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
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