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Past events

November 2018 - Yasmeen Narayan (Birkbeck): 'On Culture'.

February 2017 - Catherine Hall (UCL): 'Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain'.

May 2017: The Politics of Racism: A Symposium for John Solomos.

May 2016 - Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths): 'Brick Walls: Racism and Other Hard Histories'.

June 2015 - Les Back (Goldsmiths): 'For a Sociological Reconstruction: W.E.B. Du Bois, Stuart Hall and Segregated Sociology'.

June 2014 - Aileen Moreton-Robinson (QUT): 'Indigenous Studies in the First World: Contested Territory, Cultural Entrapment and Race in the 21st Century', sponsored by the Race Forum & the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths.

May 2014 - Jasbir Puar (Rutgers): 'Debility/Capacity: Debt, Disability and Disaster Capitalism', sponsored by the Department of Psychosocial Studies and the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.

May 2013 - Heidi Safia Mirza (Goldsmiths): 'A Second Skin': Embodied intersectionality, transnationalism and narratives of identity and belonging among Muslim women in Britain'.