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The SEI is an interdisciplinary research hub @sussex.ac.uk that brings together scholars engaged with Europe’s history and legacies, political economy and institutions: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei
Directors: @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Cristiano Bee
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In German: an explainer of structural patterns of East-West inequalities in Europe & how they underwrite the regulation of mobility to Germany - a country that has systematically recruited „cheap labour“ from its eastern neighbours. Thanks @bpb.de & @ostklick.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/mediathek/vi...
Was ist Antislawismus? | bpb.de
Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Dr. Aleksandra Lewicki erläutert in diesem Videointerview, was es mit dem Begriff Antislawismus auf sich hat.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavilion, as the University's first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the Sussex School for Progressive Futures (SSPF).
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex
Caroline Lucas has been appointed by the University of Sussex as its first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
Abstracts for the event advertised in the post
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest

Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.

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Screenshot of Sociological Review Foundation Zoom event Immigration, Policy and Protest, showing participants. Clockwise from top left: Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter, Michaela Benson
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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TOMORROW: Immigration, Policy & Protest – an urgent conversation on Britain’s politics of #immigration.

🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST
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Immigration, Policy and Protest 22 October 18.30 online with Michaela Benson, Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter The Sociological Review Foundation
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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grahamsussex.bsky.social
Still looking for participants to take part in my research project on immigration policy in the Labour Party. Seeking participants from migrant heritage background in English CLP's - gy53@sussex.ac.uk @manchesterlabour.bsky.social @westderbyclp.bsky.social @merseysidelabour.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!
Roxana Barbulescu, Peter Birke, Anda Nicolae Vladu, Aleks Lewicki & Ursula Probst after their conference panel
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
My keynote on 'Coloniality, Race and Europeanness' at the University of Brighton has been recorded - if you'd like to hear me talk about my research into far-right mobilisation and initiatives such as the 'Homes for Ukraine' scheme, its now on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-h...
Coloniality, race, and Europeanness
YouTube video by The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
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April 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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lizzieseal.bsky.social
3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...
Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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April 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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March 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“We need to take a stand for the sector and for the right of universities[...]to create respectful and inclusive communities, which is put at risk by this judgement.”

Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sasha Roseneil, shares a message following the Office for Students' report published today.
March 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Dagmar Rita Myślińska of Creighton Law School visited SEI today and treated us to a talk on her excellent book „Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union”:
The monograph cover Dagmar Myslinska sitting in front of a screen & addressing the SEI community
March 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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climatereality-uk.bsky.social
This is a good development from @sussex.ac.uk @sussexfss.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree
University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education
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February 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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jbowsher.bsky.social
'A good book is not one that makes its reader nod continuously in agreement, but one that jolts the reader out of comfort, prompting counter-thinking and spurring imaginative contemplation. In this regard, Josh Bowsher’s book delivers in full' academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
From In(-)formation to Infrastructural Turns: The Digital Futures of Human Rights Law and Practice
Abstract. In his book, The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age, Joshua Bowsher critiques the human rights moveme
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January 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Yesterday, @probursula.bsky.social & I presented our paper „Sex, Care & the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Gendered Racialisation as ‚Eastern European’” - many thanks for the two great responses from Rosie Cox and @karinschersch.bsky.social - and to @scmrjems.bsky.social for hosting us!
Photo of Ursula Probst and Aleks Lewicki in front of the presentation screen Rosie Cox, Karin Scherschel, Sarah Scuzzarello, Ursula Probst & Aleks Lewicki
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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A packed room last Wednesday for @karinschersch.bsky.social‘s talk on racism in Germany and a very lively debate - in person and online:
An image of Karin Scherschel in front of a slide display with the title „Racism as a flexible resource“ A seminar room with a full audience in the Freeman Building at the University of Sussex
March 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Estelle Marks talked about her forthcoming book “Policing European Extradition” in our SEI brown bag lunch series last Wednesday:
Staff from the Sussex Law School, Criminology, Sociology and Politics gathered in the Sabina Avdagic room in the Freeman Building on Falmer campus
February 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Join us next Wednesday, 26th of Feb, 3-4.30 pm for a talk by SEI Visiting Professor @karinschersch.bsky.social: "Racism as a flexible symbolic resource: The usefulness of the concepts ‘symbolic violence’ and ‘undoing differences’ for the analysis of racism" - this is a hybrid seminar, all welcome:
Venue: Freeman (F39) (hybrid: to obtain zoom link, email lpsresearch@sussex.ac.uk with ‘SEI’ & the name of the speaker in the subject line of your email) Abstract: The talk discusses sociological perspectives on the dynamics of racism. Specifically, I propose to study racism as a 'flexible symbolic resource'. This concept will be developed in three steps. The first part will provide an overview of the contemporary conceptual debate on racism in Germany. This debate has been influenced by debates in Britain but also has its own idiosyncratic features. These are related to the German historical context and the specific use of the term racism in German academic and public discourse over the past decades. Secondly, the talk will introduce the main contours of a conceptualisation of racism as a flexible symbolic resource. Hereby, I combine a conceptual understanding of racism that draws on Stuart Hall with Pierre Bourdieu´s notion of 'symbolic violence' and Stefan Hirschauer’s thinking about 'undoing differences'. The third part will provide some empirical findings from two of my studies of racism as a flexible symbolic resource in different social contexts.
February 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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queerjudgments.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce Queer Judgments is out today!

This collection covers topics relating to decriminalising gay sex, HIV, asylum, healthcare, reproductive justice, gender transition, and much more!

It is available to download on a pay what you feel basis: counterpress.org.uk/publications...
The three authors of Queer Judgments huddle around a table with the Queer Judgments book standing upright on the table.
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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manuelaboatca.bsky.social
This was such a rich conversation with dear colleagues on East-West inequalities and dynamics of racialization, and so elegantly steered by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social! Thanks for the invitation and for making the recording available!
aleksandralewicki.bsky.social Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · Feb 3
Our panel 'Conceptualising East-West Inequalities and Dynamics of Racialisation' with Angéla Kóczé, @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social and Malte Kleinschmidt is now available to watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=939e... (in English)
Conceptualising East-West Inequalities and Dynamics of Racialisation
YouTube video by o[s]tklick
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February 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Please see below our list of events for spring 2025. As promised, some talks will be hybrid. Abstracts can be found here: www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/. The Sussex European Institute is very honoured to welcome @karinschersch.bsky.social as Visiting Professor this spring!
a list of events - more information is available http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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"The German Equalities Law is in need of reform" argues @sei-sussex.bsky.social director @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social - this is also evident from her collaborative research into the discrimination of people from the east of Europe in the German labour market and welfare state (video in German):
January 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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lauramorosanu.bsky.social
📢Come work with me! 3 year postdoc on my new @LeverhulmeTrust project exploring how the second generation establish a sense of worth and belonging in professional workplaces in the UK - DL 5 Feb, please share jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/8450715f...
Research Fellow Ref: 40025 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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January 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
A recording of our panel on policy challenges in relation to the racialisation as 'Eastern European' in Berlin is now online - with @beauftragte.bsky.social, @nataliepawlik.bsky.social, @polsozrat.bsky.social, @mashko.bsky.social, Faire Arbeit & Anastasia Tikhomirova www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJ7...
Herausforderung antiosteuropäischer Rassismus
YouTube video by o[s]tklick
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January 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM