The Relational Racisms in a Global Perspective conference/workshop was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge from Monday 30 June to Wednesday 2 July, 2025.
This conference-workshop was hosted by Professor Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Professor Manali Desai and Professor Yael Navaro, to situate racisms globally and explore grammars and logics of racism and dehumanisation.
Through this conference-workshop we aimed to de-centre the ways in which racism has been theorised in the Global North, expanding the possibilities for studying racial logics in other social and historical contexts as well as bringing in intersectional approaches. Some questions included: How have the logics of racism travelled and become embedded in other places? Through what routes has racism travelled and what explains its ability to become imbricated with other logics such as casteism, minoritization, ethnicization and other forms of dehumanization?
We envisioned this conference/workshop as an experimental space of conversation that will created dialogue and collective thinking across a very diverse group of more than 50 scholars. This first conference/workshop was also a pilot event that helped us model the kinds of conversations we can have at GRIST and how best to nourish them.
Conference details
Conference programme
Venue information
The Relational Racisms conference-workshop was hosted in the Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College at the University of Cambridge.
Details for finding the college can be found at newn.cam.ac.uk/find-us.
Invited guests
Speakers
- Ana Ramos-Zayas (Yale University)
- Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University)
- Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB))
- Felipe Tuxa (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
- Hiroki Ogasawara (Kobe University)
- Humeira Iqtidar (King’s College London / Columbia University)
- Jan Harm Schutte (Zhejiang University)
- Jesus Chairez-Garza (University of Manchester)
- Laura Escobar (Investigación y Diálogo para la Autogestión Social)
- Mara Viveros (Universidad Nacional de Colombia / University of Cambridge)
- Michael Oliveira (Porticus)
- Miriam Aoragh (Westminster University)
- Nyasha Mboti (University of the Free State University)
- Peter Wade (University of Manchester)
- Renata Braga (Open Society Foundation)
- Ruba Salih (University of Bologna)
- Sebastian Frias (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- Shailaja Paik (University of Cincinnati)
- Shanshan Lan (University of Amsterdam)
- Shreya Parikh (Sciences Po)
- Silvia Maeso (Universidade de Coimbra)
- Sultan Doughan (Goldsmiths College)
- Vicky Stott (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- Yasuko Takezawa (Kansai Gaidai University)
Participants
- Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez (University of Cambridge)
- Aline Jabbari (University of Cambridge)
- Andrew Sanchez (University of Cambridge)
- Ayanda Mhlongo (University of Cambridge)
- Chelsea Nguyen (University of Cambridge)
- Clare Gordon (University of Cambridge)
- Damni Kain (University of Cambridge)
- Ella Mcpherson (University of Cambridge)
- Isabelle Higgins (University of Cambridge)
- Jeff Miley (University of Cambridge)
- Maria Lambides (Alpha Phronesis)
- Maya McFarlane (University of Cambridge)
- Mezna Qato (University of Cambridge)
- Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge)
- Natalia Buitron (University of Cambridge)
- Sarah Radcliffe (University of Cambridge)
- Scarlet Harris (University of Cambridge)
- Seetha Tan (University of Cambridge)
- Tianran Qin (University of Cambridge)
- Urska Kovse (University of Cambridge)
- Yagmur Cagatay (University of Cambridge)
- Yue Zhong (University of Cambridge)
Partcipants + Support
- Emiko Saldivar (University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB))
- Miriam Dzah (University of Cambridge)
- Myriame Francois (University of Cambridge)
- Shannon Phillip (University of Cambridge)
- Vishal Vasanthakumar (University of Cambridge)
Organising Team
- Mónica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge)
- Manali Desai (University of Cambridge)
- Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge)
- Jusmeet Sihra (University of Cambridge)
- Priyanka Kotamraju (University of Cambridge)
- Yiyun Bai (University of Cambridge)
GRIST TEAM
- Lisa Watson (University of Cambridge)
- Paola A. Lopez (University of Cambridge)
- Renjie Wang (Independent Photographer)
Any questions?
Please contact Lisa Watson at lw798@cam.ac.uk
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