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Peter Lang, 2013).
Invited Q+A panelists include: Dr Arpita Chakraborty, Irish Research Council Enterprise Fellow at Dublin City University and Action Aid Ireland; Dr Philomena Mullen, Assistant Professor Black Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin and Dr John Wilkins, Holds a PHD doctorate from Trinity College Dublin’s School of English that interrogates representations of Black Gay Male Identity in the African Diaspora.
Please note: Booking priority will be given to all previous ticket holders who booked for Ahmed’s talk first scheduled on 18 March 2020 at TCD. This was unfortunately postponed due to obligatory Covid 19 restrictions.