Date: 20-22 August 2024

Location: Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Audience: Open for everyone

Registration fee: € 60

How can solidarity be adapted to superdiverse societies? How do we better equip professionals and organizations to nurture solidarities across ethnic-cultural lines? Or how do we articulate solidary when it is increasingly captured by ring-wing and nationalist populist forces?

Over the course of the past three years, 15 doctoral researchers from 10 different academic institution have been exploring these questions in collaboration with 23 societal partners. On August 20, 21 and 22, this international network will present their findings during a three day event and reflect with you on how a new vision on solidarity can be articulated.

On August 20th, Stijn Oosterlynck (Universiteit Antwerpen) will guide us through some of the important insights from the project, while Gert Biesta (Maynooth University) and Magdalena Nowicka (DeZIM, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will discuss which role there is for public pedagogies and institutional change and policy to support solidarities across differences.

On August 21st and 22nd, doctoral researchers of SOLiDi and selected external participants will present their research findings on solidarities in diversity in a variety of ways alongside partner organizations of the SOLiDi network. These presentations, panel sessions and expositions will be complemented with contributions that explore solidarity from an artistic perspective. The complete program can be found here.

• Presentations of August 20 can be found here.

• Presentations of August 21 can be found here.

• Presentations of August 22 can be found here.

For more info or questions about this conference, please contact Stijn.Oosterlynck@uantwerpen.be or Anke.DeMalsche@uantwerpen.be