Past events
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Building Resistance: empowerment, unity and representation
17:00 - 19:00 6 March 2025
Join us for a powerful evening of conversation & testimony as we bring together people from across Nottingham to discuss how we effectively organise to build positive change in the black community. All welcome. At a time when the City Council is making painful cuts that harm our communities the police force is in special measures and the health...
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"The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system" - David Conn
15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Refreshments will be provided. In 2017, 11 young black people were convicted of the killing of Abdul Hafidah, who was fatally stabbed by one of them. Seven were convicted of murder, four of manslaughter, after a "joint enterprise" prosecution that presented evidence that the young people were in a gang and had killed Hafidah principally because...
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research - online taster session
12:30 - 13:30 19 March 2025
This session gives you a taster of the two-day summer school on creative approaches to qualitative research which is team taught by members of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Here we introduce how we think about creative approaches to qualitative research in the morgancentre and we will give you a flavour of some of the approaches...
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Exploring carceral intersections of race, class and disability - Margarita Aragon
12:00 - 13:30 20 March 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Margarita Aragon from the University of London shares her research. In this paper, I will explore the incarceration of those perceived to be intellectually disabled in the early 20th century as an important practice in the making of race and class in Britain. This context helps illuminate the inextricable imbrication...
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Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’ - Professor Michèle Lamont
14:30 - 17:30 20 March 2025
In this lecture Michèle Lamont addresses the power of recognition for understanding and addressing the global contemporary crisis of inequality. Discussing the key ideas from her recent book, Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Heal a Divided World, she will talk about how she is developing these through international collaborative...
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How anti-semitism became a battleground - Rachel Shabi in conversation with Gary Younge
18:30 - 20:30 25 March 2025
As claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become almost impossible to talk about constructively, even in private. Instead, we find ourselves in a storm of misinformation, political mudslinging and bad-faith accusations. Rachel Shabi’s Off White offers urgent an analysis of one of the most divisive...
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Book launch: 'Families' by Vanessa May
16:30 - 19:30 3 April 2025
Please join us for a book launch event to (belatedly) mark the publication of Vanessa May’s book 'Families'. 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 social developments...
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‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy - Brett St Louis
13:00 - 14:30 10 April 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Brett St Louis from the University of Manchester shares his research. The BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) acronym has proved highly contentious, facing criticism from varied sectors of civil society mainly as homogenizing ethnic diversity and disregarding cultural specificity. This paper focuses on two...
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Against Definitions - Alana Lentin
13:30 - 15:00 22 April 2025
This is a hybrid event: you can register to join online or in person. If you are attending in person, please join us from 1.15 for tea, coffee and pastries. SUMMARY In my new book, The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy I build on Cedric J. Robinson’s concept of the racial regime (Robinson 2007), the ensemble of histories,...
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MyEnds: 'Gangs', Violence and Youth: A practitioners' perspective
15:30 - 18:30 28 April 2025
Active Communities Network Event, an insightful evening of discussion at the London School of Economics, bringing together leading professionals who have researched, reported on and worked extensively in the youth sector, alongside frontline practitioners making a real impact in addressing youth violence. At Active Communities Network, along with...
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