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
Date: Tuesday 6th October, 2015, 13:00 - 15:00 Location: Room 12.25 Social Sciences Building Celebrating recent publications by Centre members Shirley Anne Tate, Ian Law and Shona Hunter
Date: 21 May 2015, 17:00 - 19:00 Location: Room 12.25 in the Social Sciences Building The CERS Public Lecture in celebration of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent, Professor Charles Mills (Northwestern University, USA)
Date: 2 April 205, 10:30 - 21:00 Location: Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA Website: https://borderingstrangeness.wordpress.com/ Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli is a panelist at the event "Bordering Strangeness: an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Film as Text" organised by Royal Holloway, University of London.
Date: Tuesday 21 April 2015, 1:00 - 2:00pm Location: Baines Wing SR 1.14 Presenters Include: Professor (Emerita) Frances Henry, York University, Toronto, Professor Carl James, York University, Toronto, Professor Ena Dua, York University, Toronto, Professor Audrey Kobayashi, Queens University, Kingston, Professor Malinda Smith, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Date: Wednesday 15th October, 12.00-2.30pm To mark Black History Month 2014, the University of Liverpool Black Asian and minority Ethnic (BAME) Staff Network is hosting a free public event that will explore some of the issues affecting BAME students and academics.
Date: 8th October 2014, 12:30 - 1:30 Location: Room 12.21 Social Sciences Building Bobby Sayyid This talk is based on a provocation which begins with the claim that “racism is more objected to than understood in sociology” (Hesse, 2016). The talk goes on to question what is the object that is being objected to within the sociology of racism and what does it tell us about the nature of sociological enterprise and its relationship to the post-racial.