Friday 2 March 2018, 12.30-16.00 University House, University of Leeds Speaker: Dr. Maria Sobolewska, University of Manchester The Commission on Diversity in the...

Tuesday 23rd January 2018, 15.00-16.30 Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds The Commission on Diversity in the North welcomes the...

Tuesday 21st November 2017, 14.00-17.00 Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds The Commission on Diversity in the North...

Date: Thursday 10th March, 17:00 - 19:00 Location: Room 12.25, Social Sciences Building Professor Paul C Taylor, Penn State University: Facing Ferguson- Reflecting on Racial Innocence On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown and Darren Wilson met on a street in Ferguson, Missouri. A short time later one of them was dead, the other was mired in controversy, and this town had become an emblem for the complex tangle of issues that roils the politics of racialized states. How do we position ourselves to face these issues productively and intelligently?