Past events
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Reimagining Racial Justice Research
10:15 - 13:30 6 May 2026
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. In this meeting we will host an interactive workshop that recognises the emotional labour involved in researching racial injustice,...
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The Big Payback: Reparations and how money shapes our morality and views on racial justice - Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge
14:00 - 15:45 6 May 2026
Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge, on reparations and how money shapes our morality and our views on racial justice. See Eventbrite link for more details and to register for a free place. The transatlantic slave trade is often framed as a moral atrocity of the past. Yet both its legacy,...
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Dan Hicks: Monuments Will Fall
17:00 - 19:00 6 May 2026
On 6 May 2026, Dan Hicks will be in conversation with Sadia Habib for the Manchester leg of the book tour marking the release of the paperback edition of Dan's latest book, 'Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting'. Working through the book's arguments about the four As"" (Archaeology,...
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Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality
15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means to lead as a woman within systems that too often reward conformity and resist change. In “PUSHing for Justice: Women,...
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CoDE seminar: 'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
12:00 - 13:30 23 April 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Alison Phipps (York St John University) shares her research. SUMMARY What are the relationships between sexual violence, sexual fear, social control, and surplus value? What is the role of sexual violence as racial capitalist systems corral, mould, use, and...
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Black Feminism Now
14:00 - 15:30 20 April 2026
Four members of the Black Health and Humanities Network reflect on how Black feminist theory shapes our work, sharing research case studies. In this moment of economic precarity, worsening health inequalities and an accelerating environmental crisis, Black feminist theory continues to offer essential...
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Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026
16 April - 15 May 2026
The Race Equality Foundation, in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) are hosting a landmark convention this April 2026 to explore how data is used to understand racial inequality in the UK, and what must change to better support racial...
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Book Launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges
17:45 - 19:45 8 April 2026
Hot off the press for spring 2026, 'Interrogating the Global Social Challenges' presents wide-ranging expertise from sociologists on some of the most urgent issues of our time. This accessibly written volume offers readers tools to think critically and act thoughtfully in relation to topics such as decolonization,...
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Khartoum: Panel discussion and film screening
18:00 - 20:00 25 March 2026
Film Screening details: Khartoum (2025 ? Drama ? 1 h 20 min) By Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Anas Saeed, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search...
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Knowing Yesterday, Shaping Tomorrow: The Lou Kushnick Memorial Lecture
16:00 - 17:00 12 March 2026
Professor Abdul Alkalimat inaugurates the new annual lecture series commemorating our founder Professor Lou Kushnick. The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, in partnership with the University of Manchester, is launching a new annual lecture in honour of our founder, Professor Lou Kushnick. Lou was a...
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