Past events
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Activism and Academia (ECR network meetup) followed by Gary Younge Faber lecture
14:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
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. The focus of this meeting will be on engaging in activisim from within academia. All participants are invited to stay on after our buffet tea for Gary Younge's Faber lecture 'Pigeonholed'....
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Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Younge (Faber Lecture)
19:00 - 20:30 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 upon the relatively small group of people from...
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Listening, learning, collaborating: ECR reflections on research with ethnic minority older people
09:30 - 12:30 20 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. A reflective and collaborative event for ECRs who have conducted fieldwork with ethnic minority older adults, aimed at sharing experiences and co-producing practical guidance for future work in the field. Location:...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Nynke Niezink (Carnegie Mellon University), Network Analysis in Statistics Education: Substantive and Methodological Results
16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2025
Progress on substantive research and methodological development often goes hand in hand. In this talk, I will illustrate this in the context of statistics education. While statistics classes are getting larger and larger, feeling a sense of belonging remains fundamental to students’ academic success and well-being. Sense of belonging is inherently...
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Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects us all. Drawing on groundbreaking research on reproductive loss, post-mortem and bereavement, Professor Reed will problematise the boundary between life and...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth
16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents are relatively rare. The focus is on gender-specific processes of religious segregation within friendship networks. A key question is whether religious segregation stems from Muslims' in-group bias or non-Muslims' reluctance...
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On the Body Conference
10:00 - 16:00 7 November 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. Interdisciplinary medical Humanities conference on race, racism, the body for early career researchers and postgraduate research students.
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Mitchell centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Joe Labianca, University of Massachusetts
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Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Police Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire
18:00 - 21:00 14 November 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. Join us to explore how the policing of language is employed to silence Black and Brown activism by looking at Marieha Hussain's recent case. Who has the right to police your language? In a world where racism...
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Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event
17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2025
Participants Jade Akoum, sister of Yousef Makki, campaigner David Conn, The Guardian Professor Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester Pete Weatherby KC, Garden Court North Dr Patrick Williams, Harm to Healing Coalition About the event This panel centres the experiences of Jade Akoum, the sister of Yousef...
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