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Hate Crime

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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,...

CERS 2016 Lecture in Celebration of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent

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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

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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.

CERS International Lecture: Race and Racism in Russia

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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.

CERS Black History Month lecture: Dr. Robin Bunce

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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

CERS Book launch

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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