Past events
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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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Third party assisted reproduction: Making connections across borders
12:00 - 28 April 2025
This Morgan Centre Conversation/ConnecteDNA event seeks to make connections in third party assisted reproduction research. It does so in two ways. In part, it aims to bring together scholars from across the globe, contributing social science analysis of current and emerging issues in third party reproduction. And it also seeks to share evidence...
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Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont
15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an in-conversation event with Gary Younge, award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. During this event Professors Michèle...
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Fiction and Research
14:30 - 16:00 14 May 2025
This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently published book, Fiction and Research: A Guide to Connecting Stories and Inquiry (2024, Policy Press), we will explore how social science and fiction can work together,...
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Racial health equity and the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt
13:00 - 14:30 15 May 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Tanisha Spratt from Kings College London shares her research. SUMMARY Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti-Black violence and its deep entrenchment within systems and structures that perpetuate Black subjugation. By conceptualising Black life as ‘non-life,’ afropessimism examines...
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Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy (Suriyah Bi)
16:15 - 18:00 19 May 2025
In this hybrid seminar, Dr Suriyah Bi (Cardiff University) introduces research from her recent book 'Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy' published by Manchester University Press. Please join us for this event either in person at The University of Manchester or online (zoom details below). If you are joining...
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