We invite you to the closing conference of the DFF funded research project, Educational Experiences of Racialized Differentiations in Danish High Schools Educational experiences of racialized differenciation. The project has been engaged in critically exploring how race, space, and affect intersect in educational settings such as the high school with a specific focus on how leaders, teachers and students negotiate diversity, belonging and racialized differentiations. The project engages with and develops innovative methodological approaches such as spatial tours with students, memory work with teachers and mapping the policies and discourses in and around high school student dispersal and segregation.

In this conference we aim to share the projects’ main findings and explore the various ways in which racialized differentiations are spatialized, embodied and affectively take form in education - from analysing the structural differentiations of geographical zones, neighbourhoods, and high schools to the more microsocial differentiations of classrooms, student groups, and demarcated areas within the school landscape. We also wish to engage in conversations on the conditions under which it is possible to methodologically engage in research on racism and racialization in educational settings in the Nordic region characterized by exceptionalism where creating spaces for refusal, opacity and counter-cartographies are even more important.   

The conference is organized as a series of conversations, provocations and creative inputs to promote an atmosphere of dialogue, curiosity and collective reflection.  

The conference’s target-group consists of researchers, students and other academics, as well as policy workers, educators, leaders and other practitioners interested in the topic.