Past events
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Teenage Kicks: Andrea's story
7 June - 31 August 2024
Teenage Kicks is an exhibition about what life was like for teenage girls in Britain in the 1960s. It is based on research from the Girlhood and Later Life project led by Professor Penny Tinkler. We are showing one of the eight stories in the gallery at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester this summer. Come along and...
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Ethical Issues in Age-Friendly Community-Building and Co-Creation
12:00 - 13:30 11 September 2024
This edition of the MUARG Conversation Series, chaired by Patty Doran (University of Manchester), features two researchers sharing examples of ethical issues from everyday practice in age-friendly community-building and co-creation. Barbara Groot-Sluijsmans (VU Amsterdam) will provide practical understanding of everyday ethical challenges faced...
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Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?
13:00 - 14:30 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 and religion are once more being weaponised...
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Book launch: 'Global Marxism' by Simin Fadaee
18:00 - 20:00 8 October 2024
In Global Marxism, Simin Fadaee argues that Marxism remains a living tradition and the cornerstone of revolutionary theory and practice in the Global South. She explores the lives, ideas and legacies of a group of revolutionaries who played an exceptional role in contributing to counter-hegemonic change. Figures such as Ho Chi Minh, Kwame Nkrumah,...
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Book launch: 'Famillies' by Vanessa May
16:30 - 19:30 9 October 2024
Please join us for a book launch event to (belatedly) mark the publication of Vanessa May’s book Families (2023, Polity). The book offers a timely intervention into current debates within family studies, discussing the shape of mainstream family studies today, and suggesting avenues of investigation that deserve further attention. Alongside broad...
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GLOBAL MARXISM - Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan
18:30 - 20:00 16 October 2024
Blackwell's Manchester are delighted to be working with Manchester University Press and movements@manchester to host the launch of Simin Fadaee's Global Marxism - a cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. Simin will be in conversation with Kevin Gillan. About the...
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Global Marxism book launch - Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan
18:30 - 20:00 16 October 2024
Join Blackwell's Bookshop Manchester, together with publishers Manchester University Press and movements@manchester ad they host the launch of Simin Fadaee's Global Marxism - a cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. Simin will be in conversation with Kevin Gillan.
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CoDE seminar: French citizens of Indian descent: resisting invisibility and creating “new” French identities - Dr Manuela Latchoumaya
13:00 - 14:30 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’ - Dr Manuela Latchoumaya (University of...
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Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times
11:30 - 13:00 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 ‘New Ethnicities’ article announced the...
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Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China - Susanne Yuk Ping Choi
15:30 - 18:00 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 parental acceptance and full sexual citizenship...
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