All Events
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Glocal Walk with Lancaster Royal Grammar School Students
An external Glocal Walk was delivered for senior students from Lancaster Royal Grammar School, focusing on local sites connected to colonial trade, industrial labour and global movement. The walk aimed to support school-level learning around history, citizenship and social inequality through place-based discussion. Students were encouraged to consider how global histories are embedded within local…
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Welcome Week Glocal Walks at Lancaster University
Two Glocal Walks were delivered during Welcome Week, let by Dr. Sunita Abraham and Dr. Chris Donaldson from Lancaster University. These walks were designed to introduce new students to Lancaster’s local history while linking it to wider global processes connected to empire, trade, labour and migration. Participants were encouraged to reflect on how colonial histories…
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Are We Still Decolonising the University? One-Day Symposium co-hosted by DLU
This one-day in-person symposium brought together over 60 staff and students from universities across the UK to discuss decolonisation and anti-racism in Higher Education. The event was co-hosted by Dr Sunita Abraham (Lancaster University), Dr Laura Key and Lucy Potter (York St John University), and Dr Leon Moosavi (University of Liverpool). The symposium was open…
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BASAS Annual Conference 2025 at Lancaster University
Lancaster University hosted the 2025 British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, one of the world’s leading learned society conferences for the study of South Asia. DLU supported the conference as part of its wider commitment to decolonial scholarship and sector-wide engagement. The conference brought together scholars from across the UK and beyond…
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Refugee Week Event 2025: Introduction to Ebru Art from Turkey
Free workshop and lunch – requires registration. Open only to staff and students of Lancaster University. Emre Sarikaya is a Lancaster-based woman refugee artist from Turkey who will be teaching participants about the amazing UNESCO World Heritage recognised Ebru art work. This traditional art form involves creating colourful marbling patterns on paper by sprinkling and brushing colour pigments…
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Launch of the Escape to Safety Exhibition
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Escape to safety is an interactive multimedia installation that enables you to experience something of what it is like to be a refugee seeking asylum in Britain. It is designed for young people and adults from the age of 11 upwards. You will follow in the footsteps of three refugees who…