Keynote talk with Emilia Roig on "An Epistemology of Oppression: How Science Created Social Hierarchies"
3 November 2022, 7 p.m., CFEL, building 99, SR V (stream)
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The Keynote will unpack issues related to intersectionality and oppression, including diversity, equity, inclusion, discrimination and implicit bias in science. Using concrete examples, the keynote will bring clarity on these topics and invite the participants to widen and deepen their perspective, perceptions and beliefs on social injustice, allowing them to reflect on the positive role they can play towards a society free of systemic oppression.
About Emilia: Emilia Roig (she/they) is the Founder and Executive Director of the Berlin-based Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ), a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing justice, equality and a life free of systemic oppression for all. Her experience growing up in a transracial Algerian-Jewish-Martinican family in France shaped her commitment to and passion for intersectional social justice. Emilia is Adjunct Faculty member of the Hertie School in Berlin since 2021, was Faculty member of the Social Justice Study Abroad Program of DePaul University of Chicago from 2015 to 2020 and has taught graduate and post-graduate courses on Intersectionality Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer Feminism and International and European Law at universities all across Europe. She holds a PhD in political science, a Master of Public Policy and an MBA in international law. Prior to her PhD, she was working extensively on human rights issues at the UN in Tanzania and Uganda, at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Cambodia, and at Amnesty International in Germany - and decided to leave the ‘development’ field to focus on social justice in Europe. She has held numerous keynotes, talks and interviews at major conferences and events and was jury member of the German Non-Fiction Book Prize 2020, was nominated Ashoka Fellow in 2020, and received the Online Magazine Edition F Award in 2021.
Emilia is dedicated to inspire people to divest from oppressive systems through creating new narratives and shifting collective consciousness. She is the author of the bestselling book WHY WE MATTER. The End of Oppression. She was voted "Most Influential Woman of the Year" for the Impact of Diversity Award 2022.
