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This symposium is part of the Intersectional Black European Studies project (InBEST), funded by the senate of Berlin, Germany, and implemented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the TU Berlin, the RAA Berlin (Center for Educational Justice) and Yale’s European Studies Council and Center for Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration. The key goals of InBEST are the institutionalization of Intersectional Black Studies in Berlin (and Europe at large), the documentation and reduction of structural racism faced by Black students in Germany, and the creation of a digital archive of Black Europe that will both facilitate the digitization of physical documents and allow for a mapping of sites of knowledge production and archiving across Europe. This second symposium, after the inaugural meeting in Berlin in October 2022, is primarily structured around the challenges of translating and archiving marginalized knowledges, in particular the challenges posed by the transnational and multilingual formation of the African diaspora in Europe on the one hand and by the marginalizing of Black knowledge production in European societies, including institutions like schools, museums, and universities, on the other. The symposium consists of one public facing day with consecutive keynote panels and poster sessions, and a second day of closed, parallel workshops.