Social Sciences Festival 2025

This seminar and book launch provides insights into how Black feminist theory is used by feminist scholars to decolonise the higher education Academy.

Reparations and Aid have climbed to the top of the world's agenda but face a far more hostile environment in the age of Trump. This panel looks at where we are now in 2025, with foreign aid in crisis, and asks how we can make the case for them in a new world order.

This roundtable brings together faculty, alumni and current doctoral students working on food politics. The session explores the everyday connections between commensality as a social, cultural and environmental practice.

This event explores the major current challenges around human-wildlife coexistence and includes group sessions that invite attendees to explore how we can share the world with wildlife.

A presentation and discussion workshop to introduce the novel on Shadows of her, written by Nouzha Mabrouk.

Explore the challenges and opportunities of co-produced research in crime and justice, with a focus on Birkbeck’s ‘Lived Experience of the Law’ study. This discussion highlights the importance of participatory approaches and launches the project’s short film, ‘What Do You Think?’

This event showcases powerful, intersectional films by queer and trans filmmakers from around the world, highlighting stories of resilience, community and creative expression.

Roundtable and workshop where experienced researchers reflected on collaborative, co-designed, participatory research within the framework of social justice and activism.

Discover how radical Black feminist co-operators are reshaping global solidarity economies through mutual aid, resistance, and collective finance in this talk by Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein.