Events
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Mitchell centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Laurence Mylène Brandenberger, University of Zurich
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South Asian Women's Activism in Manchester: Film Screening and Discussion
13:30 - 17:30 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. The archival film ‘Immigration Wives and...
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Activism and Academia (ECR network meetup) followed by Gary Younge Faber lecture
14:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
Our early career network meetings aim to create space for early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity to share experiences and insights, and to create connections. The focus of this meeting will be on engaging in activisim from within academia. All participants are invited to stay on after our buffet tea for Gary Younge's Faber lecture 'Pigeonholed'....
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Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Younge (Faber Lecture)
19:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, Gary Younge, delivers the inaugural Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance, Gary explores what has been termed as the ‘burden of representation’ and the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from...
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Listening, learning, collaborating: ECR reflections on research with ethnic minority older people
09:30 - 12:30 20 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. A reflective and collaborative event for ECRs who have conducted fieldwork with ethnic minority older adults, aimed at sharing experiences and co-producing practical guidance for future work in the field. Location:...
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Mitchell centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2025
Nynke Niezink, Carnegie Melon University
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Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects us all. Drawing on groundbreaking research on reproductive loss, post-mortem and bereavement, Professor Reed will problematise the boundary between life and...
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Mitchell centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
Lars Leszczensky, University Frankfurt am Main
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On the Body Conference
10:00 - 16:00 7 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. Interdisciplinary medical Humanities conference on race, racism, the body for early career researchers and postgraduate research students.
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Mitchell centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Joe Labianca, University of Massachusetts
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