Decolonising the Curriculum - Roskilde University by Decolonial published on 2017-12-08T09:51:07Z Roskilde University Intercultural Studies, Open seminar and Postcolonial Europe book launch : “(Anti)Racism in the University” December 4, 2017, 1-4 pm This public seminar invited such a discussion based on presentations by scholars whose work emphasizes problems of epistemic racism and its close connection to other structural expressions of racism. The presenters addresses questions as: • What is the connection between epistemic racism and other structural expressions of racism? • What are the alternative understandings of scientific validity, objectivity, and universality that continue being marginalized and/or ignored in white academia? • How to understand and address the racial hierarchies and their operation in academia? • What is meant by ‘decolonizing the university’? Presenters: Alice Feldman, Masters Programme in Race, Migration & Decolonial Studies, School of Sociology, University College Dublin. José Arce, MA student, Global Refugee Studies. Coordinator of the reading group on Postcolonial Perspectives on Borders, Migration and Asylum Yannick Nehemiah Antonio Harrison –Marronage Tara Skadegaard Thorsen) and Christopher Macias Escalona. -FRONT Discussant/moderator: Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Roskilde University