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11 June 2026

On Justice #10 Racial (In)Justice in Authoritarian Times


11 June 2026, 7:30 pm

With Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Cengiz Barskanmaz a.o.

English

The event examines racial (in)justice amid authoritarian shifts in the USA and in Germany. Exclusionary nationalism, securitization and repression of protests, anti-migration policies, shrinking spaces for academic freedom and civil society are intensifying longstanding racial inequalities while simultaneously constraining the very legal frameworks designed to challenge racial inequalities. As a founder of Critical Race Theory, Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw played a key role in coining the term ‘intersectionality’, which describes how different forms of inequality and discrimination (such as racism and sexism) intersect.

At HAU, she will address the attacks on this theory and processes of legal backsliding, while also reflecting on selected chapters from her newly published memoir “Backtalker”.

Find more information and tickets here.

A discourse series by HAU Hebbel am Ufer in cooperation with the ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights). Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses. 

You can find audio recordings of past On Justice events as podcasts in ECCHRs Living Open Archive.

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