Sussex European Institute (SEI)

If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/

Immigration, Policy and Protest 22 October 18.30 online with Michaela Benson, Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter The Sociological Review Foundation

TOMORROW: Immigration, Policy & Protest – an urgent conversation on Britain’s politics of #immigration.

🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST
🎟️ buff.ly/DGBy564

Still looking for participants to take part in my research project on immigration policy in the Labour Party. Seeking participants from migrant heritage background in English CLP's - gy53@sussex.ac.uk @manchesterlabour.bsky.social @westderbyclp.bsky.social @merseysidelabour.bsky.social

Roxana Barbulescu, Peter Birke, Anda Nicolae Vladu, Aleks Lewicki & Ursula Probst after their conference panel

Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!

YouTube video by The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe Coloniality, race, and Europeanness

My keynote on 'Coloniality, Race and Europeanness' at the University of Brighton has been recorded - if you'd like to hear me talk about my research into far-right mobilisation and initiatives such as the 'Homes for Ukraine' scheme, its now on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-h...

Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...

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OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“We need to take a stand for the sector and for the right of universities[...]to create respectful and inclusive communities, which is put at risk by this judgement.”

Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sasha Roseneil, shares a message following the Office for Students' report published today.

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Dagmar Myslinska sitting in front of a screen & addressing the SEI community

Dagmar Rita Myślińska of Creighton Law School visited SEI today and treated us to a talk on her excellent book „Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union”:

Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education

This is a good development from @sussex.ac.uk @sussexfss.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

From In(-)formation to Infrastructural Turns: The Digital Futures of Human Rights Law and Practice Abstract. In his book, The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age, Joshua Bowsher critiques the human rights moveme

'A good book is not one that makes its reader nod continuously in agreement, but one that jolts the reader out of comfort, prompting counter-thinking and spurring imaginative contemplation. In this regard, Josh Bowsher’s book delivers in full' academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

Photo of Ursula Probst and Aleks Lewicki in front of the presentation screen

Rosie Cox, Karin Scherschel, Sarah Scuzzarello, Ursula Probst & Aleks Lewicki

Yesterday, @probursula.bsky.social & I presented our paper „Sex, Care & the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Gendered Racialisation as ‚Eastern European’” - many thanks for the two great responses from Rosie Cox and @karinschersch.bsky.social - and to @scmrjems.bsky.social for hosting us!

An image of Karin Scherschel in front of a slide display with the title „Racism as a flexible resource“

A seminar room with a full audience in the Freeman Building at the University of Sussex

A packed room last Wednesday for @karinschersch.bsky.social‘s talk on racism in Germany and a very lively debate - in person and online:

Staff from the Sussex Law School, Criminology, Sociology and Politics gathered in the Sabina Avdagic room in the Freeman Building on Falmer campus

Estelle Marks talked about her forthcoming book “Policing European Extradition” in our SEI brown bag lunch series last Wednesday:

Venue: Freeman (F39) (hybrid: to obtain zoom link, email lpsresearch@sussex.ac.uk with ‘SEI’ & the name of the speaker in the subject line of your email)

Abstract: The talk discusses sociological perspectives on the dynamics of racism. Specifically, I propose to study racism as a 'flexible symbolic resource'. This concept will be developed in three steps. The first part will provide an overview of the contemporary conceptual debate on racism in Germany. This debate has been influenced by debates in Britain but also has its own idiosyncratic features. These are related to the German historical context and the specific use of the term racism in German academic and public discourse over the past decades. Secondly, the talk will introduce the main contours of a conceptualisation of racism as a flexible symbolic resource. Hereby, I combine a conceptual understanding of racism that draws on Stuart Hall with Pierre Bourdieu´s notion of 'symbolic violence' and Stefan Hirschauer’s thinking about 'undoing differences'. The third part will provide some empirical findings from two of my studies of racism as a flexible symbolic resource in different social contexts.

Join us next Wednesday, 26th of Feb, 3-4.30 pm for a talk by SEI Visiting Professor @karinschersch.bsky.social: "Racism as a flexible symbolic resource: The usefulness of the concepts ‘symbolic violence’ and ‘undoing differences’ for the analysis of racism" - this is a hybrid seminar, all welcome:

The three authors of Queer Judgments huddle around a table with the Queer Judgments book standing upright on the table.

We’re thrilled to announce Queer Judgments is out today!

This collection covers topics relating to decriminalising gay sex, HIV, asylum, healthcare, reproductive justice, gender transition, and much more!

It is available to download on a pay what you feel basis: counterpress.org.uk/publications...

This was such a rich conversation with dear colleagues on East-West inequalities and dynamics of racialization, and so elegantly steered by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social! Thanks for the invitation and for making the recording available!

a list of events - more information is available http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/

Please see below our list of events for spring 2025. As promised, some talks will be hybrid. Abstracts can be found here: www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/. The Sussex European Institute is very honoured to welcome @karinschersch.bsky.social as Visiting Professor this spring!

"The German Equalities Law is in need of reform" argues @sei-sussex.bsky.social director @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social - this is also evident from her collaborative research into the discrimination of people from the east of Europe in the German labour market and welfare state (video in German):

Research Fellow Ref: 40025 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

📢Come work with me! 3 year postdoc on my new @LeverhulmeTrust project exploring how the second generation establish a sense of worth and belonging in professional workplaces in the UK - DL 5 Feb, please share jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/8450715f...

YouTube video by o[s]tklick Herausforderung antiosteuropäischer Rassismus

A recording of our panel on policy challenges in relation to the racialisation as 'Eastern European' in Berlin is now online - with @beauftragte.bsky.social, @nataliepawlik.bsky.social, @polsozrat.bsky.social, @mashko.bsky.social, Faire Arbeit & Anastasia Tikhomirova www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJ7...

CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of @ceemr-journal.bsky.social edited by Bolaji Balogun, Kasia Kubin and myself - please share widely and send us your abstracts: 'Race-Making in the East of Europe: Understanding Imperial and Colonial Histories and their Afterlives': ceemr.uw.edu.pl/news

Thank you all for coming to Sussex and for the stimulating roundtable!

A roundtable in a University space, powerpoint presentation with the EU and Ukraine flags, engaged participants

A roundtable in a University space, engaged participants

At our SEI roundtable, Olga Sokolenko, Kateryna Berezhna, Nadiia Maksimentseva & Oleksandra Dryhol of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University spoke about the challenges of EU accession negotiations during Russia's full-scale invasion. With SEI's Samantha Velluti (respondent) & Nuno Ferreira (chair)

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit Abstract. The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a

In my new article, I suggest that we need a historically situated political economy perspective to understand the mainstreaming of the far-right - I show this via an analysis of the post-Brexit border regime in Britain: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Check out this great book by @jbowsher.bsky.social

This special issue was edited by SEI member James Hampshire - with contributions by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & @nandosigona.bsky.social, @mcslaven.bsky.social & others (who might still join here)

In her talk “Thinking Europe from its Eastern Border” at SEI Sussex, Karolina Follis examined the contours of the politics of race at the border between Poland and Belarus - and linked these developments to previous enlargements of the EU to the east. Thanks so much for coming to Sussex!

So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd