Past events
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Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan (Chiaki Shirai) HYBRID
15:00 - 16:30 24 June 2026
Jointly hosted by the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives (SoSS) and East Asian Studies (SALC) Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan Professor Chiaki Shirai Shizuoka University, Japan Arthur Lewis _G.019 / Online Teams (Teams Meeting ID:358 860 694 729...
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Reimagining Racial Justice Research
10:15 - 13:30 6 May 2026
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. In this meeting we will host an interactive workshop that recognises the emotional labour involved in researching racial injustice,...
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The Big Payback: Reparations and how money shapes our morality and views on racial justice - Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge
14:00 - 15:45 6 May 2026
Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge, on reparations and how money shapes our morality and our views on racial justice. See Eventbrite link for more details and to register for a free place. The transatlantic slave trade is often framed as a moral atrocity of the past. Yet both its legacy,...
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CoDE seminar: 'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
12:00 - 13:30 23 April 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Alison Phipps (York St John University) shares her research. SUMMARY What are the relationships between sexual violence, sexual fear, social control, and surplus value? What is the role of sexual violence as racial capitalist systems corral, mould, use, and...
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Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)
12:00 - 14:00 21 April 2026
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider how relational life becomes visible through both disruption and continuity. We reflect on two pathways through which...
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Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026
16 April - 2 August 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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