Past events
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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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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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