Race (in) Translations III - Online Workshop

In this workshop series, we address current reflexive and critical research on the use of human classifications in the life sciences in the context of natio-ethno-cultural attributions. While the term "race" is exceedingly present, especially in the United States, it is largely subject to a taboo in continental Europe (Lipphardt et al. 2019). At the same time, "race" is not only purely historically relevant, but is also found as an "absent presence" (M'charek et al. 2014) in countries that design themselves as "post-racial" in categories such as ethnicity, migration background, population, biogeographic origin, etc. We therefore want to shed light on current practices of human classification, and in particular on the questions: how these take place in respective national, disciplinary, and temporal contexts, as well as against the backdrop of different political and scholarly strategies for dealing with historically loaded concepts, and what social effects different practices of classification and ordering have on the groups they designate, and on society as a whole.

Presentations from:

Daniel James, Leda Berio und Benedict Kenyah-Damptey (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

„Rasse: Zur Aushandlung eines belasteten deutschen Ausdrucks“

Nils Ellebrecht und Hannah Schönberger (Universität Freiburg, SoSciBio)

„Tabu, Problem oder Standard? Race-Konzepte in der deutschen Medizin und Gesundheitsforschung“

Tereza Hendl (Universität Augsburg)

“Filling the data gap: on the importance of accounting for and eliminating racial inequalities”