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  • DLU Panel Discussion

    4 May, Thursday, 12:00 – 13:00 Microsoft Teams Combatting Islamophobia: Addressing Causes, Finding Solutions  Amid the controversial publication of the Shawcross review and it’s call to focus more on ‘Islamist’ extremism rather than the increasing threat of the far right, the stripping of Shamima Begum’s British citizenship and informal designation of British Muslims as second-class…

  • International Women’s Day event, IN PERSON, Lancaster Castle, City Centre Lancaster

    Wednesday 8 March, 3-4pm Lancaster Castle LU Lecture Room Marilyn Booth – ‘This tyranny you have called Nature’: Zaynab Fawwaz, Arabophone feminisms, and translational patriarchy in 1890s Egypt (FASS Decolonisation/ELCW International Women’s Day Lecture). In partnership with FASS Decolonisation, ELCW welcomes Professor Marilyn Booth (Oxford) – co-winner of Man Booker International Prize, 2019. Marilyn Booth…

  • Exploring impoliteness in multilingual contexts

    Wednesday 25th January, 1-2pm County South B89 The case of Congo-Brazzaville Jean Mathieu Tsoumou, La Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain Impoliteness research is increasingly going from western-centric grounds into exploring other societies and cultures such as Asia and Africa. Despite this progress, impoliteness research in Congo-Brazzaville is still non-existent. The aim of this talk is to explore impoliteness…

  • DLU Online Panel Discussion

    26 January (Thursday), 13:00 – 14:00 Microsoft Teams, Link: https://bit.ly/3QOu6FQ Event is open to everyone. From Preston to Wigan: Decolonisation in Lancashire Presenters will be two doctoral colleagues from the History department: Stephen Poleon: Preston Lancashire, A Banana Boat Stowaway Paradise? Between 1958 and 1960 it was estimated that 250 stowaways came to Preston from…

  • Decolonising Research Partnerships

    7 December, 12:00 – 13:30 Meeting Room 2, FASS Building (Opposite Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre) INCLUDES LUNCH Paulette Nhlapo who will be speaking on – Race Equality Charter at Lancaster University. Dr Faith Mkwananzi and Dr Melis Cin will discuss how to decolonise research partnerships between the countries of the Global North and South. Drawing…

  • Screening of the upcoming biographical drama Till

    30 November, 19:15 – 22:25 Take2Cinema, Lancaster University Campus Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief…

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