Race is a taboo subject. In the post-WWII and the postcolonial era the study of race has been delegated to the realm of 'bad science’. Yet, current biomedicine and forensics are co-shaped by techniques that depend on and explore biological differences between human populations. In the process, these techniques reintroduce and shape race in science and society. But this is not done upfront. In Europe race has become an absent presence, an object that pops up and then hides in seemingly unproblematic techniques, in genetic markers, algorithms, statistical analyses. The RaceFaceID project seeks to open up this double move, in which 'race' gets configured but not discussed.

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6 October 2021

6 October 2021

Vital Elements, postcolonial flows and forensics as the art of paying attention

Presidential Keynote of A. M'charek at 4S Conference Montreal.

23 July 2021

 23 July 2021

Race trouble and DNA-phenotyping

Keynote of A. M'charek at The 19th Biennial meeting of The International Association for Craniofacial Identification, Liverpool, UK.

17 June 2021

17 June 2021

Postcolonial Flows and Forensics as an Art of Paying Attention

Keynote of A. M'charek at The International Conference STS Italia , Triest Italy.

6 May 2020

6 May 2020

American Anthropologist Special Section: Face and Race, edited by A. M'charek and K. Schramm.

Tentacular Faces : Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification by A. M'charek

October 2021

October 2021

Harraga, de verbranders: Grenzen, ecologie, kolonialisme

Podcast (NL) met A. M'charek van N. Baerwaldt en W. Ruijtenberg, Universiteit Leiden

24 October 2019

24 October 2019

Race, Face and Forensic Identification

Keynote by A. M'charek at the Goldsmiths Sociology Department Annual Lecture, Goldsmiths University of London, UK.

13 February 2020

13 February 2020

Amade M'charek awared the Emma Goldman Award

FLAX Foundation, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

 

10 May 2021

10 May 2021

Doing Time with Ancient DNA: The trouble with naturalization, race and colonialism

Keynote by A. M'charek at the conference Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA, Stockholm 10-11 May 2021.
 

 

30 April 2021

30 April 2021

Beach Encounters and Forensic as an Art of Paying Attention

Invited Talk of A. M'charek at Cornell Talk, Department of Anthropology Cornell University, US

21 April 2021

21 April 2021

Doing Face and Race in Forensic Identification: On tentacular faces

Invited Lecture of A. M'charek at Research Seminars Series at the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK.

23 March 2021

23 March 2021

Infrastructuring race in criminal investigation

Invited paper of A. M'charek at JIAS Virtual Symposium Epistemic, institutional, and algorithmic racism in Europe and north America, Johannesburg South Africa.

24 February 2021

24 February 2021

Ir/relevance of Race

Invited Lecture by A. M'charek for Studium Generale TU Eindhoven.

4 February 2021

4 February 2021

Belonging as a Practice

Invited paper by A. M'charek for NIAStalk/Spui25 workshop Mapping Belonging as a Filed of Study

28 November 2020

28 November 2020

Back to the future? Race trouble in scientific practice

Keynote by A. M'charek at  the Annual Symposium of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fysische Antropologie

27 November 2020

27 November 2020

Beach Encounters and Forensic Evidence: migrant death, colonial currents and the art of paying attention

Keynote by A. M'charek at the Colonial memories, Oppositional Memories Conference, Barcelona

13 October 2020

13 October 2020

Beach Encounters: migrant death, colonial currents and the art of paying attention

Talk of A. M'charek at IWM monthly lecture, Vienna.

24 September 2020

24 September 2020

Race Trouble and Forensic Genetics: The case of investigative methods

Keynote by A. M'charek at DNA in police work. New methods, new challenges Conference, Oslo

2 September 2020

2 September 2020

Genereuze Sporen, of wat Virussen en Afval ons kunnen leren

Keynote by A. M'charekfor PauzeStand: Internationale culturele samenwerking in pauzestand of stroomversnelling, DutchCulture – deBalie, Amsterdam.
 

13 December 2019

13 December 2019

Amade M'charek Invited participant roundtable “Towards and STS approach to identification?” for WTMC Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

https://www.wtmc.eu/events/save-the-date-wtmc-annual-meeting-13-december-2019/

18 November 2019

18 November 2019

Invited talk Amade M'charek “Harraga: Burning, Borders and Colonial Legacies” for Conference Challenging Borders, Duke University, USA.

https://igs.duke.edu/events/challenging-borders

13 November 2019

13 November 2019

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek “Who are we? – the new technologies of identity and belonging” for Tema T Exchange. Linköping University, Sweden.

https://liu.se/en/research/tema-t-exchange

23 October 2019

23 October 2019

Paper presentation Amade M'charek “Beach encounters: narrating the refugee crisis and its material traces” for Seminar Religion, Body, Media and Heritage, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2 September 2019

2 September 2019

Invited lecture Amade M'charek "Sporen van Verplaatsing" for Opening of the Academic Year 2019-2020, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

https://www.uva.nl/content/evenementen/evenementen/2019/09/opening-academisch-jaar-2019-2020.html

 

 

 

6 May 2020

6 May 2020

American Anthropologist Special Section: Face and Race, edited by Amade M'charek and Katharina Schramm. 

Introduction: Encountering the Face—Unraveling Race, by Amade M'charek and Katharina Schramm 

Tentacular Faces: Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification, by Amade M'charek 

Stuck in the Tearoom: Facial Reconstruction and Postapartheid Headache, by Katharina Schramm

The Face of the Mexican: Race, Nation, and Criminal Identification in Mexico, by Abigail Nieves Delgado

A Colonial‐Scientific Interface: The Construction, Viewing, and Circulation of Faces via a 1906 German Racial Atlas, by Geertje Mak 

 

25 March 2019

25 March 2019

Special edition Ir/Relevance of Race Seminar Series Opsporing verzocht: ‘ras’ in DNA (in collaboration with Pakhuis de Zwijger). Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

https://dezwijger.nl/programma/opsporing-verzocht-ras-in-dna 

 

19 March 2019

19 March 2019

Invited lecture Amade M'charek “Doing Face in Forensic Identification and Generous Methods for Studying Race” for Global Race Project, The French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), Paris, France.

https://global-race.site.ined.fr/en/events/seminars/2019/

12 February 2019

12 February 2019

Invited lecture Amade M'charek "Het spoor van het zout" for the Amersfoortse Bergrede. Amersfoort, the Netherlands. 

https://www.bergkerk.nl/index.php/activiteiten/actueel/247-bergrede-2019

https://www.stichting-dmc.nl/data/uploads/pdf/de_bergrede_a_mcharek_2019.pdf

11 February 2019

11 February 2019

Invited lecture Amade M'charek "DNA-phenotyping: doing face and race?" and "Lehren aus dem Umgang mit DNA-Phänotypisierung in den Niederlanden" for Technische Möglichkeiten und normative Grenzen der DNA-Phänotypisierung in der Strafverfolgung. NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany. 

 

18 December 2018

18 December 2018

Invited talk Amade M'charek for the workshop DNA-based facial reconstruction. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 

https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-aktuell/workshop-dna-based-facial-reconstruction

4 December 2018

4 December 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek for Bonner Ethik-Forum: DNA-Phänotypisierung in der Strafverfolgung – Was kann und was darf aus Genen gelesen werden?. University of Bonn, Germany. 

https://www.philosophie.uni-bonn.de/de/aktuelles/11.-bonner-ethik-forum-dna-phaenotypisierung-in-der-strafverfolgung-2013-was-kann-und-was-darf-aus-genen-gelesen-werden

29 November 2018

29 November 2018

Invited talk Amade M'charek “Salty: On (Post)colonial Conditions at a Cemetery for Unknown Migrants” for Panel 2: Contemporary Containments: Security States and Border Expansions into the Sea. FLOATS Winter Meeting. 29-30 November 2018, New York, USA. 

https://floatsea.org/1st-winter-meeting-new-york/

27 November 2018

27 November 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek "Identiteiten | samenleven in het meervoud IV". deBuren, Brussels, Belgium

https://www.deburen.eu/programma/4704/identiteiten-samenleven-in-het-meervoud

16 November 2018

16 November 2018

RaceFaceID Organizer Panel "Making Face, Doing Race". 16 November 2018.

Presented Paper Lisette Jong, Amade M'charek "Different ways of doing difference: classification work in forensic craniofacial reconstruction practices". 16 November 2018.

Presented Paper Ryanne Bleumink "Criminalizing differences: facial composites and challenging the ‘ordinary’ in criminal investigation practice". 16 November 2018.

Presented Paper Roos Hopman "Dissecting face, thinking through race". 16 November 2018.

Presented Paper Ildiko Plajas "Composite Method: Experimenting with the Absent Presence of Race in Film and Facial Composite Drawing". 16 November 2018.

 

at the AAA Annual Meeting "Resistence, Resilience, Adaptation". 14-18 November 2018, San Jose California, USA. 

https://www.eventscribe.net/2018/AAA/aaStatic.asp?SFP=UEtEUEtLU1VAMTU4Ng

 

 

 

4 November 2018

4 November 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek "De diverse ethische en maatschappelijke dilemma’s" for Publieksmiddag Wijzer over DNA: Op zoek naar de 'dader' met behulp van bevolkingsscreening. Leiden, the Netherlands

http://www.vkgn.org/agenda/extern/publieksmiddag-wijzer-over-dna-op-zoek-naar-de-dader-met-behulp-van-bevolkingsscreening/

24 September 2018

24 September 2018

RaceFaceID Organizer of the international conference "Race and the Senses" (in collaboration with Meertens Institute). 24 September 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/events/2018/09/race-and-the-senses.html

9 September 2018

9 September 2018

Invited talk Amade M'charek "De lessen van de Neanderthaler" for Preken voor eigen Parochie, de Kleine Komedie. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

https://www.academia.edu/37401805/De_lessen_van_de_Neanderthaler_9_September_2018_Preken_voor_eigen_Parochie_de_Kleine_Komedie_Amsterdam_

 

25-28 July 2018

25-28 July 2018

Presented Paper Amade M'charek "Beach encounters: narrating the refugee crisis and its material traces" for the panel Of Other Landscapes. 28 July 2018.

Convenor Panel Lisette Jong and Amade M'charek "Topologies of race: bringing a touchy object in STS". 25 July 2018.

Presented Paper Roos Hopman "Facing the unknown suspect. An inquiry into 'the face' generated through Forensic DNA Phenotyping" for the panel Topologies of race: bringing a touchy object in STS. 25 July 2018.

Presented Paper Ildikó Plájás "Permanent temporality: doing race and the citizen in practices of issuing temporary ID cards in Romania" for the panel Topologies of race: bringing a touchy object in STS. 25 July 2018.

Presented Paper Ryanne Bleumink "Working with stereotypes in facial composite drawing" for the panel Topologies of race: bringing a touchy object in STS. 25 July 2018.

 

at the EASST 2018 Conference "Meetings: Making Science, Technology and Society Together". 25-28 July 2018, Lancaster University, England.

https://easst2018.easst.net/programme/

9 July 2018

9 July 2018

Ir/Relevance of Race Seminar Series with RaceFaceID PhD students Ryanne Bleumink, Lisette Jong & Ildikó Zonga Plájás, "Composite Method: Experimenting with the Absent Presence in Film and Facial Composite Drawing”. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/lectures/2018/07/composite-method-experimenting-with-the-absent-presence-in-film-and-facial-composite-drawing.html

Archive of previous lectures: http://aissr.uva.nl/content/research-groups/health-care-and-the-body/seminar-series/archive/archive.html

 

 

6 July 2018

6 July 2018

RaceFaceID organizer international workshop "The Future of Face: Over de huidige en toekomstige rol van het gezicht in het forensische en strafrechtelijke veld". Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

25-26 June 2018

25-26 June 2018

Invited presentation Amade M'charek “The Art of Paying Attention” [lecture 2], 25 June 2018.

Invited presentation Irene van Oorschot "Legal Laboratories" [panel 4], 26 June 2018.

Translating STS to Security Sites workshop. Haarlem, the Netherlands, 25-26 June 2018.

http://www.projectfollow.org/events-videos/

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/workshops/2018/06/translating-sts-to-security-sites.html

 

19 June 2018

19 June 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek "Tentacular Faces and Generous Methods for Studying Race" for Anthropological Colloquium, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

24 May 2018

24 May 2018

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek "About Face: Forensic Identification and the Trouble with Race" for DASTS Conference 2018 'Engaging the Data Moment'. 24-25 May 2018, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

http://www.itu.dk/people/chga/DASTS2018program.pdf

5 May 2018

5 May 2018

Godwin lecture Amade M'charek "Genetica als identiteitsmachine", Het Planetarium van ARTIS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

https://www.bof.nl/2018/04/19/kom-op-5-mei-naar-de-godwinlezing-van-amade-mcharek-over-genetica-als-identiteitsmachine/

Visiting fellow Ruth Benshop

Visiting fellow Ruth Benshop

Dr. Ruth Benschop visiting the RaceFaceID team for the period March-April 2018.

Ruth Benschop (Katanning, Australia 1969) is reader at the Research Centre Autonomy and the Public Sphere in the Arts. She was originally trained as a theoretical psychologist at Leiden University and finished her PhD (with honours) at the University of Groningen in 2001. Her thesis Unassuming Instruments: How to Trace the Tachistoscope in Experimental Psychology belongs to the field of Science and Technology Studies. This interdisciplinary field researches concrete practices, art practices among them, to raise urgent questions about today’s society. At Maastricht University, among other projects, she conducted postdoctoral research into sound art and the democratisation of music making. Besides research, she has always taught on a variety of themes as well as being engaged with the development of education.

http://lectoraataok.nl/english/

13 April 2018

13 April 2018

Presented paper Ryanne Bleumink, Lisette Jong, Ildikó Plájás 'Composite method: experimenting with the absent presence of race in film and facial composite drawing' for Participant Observation and Collaboration in STS Ethnography: Generating Methodographic Sensibilities for Science & Technology Studies. 12-14 April 2018, Berlin, Germany.

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-35202

12 April 2018

12 April 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek 'Technologies of sameness, technologies of race' for Penn Program on Race, Science and Society (PRSS) Spring Symposium Ordering the Human: Global Science and Racial Reason, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

https://prss.sas.upenn.edu/events/prss-spring-symposium-ordering-human-global-science-and-racial-reason

 

22 March 2018

22 March 2018

Presented paper Amade M'charek 'Tentacular faces and generous methods for studying race' for the Conference To Research & Exhibit Human Biological Diversity. 21-23 March 2018, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway..

https://tekniskmuseum.no/besok-oss/helgeprogram/1483-to-research-exhibit-human-biological-diversity-conference

15 March 2018

15 March 2018

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'Moving Bodies, Performative Circulations: The case of dead-bodies-at-the-border' for the 2018 Annual Conference of the Finnish Sociological Association. 15-16 March 2018, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.

http://sosiologipaivat.fi/keynote-speakers-2/

14 March 2018

14 March 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek 'Anthropology of wild objects: On race and other slippery categories' for Sovako (Finnish Social Research Doctoral Program) Winter School 2018, Joensuu, Finland.

http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/doctoralstudies/graduate_schools/sovako/winter_school.html

9 March 2018

9 March 2018

Amade M'charek invited interviewer for Angela Saini on feminism and science for F-lab live stream, Atria, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

https://www.atria.nl/en/calendar/live-stream-f-lab-angela-saini

7 March 2018

7 March 2018

Invited lecture Amade M'charek 'Ras: tussen feit en fictie' for Studium Generale Lecture Series, Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands.

https://www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2018/ras-tussen-feit-en-fictie

https://www.sg.uu.nl/videos/ras-tussen-feit-en-fictie (video)

2 February 2018

2 February 2018

PhD defense Irene van Oorschot 'Ways of Case-Making' (cum laude), Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

https://www.eur.nl/essb/nieuws/promotie-irene-van-oorschot-ways-case-making-0202

23 January 2018

23 January 2018

Workshop "Race and Perceiving Faces"

Organizer of the lunch workshop 'Race and Perceiving Faces' with Alana Helberg-Proctor and Amade M'charek. Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2 December 2017

2 December 2017

Presented paper Amade M'charek ‘Waste-at-the-border: or how to attend to the refugee crisis’ for AAA Annual Meeting Anthropology Matters!. 29 November-3 December 2017, Washington DC, USA.

http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1702

27 November 2017

27 November 2017

Ir/Relevance of Race Seminar Series with Irene van Oorschot, Like Cases Alike?. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/lectures/2017/11/like-cases-alike.html

17 November 2017

17 November 2017

Workshop "Race and 'the Roma'"

Organizer of the workshop "Race and ‘the Roma’" Ildikó Plájás and Amade M'charek with Huub van Baar. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

16 November 2017

16 November 2017

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek for AISSR Harvest Day 2017: Democracy & Governance, Diversity and Societal Impact. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/events/2017/11/aissr-harvest-day-2017.html

18 October 2017

18 October 2017

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Tentacular Faces and Generous Methods for Studying Race’ for The New School for Social Research Anthropology Lecture Discussions. New York, USA.

https://events.newschool.edu/event/anthropology_lecture_-_amade_mcharek#.WoRLLWdBCX8

25 September 2017

25 September 2017

Ir/Relevance of Race Seminar Series with Alana Helberg-Proctor, Proceed with caution! ‘Ethnicity’ in health research, policy, and care in the Netherlands. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/lectures/2017/09/proceed-with-caution-%E2%80%98ethnicity%E2%80%99-in-health-research-policy-and-care-in-the-netherlands.html

7 September 2017

7 September 2017

Invited lecture Amade M'charek for European Research Council’s (ERC) 10 years anniversary mini-symposium with ERC laureates. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://grant-support.uva.nl/content/events/events/2017/09/erc-celebration-event.html?v=&origin=fpeApPayRPWhpPfGA%2Bz4lg

30 August 2017

30 August 2017

Keynote lecture Presidential Plenary Amade M'charek "Interrogating ‘the Threat’” for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). 30 August-2 September 2017, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

http://www.4sonline.org/meeting/17

23 June 2017

23 June 2017

International workshop 'Caring for What?'

Co-organizer of international workshop "Caring for What?" with Annemarie Mol and the Eating Bodies research team. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://whatiseating.com/event/caring-for-what/

20 June 2017

20 June 2017

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Race and ethnicity: Perspectives from STS and Anthropology of Science’ for the Symposium ‘Making a Difference’: Ethnicity and race in health research. Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

9 June 2017

9 June 2017

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'DNA phenotyping: Between the individual suspect and the suspect population' for the "Symposium Erweiterte DNA-Analysen in der Forensik: Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen, Risiken". [Advanced DNA analysis in forensics: possibilities, challenges, risks]. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.

https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/downloads/veranstaltungen/symposiums-erweiterte-dna-analysen

8-9 May 2017

8-9 May 2017

RaceFaceID seminar 'What is the matter with/of Diversity?' with Sara Ahmed. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Co-organized with KNAW, FWOS and ARC-GS.

Presented paper Amade M'charek ‘Undoing race with diversity: or the curious life of words and their political work’.

21 April 2017

21 April 2017

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek '(Sur)Face: Notes from forensic identification on race and sameness' for the 4th Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology: ‘Ethnographic Adventures in Medical Anthropology’. Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA.

http://www.cascadiaseminar.org/

21 April 2017

21 April 2017

Workshop Amade M'charek ‘Beyond facts and fictions’ for the Science, Technology and Society Studies (STSS) Network. University of Washington, USA.

28 March 2017

28 March 2017

Invited participant Amade M'charek Panel II on the Conference 'African Migration in Comparative Perspective'. 27-28 March 2017, Duke University, Durham, USA.

https://igs.duke.edu/events/african-migration-comparative-perspective

23 March 2017

23 March 2017

Presented paper Amade M'charek ‘Face, Crime and the Migrant Other: On the Absent Presence of Race in the Media’.

Paper presentation Ildikó Plájás 'Knowing the Roma in Europe: Visual technologies of sorting population and policing mobility in Europe'.

Seminar ‘Racial Exclusion in and at the Borders of Europe’. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=9accdac01a3065036c125c60b&id=0887530796   

21 March 2017

21 March 2017

Press briefing participant Amade M'charek ‘DNA-Profiling und die Wissenschaften: Wie weit kann die erweiterte DNA-Analyse gehen?’. Science Media Center, Berlin, Germany.

https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Press_Briefing_Zubehoer/Transkript_DNA-Profiling_SMC-Press-Briefing_2017-03-21_final.pdf

16 March 2017

16 March 2017

Paper presentation Ildikó Plájás 'Knowing the Roma in Europe: Visual technologies of sorting population and policing mobility in Europe' for Peopling ‘Europe’ through Data Workshop & Special Issue. 16-18 March 2017, Tate Museum & Goldsmith University London.

https://lizzy-willmington.squarespace.com/seminars-workshops/2017/3/16/elevlyn-ruppert-arithmus

8 March 2017

8 March 2017

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'Sex, Crime and the Migrant Other: Or, what do pictures demand from us?' for the International Women’s Day at the Institute for Gender & Diversity Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

http://www.ru.nl/genderstudies/nieuws-activiteiten/internationale-vrouwendag/2017/

2-3 March 2017

2-3 March 2017

RaceFaceID multi-media workshop 'Detours and Puzzles in the Land of the Living: Towards an Imperilled Anthropology' with Prof. Andrew Irving (University of Manchester). University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/events/2017/03/detours-and-puzzles-in-the-land-of-the-living.html

28 February 2017

28 February 2017

RaceFaceID workshop 'Thinking Together: On democracy and the pleasures of abstraction' with Prof. Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles). University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

21 November 2016

21 November 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘(Sur)Face: Notes from Forensic Identification on Race and Sameness’ for the Colloquium ‘Race: An Anthropological Interrogation’. University of Pennsylvania, USA.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/pc/course/2017A/ANTH733

17 November 2016

17 November 2016

Presented paper Amade M'charek ‘Genotyping Face, Phenotyping Race: The Case of Forensic Genetics’ for AAA 2016 Annual Meeting Evidence, Accident, Discovery. 16-20 November 2016, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

http://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1702

8 November 2016

8 November 2016

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'Zegt jouw DNA iets over je ras?' for Universiteit van Nederland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://www.universiteitvannederland.nl/college/zegt-jouw-dna-iets-over-je-ras/

3 November 2016

3 November 2016

RaceFaceID workshop 'Governance" van nieuwe DNA-technologie in de opsporing'. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

26 October 2016

26 October 2016

Invited panelist Amade M'charek ‘Science and Race: History, Use, and Abuse’ for The Public Classroom Class 3: Genetics and Race (Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, USA).

https://www.penn.museum/sites/pmclassroom/classes/genetics-and-race/

3 October 2016

3 October 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Dutchness in Genes and Genealogy: On modes of belonging and the absent presence of race’ for Political Subjectivity in Times of Transformation: Classification and Belonging in South Africa and Beyond. 30 September-5 October 2016, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

http://pointsud.org/wp-content/uploads/Programme-Point-Sud-2016-Workshop-Political-Subjectivity-Report.pdf

26 September 2016

26 September 2016

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'Face as a visual device: Notes on race and sameness in forensic identification' for the Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Research Seminar. Leiden University, the Netherlands.

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2016/09/ca-ds-research-seminar-face-as-a-visual-device

23 September 2016

Presentation by Ildikó Plájás 'Experimental montage and the absent presence of race' for Panorama Day University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

8-10 September 2016

8-10 September 2016

RaceFaceID international workshop 'Doing the Individual and the Collective in Forensic Genetics: Governance, Race and Restitution'. Co-organized with Peter Wade (University of Manchester). Manchester, the UK.

Presented lecture Amade M'charek ‘(Sur)Face: Notes from Forensic Identification on Race and Sameness’

18 March - 4 September 2016

18 March - 4 September 2016

Art exhibition object "The Return of the Phenotype" Lisette Jong and Amade M'charek for the exhibition Out of the Box: eight stories about research and heritage. Bijzondere Collecties [Special Collections], Univerisity of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://bijzonderecollecties.uva.nl/gedeelde-content/nieuws/nieuwsberichten/2016/03/out-of-the-box.html

https://issuu.com/bijzonderecollectiesuva/docs/out_of_the_box

 

3 September 2016

3 September 2016

Paper presentation Ildikó Plájás 'Analytical montage and the absent presence of race' for 4S/EASST Annual Meeting Science & technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures. August 31-September 3, 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

https://easst.net/article/easst4s-conference-barcelona-2016-august-31-september-3-science-and-technology-by-other-means/

3 September 2016

3 September 2016

Paper presentation Amade M'charek ‘Putting a face to data, doing race with data’ for 4S/EASST Annual Meeting Science & technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures. 31 August-3 September 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

https://easst.net/article/easst4s-conference-barcelona-2016-august-31-september-3-science-and-technology-by-other-means/

2 September 2016

2 September 2016

Panel convener Amade M'charek ‘Technologies of Criminalization: On the convergence of forensic and surveillance technologies’ (with Helena Machado, Coimbra University) for 4S/EASST Annual Meeting Science & technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures. 31 August-3 September 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

https://easst.net/article/easst4s-conference-barcelona-2016-august-31-september-3-science-and-technology-by-other-means/

14 July 2016

14 July 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘When Humans and Technologies Cross Borders: Identifying Refugees Around the Mediterranean Sea’ for ESRC Research Seminar series on genetics, technology, security and justice. Crossing, contesting and comparing boundaries. Northumbria University, UK.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/policyethicsandlifesciences/files/Seminar3_invitation.pdf

13 July 2016

13 July 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘When Humans and Technologies Cross Borders: identifying refugees around the Mediterranean sea’ for Evidence On Trial: weighing the value of evidence in academic enquiry, policy and everyday life. 12-14 July 2016, Durham University, UK.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/events/events_listings/?eventno=27279

24 June 2016

24 June 2016

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'Tentacular Faces: Forensic identification and the return of the phenotype?' for the European Summer School for Cultural Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands.

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2016/03/european-summer-school-for-cultural-studies-on-legibility

7 June 2016

7 June 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Moving Bodies, Shifting Boundaries: the ‘refugee crisis’ and the European border management regime’ for Joint Institutes Colloquium Boundaries, Bodies, and Politics: the ‘refugee crisis’ and the new Europe. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

https://www.eth.mpg.de/4043396/16_Joint_Colloquium_SoSe2016.pdf

20 May 2016

20 May 2016

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek '(Sur)Face: Notes from forensic identification on race and sameness' for the Swedish STS Conference. 19-20 May 2016, Lund University, Sweden.

http://www.ism.lu.se/en/sts-2016/welcome-to-the-swedish-sts-conference-2016

3 May 2016

3 May 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘The forensics of face and the absent presence of race’ for the EXCHANGE Annual Conference Current and Future Challenges of Forensic Genetics in Society. University of Coimbra, Portugal.

http://www.ces.uc.pt/eventos/eventos.php?id=13712&pag=13713&id_lingua=1&sector=CES&tipo=eventos&site=eventos#.WoRkWGdBCX8

18 April 2016

18 April 2016

Invited commentary Amade M'charek of the book ‘The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala’ by Emily Yates-Doerr. University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/events/2016/04/the-weight-of-obesity.html

16 April 2016

16 April 2016

Panel participant Amade M'charek 'We are all humans, aren’t we? Towards new notions of citizenship' for panel ‘Inclusive citizenship: old fashion ideal or promising perspective?’. Spring is yet to come festival. 15-17 April 2016, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

https://dezwijger.nl/programma/spring-is-yet-to-come

26 February 2016

26 February 2016

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Engaging Face in the Studies of Race’ for seminar series with Prof. Aleksanda Bakalaki. Department of Anthropology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

24 November 2015

24 November 2015

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Solidarity and Forensics: An equation in two variables’ for CeSO Solidarity Lecture Series ‘Solidarity in Europe: A new future for an old idea?’. KU Leuven, Belgium.

https://soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/calendar/ceso-solidarity-lecture-series-2015-amade-mcharek

8 November 2015

8 November 2015

Keynote lecture Amade M'charek 'Nature, nurture en verschil: het geval ras' for InScience scientific film festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Followed by a debate on the documentary ‘Genetic Me’ (director Pernille Rose Grønkjær).

https://www.insciencefestival.nl/voorgaande-edities/

26 October 2015

26 October 2015

Invited lecture Amade M'charek ‘Ras: een oud probleem in nieuwe gedaantes’ for Felix College. Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

http://www.debatagenda.nl/2429/felix_college_amade_mcharek_over_waarom_we_in_ras_denken

23 October 2015

23 October 2015

Invited commentary Amade M'charek on panel Foundation of Difference II: Science for Annelies Kleinherenbrink’s contribution ‘Sex Matters: Notes on Feminism and Neuroscience’ and Veronica Vasterling’s contribution ‘The Science of Sex Differences’. Symposium Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and the Foundations of Difference. Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

http://www.ru.nl/genderstudies/historie/archief-conferenties-seminars/archief-conferenties-seminars/30th-anniversary-igs-contestations-symposium-2015/

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