Past events
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Disability, Children and Youth - Cherylee Houston talks to the Disabled Staff Network
11:00 - 13:00 27 October 2023
For the UK Disability History Month 2023, the Disabled Staff Network is pleased to be able to announce an event for all staff at the University of Manchester on Thursday 23rd November 12noon- 2pm [Roscoe 1.009 and online] We are delighted to welcome Coronation Street star Cherylee Houston MBE. Cheryl...
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The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth
12:00 - 13:30 19 October 2023
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a...
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Language and normalised abnormalities in the world today - Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
17:00 - 19:00 12 October 2023
In this lecture, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o will address topics of coloniality and harms of imperialism/colonialisation. He will, in particular, focus on the lasting impact on colonialism and imperialism on native languages, African knowledge, memory, genocide and harms against the environment. In...
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You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent - Justin Brooks and the Manchester Innocence Project
16:00 - 18:00 4 July 2023
Join us on July 4th, 2023 at 5 PM in AMBS 3.009 to learn about the harsh reality of wrongful convictions with Attorney and Professor of Law Justin Brooks. Justin Brooks is the Director and Founder of the California Innocence Project, a pro-bono organisation helping the wrongfully convicted and promoting...
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Working with and against race (Alana Lentin)
13:00 - 16:00 22 June 2023
The CODE ECR network invites you to an afternoon seminar with Professor Alana Lentin from Western Sydney University entitled "Working With and Against Race". Professor Lentin will talk about how to conceptualise race as a technology of power via Cedric Robinson’s idea of the racial regime, in order...
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The Muslim, State and Mind: Islamophobia in Mental Health and Psychology (Tarek Younis)
12:00 - 13:15 25 May 2023
Please join the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) for a hybrid seminar with Dr Tarek Younis (Middlesex University). Mental health is placed as the cure for all of society’s problems, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and psychiatry are not apolitical, and neither are Muslims. Join...
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Researching Cultural Sociology - A workshop with Prof Michele Lamont and Prof Mike Savage
16:00 - 17:30 17 May 2023
Michèle Lamont has been a major figure in cultural sociology since the 1980s. This question-and-answer session, chaired by leading sociologist of culture and class, Mike Savage, will explore what Michèle sees as her major contributions to the field; her evaluation of key theoretical perspectives (e.g.,...
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CoDE Research Showcase and EVENS book launch
12 May 2023 - 2 May 2024
Presentations of CoDE research followed by the launch of the EVENS book, 'Racial and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis'. J?oin us for a day of presentations and discussion of CoDE research followed by the launch of the EVENS book, 'Racial and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis'. More info and...
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Early Career Research Network workshop and theatre performance
11 May 2023 - 2 May 2024
Join us for a day's workshop and networking, followed by a special evening performance of Evening Conversations by Sudha Bhuchar. Our special guest speaker is Professor Gary Younge, who will lead a long form writing workshop. Gary Younge is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences,...
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