{"id":110809,"date":"2020-09-17T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=110809"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:13:26","slug":"open-letter-to-university-of-copenhagen-to-address-racism-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/open-letter-to-university-of-copenhagen-to-address-racism-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to University of Copenhagen to address racism in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnessing yet again the brutal police killings of Black people has urged us to confirm and show our solidarity. Jacob Blake, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade are but the most recent victims of persistent and strongly established structures of racism and violence leading to the loss of so many Black lives in the USA. It is more than timely to denounce and dismantle the institutional and structural racism deeply rooted in our societies both across the Atlantic and in our local context.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">DEBATE<\/p>\n<p>This is a debate post. It expresses the authors&#8217; own opinion.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage everyone to read the whole featured comment before commenting on Facebook, so that we only get constructive contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreement is good, but remember to uphold a good tone.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post reserves the right to delete comments that break the rules.<\/p>\n<p><em>This open letter is inspired by the one co-authored by Oda-Kange Diallo and Federico G. Settler at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim. The authors of this letter are grateful to all the colleagues who contributed to the writing and sharing of the letter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As concerned academics we want to confirm that we stand by the immensely brave people in the anti-racist movement who, day after day, face police brutality and, despite the risks, stand up against the structures that continuously exploit and violate Black people\u2019s lives and bodies. We want to confirm that we stand with you against the silence that has made the Black people\u2019s oppression invisible for too long.<\/p>\n<p>While largely neglected, racism has deep roots in Danish history where it has taken various forms, and remains consistently present. Denmark was the seventh biggest slave trading nation in the world, only one place after the US. From the Gold Coast in Ghana, Trankebar in India and the former Danish West Indies, Denmark too benefited from exploiting colonies and slaves, and thus, Black lives.<\/p>\n<h3>Systemic racism in Denmark<\/h3>\n<p>This continues in other forms today, as Denmark engages in exploitations of resources and labour on the African continent and beyond. While often overlooked, anti-blackness exists in Denmark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denmark was the seventh biggest slave trading nation in the world, only one place after the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Black people, people of colour and other minorities are being called out and assaulted in their daily lives and have to work harder to gain the same opportunities as white Danes. Amongst many examples, around 4000 people between 16 and 74 years old experience violence motivated by racism every year (<a href=\"https:\/\/menneskeret.dk\/sites\/menneskeret.dk\/files\/media\/dokumenter\/udgivelser\/faktaark_qa\/policy_brief_racisme_og_hadforbrydelser.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institut for Menneskerettigheder, 2019<\/a>) \u00a0and in a recent DR article, 20 people bravely explain how they have experienced racism (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr.dk\/mitliv\/jeg-er-blevet-spyttet-paa-og-kaldt-abe-saadan-oplever-20-danskere-racisme-i-hverdagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S\u00f8rensen &amp; Olsen, DR, 2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In primary schools, teachers expect less of children with brown skin and dark hair (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.folkeskolen.dk\/659798\/sort-haar-og-brun-hud-goer-en-forskel-tal-om-det\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petersen, Folkeskolen, 2019<\/a>), and men with different ethnic backgrounds than white Danes have to send out 52 % more job applications to be invited for job interviews (<a href=\"https:\/\/politiken.dk\/debat\/art5731006\/Danske-arbejdsgivere-v%C3%A6lger-%E2%80%99Mads%E2%80%99-frem-for-%E2%80%99Muhammed%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lund &amp; Pedersen, Politiken, 2016<\/a>), a number that for women wearing scarfs for religious reasons is 60 % (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlingske.dk\/samfund\/for-foerste-gang-har-forskning-kortlagt-at-kvinder-med-toerklaede-vaelges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marquardt &amp; Carl, Berlingske, 2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3>Lack of data from Danish universities<\/h3>\n<p>We acknowledge the role of higher education across the world in maintaining this systemic racism. In many places, Black people are given less space and occupy a very low percentage of full-time staff positions. Their work is often neglected, not included in curricula, and universities lack measures to deal with racism facing Black staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>We also suspect this to be the case at the University of Copenhagen, UCPH.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is our responsibility to acknowledge white privilege, recognize and call out racism in academia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of us that are white academics, as we benefit from these same structures, it is our responsibility to acknowledge white privilege, recognize and call out racism in academia, and address its root causes. This entails educating ourselves so that we learn to deconstruct these structures in our workplace, research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>However, at an institutional level, we have no data or information on how racism plays out in Danish universities, making it very difficult to ensure that Black as well as people of colour and other minorities are given equal opportunities and feel safe.<\/p>\n<h3>UCPH, count all minorities<\/h3>\n<p>Therefore, as employees of UCPH we ask the leadership to commit to investigating, firstly, what diversity looks like at UCPH. That is, to what extent are Black people and other minorities employed and in what positions? What are the numbers of Black students and other minorities?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, we ask UCPH leadership to commit to investigating how Black staff and students alongside other minorities experience racism in their everyday work and study spaces. This is in line with UCPH\u2019s Strategy 2023 that commits to <em>increase our focus on equality and diversity<\/em> and provide a <em>diverse and inclusive working and study environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We strongly urge UCPH leadership to be proactive and take administrative action to be anti-racist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, due to the current lack of disaggregated data on diversity, it remains unclear whether UCPH indeed provides equal and diverse environments. Without this information, we cannot ensure that the right changes are made for UCPH to live up to its commitments. Without this information, we cannot distinguish between the words and actions of UCPH leadership.<\/p>\n<p>We strongly urge UCPH leadership to be proactive and take administrative action to be anti-racist. We want UCPH to step into the fight of ending the injustice that Black people continue to face. At the same time we, as individuals, also have a responsibility to contribute to anti-racist spaces, and commit to doing so.<\/p>\n<h3>Signatures<\/h3>\n<p><em>Follow the current number of signatures <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1-WHgX_PMR6lWf7kzLAiN46zWYQsB7HOEBBSfQ5bPB00\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. This is an update from 04 September:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IFRO<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francois Questiaux (author of statement)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sofie Mortensen (author of statement)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ruth Pinto<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 P\u00e9ter J\u00f3zsef Bori<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 C\u00e9line Pascale Claire Moreaux<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marius Samuel Alt<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paula Ugarte Lucas<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Penelope Fay Anthias<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mari\u00e8ve Pouliot<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Christian Pilegaard Hansen<br \/>\n11.\u00a0 Nerea Turreira Garcia<br \/>\n12.\u00a0 Jens Friis Lund<br \/>\n13.\u00a0 Marijke Hiltje Hielkema<br \/>\n14.\u00a0 Venticia Hukom<br \/>\n15.\u00a0 Katrine Kock Andersen<br \/>\n16.\u00a0 Andrea Marie Goepfrich<br \/>\n17.\u00a0 Lartey Godwin Lawson<br \/>\n18.\u00a0 Rebecca Leigh Rutt<br \/>\n19.\u00a0 Clare Lewis<br \/>\n20.\u00a0 Mattias Borg Rasmussen<br \/>\n21.\u00a0 Veronica Gomez Temesio<br \/>\n22.\u00a0 Francesca Chiu<br \/>\n23.\u00a0 Maria Cristina Cariola Eriksson<\/p>\n<p>IGN<\/p>\n<p>24.\u00a0 Pin Pravalprukskul<br \/>\n25.\u00a0 Yair Asael Alpuche Alvarez<br \/>\n26.\u00a0 Daniel Ortiz Gonzalo<br \/>\n27.\u00a0 Sinne Borby<br \/>\n28.\u00a0 Martin Rudbeck Jepsen<br \/>\n29.\u00a0 Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen<br \/>\n30.\u00a0 Rasmus Skov Olesen<br \/>\n31.\u00a0 Thilde Bech Bruun<br \/>\n32.\u00a0 Erwan Sachet<br \/>\n33.\u00a0 Cecilie Friis<br \/>\n34.\u00a0 Joel Persson<\/p>\n<p>GLOBE<\/p>\n<p>35.\u00a0 Tais W. Dahl<br \/>\n36.\u00a0 Daniel Bilyeli \u00d8ksnebjerg<br \/>\n37.\u00a0 Judy Erichsen<br \/>\n38.\u00a0 Ismael Rodr\u00edguez Palomo<br \/>\n39.\u00a0 Rick Verberne<br \/>\n40.\u00a0 Anne-Sofie Munk Autzen<br \/>\n41.\u00a0 Hannah L. Owens<br \/>\n42.\u00a0 Morten T\u00f8nsberg Limborg<br \/>\n43.\u00a0 Bharath Nair<br \/>\n44.\u00a0 Susanne Kathrine Munk Arens<br \/>\n45.\u00a0 Fernando Racimo<br \/>\n46.\u00a0 Tom Gilbert<br \/>\n47.\u00a0 Georgy Makhatadze<br \/>\n48.\u00a0 Peter Carsten Ils\u00f8e<br \/>\n49.\u00a0 Elisabetta Canteri<br \/>\n50.\u00a0 Bela Arora<br \/>\n51.\u00a0 Eske Willerslev<br \/>\n52.\u00a0 Matthew Collins<br \/>\n53.\u00a0 Rasmus Nielsen<br \/>\n54.\u00a0 Julie Koch Sheard<br \/>\n55.\u00a0 Karina Krarup Sand<br \/>\n56.\u00a0 Hannes Schroeder<br \/>\n57.\u00a0 Jacob Gustafsson<br \/>\n58.\u00a0 Peter Andrew Hosner<br \/>\n59.\u00a0 Maja Lunn<br \/>\n60.\u00a0 Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo<br \/>\n61.\u00a0 Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen<br \/>\n62.\u00a0 Betina Magnussen<br \/>\n63.\u00a0 Stanislav Jelavic<br \/>\n64.\u00a0 Katrine Mohr<br \/>\n65.\u00a0 Mikkel Winther Pedersen<br \/>\n66.\u00a0 N\u00faria Hermosilla Albala<br \/>\n67.\u00a0 Sissel Sj\u00f6berg<br \/>\n68.\u00a0 Christina Lynggaard<br \/>\n69.\u00a0 Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan<br \/>\n70.\u00a0 Anders Johannes Hansen<br \/>\n71.\u00a0 Meaghan Mackie<br \/>\n72.\u00a0 Luisa dos Santos Bay Nielsen<br \/>\n73.\u00a0 Ioannis Kontopoulos<br \/>\n74.\u00a0 Muhammad Tayyub<br \/>\n75.\u00a0 Physilia Chua<br \/>\n76.\u00a0 Tobias Guldberg Fr\u00f8slev<br \/>\n77.\u00a0 Giulia Zampirolo<br \/>\n78.\u00a0 Tharsika Vimala<br \/>\n79.\u00a0 Nikitha Susan Saji<br \/>\n80.\u00a0 Lu Pan<br \/>\n81.\u00a0 Paloma Fern\u00e1ndez D\u00edaz-maroto<br \/>\n82.\u00a0 Yan-Jun Chen<br \/>\n83.\u00a0 Frido Welker<br \/>\n84.\u00a0 Guillermo Rangel-Pineros<br \/>\n85.\u00a0 Meng Zhao<br \/>\n86.\u00a0 Maria Ainara Sistiaga Gutierrez<br \/>\n87.\u00a0 Dorothea Mylopotamitaki<br \/>\n88.\u00a0 Beatriz Fonseca de Mendonca<br \/>\n89.\u00a0 Cecilia Nilsson<br \/>\n90.\u00a0 Graham Gower<br \/>\n91.\u00a0 Tuuli Kasso<br \/>\n92.\u00a0 Julian Regalado Perez<br \/>\n93.\u00a0 Michael Houmark-Nielsen<br \/>\n94.\u00a0 Morten Allentoft<br \/>\n95.\u00a0 Naia Morueta-Holme<br \/>\n96.\u00a0 Line Olsen<br \/>\n97.\u00a0 Alba Rey De la Iglesia<br \/>\n98.\u00a0 Andrea A. Cabrera<br \/>\n99.\u00a0 Gabriele Scorrano<br \/>\n100. Lasse Nyholm Jessen<br \/>\n101. Emily Cavill<br \/>\n102. Garazi Martin Bideguren<br \/>\n103. Charleen Gaunitz<br \/>\n104. Silvia Perretti<br \/>\n105. Bharath Nair<br \/>\n106. Rasmus Nielsen<br \/>\n107. Lars L. Iversen<br \/>\n108. Aske Lohse S\u00f8rensen<br \/>\n109. C\u00e1tia Alexandra L\u00facio Pereira<br \/>\n110. Frederik Valeur Seersholm<br \/>\n111. Jonas Geldmann<br \/>\n112. Nicolaj Krog Larsen<br \/>\n113. J\u00falia da Luz Bueno<br \/>\n114. Ashot Margaryan<br \/>\n115. \u00c5shild V\u00e5gene<\/p>\n<p>ENGEROM<\/p>\n<p>116. Martyn Richard Bone<br \/>\n117. Kiron Ward<br \/>\n118. Tina Jane Lupton<br \/>\n119. Petra Daryai-Hansen<br \/>\n120. Joana-Isabel Duyster Borreda<br \/>\n121. Marian Flanagan<br \/>\n122. Helene Gr\u00f8n<\/p>\n<p><em>From the authors: If you wish to sign this letter, please write your full name via <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=kX-So6HNlkaviYyfHO_6kT7tOZrxqS5Cm8zwaxRT6a1UREdOTVFDQlNFQTZKNlhRQ044Qlo2MzYwUy4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this OneDrive Form<\/a>, alternatively <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfsFp3LR8rdN2n8gSRrXR4bUAYhw64_lCfR3qd3y-kjDMS6Hw\/viewform?vc=0&amp;c=0&amp;w=1&amp;flr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this form<\/a>. <\/em><em>If you want to collaborate with us or share already existing initiatives on addressing racism at KU, please feel free to send us an email.<\/em><br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As employees of UCPH we ask the leadership to commit to investigating what diversity looks like at UCPH. That is, to what extent are Black people and other minorities employed and in what positions? 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racism","text":"This is a story about what will follow","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Witnessing yet again the brutal police killings of Black people has urged us to confirm and show our solidarity. Jacob Blake, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade are but the most recent victims of persistent and strongly established structures of racism and violence leading to the loss of so many Black lives in the USA. It is more than timely to denounce and dismantle the institutional and structural racism deeply rooted in our societies both across the Atlantic and in our local context.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">DEBATE<\/p>\n<p>This is a debate post. It expresses the authors&#8217; own opinion.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage everyone to read the whole featured comment before commenting on Facebook, so that we only get constructive contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreement is good, but remember to uphold a good tone.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post reserves the right to delete comments that break the rules.<\/p>\n<p><em>This open letter is inspired by the one co-authored by Oda-Kange Diallo and Federico G. Settler at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim. The authors of this letter are grateful to all the colleagues who contributed to the writing and sharing of the letter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As concerned academics we want to confirm that we stand by the immensely brave people in the anti-racist movement who, day after day, face police brutality and, despite the risks, stand up against the structures that continuously exploit and violate Black people\u2019s lives and bodies. We want to confirm that we stand with you against the silence that has made the Black people\u2019s oppression invisible for too long.<\/p>\n<p>While largely neglected, racism has deep roots in Danish history where it has taken various forms, and remains consistently present. Denmark was the seventh biggest slave trading nation in the world, only one place after the US. From the Gold Coast in Ghana, Trankebar in India and the former Danish West Indies, Denmark too benefited from exploiting colonies and slaves, and thus, Black lives.<\/p>\n<h3>Systemic racism in Denmark<\/h3>\n<p>This continues in other forms today, as Denmark engages in exploitations of resources and labour on the African continent and beyond. While often overlooked, anti-blackness exists in Denmark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denmark was the seventh biggest slave trading nation in the world, only one place after the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Black people, people of colour and other minorities are being called out and assaulted in their daily lives and have to work harder to gain the same opportunities as white Danes. Amongst many examples, around 4000 people between 16 and 74 years old experience violence motivated by racism every year (<a href=\"https:\/\/menneskeret.dk\/sites\/menneskeret.dk\/files\/media\/dokumenter\/udgivelser\/faktaark_qa\/policy_brief_racisme_og_hadforbrydelser.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institut for Menneskerettigheder, 2019<\/a>) \u00a0and in a recent DR article, 20 people bravely explain how they have experienced racism (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr.dk\/mitliv\/jeg-er-blevet-spyttet-paa-og-kaldt-abe-saadan-oplever-20-danskere-racisme-i-hverdagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S\u00f8rensen &amp; Olsen, DR, 2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In primary schools, teachers expect less of children with brown skin and dark hair (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.folkeskolen.dk\/659798\/sort-haar-og-brun-hud-goer-en-forskel-tal-om-det\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petersen, Folkeskolen, 2019<\/a>), and men with different ethnic backgrounds than white Danes have to send out 52 % more job applications to be invited for job interviews (<a href=\"https:\/\/politiken.dk\/debat\/art5731006\/Danske-arbejdsgivere-v%C3%A6lger-%E2%80%99Mads%E2%80%99-frem-for-%E2%80%99Muhammed%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lund &amp; Pedersen, Politiken, 2016<\/a>), a number that for women wearing scarfs for religious reasons is 60 % (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlingske.dk\/samfund\/for-foerste-gang-har-forskning-kortlagt-at-kvinder-med-toerklaede-vaelges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marquardt &amp; Carl, Berlingske, 2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3>Lack of data from Danish universities<\/h3>\n<p>We acknowledge the role of higher education across the world in maintaining this systemic racism. In many places, Black people are given less space and occupy a very low percentage of full-time staff positions. Their work is often neglected, not included in curricula, and universities lack measures to deal with racism facing Black staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>We also suspect this to be the case at the University of Copenhagen, UCPH.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is our responsibility to acknowledge white privilege, recognize and call out racism in academia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of us that are white academics, as we benefit from these same structures, it is our responsibility to acknowledge white privilege, recognize and call out racism in academia, and address its root causes. This entails educating ourselves so that we learn to deconstruct these structures in our workplace, research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>However, at an institutional level, we have no data or information on how racism plays out in Danish universities, making it very difficult to ensure that Black as well as people of colour and other minorities are given equal opportunities and feel safe.<\/p>\n<h3>UCPH, count all minorities<\/h3>\n<p>Therefore, as employees of UCPH we ask the leadership to commit to investigating, firstly, what diversity looks like at UCPH. That is, to what extent are Black people and other minorities employed and in what positions? What are the numbers of Black students and other minorities?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, we ask UCPH leadership to commit to investigating how Black staff and students alongside other minorities experience racism in their everyday work and study spaces. This is in line with UCPH\u2019s Strategy 2023 that commits to <em>increase our focus on equality and diversity<\/em> and provide a <em>diverse and inclusive working and study environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We strongly urge UCPH leadership to be proactive and take administrative action to be anti-racist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, due to the current lack of disaggregated data on diversity, it remains unclear whether UCPH indeed provides equal and diverse environments. Without this information, we cannot ensure that the right changes are made for UCPH to live up to its commitments. Without this information, we cannot distinguish between the words and actions of UCPH leadership.<\/p>\n<p>We strongly urge UCPH leadership to be proactive and take administrative action to be anti-racist. We want UCPH to step into the fight of ending the injustice that Black people continue to face. At the same time we, as individuals, also have a responsibility to contribute to anti-racist spaces, and commit to doing so.<\/p>\n<h3>Signatures<\/h3>\n<p><em>Follow the current number of signatures <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1-WHgX_PMR6lWf7kzLAiN46zWYQsB7HOEBBSfQ5bPB00\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. This is an update from 04 September:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IFRO<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francois Questiaux (author of statement)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sofie Mortensen (author of statement)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ruth Pinto<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 P\u00e9ter J\u00f3zsef Bori<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 C\u00e9line Pascale Claire Moreaux<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marius Samuel Alt<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paula Ugarte Lucas<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Penelope Fay Anthias<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mari\u00e8ve Pouliot<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Christian Pilegaard Hansen<br \/>\n11.\u00a0 Nerea Turreira Garcia<br \/>\n12.\u00a0 Jens Friis Lund<br \/>\n13.\u00a0 Marijke Hiltje Hielkema<br \/>\n14.\u00a0 Venticia Hukom<br \/>\n15.\u00a0 Katrine Kock Andersen<br \/>\n16.\u00a0 Andrea Marie Goepfrich<br \/>\n17.\u00a0 Lartey Godwin Lawson<br \/>\n18.\u00a0 Rebecca Leigh Rutt<br \/>\n19.\u00a0 Clare Lewis<br \/>\n20.\u00a0 Mattias Borg Rasmussen<br \/>\n21.\u00a0 Veronica Gomez Temesio<br \/>\n22.\u00a0 Francesca Chiu<br \/>\n23.\u00a0 Maria Cristina Cariola Eriksson<\/p>\n<p>IGN<\/p>\n<p>24.\u00a0 Pin Pravalprukskul<br \/>\n25.\u00a0 Yair Asael Alpuche Alvarez<br \/>\n26.\u00a0 Daniel Ortiz Gonzalo<br \/>\n27.\u00a0 Sinne Borby<br \/>\n28.\u00a0 Martin Rudbeck Jepsen<br \/>\n29.\u00a0 Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen<br \/>\n30.\u00a0 Rasmus Skov Olesen<br \/>\n31.\u00a0 Thilde Bech Bruun<br \/>\n32.\u00a0 Erwan Sachet<br \/>\n33.\u00a0 Cecilie Friis<br \/>\n34.\u00a0 Joel Persson<\/p>\n<p>GLOBE<\/p>\n<p>35.\u00a0 Tais W. Dahl<br \/>\n36.\u00a0 Daniel Bilyeli \u00d8ksnebjerg<br \/>\n37.\u00a0 Judy Erichsen<br \/>\n38.\u00a0 Ismael Rodr\u00edguez Palomo<br \/>\n39.\u00a0 Rick Verberne<br \/>\n40.\u00a0 Anne-Sofie Munk Autzen<br \/>\n41.\u00a0 Hannah L. Owens<br \/>\n42.\u00a0 Morten T\u00f8nsberg Limborg<br \/>\n43.\u00a0 Bharath Nair<br \/>\n44.\u00a0 Susanne Kathrine Munk Arens<br \/>\n45.\u00a0 Fernando Racimo<br \/>\n46.\u00a0 Tom Gilbert<br \/>\n47.\u00a0 Georgy Makhatadze<br \/>\n48.\u00a0 Peter Carsten Ils\u00f8e<br \/>\n49.\u00a0 Elisabetta Canteri<br \/>\n50.\u00a0 Bela Arora<br \/>\n51.\u00a0 Eske Willerslev<br \/>\n52.\u00a0 Matthew Collins<br \/>\n53.\u00a0 Rasmus Nielsen<br \/>\n54.\u00a0 Julie Koch Sheard<br \/>\n55.\u00a0 Karina Krarup Sand<br \/>\n56.\u00a0 Hannes Schroeder<br \/>\n57.\u00a0 Jacob Gustafsson<br \/>\n58.\u00a0 Peter Andrew Hosner<br \/>\n59.\u00a0 Maja Lunn<br \/>\n60.\u00a0 Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo<br \/>\n61.\u00a0 Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen<br \/>\n62.\u00a0 Betina Magnussen<br \/>\n63.\u00a0 Stanislav Jelavic<br \/>\n64.\u00a0 Katrine Mohr<br \/>\n65.\u00a0 Mikkel Winther Pedersen<br \/>\n66.\u00a0 N\u00faria Hermosilla Albala<br \/>\n67.\u00a0 Sissel Sj\u00f6berg<br \/>\n68.\u00a0 Christina Lynggaard<br \/>\n69.\u00a0 Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan<br \/>\n70.\u00a0 Anders Johannes Hansen<br \/>\n71.\u00a0 Meaghan Mackie<br \/>\n72.\u00a0 Luisa dos Santos Bay Nielsen<br \/>\n73.\u00a0 Ioannis Kontopoulos<br \/>\n74.\u00a0 Muhammad Tayyub<br \/>\n75.\u00a0 Physilia Chua<br \/>\n76.\u00a0 Tobias Guldberg Fr\u00f8slev<br \/>\n77.\u00a0 Giulia Zampirolo<br \/>\n78.\u00a0 Tharsika Vimala<br \/>\n79.\u00a0 Nikitha Susan Saji<br \/>\n80.\u00a0 Lu Pan<br \/>\n81.\u00a0 Paloma Fern\u00e1ndez D\u00edaz-maroto<br \/>\n82.\u00a0 Yan-Jun Chen<br \/>\n83.\u00a0 Frido Welker<br \/>\n84.\u00a0 Guillermo Rangel-Pineros<br \/>\n85.\u00a0 Meng Zhao<br \/>\n86.\u00a0 Maria Ainara Sistiaga Gutierrez<br \/>\n87.\u00a0 Dorothea Mylopotamitaki<br \/>\n88.\u00a0 Beatriz Fonseca de Mendonca<br \/>\n89.\u00a0 Cecilia Nilsson<br \/>\n90.\u00a0 Graham Gower<br \/>\n91.\u00a0 Tuuli Kasso<br \/>\n92.\u00a0 Julian Regalado Perez<br \/>\n93.\u00a0 Michael Houmark-Nielsen<br \/>\n94.\u00a0 Morten Allentoft<br \/>\n95.\u00a0 Naia Morueta-Holme<br \/>\n96.\u00a0 Line Olsen<br \/>\n97.\u00a0 Alba Rey De la Iglesia<br \/>\n98.\u00a0 Andrea A. Cabrera<br \/>\n99.\u00a0 Gabriele Scorrano<br \/>\n100. Lasse Nyholm Jessen<br \/>\n101. Emily Cavill<br \/>\n102. Garazi Martin Bideguren<br \/>\n103. Charleen Gaunitz<br \/>\n104. Silvia Perretti<br \/>\n105. Bharath Nair<br \/>\n106. Rasmus Nielsen<br \/>\n107. Lars L. Iversen<br \/>\n108. Aske Lohse S\u00f8rensen<br \/>\n109. C\u00e1tia Alexandra L\u00facio Pereira<br \/>\n110. Frederik Valeur Seersholm<br \/>\n111. Jonas Geldmann<br \/>\n112. Nicolaj Krog Larsen<br \/>\n113. J\u00falia da Luz Bueno<br \/>\n114. Ashot Margaryan<br \/>\n115. \u00c5shild V\u00e5gene<\/p>\n<p>ENGEROM<\/p>\n<p>116. Martyn Richard Bone<br \/>\n117. Kiron Ward<br \/>\n118. Tina Jane Lupton<br \/>\n119. Petra Daryai-Hansen<br \/>\n120. Joana-Isabel Duyster Borreda<br \/>\n121. Marian Flanagan<br \/>\n122. Helene Gr\u00f8n<\/p>\n<p><em>From the authors: If you wish to sign this letter, please write your full name via <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=kX-So6HNlkaviYyfHO_6kT7tOZrxqS5Cm8zwaxRT6a1UREdOTVFDQlNFQTZKNlhRQ044Qlo2MzYwUy4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this OneDrive Form<\/a>, alternatively <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfsFp3LR8rdN2n8gSRrXR4bUAYhw64_lCfR3qd3y-kjDMS6Hw\/viewform?vc=0&amp;c=0&amp;w=1&amp;flr=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this form<\/a>. <\/em><em>If you want to collaborate with us or share already existing initiatives on addressing racism at KU, please feel free to send us an email.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"da","identifier":"Nyhedsbrev","headline":"Modtag et ugentligt nyhedsoverblik i din inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":47,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":333,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":3975,"name":"anti-racism","slug":"anti-racism","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3975,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3976,"name":"Black Lives Matter","slug":"black-lives-matter-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3976,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1417,"name":"diversity","slug":"diversity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1417,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3525,"name":"Identity politics","slug":"identity-politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3525,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3973,"name":"open letter","slug":"open-letter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3973,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3972,"name":"prejudice","slug":"prejudice","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3972,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3502,"name":"racism","slug":"racism","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3502,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3974,"name":"structural racism","slug":"structural-racism","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3974,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2002,"name":"university of copenhagen","slug":"university-of-copenhagen","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2002,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":2040,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/debat-1280x854.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110947,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110809\/revisions\/110947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}