Past events
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Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026
16 - 18 April 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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Addressing racialised health inequalities in Sexual health care by using race as a marker of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis infection – what could possibly go wrong? - Ulla McKnight
13:00 - 14:30 20 November 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Dr Ulla McKnight (University of Sussex) shares her research. SUMMARY The seminar examines the controversial use of racialised categories as markers of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis (T. vaginalis) infection, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted infection...
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Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event
17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2025
Participants Jade Akoum, sister of Yousef Makki, campaigner David Conn, The Guardian Professor Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester Pete Weatherby KC, Garden Court North Dr Patrick Williams, Harm to Healing Coalition About the event This panel centres the...
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Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Police Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire
18:00 - 21:00 14 November 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. Join us to explore how the policing of language is employed to silence Black and Brown activism by looking at Marieha Hussain's recent case. Who has the right...
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