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‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy - Brett St Louis
13:00 - 14:30 10 April 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Brett St Louis from the University of Manchester shares his research. The BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) acronym has proved highly contentious, facing criticism from varied sectors of civil society mainly as homogenizing ethnic diversity and disregarding cultural specificity. This paper focuses on two...
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Against Definitions - Alana Lentin
13:30 - 15:00 22 April 2025
This is a hybrid event: you can register to join online or in person. If you are attending in person, please join us from 1.15 for tea, coffee and pastries. SUMMARY In my new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy I build on Cedric J. Robinson’s concept of the racial regime (Robinson 2007), the ensemble of histories,...
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Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont
15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an in-conversation event with Gary Younge, award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. During this event Professors Michèle...
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Racial health equity and the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt
13:00 - 14:30 15 May 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Tanisha Spratt from Kings College London shares her research. SUMMARY Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti-Black violence and its deep entrenchment within systems and structures that perpetuate Black subjugation. By conceptualising Black life as ‘non-life,’ afropessimism examines...
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The Making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions - Roaa Ali
13:00 - 14:30 19 June 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Dr Roaa Ali (University of Manchester) shares her research. SUMMARY This talk explores the emergence of pragmatist feminism within the cultural productions of Arab American women playwrights, particularly in the context of post-9/11 theatre. In this talk, Ali investigates the complex interplay of feminism, activism,...
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