Race Forum
The Race Forum is a public site for discussions about ‘race’ and racism, class, multiculture and postcoloniality; diaspora and global migration and ‘race’, gender, sexuality and desire. It brings together students and academics from different institutions and from across the disciplines of Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, Law, Literary Studies, Education Studies, Psychosocial Studies, Urban Studies, History and Social Anthropology with others outside the academy.
The Race Forum opens up a space for discussions on the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century and incorporates debates on postcolonialism and empire; the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and ‘the war on terror’; the recent civil unrest and civil disobedience in the U.K and across the globe; resurgent nationalisms and human rights. It also focuses on political cultures such as religious revivalisms, anti-globalisation, peace, anarchist, postcolonial feminist and prison abolition movements. It is a place for conversations on music and cultural politics, 'whiteness'; intersectionality; 'homonationalism'; class, 'race' and criminalisation; militarism; policing; 'urban regeneration'; addiction, illiteracy and incarceration; 'race', class and education; racial and sexual violence and institutional racism.
Past events when the Race Forum was based in the Faculty of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck included:
Featured speakers included Les Back (Goldsmiths), Avtar Brah (Birkbeck), Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Michael Keith (Oxford), Stuart Hall (O.U), Gail Lewis (O.U), Ann Phoenix (IoE), Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths), John Solomos (City), Brett St. Louis (Goldsmiths) and Nira Yuval-Davis (UEL).
In 2010 visiting speakers included Michael Keith, (COMPAS, Oxford) and Jessica Sims (The Runnymede Trust).
In February 2011: 'Is this England?' Culture, memory and identity in London as a 'post-racial' city': Claire Alexander (LSE), Koushik Banerjea (Birkbeck) and Ash Sharma (darkmatter, UEL).
The Race Forum is open to all. For further information or if you wish to join the mailing list, please email Yasmeen Narayan at y.narayan@bbk.ac.uk .
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