Past events
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Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Younge (Faber Lecture)
18:00 - 19:30 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...
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South Asian Women's Activism in Manchester: Film Screening and Discussion
12:30 - 16:30 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....
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Laurence Brandenberger (University of Zurich) - Chairs, Cliques, and Clout: Network Drivers in Parliamentary Collaboration
15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
How do members of parliament choose collaborators? Is it policy or people that tip the scales? This talk argues that the everyday social fabric of the chamber steers who works with whom. Treating parliament as a living network, I show that collaboration tends to form inside small, cohesive clusters...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Karoly Takas (Linkoping University) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling
15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025
It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hinder the academic performance of disadvantaged minority groups. Using unique social network panel data from elementary school students in Hungary, we test different predictions of the cultural-ecological theory among the Roma, one of the largest...
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Justice Interrupted: Race, Ethnicity, and Resistance – Early Career Researcher Symposium
3 October 2025 - 23 August 2026
Part of our series of events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser for more details.
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Collaborative Café: Conversations on Racism
11:00 - 15:30 11 September 2025
This event offers a safe, open space for migrants, practitioners, and academics to explore and discuss racism. Building on the CSR Collaboration Cafés, it aims to spark dialogue and foster research and collaboration. Four speakers—including migrants, grassroots practitioners, and academics—will...
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