Uppsala University: How to build anti-racist institutions?
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The Uppsala chapter of the Swedish Association for University Teachers and Researchers (SULF\Uppsala) are inviting you to our upcoming seminar on building anti-racist institutions, taking place on February 10th in the Blåsenhus campus.
Speakers: Alireza Behtoui (Södertörn University) and Paula Mählck (Stockhiolm University)
Date: 10th of February
Time: 14:00-15:00
Place: Blåsenhus, Sydney Alrutz hall
Registration: Please register here no later than February 4th at noon. Registration isn't mandatory to attend, but it will help us estimate our food order, and understand the background of our audience.
This will be a composite event consisting of two brief talks from the invited speakers and an open group discussion on the topic of how can we build anti-racist institutions, particularly in the academic context.
Alireza Behtoui will discuss how factors beyond academic qualifications—such as gender and migrant background—affect individuals' ability to secure employment and build successful careers in Swedish universities. Those in dominant positions within universities benefit from historically strong and resourceful networks, as well as an understanding of the subtle rules of the game regarding the work environment and social relations. The construction of formal processes—such as job announcements, recruitment, and promotion—often favors them. This dynamic is further reinforced through the exclusion of "strangers," direct discrimination against "outsiders," and the marginalization of academics with migrant backgrounds, who are often pushed to the peripheries of various academic fields. These processes collectively contribute to the marginalization of those in subordinate positions.
Paula Mählck will introduce her research on gendered and racialized relations of inequality in Swedish Academia. Drawing on feminist and decolonial research on the conditions for knowledge production in academia, the seminar provides a starting point for a dialogue and active work on broadening perspectives, theories and knowledge.
Speakers

Alireza Behtou is a Professor at Södertörn University. His research broadly concerns the generation and consequences of inequality, and has mainly been focused on class reproduction, educational choice and ethnic inequality. He has a particular interest in the impact of social capital on the stratification process in the fields like education, transition from school to work and labour market, contextual and organizational effects on inequality and peer effects.

Paula Mählck is an Associate Professor in Sociology of migration and ethnicity at Stockholm University. Paula has interrogated the gendered and racialized relations of vulnerability and resistance in PhD students’ transnational mobility and the importance of gender and place in the evaluation of professorship applications. She is currently the PI of ‘Work at any Cost? Interrogating the domestic worker labor migration industry from Kenya to the Gulf States’ (Formas). Latest book Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania. Gender, Learning and Unlearning.