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Building solidarities for Anti-Racist Adult Education
4th conference of the ESREA Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms Network
13-15th June 2018

Conference programmeUpdated: 12-Jun-18

Wednesday 13th June 2018
14.00 – 16.00 Registration

Paterson's Land G43

16.00 – 17.30 Welcome

Jim Crowther (on behalf of ESREA)

Opening Plenary

Professor Rowena Arshad, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

Refugee matters, ‘race’ and anti-racism: inclusion or avoidance?

Paterson's Land G43

17.30 – 18.15 Migration, transnationalism and racisms network

ESREA organisers

Paterson's Land G43

19.00 - Informal meal & drink (not included in the conference fee)

Venue: TBC


Thursday 14th June 2018
08.30 – 09.00 Registration

Charteris Land 2.03

09.00 – 10.30 Plenary session: Civil society voices: migration, anti-racism and adult education

Elaine Mowat, The Welcoming
Mridul Wadhwa, Rape Crisis Scotland, Equalities Network
Talat Ahmed, Stand Up to Racism Scotland
(Chair: Margaret Petrie)

Charteris Land 2.03

10.30 – 11.00 Tea & Coffee

Charteris Land 2.03

11.00 – 13.00 Parallel Workshop Sessions
Charteris Land 2.03
Workshop 1A: Theory and practice in anti-racist and popular education

Sofia Österborg Wiklund
Protecting moral subjectivities in popular education on global development

Luke Campbell, Nicola Hay
A critical examination of anti-racist initiatives taking place with young adults and adult association football fans in contemporary Scotland

John Grayson
Anti-Racism, refugees and critical pedagogy: a case study of social movement learning and campaigning in England and Ireland.

(Chair: John Grayson)

Charteris Land 4.18
Workshop 1B: Adult education: between governmental objectives, anti-racism and practical challenges

Linda Morrice
Postcolonial analysis of migration and education

Steffi Robak
Intercultural and transcultural education – program structures, developments and fields of tensions

(Chair: Linda Morrice)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Charteris Land 2.03

14.00 – 16.00 Parallel Workshop Sessions
Charteris Land 2.03
Workshop 2A: New learning spaces for solidarity

Katarzyna Waniek
Paradoxes of liaison work in bottom-up perspective

Christian Hanser
Vagabond educational sanctuaries for human dignity in invisiblised zones of the public sphere : The concrete utopia of the itinerant 'Welcome Hut' in France.

Annette Sprung, Brigitte Kukovetz
Volunteers' learning for democracy? A critical view on refugee relief

(Chair: Annette Sprung)
Charteris Land 4.18
Workshop 2B: Adult education: between state, organization and the market

Tim Stanik, Julia Franz
Organizational positionings of German Volkshochschulen to support the integration of refugees

Sara Carpenter
Marketizing newcomers: Adult education, resettlement work, and the 'Agency of the Future'

(Chair: Marcin Gołębniak)

16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Coffee

Charteris Land 2.03

16.30 – 17.50 Parallel Workshop Sessions
Charteris Land 2.03
Workshop 3A: Illusions and disillusions of liberal democracy

Shahrzad Mojab
The pedagogy of fascism and anti-fascism as youth migrates

Marcin Starnawski, Marcin Gołębniak
Cultural positioning of the far right and its opponents in today’s Poland: hegemony and political subjectivity

(Chair: Marcin Starnawski)

Charteris Land 4.18
Workshop 3B: Anti-Muslim Racism

Niels Uhlendorf
Anti-muslim racism in the context of neoliberal ideologies of competition: Challenges for adult education

Carolina Rebollo, Estrella Gualda
Anti-Muslim attitudes in Andalusia and conspiracy theories concerning the ‘invasion’ of Islam: The role of intervention at fighting stereotypes and rumours

(Chair: Brigitte Kukovetz)

19.30 – 22.00

Friday 15th June 2018
09.00 – 10.20 Parallel Workshop Sessions
Paterson's Land 1.26
Workshop 4A: Migration regimes and gender issues

Alessandra Mussi
Arab migration and parenting: the experience of Arab migrant women in Italy

Srabani Maitra
Examining the racialised nature of soft skill training in the context of South Asian immigrant women’s labour market integration in Canada

(Chair: Callum McGregor)

Charteris Land 4.18
Workshop 4B: Building up solidarity in academic fields

Sue Webb
Widening university access and building social solidarity with refugees

Angela Pilch Ortega
Social response to refugee movement: research workshops as a space for critical reflections on knowledge production

(Chair: Angela Pilch Ortega)

10.20 – 10.50 Tea & Coffee

Paterson's Land 1.26

10.50 – 12.10 Parallel Workshop Sessions
Paterson's Land 1.26
Workshop 5A: The role of language in migration regimes

Cora Lindsay, Renata Seredyńska-Abou Eid
The need for provision of language support for the migrant and refugee community in the East Midlands region, U.K.

Rita Bencivenga
Co-producing a toolkit for volunteers involved in the initial assessment of migrants’ prior non-formal and informal learning and skills

(Chair: Chris Parson)

Charteris Land 4.18
Workshops 5B: Strategical alliances for anti-racism

Katinka Käyhkö, Jyri Manninen
Using strategic alliances in developing more inclusive liberal adult education

Carla Hilario
Theoretical frameworks to inform equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in health education

(Chair: Jim Crowther)

12.10 – 12.45 Final Plenary & evaluation

Paterson's Land 1.26

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Paterson's Land 1.26

14.00 – Walk around Arthur’s Seat (with Jim Crowther) or
Democracy Tour (with Stuart Moir)

NB Both options will require good shoes and wet gear in case it rains.

Meeting point: Main Quad (Thomson's Land)