Anna Safuta

🇵🇱🇮🇪 See, this is what happens when you ask Poles "how are you?" a few times too many.

YouTube video by Chopin Institute The 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (evening session), 7.10.2025

My productivity has never been as high as it has been since they began streaming the International Chopin Competition live from Warsaw. And I even do not like Chopin that much www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eR...

Screenshot of the workshop description for Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context. Text reads: “Discussions of race and racism in philosophy are often shaped by US-centric frameworks, where the ‘colour line’ and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow serve as central points of reference. The European context, however, presents a different set of dynamics that do not always align with these approaches. This international workshop brings together philosophers, historians, and social scientists to explore the social metaphysics of race and racialisation in Europe. Key themes include: – how racial hierarchies emerge and function beyond the black/white dichotomy, – the role of antisemitism, antiziganism, and anti-Muslim racism in European racial formations, – the precarious racialisation of groups such as Eastern Europeans, – the tension between colour-blind eliminativism and the need to address racialised injustice, – and the potential of ‘racialisation’ (as opposed to ‘race’) as an analytical framework. Confirmed speakers: Magali Bessone (Paris 1), Leda Berio (University College Dublin), Larry Blum (UMass Boston), Manuela Bojadžijev (HU Berlin), Robin Celikates (FU Berlin), Daniel James (TU Dresden), Steffen Koch (Bielefeld), Esa Díaz León (Barcelona), Aleksandra Lewicki (Sussex), Urs Lindner (Duisburg-Essen), Joanna Karolina Malinowska (Poznań/Hamburg), Marcello Maneri (Milan-Bicocca), Leerom Medovoi (University of Arizona), and Reza Mosayebi (Bochum).”

📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives

25–26 Sept 2025
Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin.

www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...

Amazing, congrats, looks extremely interesting!!!

We shouldn't understand the gig economy as merely the product of technological disruption.

It is deeply entangled with the welfare institutions — and the broader transformation of work, security, and social protection.

Are you also moving countries while preparing next semester teaching, writing funding applications and papers? Asking for a friend...

#ERSNew 🐣🔓“Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful.” How do highly educated, middle-class Germans with a migration background respond to racism? Interviewees emphasise having the 'upper hand', the importance of hard work & education. Article @piwoni.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2529413

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

Remember when people said Western democracy failed in the East because the Eastern Europe was "so different"? Well it's been failing in the West too—because the crisis of liberal capitalism is global. Glad @ambpressman.bsky.social avoids that tired East-West trope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

It's a 'she', after the books bit she says she would mostly like to go to America ("Najbardziej bym chciała jechać do Ameryki").

It was so good to have you with us in Ukraine at our conference with @associationruta.bsky.social on imagination, new visions and connections and close the event with the bang that was our panel on dissent, with a transregional critique of leftist campism, selective anti-imperialism and solidarity

Me? I am a native Polish speaker with a PhD in the social and political sciences: safuta@uni-bremen.de

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 New research on racism in #Germany shows that antiracist action can coexist with racism denial—potentially reinforcing racism. Article by Tae Jun Kim & Elias Steinhilper: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2508392

I understand the urge but... immigrants are not only valuable because of contributions to the economy.

This is damaging coz:

1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants

2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)

„Was jetzt?“ von ZEIT Online, „Berlin Code“ mit Linda Zervakis oder „0630 – Der News-Podcast“ von der ARD

Chviantèque 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇨🇩

Kindly reminder, when you look at the results of the election and grunt "wtf, Poland" do have in the back of your head that the difference in votes was 369,591 (1,78%), the smallest difference in the presidential election post-1989.
Divided we are, yes. But give some of us a break, we tried.

Poland, the country were good old social democratic policies earn you a far left label

One week to go before the launch of "Migration and Race: CEE perspectives" edited by Kasia Narkowicz, annagawlewicz.bsky.social & Konrad Pędziwiatr, in which I explore how CEE domestic workers navigate their privileged yet precarious position amidst colonial legacies of labour in Belgium & Germany

My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory.
Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...

We are founding a new interdisciplinary Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS) at the University of Zurich. Please apply to our Inaugural Conference "Eastern Europe's Invisibilities: Politics, Epistmics, Arts" at the University of Zurich, May 6-8, 2026.

Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE

My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽

🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV

🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ

Yet another form of far right normalization

Republikaner: Kinder(nacht)arbeit in Floridas Niedriglohnsektoren erlauben, wenn weniger undokumentierte Arbeiter:innen da sind wegen Abschiebepolitik. Super Idee.

Oh noes, Americans get to drink bourbon and Zinfandel while the beleaguered Europeans will be forced back on armagnac and Sancerre, the lights are going out all over Europe.

Poland's ban on asylum — a new low On 21 February, Polish MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of a mechanism for the suspension of the right to submit asylum applications. The measure is quite clearly at odds with the Polish constitutio...

Poland’s bill suspending the right to asylum has just passed the Senate (the upper chamber of the Parliament) without amendments. Now it’s only a matter of days before the President signs it into law. I break down why this is unprecedented for the EU in @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Polish mayor to complain to EU over German border checks

The mayor of a Polish town on the German border has announced he will complain to the EU about Germany’s reintroduction of border checks, which he says effectively amount to the suspension of the Schengen Agreement and are causing significant disruption.

We truly are stronger together. One of the best ways of persisting in these difficult times of imperial threats, genocidal violence and far right alliances, is via the building of resisting, supportive and transregional communities. If you’re looking for one, join us in @associationruta.bsky.social

Was soll dieser Titel, @Zeit.de ? Warum wird so getan, als ginge es um „Hilfe für die 🇺🇦“? Es geht um uns ffs. Es geht darum, was wir für die Ukraine tun müssen, damit sie uns weiter Zeit erkauft. Teuer erkauft. @efdavies.bsky.social @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social @ostausschuss.bsky.social

The things nobodies know…

🔍New Collaborative Online Workshop🔍

"The silence around “race” in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market"

Join us for a workshop hosted by WEI and IMISCOE

📅Friday 28th March
🕐1-3pm GMT | 2-4pm CET

🎟️https://bit.ly/4gWW5Pa