24–26 September 2025, Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin

Venue: Habelschwerdter Allee 30, Lecture Hall (Vortragsraum)

Wednesday, 24 September 2025 – Graduate Conference (Institute for Philosophy, FU Berlin)
18:00 – 19:15 Keynote: Urs Lindner (Duisburg-Essen) – Racialisation beyond Race: Challenges and Prospects

Thursday, 25 September 2025 – Workshop Day 1
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome
10:15 – 11:30 Esa Díaz León (Barcelona) – Social Constructionism Revisited
11:45 – 13:00 Aleksandra Lewicki (Sussex) – Thinking Race From Its Ambiguities
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:45 Marcello Maneri (Milan-Bicocca) – An Analytical Framework for Denaturalizing Research on Ethnoracial Issues
16:00 – 17:15 Leda Berio (UCD), Daniel James (TU Dresden), Steffen Koch (Bielefeld), Alex Wiegmann (Granada) – Because I’m not a NAZI?!? Race Talk and Sociolinguistic Variation
17:30 – 19:00 Keynote: Lawrence Blum (UMass Boston) – Second Thoughts on “Racialisation” in Philosophy and Social Science

Friday, 26 September 2025 – Workshop Day 2
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome
10:15 – 11:30 Joanna Karolina Malinowska (Poznań) – White by Default: US ‘Race Talk’ and the Biologisation of Whiteness in European Health Equity Research
11:45 – 13:00 Magali Bessone (Paris 1) – Conceptual engineering, race and racial justice
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:45 Murad Idris (University of Michigan) – What Hinges on Anti-Palestinian Racism?
16:00 – 17:15 Reza Mosayebi (Bochum) – Reductive Conceptions of Race and Racism?
17:30 – 18:30 Roundtable – Racialisation, Racism, and Racial Justice in Europe
 with Manuela Bojadžijev (HU Berlin), Robin Celikates (FU Berlin), Anna Danilina (TU Berlin), and Leerom Medovoi (University of Arizona)

Organisers:

Leda Berio (University College Dublin), Robin Celikates (FU Berlin), Daniel James (HU Berlin), Steffen Koch (Bielefeld), and Urs Lindner (Duisburg-Essen).

Participation is primarily in-person, but online access will also be available via Webex. Further details will follow.

Please register by writing to: chiara.sacchetti@fu-berlin.de

This event is part of a three-day programme and is preceded by the Graduate Conference “Race, Racism, and Racialisation in the European New Right” (24 September 2025, Institute for Philosophy, FU Berlin). See the schedule here: https://philevents.org/event/show/138650