Since 2015, ERIF has conducted in-store and online research to look into how the image of Zwarte Piet is (or is not as the case may be) incorporated into the present-day Sinterklaas feast across the Netherlands. The team recently finished collecting data for the next (fourth) report, which is due to be published later this … More Summary of ERIF’s product and brand study on gal-dem!
Nederlands | Français | Deutsch The European Race and Imagery Foundation’s (ERIF) annual Sinterklaas Brand & Product study is a sociological market research report, which seeks to analyse longitudinal data concerning the ongoing and evolving usage of the Zwarte Piet character by major supermarket chains and brands across the Netherlands. This year titled: Seeing through … More Sinterklaas Brand & Product study 2018: Seeing Through the Soot
ERIF’s content and audience developer Noémi Michel, PhD spoke to Cases Rebelles recently about the phenomena of racelessness and colonial amnesia in Switzerland and how this is used as a mechanism for silencing people of colour who protest against racism. In other words, the social taboo of discussing race (and subsequently racism) is rooted in … More ERIF’s Noémi Michel talks to Cases Rebelles about race, colonialism and black identities in Switzerland
We are happy to announce the publication of our Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study 2017! The second edition of this report continues to trace the evolutions of the debates around the character of Zwarte Piet as part of the Dutch festival Sinterklaas, by monitoring the protests taking place against the character, as well as its … More Sinterklaas Brand & Product Study 2017
The Pan African Space Station (PASS) will be arriving in Amsterdam in the coming days, landing at the OBA Central Library on Sunday 11th December, until the 15th December! The website declares: “Launched in 2008 by Chimurenga, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a periodic, pop-up live studio; a performance and exhibition space; a … More Pan African Space Station arriving in Amsterdam soon!
We’re delighted to announce that there will be a performance of Weisser Peter, written by Mohamed Wa Baile, at 7pm on Friday 4th November, at the Westbahntheater in Innsbruck. The performance is part of our conference- Returning the Gaze II: Stories of Resistance. Mohamed Wa Baile is an activist, scholar and playwright based in Switzerland … More Weisser Peter (White Peter) Stage Play Performance in Innsbruck
Artist Karina Griffith will be showing a series of moving image works and artifacts at our upcoming conference Returning the Gaze II: Stories of Resistance at the University of Innsbruck in Austria next month. The exhibition will be free to access for University of Innsbruck students and conference delegates. Becoming Afro German is an … More Becoming Afro German expo at Returning the Gaze II conference!
We are very excited to announce our screening of Too Black to be French? (2015), a documentary by Isabelle Boni-Claverie and Quark Productions, at the University of Innsbruck on Thursday 3rd November at 19h30. As a film that literally inverts the white, European, racialising gaze, the screening will provide the perfect opening to our forthcoming … More Film Screening of Too Black to be French? (2015)
Registration for the Returning the Gaze Part II: Stories of Resistance conference in Innsbruck is now OPEN!!! You can buy your tickets for the conference and the associated play(s) by Mohammed Wa Baile via Eventbrite. Tickets will be sold right up until the event itself in three phases, which you can read more about here. … More Returning the Gaze Part II Registration is now OPEN!
Check out the conference programme below. More details to come soon!!! Keynote Anandi Ramamurthy “Contesting the Visualisations of Gaza” Presentations: Anna Chrusciel & Markus Schega “Beyond the School-Zone” Jenny Oliveira Caldas “Decolonising the Seminar Room” Matthias Hinkelmann “Post-migrant identity formation an anti-racist resistance in Contemporary Germany” Melanie Petremont and Pamela Ohene-Nyako “Literary Art and Performance … More UPDATE – Returning the Gaze: Stories of Resistance conference programme
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