Past events
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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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Jailed for 8 Years for a Group Chat: Challenging Institutional Racism in the Courts (with speaker Keir Monteith KC)
16:00 - 18:00 1 May 2025
Learn how ‘law student-to-be’, Ade Adedeji, had his GBH conspiracy conviction quashed; find out why the court of appeal refused to hear evidence on whether institutional racism played a part in his wrongful conviction and why the judges failed to adopt common sense recommendations to stop this happening...
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Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont
14:00 - 16:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an in-conversation event with Gary Younge, award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. During...
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Against Definitions - Alana Lentin
12:30 - 14:00 22 April 2025
This is a hybrid event: you can register to join online or in person. If you are attending in person, please join us from 1.15 for tea, coffee and pastries. SUMMARY In my new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy I build on Cedric J. Robinson’s concept of the racial regime...
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‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy - Brett St Louis
12:00 - 13:30 10 April 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Brett St Louis from the University of Manchester shares his research. The BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) acronym has proved highly contentious, facing criticism from varied sectors of civil society mainly as homogenizing ethnic diversity and disregarding cultural...
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