Events

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See our Youtube channel for recordings of our past events. 

• South Asian Women's Activism in Manchester: Film Screening and Discussion

  13:30 - 17:30 15 October 2025

  Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. This film screening and dialogue event highlights South Asian women’s activism and anti-racism resistance in the 1980s and their current struggles for justice. The archival film ‘Immigration Wives and...

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• Activism and Academia (ECR network meetup) followed by Gary Younge Faber lecture

  14:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025

  Our early career network meetings aim to create space for early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity to share experiences and insights, and to create connections. The focus of this meeting will be on engaging in activisim from within academia. All participants are invited to stay on after our buffet tea for Gary Younge's Faber lecture 'Pigeonholed'....

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• Listening, learning, collaborating: ECR reflections on research with ethnic minority older people

  09:30 - 12:30 20 October 2025

  Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. A reflective and collaborative event for ECRs who have conducted fieldwork with ethnic minority older adults, aimed at sharing experiences and co-producing practical guidance for future work in the field. Location:...

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• You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories

  18:00 - 19:30 6 November 2025

  Join us as we share the findings from a recent research project, “You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British music His and Herstories”. You will learn more about the stories of artists underrepresented in the history of the Manchester music and cultural scene, through an in-conversation with the researcher, including clips from a podcast...

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• On the Body Conference

  10:00 - 16:00 7 November 2025

  Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. Interdisciplinary medical Humanities conference on race, racism, the body for early career researchers and postgraduate research students.

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• Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Institutional Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire

  25 November 2025

  Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. This evening event will look at the recent case of Miss Marieha Hussain, who has been put on trial alongside four other activists for displaying a satirical placard labelling former prime minster Rishi...

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