Past events
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Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)
13:00 - 15:00 21 April 2026
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider how relational life becomes visible through both disruption and continuity. We reflect on two pathways through which relations across the lifetime can be understood....
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CoDE seminar: 'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
13:00 - 14:30 23 April 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Alison Phipps (York St John University) shares her research. SUMMARY What are the relationships between sexual violence, sexual fear, social control, and surplus value? What is the role of sexual violence as racial capitalist systems corral, mould, use, and discard the workers they require? Sexual violence...
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Reimagining Racial Justice Research
11:15 - 14:30 6 May 2026
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. In this meeting we will host an interactive workshop that recognises the emotional labour involved in researching racial injustice, particularly in the current social and political...
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The Big Payback: Reparations and how money shapes our morality and views on racial justice - Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge
15:00 - 16:45 6 May 2026
Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge, on reparations and how money shapes our morality and our views on racial justice. See Eventbrite link for more details and to register for a free place. The transatlantic slave trade is often framed as a moral atrocity of the past. Yet both its legacy, and the way we respond to it today, reveal something...
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Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan (Chiaki Shirai) HYBRID
16:00 - 17:30 24 June 2026
Jointly hosted by the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives (SoSS) and East Asian Studies (SALC) Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan Professor Chiaki Shirai Shizuoka University, Japan Arthur Lewis _G.019 / Online Teams (Teams Meeting ID:358 860 694 729 220; Passcode:RF6pM7Ch) Wednesday 24 June...
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Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism Book Launch (HYBRID)
16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2026
Join us for the Political Economy Centre's hybrid book launch for Dr Barbora ?ernušáková's Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism. The book offers a powerful account of the relationship between political economy and anti-Roma racism in East Central Europe and will be of interest to anyone working on, or wanting to learn more about, racial capitalism,...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2026
Balazs Vedres Central European University
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 14 October 2026
Neah Gondal Boston University
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CoDE seminar: Transnational Black culture in Liverpool in the final decades of the 20th century: legacies of West Africa in the so-called ‘second city of empire’ Stephen Small
13:00 - 14:30 15 October 2026
In this lunchtime seminar from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), Professor Stephen Small (University of California, Berkeley) shares his research. ABSTRACT Throughout the twentieth century the resident Black population of Britain increased substantially from an estimated 20,000 at the start of the century, to an estimated 50,000...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 21 October 2026
Chris McCarty University of Florida
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