Past events
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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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Mitchell Centre Seminar series
16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Elisa Bellotti & Tomas Diviak University of Manchester Gender inequalities: the role of social networks in gendered interactions and social structures. Gender inequalities are a worldwide issue with considerable social and economic costs. Current policy interventions lack effectiveness, resulting in women still being underrepresented in some...
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Global Marxism Panel Discussion (online)
18:00 - 7 November 2024
Event organised by Manchester University Press. Though his work has been both praised and criticized, Karl Marx is considered one of the most influential figures in the modern era. But in the twenty-first century, the legacy of Marxism is now contested, with some seeing it as Eurocentric and irrelevant to the wider global struggle. In Global...
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Linden Archives Book Launch
18:00 - 20:30 7 November 2024
Following on from his first successful publication Out and About with Linden (a queer archive of the north) Stuart Linden Rhodes has produced a new larger edition photobook of the queer 1990’s titled simply Linden Archives. This book presents a collection of photographs of Pride events, Mr Gay UK contests alongside Club and Bar images from London,...
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