Research seminar: Differential doings | Kolar Aparna & Jody Metcalfe 14.4.2025

Welcome to a special research seminar by EuroStorie's Kolar Aparna and Jody Metcalfe from Re/Presenting Europe (Utrecht University). Their presentation, "Differential doings", will take place on Monday, April 14, 13:00-14:00 at Unioninkatu 33 (seminar room 247).

Research seminar information

Time: Monday, 14.4.2025, 13:00-14:00 (UTC +3)
Place: Room 247 (2nd floor), Unioninkatu 33 (inner courtyard), you can also join in by Zoom, Passcode: 791038

 

Differential doings

 

Abstract

Our movements from South Africa and India to Europe in the 21st century is a socio-historic location from where we speak, situating the privileges and forms of oppression we carry part of these routes to outline an agenda for “differential doings”. We open to modalities of knowing, being and doings, across standpoints canonically obstructed as the margins of Europe. Building on the calls from Black, decolonial, anti-apartheid feminist praxis, we craft guides for a relational consciousness with the intentions of emancipating the categories of the “marginalised Other”/marginality in the face of ongoing colonial violence. While white speculative imaginaries lead to the embodiment of owning and representing the world that apartheid is built on, our collective speculative practice is situated in the quest for naming and healing wounds from the former. Such guides are offered as Roots/Routes of human-plants; Many shades of Oranje: the colour of apartheid; Freedom times, unmuting silences on the violence of freedom; Passing in and Cracking open the European Aula

 

About the speakers

 

Kolar Aparna is a Researcher at EuroStorie, University of Helsinki. Her works have contributed to pedagogical modalities and debates in postcolonial studies and decolonizing the University across cultural and academic spaces in EU for more than a decade.

Jody Metcalfe is a Researcher at the NWO project Re/presenting Europe, Utrecht University. Her work is focused on intersectional representation and belonging, colonial memory and silences, and decolonial approaches to structural violence.

 

This seminar is linked to a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 15th. You are warmly welcome to attend both events.