PostRacial Transmodernities: Afro-European Relations, Mediterranean Trajectories & Intercultural Reciprocities

We will organize the following eight webinars that will focus on the themes of the course from February 3 2025, to March 31 2025. Introduction to the Course: Main Aims and Themes Migration Race Thinking/Racisms Forgiveness and Care Hospitality Decolonial Studies Post?Racial Narrations, Anti-racist Imaginaries The course highlights ongoing relations between Africa and Europe and explores postcolonial and decolonial discourses and practices. Our aim is to equip students with a renewed political and theoretical vocabulary about hospitality, migration, race thinking/racisms, forgiveness, and care.

Application Deadline

Virtual Part starting date 2025-02-03

Virtual Part closing date 2025-03-31

Total student workload 300

Specific field of studies Global Anglophone Studies, African and Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Transnational and Comparative American Studies, Theory and Philosophy of Language, Gender Studies, Image/Visual Studies, Migration Studies

Pre-requisite for selection CV Motivation Letter Level of English (According to CEFR)

Academic pre-requisites for applicants social sciences, literary studies, philosophy, political theory, history, cultural studies, media, art

Physical Part starting date 2025-04-07

Physical Part Description The offline component will consist of sessions that will further elaborate on the thematic component of the webinars and will be delivered by the academic staff, as well as by invited artists and cultural practitioners. The aim is for the students to create a hybrid archive of research material and practices that will include the creation of a digital mapping of key concepts and texts, the organization of cultural practices such as documentary art/photography exhibits with work done by the students, and the presentation of short research projects.

Physical Part closing date 2025-04-11

Language level required C1

Field of studies related to the course Social Science and Humanities

Course location Athens University History Museum, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Course language English