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  • Commonwealth Collaborations: Exploring Associations with our Commonwealth Professional Fellows from Africa 

    Time: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 12:30 – 14:00 Location: FASS Meeting Room 2 and 3, Lancaster University Free to attend. Registration recommended. Includes lunch. Click HERE. All welcome! Come along and find out more about what these three amazing women scholars are researching and how you could collaborate with them. Includes lunch! Please note that although registration is…

  • What next for the Rwanda Bill, Asylum and Sanctuary in Britain?

    Time: Wednesday 13th March 1-2 pm BST Location: Online on Microsoft Teams. Registration required. Open to the public. Click HERE In April 2022 the Conservative government announced that certain people arriving without authorisation to seek asylum in the United Kingdom would be sent to the Rwanda to have their claims heard. If these claims were successful, they…

  • Countering the Invisibility of Race in our Digital and Environmental Future

    Time: Wednesday 6 March/ 12-30-2.30 pm Location: FASS Meeting Room 2 and 3 Free includes lunch. Registration recommended – LINK By Dr Aunam Quyoum and Dr Mark Wong (Urban Studies, University of Glasgow) This session is centred on themes of systemic racism in the UK and considers how we can meaningfully capture ‘lived experience’, and better design research to…

  • Slavery Family Trees Exhibition

    Location:  Lancaster Priory Time:  9th to 29th February, 2024 Free and Open to the public This exhibition draws on research from the ‘Slavery Family Trees Project,’ and is brought to you by Lancaster Priory, Lancaster Black History Group and Lancaster City Museums.

  • Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History

    Graphic Novel Launch with Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee Join us for a fascinating discussion with Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee about their acclaimed graphic novel TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. The graphic novel adapts a play by Trinidadian revolutionary and intellectual C.L.R. James and retells the story of the Haitian and…

  • DECOLONISATION: CENTRING STUDENT VOICES

    Time: 31st of January 2024 from 1-2 pm Location: Online on Microsoft Teams. LINK HERE Beyond The Brochure’: Reimagining the Black British Student In Higher Education (Emmanuel Adeyemi-Abere) Decolonisation has shifted from the periphery towards the center of discourses about equality within Higher Education Institutions. But how has translated to the reality on the ground for students?…

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