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The SEI is an interdisciplinary research hub @sussex.ac.uk that brings together scholars engaged with Europe’s history and legacies, political economy and institutions: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei Directors: @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Cristiano Bee
Dr David Davies holds his book „The Regulation of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising“ which he discussed at the SEI book launch
Dr David Davies of the University of Sussex with members of the audience at his book launch
Yesterday, SEI hosted David Davies for the launch of his new monograph ‚The Regulation of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising‘: www.routledge.com/The-Regulati...
Screenshot of list of speakers on www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/
Join us for our in-person and online seminar series in spring 2026 - with two book launches and exciting guests! All details: www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/
People from Eastern Europe often experience discrimination in job centres in Germany.
"According to a study (by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and colleagues), Ukrainian refugees are accused of social tourism in job centres. As a result, they are prematurely pushed into low-wage jobs."
In German: an explainer of structural patterns of East-West inequalities in Europe & how they underwrite the regulation of mobility to Germany - a country that has systematically recruited „cheap labour“ from its eastern neighbours. Thanks @bpb.de & @ostklick.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/mediathek/vi...
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavilion, as the University's first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the Sussex School for Progressive Futures (SSPF).
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Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
Screenshot of Sociological Review Foundation Zoom event Immigration, Policy and Protest, showing participants. Clockwise from top left: Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter, Michaela Benson
🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest
Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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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
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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!
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...
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”:
This is a good development from @sussex.ac.uk @sussexfss.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
'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):
📢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...
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!
