Event

Inclusivity - Talk & Dialogue

Organised by Stichting Otherwise Wageningen
Date

Tue 12 May 2020 20:00 to 21:30

This Tuesday OtherWise and S&I Student Council Party invited Nagaré Willemsen, artist and co-founder of the Black student Union at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, to discuss institutional racism with us. During the online event, we will interview her about her efforts to make the art academia more inclusive. Then we will identify existing policies at the Wageningen University aimed to foster inclusion. Lisa Nguyen, current projectleader on Diversity and Inclusion at the WUR, will elaborate on this. Then we open the dialogue for students to share their thoughts and experiences about inclusivity. How inclusive do we experience studying in Wageningen? And what are the effects of the corona crisis on xenophobia? We want to offer a space for sharing on these topics. Also we would like to raise awareness on issues around inclusion.

The past two weeks OtherWise has been sharing articles on Gender & Diversity and this event is a closing event of this series on gender and diversity.

The online event will take place through skype for business, and here is the link: https://meet.wur.nl/lois.markusse/7J0DJDTF

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Nagaré Willemsen (1992) is a visual artist and co-founder and coordinator of the Black Student Union at the Sandberg Instituut and Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Her practice revolves around dissecting the white gaze and integrating the discourse on post-coloniality, identity, whiteness and social psychology.
She uses re-enactment, art-installations and performance art to create new realities and reconsider our daily lives.
Her graduation work at the Sandberg Instituut, the Precarious Body: Analyzing the Black Experience within the Art School (2018) was a performative reading of a letter she wrote to the head of the Dirty Art Department. In this letter, her experience of racism within the academy and the urgency to have an inclusive structure within the organisation were outlined.
Willemsen not only perceive post-colonial theories and neoliberalism at a micro-level but through collaborations with other artist and academic institutions, she is also able to consider and apply alternate realities at a level that have a sustainable impact on its surroundings.

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Lisa Nguyen is the projectleader on Diversity and Inclusion at the Wageningen University, currently replacing Heather ten Ham.