Past events
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Art Not Evidence: The misuse of rap in criminal trials
16:00 - 17:30 1 May 2024
Keir Monteith KC, in his inaugural lecture for the Law School at the University of Manchester, will review the increased criminalisation of rap music, including the use of lyrics and music videos as evidence against young people accused of serious crimes. Keir will provide contemporary examples of how...
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Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau
13:30 - 16:30 29 April 2024
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will be given by Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau: Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility Professor...
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Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?
23 April - 2 May 2024
Meet U.S. author Keith Boykin for a discussion and book signing for his new book, Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority,...
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Reimagining the 'English' Pub: Race, Class & Convivial Possibilities - Amit Singh
13:00 - 14:30 21 March 2024
Please join CoDE as we host an in-person seminar with Dr Amit Singh (University of Manchester). The pub and the pint are often imagined as quintessential Englishness, romanticized as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under-threat and in need of saving, as is the white...
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Neurodiversity Celebration Week - Gaming Social
12:00 - 14:00 19 March 2024
To celebrate [https://www.neurodiversityweek.com Neurodiversity Celebration Week] (18 to 24 March) the Disabled Staff Network and Neurodivergent Network are hosting a special social event on Tuesday 19 March 2024, 12pm – 2pm in the Roscoe Building, Room 1.009. [https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-manchester/access-guides/roscoe_1-009...
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Disciplining of Racialised Labour through Unpayable Debts - Barbora Cernušáková
13:00 - 14:00 15 February 2024
Looking at the entrapment of Roma workers in indebtedness in the Czech Republic, we will discuss how racialisation is hardwired into the system of predatory credit. This work is part of a long-term project, which started in 2016 and combines ethnography with an analysis of legislation and policies regulating...
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Research with older ethnic minority people: paying attention to racism, not just ‘race’ (Dharmi Kapadia)
16:00 - 17:00 13 February 2024
Organised by the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Early Careers Researcher Association. In this informal session aimed mainly at early career researchers, Dharmi Kapadia will discuss paying attention to racism, and not just 'race', in research with older people from ethnic minority backgrounds....
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Teaching with the EVENS dataset
10:00 - 11:30 31 January 2024
The Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) provides unique insights into the experiences of ethnic minorities in Great Britain. We have prepared a teaching dataset which will allow students to explore these insights. The teaching dataset can be used in conjunction with the free e-book, allowing...
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'The Coloniality of Meritocracy' Simone Varriale
13:00 - 14:15 18 January 2024
This presentation will discuss some key ideas from Simone Varriale's recent book, Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations (BUP, 2023), and some emerging ideas from ongoing fieldwork with Black and minority ethnic Italian migrants living in the UK. Drawing on interviews with working and...
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Report launch: Whose campus, whose security?
13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2023
Join us for the online launch of our new report on student views on, and experiences of, security services and policing on UK university campuses. Register for a free place on Eventbrite to receive instructions on how to join the seminar. In recent years, high-profile incidents and student activism...
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