The Race in Iberia Symposium brings together a diverse cohort of experts dedicated to antiracist scholarship, pedagogy, art, public writing, and activism within and beyond Spain and Portugal. This initiative has been organized by the Iberian Studies section of the Spanish and Portuguese department in partnership with the academic collective TRECE (the Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in Spain), a group that aims to promote the critical study of race in Spain beyond the framework of migration.
Highlights of this three-day event include keynote presentations by Chinese-Spanish poet and journalist Paloma Chen and Raquel Lima, a poet, art-educator, researcher and transdisciplinary artist based between Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. The symposium will also feature a conversation between Cristina Roldão, a sociologist and journalist who specializes in the educational exclusion of Afro-descendant youth in Portugal and Antumi Toasijé, a historian, scholar of Pan-Africanism, and Fulbright Scholar at Morgan State University for the 2024-2025 academic year.
This event has been made possible through the generous co-sponsorship of the College of Arts and Sciences, The Instituto Camões, The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Department of Comparative Studies, The Department of French and Italian, The East Asian Studies Center, The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Center for Latin American Studies, The Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Office of International Affairs.
The symposium talks, round tables, and panels are free to members of the OSU community by pre-registering at this link.
If you would like to attend event lunches and the welcome reception, please register as a paid conference attendee here.
The latest updates to the symposium schedule are available on the TRECE website.
