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Speakers

Ismintha Waldring holds a joint PhD in sociology from VU Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Becoming a Minority (BaM) project. Her doctoral dissertation traced back the pathways to success and labour‐market experiences of highly educated second‐generation professionals of Turkish descent in four European countries. She currently works as an assistant professor at VU Amsterdam. Her research interests include boundary strategies, subtle mechanisms of exclusion in organisational settings (the education sector in particular) and the role of education professionals in majority–minority city contexts in Europe.

Otto Linde is currently working in the broader research project entitled “Colonial Normativity --Corruption and difference in colonial and postcolonial histories of empire and nations.” The project focuses on normativity within the context of historical relations between the Netherlands and Indonesia in the modern era. Linde utilises the heuristic tool of the corruption scandal in order to explore the complex entanglements, synergies and tensions between imperial governance on the ground and norm-setting in the public and political spheres. Linde is also interested in Thai studies.