Past events
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Building solidarity: CoDE Early Career Research Network Meeting
12:00 - 17:00 3 February 2025
Connect with other early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity at this in person meeting of the CoDE Early Career Researcher Network.
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Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation and resistance in a post-industrial English city - Ajmal Hussain
13:00 - 14:30 16 January 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Ajmal Hussain from the University of Warwick shares his research. ‘Left behind’ denotes a particular constituency of otherness, wherein disenchantment with the status quo is a consequence of the economic and material decline that accompanied the disappearance of large-scale...
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Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times
10:30 - 12:00 22 October 2024
Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, gives the second in a series of lectures organised by the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Abstract: It is now nearly forty years since Stuart Hall’s seminal 1988...
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Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China - Susanne Yuk Ping Choi
14:30 - 17:00 22 October 2024
Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s guest lecture, by Leverhulme Visiting Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi. The lecture will run 3:30-5pm, followed by a drinks reception 5-6pm. Abstract: Despite advances in LGBTQ rights globally, sexual minorities in China have continued to struggle for...
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CoDE seminar: French citizens of Indian descent: resisting invisibility and creating “new” French identities - Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
12:00 - 13:30 17 October 2024
Please join us for the next Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) seminar, by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya (University of Manchester). This is a hybrid event. Please register for zoom joining details. ‘French citizens of Indian descent: resisting invisibility and creating “new” French identities’...
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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 2024 - 8 February 2025
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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