Past events
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Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?
12:00 - 13:30 3 October 2024
Join us for a lunchtime discussion of race and religion in the 2024 US election campaign. Keith Magee, renowned intellectual, theologian and scholar will be in discussion with writer and academic Gary Younge. Feel free to bring your lunch and hot drinks will be available. On the campaign trail, race...
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'Tagaloa x Tangaroa: Pasifika popular music and climate justice' Kirsten Zemke and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley
14:00 - 15:30 12 June 2024
Speakers: Dr Kirsten Zemke (University of Aukland) and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley (Oxford University) The Pacific region is one of the most severely impacted areas in the world by climate change, but many of the countries comprising the Pacific are amongst the lowest contributors to ecological crisis....
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Let's Talk About Race with Gary Younge
23 May - 14 October 2024
The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Directorate at The University of Manchester will be hosting a new instalment of the ‘Let’s Talk’ series entitled ‘Let’s Talk About Race’. Our guest speaker will be Gary Younge, an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the...
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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 - 14 October 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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