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​​​​​​​​​​​​​Committee for the Institution​​a​​l Respons​​e to the Commission’s Recommendations (CIRCoRe)​

CIRCoRE INTERNATIONAL Conference​ (SEPTEMBER 2025)

Human differentiation and racism in institutions, humanities, science and technology: Contemporary issues and ways forward

We are pleased to announce the conference Human differentiation and racism in institutions, science and technology: Contemporary issues and ways forward, to be hosted by Stellenbosch University (SU) on 8-10 September 2025. 

The conference aims to foster multi-disciplinary discussions and approaches to the question of racism and racialisation – including, but not limited to, institutional racism, epistemic racism, systematic racism, scientific racism and racism with or without racists – that are produced, reproduced, legitimated or unsettled through science, technology, and the institutional settings of knowledge production. The ways in which racialisation and racism are buttressed or unmade by institutional cultures, as well as discussions on institutional cultural change, will also form key themes.

The conference will highlight contemporary issues in a variety of fields and settings – from biomedicine, through the human sciences, the arts, and digital infrastructures to the institutions of research and knowledge creation – with the aim of sharing and fostering the development of innovative approaches to questions of racial justice and the fostering of an anti-racist science that includes anti-racist scientific institutions. 

The conference aims to bring together researchers from across disciplinary backgrounds, including, but not limited to, science and technology studies, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, the health sciences, history of science, and the medical, environmental, and digital humanities. 

This conference is organised by the Workstream on Institutional Culture and the Workstream on Race, Human Categorisation and Science within the Committee for the Institutional Response to the Commission's Recommendations (CIRCoRe) at SU. 


KEY DATES

Dissemination of call for papers: By November 2024
Due date for abstracts and submissions: 17 March 2025
Conference dates: 8-10 September 2025​

 

Event details

Dates: 8-10 September 2025
Time: To be confirmed
Venue: Stellenbosch University


ENQUIRI​​ES

Please send an e-mail to the conference organisers at rhcs@sun.ac.za


ACCOMMODATION DURING CONFERENCE

Please contact the Stellenbosch Tourism Office for assistance with accommodation options and bookings.

E-mail: info@visitstellenbosch.org
Phone: +27 (0)21 886 4310
Website: https://www.visitstellenbosch.org/stay/

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