Thursday, 31 October

The Marketplace, 2-3.30
Chair: Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex)

Malte Hinrichsen (University of Hamburg) - The French ‘Moor’: history of a racist stereotype in French, German and US advertising

Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex) – Antisemitism and the marketplace

Stefanie Affeldt (University of Hamburg) – The ‘Great White Train’: commodity racism on rails

Identity, 4-5.30
Chair: Gerhard Wolf (University of Sussex)

Anne-Marie Angelo (University of Sussex) – ‘Black oppressed people all over the world are one’: The British Black Panthers’ grassroots internationalism

Clara Everdosa (University of Kiel) – Racism without race: May Ayim, post-war Germany and the reception of Afro-American identity concepts

Clive Webb (University of Sussex) – White hoods and Union Jacks: the Ku Klux Klan in Britain

Photo Exhibition, 5.30
Before Barack

Public Keynote Address, 6.30
Colin Grant: Pigmentocracy and the hierarchy of race

Friday, 1 November

Nation and Empire, 9-10.30
Chair: Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex)

Bither Esener (Istanbul Bilgi University) – Racism and nation-building

Alan Lester (University of Sussex) – Colonial humanitarianism, ethnography and racism

Bill Schwartz (Quenn Mary) – A strange malaise: everyday racial encounters

State, 11-12.30
Chair: Martin Evans (University of Sussex)

Rachael Attwood (University of Sussex) – The many shades of ‘white slavery’: representations of sex trafficking and popular racist discourses in turn of the century Britain

Monika Bobako (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan) – Transnational anti-Muslim racism and its customised national variants: a case of Polish Islamophobia without Muslims

Claudia Siebrecht (University of Sussex) – State violence and colonial concentration camps

Final Roundtable, 2-3.30
Chair: Gerhard Wolf (University of Sussex)