Event Description: "How do Russia’s current and ongoing attacks on Ukrainian sovereignty create/exacerbate disparate and even incomparable suffering for different communities and people in the region and beyond? What does the contemporary global history of border militarism, criminalization, xenophobia, sanctions and policing teach us about the complex, differential casualties created by this metastasizing crisis? How can we attend to the experiences of Black/African, Roma, nonwhite European, migrant/refugee and other populations experiencing conditions of war, displacement and gendered state violence within and beyond the Ukraine-Russia border and Eastern Europe writ large?

This event will speak to Eastern Europe’s role in the formation of global ethnoracial regimes and discuss how this compels an analysis of the complex, pervasive impact of gendered white supremacy in Europe and globally in relation to the current moment of crisis in Ukraine."