CERS Film Series: 'I Am Not Your Negro'
The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds is excited to present a film screening of the award winning documentary...
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The Trojan Horse scandal and the problem of equalities in Britain
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...
CRT Reading Group: Questions of Presence - Gail Lewis
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...
Popular Communication journal: 'Refugee Socialites and the Media'
Associate Professor Maria Rovisco co-edited, with Jonathan Ong, the special issue on 'Refugee Socialities and the Media' of the journal Popular Communication, Vol. 17, issue 2.
Everyday Europe: Social Transnationalism in an Unsettled Continent
CERS members Adrian Favell and Roxana Barbulescu are among the co-authors of the new publication Everyday Europe: Social Transnationalism in an Unsettled Continent (2019).
Brexit and the Future of Migration
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...
Hate Crime
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,...
Racial Disparity Audit North
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...
CERS 2016 Lecture in Celebration of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent
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?
CERS Public Lecture: The Afterlife of Black Sociology
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.