9:40-9:45 Student Welcome and Performance
Student Film: “I am More Than Just the Color of My Skin” by Natalie Gomez and Parker Hollingsworth
Student Performance: “Washing” by Sariah Bunker

9:45-10:40 Panel 1: Why Critical Race Theory Matters
Student Introductions: Nana Apraku and Ismail Ibrahim 

Continental European Post-Radicalism
Mathias Möschel, Professor of Law, Central European University 

Confronting Racial Denial: Colorblindness, Post-Racialism and the Normalization of Segregation
Paulette Caldwell, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law 

Build the Wall! - The Spectral Return of Anglo-Protestant Purity, Destiny, and Paranoia
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Professor, New York University; Founding Director, NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute 

Race and Razza: Discussing Difference in the United States and Italy
Ann Morning, Professor of Sociology, College of Arts and Science, New York University

Versifying/Visualizing Migration
Alessandra Di Maio, Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Palermo

10:40-10:45 Student Performance: Monologue, Michelle Deme 

10:45-11:40 Panel 2: Activism, Identity and Social Justice
Student Introductions: Helen You and Eilish Anderson 

Michaël Privot, Director, European Network Against Racism 

Interwoven Dialogues: Reading the Other in Art
Awam Amkpa, Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Undergraduate Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University 

Pop Music Dreams of a Xenophilic Future: How the Intersectional Pluralism of Artists like Beyonce and Drake Refuses Racism, Border Closures and the Politics of Calamity
Jason King, Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, New York University 

Our Women Are Free: How Xenophobic Populism Appropriates Feminist Arguments
Debora Spini, Lecturer, New York University Florence

No One’s Baby: The Congolese Métisses in the (Post-) Colonial and Family Photo Album
Sandrine Colard, Assistant Professor Faculty/Fellow, Department of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

11:40-12:25 pm Panel 3: Communication, Racism, Xenophobia in the Post-Truth Era
Student Introductions: Natalie Gomez and Parker Hollingsworth 

Chiara Adamo, Head of the Fundamental Rights Policy Unit, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission 

The Exhumation of Truth in a Post-Fiction Age
Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York University

Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, Member of the European Parliament, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

Renate Schroeder, Director, European Federation of Journalists 

12:25-12.55 Discussion 

12:55-1:00 Concluding Student Performance: “I Know Where I’ve Been” by Felipe Gomes