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The MisMiE team lead by Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick and Dr. Arin H. Ayanian organized a symposium entitled “That's not how we see us!” Identity misrecognition and its consequences which was presented the virtual Political Psychology conference (that was supposed to take place in Berlin this year before the COVID-19 pandemic started- https://www.ispp.org/meetings). The symposium was chaired by Slieman Halabi (IKG) who is a researcher in the German team of MisMiE project. The German and European scholars from the MisMie project as well as scholars who are not collaborating members of MisMiE presented their theoretical and empirical accounts of misrecognition. Misrecognition can occur, whereby disparities emerge between one’s own understanding of one’s social identity and how that identity is understood and defined by others. Misrecognition can take different forms such as through the active denial of group membership or through ascribing negative attributions to the identity group. Such experiences are ubiquitous in diverse societies thus predominantly affecting the lives of many minorities. Check out the following threads on twitter covering the symposium and the different presenters. These were Dr Arin Ayanian (IKG, Bielefeld University), Dr Amena Amer (Greenwich University, UK), Dr József Pántya (Eötvös Loránd University), Judith Jong (University of Amsterdam) and Vera Straßburger (Kiel University):

https://twitter.com/Carocha_sm/status/1283701794640728070 https://twitter.com/HalabiSlieman/status/1283417580074655744