UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre

If you missed Keme Nzerem and Bernice Bennett: Black Family History: genealogy, story-telling and ethics in the wake of slavery on the 28 May, you can watch the full recording on our website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/event-recordings
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Polluting Infrastructures and Environmental, Reproductive, and Racial Injustice in North London
17 June 2024, 3pm-4pm
'Breathing In: Air and Atmospheres Seminar' with Dr Gala Rexer, UCL/University of Warwick

Polluting Infrastructures and Environmental, Reproductive, and Racial Injustice in North London 'Methodologies for Living with Toxicity: Polluting Infrastructures and Environmental, Reproductive, and Racial Injustice in North London' - Breathing In: Air and Atmospheres Seminar with Dr Gala Rexer, UCL/University of Warwick. This seminar series is run jointly by the IAS and WiSER at Wits, and ta...

The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation is delighted to welcome Prof Jovan Lewis to deliver a public lecture:
Relational Repair: Black Life Beyond Injury
Thursday 6 June 2024, 5:00–7:00pm
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IAS Book Launch: Into the Continent
20 May 2024, 6-8pm
Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin’s poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss wrought by colonialism and capitalist extraction across time and geographic space, from Turtle Island to South Africa.

IAS Book Launch: Into the Continent Join us for the launch of Emily McGiffin's new book of poetry, Into the Continent.

Man as Mismeasure will examine how Sylvia Wynter's genealogy of the concept of 'man' builds upon and goes far beyond Gould's historical and conceptual remit.
Wednesday 15 May 2024, 2:00–4:00pm
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The SPRC is holding one more open event for those contemplating applying for a place on our MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies. The event will take place on Thursday 30 May, 4pm (BST)
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Join us for the Impossible Decolonisation of the Western Museum with
13 May 2024, 5–6:30pm, G22 Lecture Theatre, followed by a Drinks Reception to be held in North Cloisters, Main Building, Gower Street.
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The libidinal lives of statues
14 May 2024, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm
In this talk Dr Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews) asks what it is about statues that has spooked people in the past enough to arouse in them the impulse to destroy.

The libidinal lives of statues In this talk Dr Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews) asks what it is about statues that has spooked people in the past enough to arouse in them the impulse to destroy.

📢The warmly welcome as our new Director for the centre. Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya will be joining us from September, we look forward to what is in store ☀️

Call for Papers: Critical Perspectives on Racialised Pasts and Post-Colonial Futures.
UCL SPRC Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June 2024
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The shared geographies, histories and contemporary legacies of the abduction and enslavement of Africans continues to be revealed, researched and written into public understanding.
Join us 28 May, 5-7pm
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IAS Octagon Fund open for applications The Octagon Small Grants Fund supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences.

Wish to learn more about our MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies?
Join our open day Wednesday 27 March online, 2-6pm.
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Call for Papers: Critical Perspectives on Racialised Pasts and Post-Colonial Futures.
UCL SPRC Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference, Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June 2024

📢Join us at our online open day 📢
Learn more about the Sarah Parker Remond Centre
Wednesday 27 March 2-6pm
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Join us as the Sarah Parker Remond Centre welcomes writer and consultant medical psychotherapist Marchelle Farrell today, 20 March 2024, 5:30–7:30pm
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There is still time to book your ticket for tonight's SPRC Curatorial Praxis Series: Spirit of the Pan-Yard. We warmly welcome Sharmilla Beezmohun in conversation with Dominique Le Gendre.
Tuesday 19 March 2024, 5:30-7:30pm
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SPRC Curatorial Praxis Series: Spirit of the Pan-Yard
19 March 2024, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Through conversations and questions, we will explore how meaningful collaborative practice can locate ‘pan-yards’ to embrace multiple perspectives, meander towards new convivialities and shape collective transformation in view of climate change.

SPRC Curatorial Praxis Series: Spirit of the Pan-Yard The Sarah Parker Remond Centre welcomes Sharmilla Beezmohun in conversation with Dominique Le Gendre.

Join us at an online open day to learn more about the MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study Racism and Racialisation.
6 March and 27 March on Zoom, times & bookings in the link below:
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Musician and singer Hak Baker talks to sociologist Les Back about the power of songs as a way of understanding city life.
Monday 18 Mar 2024, 6:30-8pm
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Today, Tuesday 27 February, 5:30-7:30pm
IAS Forum, South Wing, UCL
Orsod Malik invites you into a group discussion about the political and cultural implications of shared histories, curating archives and thinking through the cultural and political entanglements within them.
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TOMORROW, Tuesday 27 February, 5:30-7:30pm
IAS Forum, South Wing, UCL
Orsod Malik invites you into a group discussion about the political and cultural implications of shared histories, curating archives and thinking through the cultural and political entanglements within them.

Curating Shared Histories The SPRC welcomes Orsod Malik as part of the Curatorial Praxis Series of gatherings to explore how the wider fabric of social domination is held together by the practices of “racecraft” within in cultural spaces such as archives, museums and galleries - as well as outside these spaces.

Join us at an online open day to learn more about the MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study Racism and Racialisation! March 6 and March 27, details below:
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This talk will analyze France's refusal to consider race as a valid category of analysis, when it functions precisely as an instantaneous element of natural belonging to the national group for whites (irrespective of their citizenship status), and an indelible mark of foreignness, probationary acceptance, or impossible inclusion in the case of non-whites.

French but not (Q)White: Defining Frenchness for the 21st Century: Prof Mame-Fatou Niang Join us for the fourth event in the [Black Europe] Speaker Series, as Prof Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University) explores 'Frenchness' in the 21st Century

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Orsod Malik invites you into a group discussion about the political and cultural implications of shared histories, curating archives and thinking through the cultural and political entanglements within them.
Tuesday 27 February, 5:30-7:30pm
IAS Forum
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“The Digital Imperium” sketches a genealogy of key vectors in the birth and deployment of the digital as a modality of imperialising power, Professor Lee Grieveson (SELCS, UCL)
Thursday 22 February, 5-7pm (followed by a drinks reception)
IAS Common Ground

We're pleased to welcome Prof Lee Grieveson to give the next SPRC colloquium.
The Digital Imperium
22 February 2024, 5-7pm at UCL
The paper explores the contingent political and economic histories underlying the birth and expansion of a praxis of information control that gets built into the metal of digital computational machines

The Digital Imperium Part of the SPRC Colloquium Series on Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies. With Professor Lee Grieveson (SELCS, UCL)