Past events
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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 - 6 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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'Denaturalisation and Modernity: Drugs and Racial Capitalism' Anne Pollock [HYBRID]
13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Anne Pollock (King's College London) shares her research. SUMMARY From the earliest days of European colonialism in the Americas and transatlantic slavery, psychoactive drugs, racial inequality, and the global political economic order have had intertwined histories....
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Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson
15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture brings a distinguished guest lecturer to Manchester to share their research. This year we are pleased to welcome Professor...
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I'm Just A Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me For Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested In Generative Artificial Intelligence - Dhiraj Murthy
12:30 - 14:00 11 December 2025
-- Please note that the start time of this seminar has been changed to 12.30pm -- In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Dhiraj Murthy (University of Texas in Austin) shares his research. SUMMARY Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini are being used throughout...
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