Central-Eastern Europe has long been removed from global histories of race. Here we address an alternative history that challenges long-held claims about the region’s racial innocence. We will explore the centrality of whiteness for understanding the region’s nation-building, social hierarchies, ethnic homogenisation, and global interconnections. Seminar 1 will consider the utility of drawing on the concept of whiteness in studying nationalisms in history and memory; Seminar 2 its application to Central-Eastern Europe; Seminar 3 its uses for the study of Communism; and Seminar 4 the significance of whiteness for the growth of contemporary populism and authoritarianism.
- Monday, April 7th • 3:00-6:45 pm – Aula Specola
Seminar 1: Whiteness, History and Memory
Seminar 2: Whiteness and Central-Eastern Europe
- Tuesday, April 8th • 5:00-6:45 pm – Aula Specola
Seminar 3: Central-Eastern European Communism: Whiteness in History and Memory
- Wednesday, April 9th • 3:00-5:00 pm – Geography Aula I (Via Guerrazzi, 20)
Seminar 4: Whiteness and Contemporary Central-Eastern Europe
