University of Leeds lecturer Dr Li Sun has introduced her book on rural-urban migration in China to a diverse audience at the University. At a meet-the-author event organised by the Confucius Institute, Dr Sun explained the context and process of the research that culminated in the publication of the book....
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 ‘I Am Not Your Negro’, directed by Raoul Peck. Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019 Time: 17.30 – 20.00 Venue: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler...
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...
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.
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).
The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of skin tone, ‘colourism’ and ‘passing’.
This symposium was the first of its kind in the UK and enabled national, international and Leeds based postgraduate students to present their research in Critical Mixed Race Studies.