Guest Lecture by Dr. Špela Drnovšek Zorko, Henriette Herz Junior Fellow at the KU Center for Advanced Studies "Dialogical Cultures".
The lecture will be held in person, without Zoom transmission. Everyone is welcome, it is not necessary to register in advance.
This book project follows several years of ethnographic and interview-based research with migrants from (Central-)Eastern Europe living in the UK (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), supplemented by recent insights from Japan (funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). It re-frames conceptual debates about the racialization of Eastern European migrants in the West from the unique perspective of postsocialist legacies and the work they do to locate migrants in postcolonial regimes of race. The project further asks whether theoretical perspectives on ‘Eastern Europe’ can shed new light on the study of race and migration in postcolonial metropoles, and vice versa, bringing together academic fields that are only rarely put into conversation.
You can find more information on Špela Drnovšek Zorko and her project here.