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Description  This workshop is organised within the TOLERACE research project: &#8211; The  semantics of tolerance and (anti-racism) in Europe,  www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/tolerace &#8211; and it aims at gathering  international academics from different disciplines that have developed  cutting-edge research on the theoretical and political challenges of  Eurocentrism, the understanding of contemporary (anti-)racism and  decolonial/post-colonial analysis and methodologies.  Critical theories of &#8216;race&#8217;, racism and related discriminations and  different anti-racist movements/organisations have called for the  challenging of certain dominant approaches to racism, considering their  impact on public policy. They insist on the necessity to disconnect, at  least partially, the question of racism from that of contemporary  movements of immigration. In current times, racism is too often  naturalised within the discourse and practice of integration and social  cohesion and the continuous redrawing of a line between &#8216;Us&#8217; and the  &#8216;Other&#8217; (non-EU immigrants; ethnic minorities, &#8216;second-generation&#8217;  immigrants). In order to overcome this, a sound debate of the  contemporary contours of Eurocentrism and (anti-)racism requires a  historically-informed analysis of knowledge production within the  academia and policy-making that engages with: a) the making of public  history regarding colonialism, &#8216;race&#8217;/racism and nationhood in  contemporary European societies (e.g. myths about tolerance in the  Netherlands, Egalitarian Republicanism in France, a soft colonialism in  Portugal, Political pluralism and religious tolerance in Spain, the myth  of fairness and multiculturalism in Britain, etc.); b) the contextual  specificities of cultural politics, considering how history shaped  different ways of making sense of Europeaness, national identity and  racism (e.g. the political declaration that multiculturalism has failed  in Britain, controversies and recent policies on the teaching of  colonialism in France). The main objective of this workshop is to promote a debate that engages  both with current debates on knowledge/history production and with  contemporary discourses/policies on immigration and &#8216;integration&#8217;,  taking their intersection as crucial to unravel the relations between  the constant (re)making of nation boundaries and ideas of political  belonging. We propose that a breakthrough approach requires the  challenging of a Eurocentric paradigm, now hegemonic, that is preventing  a thorough debate on racism as being embedded on the history of modern  science, capitalism, liberal democracies and the state of law.The workshop will take place at the Centre for Social Studies  (University of Coimbra, Portugal). It will last for two days and will be  organised around four sessions.  Each session will start with  introductory remarks by the coordinator, followed by the opening  interventions. The debate will then be open to all speakers. Speakers  and coordinators will discuss with the workshop attendees by the end of  each day&#8217;s sessions. Organisation: Silvia R. Maeso (CES) &#38; Marta Ara&#250;jo (CES)ProgrammeTuesday, May 229:00 Presentation9:30 &#8211; 13:00 Eurocentrism, &#8216;race&#8217;/racism and the politics of knowledge productionCoordination: Silvia R. Maeso (CES-University of Coimbra)  Opening interventions:     Ram&#243;n Grosfoguel,         Branwen Gruffydd Jones,         Nelson Maldonado-Torres,         Barnor Hesse         Boaventura de Sousa Santos14:30-17:30 The politics of research and policy-making on (anti-)racism (I): Europe and the &#8216;immigrant imaginary&#8217;Coordination:  Salman Sayyid (CERS-University of Leeds/Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding-University of South Australia)Opening interventions:     Alana Lentin,         Katy Sian         Julia Su&#225;rez-Krabbe18:00 &#8211; 19:00 Debate with the workshop attendeesWednesday, May 23 9:30 &#8211; 13:00 The politics of research and policy-making on (anti-)racism (II): IslamophobiaCoordination: Frank Peter (University of Bern/European University Viadrina) Opening interventions:     Gema Mart&#237;n-Mu&#241;oz,         Abdoolkarim Vakil,         Ram&#243;n Grosfoguel,         Salman Sayyid14:30 - 17:30 Current key debates on &#8216;race&#8217;, racism and anti-racism: colonialism,  slavery, public history and education in Europe and the AmericasCoordination: Marta Ara&#250;jo (CES-University of Coimbra) Opening interventions:     Barnor Hesse        Lars Jensen         Kwame Nimako18:00-19:00 Debate with the workshop attendees  SPEAKERS    Abdoolkarim Vakil (King&#8217;s College)       Alana Lentin (University of Sussex)     Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University)&#160;&#160;    Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES-University of Coimbra)     Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Goldsmiths-University of London)     Frank Peter (University of Bern/European University Viadrina)     Gema Mart&#237;n-Mu&#241;oz (Autonomous University of Madrid)&#160;         Katy Sian (CERS-University of Leeds)&#160;         Kwame Nimako (University of Amsterdam)     Julia Su&#225;rez-Krabbe (CES-University of Coimbra/Roskilde University)         Lars Jensen (Roskilde Universtiy)     Marta Ara&#250;jo (CES-University of Coimbra)     Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University)&#160;         Ram&#243;n Grosfoguel (University of California &#8211; Berkeley)&#160;&#160;    Sayyid (CERS-University of Leeds/Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding-University of South Australia)        Silvia R. Maeso (CES-University of Coimbra)Advisory committee    Diana ANDRINGA, Portugal (Journalist and documentary film-maker)     Eva SMITH ASMUSSEN, Denmark (Chair of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance).    L&#237;dia BRITO, Mozambique (IHE-UNESCO Governing Board; former Minister of Science and Technology of Mozambique).    Peter Ronald DE SOUZA, India (India Institute of Advanced Studies).    Tarso GENRO, Brazil (Minister of Justice; former Minister of Education and of Institutional Relations).         Gema MART&#205;N-MU&#209;OZ, Spain (Director General of Casa &#193;rabe)    Jorge SAMPAIO, Portugal (United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations; former President of the Republic of Portugal). 