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Program

Day 1 — April 23, 2026


09.00–09.10

Welcome

09.10–10.00

Presentation of findings and reflections from the project
Tringa Berisha & Iram Khawaja

10.00–10.30

Young voices and creative spaces of expression

  • Rabab Sakeer Katae (artist)
  • Farah Kriibi (artist)
  • Zedan Hejazi (Os Udenfor)
  • Sama Sadat Ben Haddou (MinoDenmark) 

10.30–10.45

Break

10.45–12.15

Provocations by and conversation with
Professor Michelle Fine (City University of New York) & Associate Professor Reva Jaffe-Walter (Montclair State University)

12.15–13.00

Lunch

13.00–14.20

Panel Conversation 1:
Racialized, spatialized and affective differentiations in education 
with Amani Hassani (Brunel University), Jonas Lindbäck (Göteborg University), Vibe Larsen (University College Copenhagen) 
Chair: Tringa Berisha

14.20–14.35

Break

14.35–15.55

Panel Conversation 2:
Researching racialization – methodological resistance, opacity and refusals 
With Maya Acharya (IT University Copenhagen), Abir Mohammad Ismail (Aarhus University), Naja Dyrendom Graugaard (Copenhagen University) Chair: Elizabeth Löwe Hunter

15.55–16.00

Closing remarks
Iram Khawaja

Day 2 — April 24, 2026


09.00–10.45

Provocations and conversation with
Professor Ann Phoenix (University College London) & Professor Dorthe Staunæs (DPU, Aarhus University)

10.45–11.00

Break

11.00–12.30

Panel Conversation 3:
Structural conditions of differentiation and discrimination in education 
With Marta Padovan-Özdemir (Roskilde University), Laura Gilliam (DPU, Aarhus University) & Mira Skadegård (Aalborg University) 
Chair: Reva Jaffe-Walter

12.30–13.30

Lunch

13.30–14.15

Young voices and creative spaces

  • Somaja Nourestani (DFUNK)
  • Deniz Kiy (poet and author)
  • Husna Musleh (DFUNK)
  • Freja Andrea Pedersen (author)  

14.15–15.15

Round table
with Michelle Fine, Ann Phoenix, Reva Jaffe-Walter, Lene Myong, Dorthe Staunæs
Chair: Iram Khawaja

15.15–15.45

Closing remarks
Tringa Berisha