The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (University of Leeds) presents this panel on the topic of ‘The Trojan Horse Scandal and the Problem of Equalities in Britain Today’. An alleged plot to ‘Islamicise’ schools in Birmingham came to public attention in early 2014. The Clarke Report declared that there...
This second meeting of the Critical Race Theory reading group will explore Gail Lewis’ article ‘Questions of Presence’. Friday 8 March meeting In consonance with the political agenda that addresses ‘International Women’s Day’ in a challenging and decolonial way, discussion will focus on the article Questions of Presence by Gail Lewis. Feel free...
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 North welcomes the participation of Runnymede Trust, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Stop Hate UK, Commissioner for Crime and Police for West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Police, JUST Yorkshire, New Europeans,...
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 participation of West Yorkshire Police, Stop Hate UK, JUST Yorkshire, New Europeans and representatives of local authorities in Yorkshire. The project is funded by the ESRC IAA fund, Leeds Social...
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 welcomes the participation of West Yorkshire Police, Stop Hate UK, JUST Yorkshire, New Europeans and representatives of local authorities in Yorkshire. The project is funded by the ESRC IAA fund,...
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?
Date: Monday 2nd November, 2015, 17:00 - 18:30 Location: Room 12.25, Social Sciences Building Professor Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University, USA This lecture provides a critical historical and analytical commentary on 'racism' as a concept rather than a self-evidential empirical phenomenon. It invites reconsideration of the 20th century genealogy of the racism concept prior to and in relation to its appropriation by American sociology.
Date: Tuesday 3rd November, 2015, 15.00 - 16.30 Location: Room 12.21, Social Sciences Building, University of Leeds Dr Nikolay Zakharov, Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University, Sweden, introduces his new book Race and Racism in Russia which provides important new theoretical and substantive insights into globalization and racialization in Russia's new nationhood project.
Date: Tuesday 3rd November, 2015, 17:00 - 18:30 Location: Room 12.25, Social Sciences Building Professor Barnor Hesse of Northwestern University, USA, discusses his paper Escaping Liberty: Western Hegemony, Black Fugitivity in a Masterclass on the day after he delivers the CERS Public Lecture The Afterlife of Black Sociology
Date: Wednesday, 21 October, 2015, 16:00 - 17:30 Location: 12.21 Social Sciences Building Dr. Robin Bunce of Cambridge University will speak on his book Darcus Howe: a Political Biography