03.06.2026 CALL FOR CONTRINUTIONS: Workshop “Transatlantic Approaches to Environmental Racism: A Lens Through Ecologies, Materialities and Relations” to be held on 6–7 November 2026

The regional groups Afro-America and African diaspora, Mesoamerica and South America Workshop of the German Association German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology are organizing the workshop “TRANSATLANTIC APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A LENS THROUGH ECOLOGIES, MATERIALITIES AND RELATIONS” from 6-7 November 2026 at the University of Marburg.

The workshop examines racialized environmental inequalities within the longue durée of transatlantic relations, which emerged through the conquest and colonization of the Americas and were consolidated through plantation economies and the transatlantic slave trade (e.g., Kummels et al. 2014; Rodney 2018; Zeuske 2022). This historical formation of the transatlantic network was crucial to the development of the modern/colonial world system, which is characterized by racial classification and an extractive economy (e.g., Ferdinand 2022; Gilmore 2019; Quijano 2024).

Against this backdrop, the workshop approaches the transatlantic as a field of ongoing ecological, material, and relational entanglements. By bringing together various perspectives, the workshop aims to deepen understandings of, and broaden perspectives on, environmental racism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond.
We welcome contributions addressing the role of transatlantic relations in the formation, persistence, and subversion of environmental racism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond. Submissions from artists and activists who engage with environmental racism through public intervention, community work, and creative practices are especially encouraged.

Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words to the following email address: transatlantic-conference-2026@uni-marburg.de
The call for contributions ends on 30 June 2026. Please find the full call attached.

If you have any questions regarding the workshop contact Daniela Triml-Chifflard.