Past events
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South Asian Women's Activism in Manchester: Film Screening and Discussion
12:30 - 16:30 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....
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Collaborative Café: Conversations on Racism
11:00 - 15:30 11 September 2025
This event offers a safe, open space for migrants, practitioners, and academics to explore and discuss racism. Building on the CSR Collaboration Cafés, it aims to spark dialogue and foster research and collaboration. Four speakers—including migrants, grassroots practitioners, and academics—will...
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Somatics, Yoga & Working Lunch - CoDE Early Career Network Event
23 July 2025 - 8 February 2026
Somatics, Yoga & Working Lunch - CoDE Network Event This event aims to provide a space for radical care, community and wellbeing for ECRs working on race and racism. Expanding on the last CoDE ECR Network Event in February 'Building Solidarity', this event will begin with a short somatics session led...
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Researching equality at work and in society in a hostile political context
13:00 - 15:00 16 July 2025
This workshop aims to discuss and reflect on the challenges faced by academics/researchers working on equality, inclusion and social justice in “hostile” contexts, namely those increasingly characterised by a systematic attack to freedom of research and expression. This specific event will be based...
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Alana Lentin’s The New Racial Regime
14:00 - 15:30 25 June 2025
In The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy Alana Lentin shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through which racial colonial rule is ideologically resecured. Throughout the book, the often chaotic and contradictory restitching...
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Where Punjab and Aboriginal Australia Meet: Debbie Bargallie
17:00 - 18:30 25 June 2025
Punjabi Dreaming: Restoring Kinship, Defying Erasure, and Reclaiming Home Debbie Bargallie, Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University With Awais Hussain, Doctoral student, University of York and Shafiq Ahmed, Family member, Bury - Greater Manchester For many, genealogy is a personal quest—but...
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The Making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions - Roaa Ali
12:00 - 13:30 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...
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Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy (Suriyah Bi)
15:15 - 17:00 19 May 2025
In this hybrid seminar, Dr Suriyah Bi (Cardiff University) introduces research from her recent book 'Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy' published by Manchester University Press. Please join us for this event either in person at The University of Manchester or...
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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
12:00 - 13:30 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...
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Fiction and Research
13:30 - 15:00 14 May 2025
This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently published book, Fiction and Research: A Guide to Connecting Stories and Inquiry (2024, Policy Press), we will explore how...
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