"Critical Approaches to Race" Seminar Cycle

Programme 2026-2027

08 OCT. 2026 l 10H-12H
ULB, bâtiment S, 12e étage, salle Rokkan
Evé Mayenga - « Enquêter sur la colonialité de la production cinématographique. Pour une approche structurelle de la race et du racisme»

26 NOV. 2026 l 10H-12H
VUB, BsoG, Pleinlaan 5, -1 floor, room Lisbon
Saloua Berdai Chaouni -"Ageing under racism: a decolonial approach"

17 DEC. 2026 l 10H-12H
ULB, bâtiment S, 12e étage, salle Rokkan

Free attendance
10-12h ULB/VUB (séances hybrides via MS Teams)
Information, Registration: https//birmm.research.vub.be

The Critical Approaches to Race (CAR) lecture series was created in 2021 with the ambition to offer an academic space for young researchers in which to present their work, whether in progress or completed, and enrich their reflections. The CAR seminar invites to an approach combining decolonial and postcolonial theories and Critical Race Theory through the questioning of phenomena linked to race and racism in different contexts.

This is the first university seminar organized in Belgium on Critical Race Theories, a mainly English-speaking multidisciplinary field of study aimed at analyzing not only the forms of racialization and racism in human societies (Western and non-Western), but also the forms of subjectification that racialized people resort to in the face of racialization.

In 2025-2026, VUB and ULB have joined forces to make the CAR seminar a central space for academic exchanges on the racial question in Belgium around the presentation and discussion of scientific research, mainly carried out by doctoral and postdoctoral students but also by experienced academics, coming from Belgium and abroad.