Decolonising Lancaster University

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This symposium allows to suggest ideas, highlight challenges and discuss ways forward in relation to setting up a decolonisation network for colleagues in universities.
This in-person event is open to all staff and students.
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This talk explores the possibility of reparative frameworks in and through education systems – particularly in relation to racial and classed injustices.

To know more and register to attend either online or in person, follow the link below:
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A festival produced with our Eco-Collective featuring live music, artwork, creative workshops, and more, all themed on climate change and the small positive actions we can make as a community to make a difference.
For more, follow link below:
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Exploring the legacy of Frantz Fanon on the centenary of his birth.
His writing for the emancipation of colonised peoples everywhere continues to echo into the 21st century.

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Event is fundraiser for Central Gaza. Proceeds disperse by a Lancaster University graduate from Gaza who lives there, helping people purchase what little is available.
All proceedings will go to this community.
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This event happening tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd July, at 12pm via Zoom (online event) 


City of Sanctuary provides overview of background and growth of the City of Sanctuary movement across the UK. To register, follow the link below:
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Crafting Inclusion through Creative Practice: Decolonising using Zines on Wednesday June 25th, 11:35 am - 12:05 pm at Health Innovation Campus, A29.
Led by Meg Ritchie, Somayeh Roustaei and Sunita Abraham, offers staff and students!
Follow link below to register:
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Happening today! :D

From 11-4pm in Lancaster library this saturday, there will be activities, food, and conversations to get involved with!
Come and support the women of EmW showcasing their homelands.

Free for all and requires no registration!

Enjoy world music before the screening, and Q&A session with filmmakers for deeper understanding of stories and experiences. Free tickets for refugee/Asylum seekers 
Shows begin TONIGHT, 7pm, the Dukes. Follow link below:
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Join us for a cup of chai, taste different cuisines and engage with people from diverse backgrounds as part of Refugee Week. Opportunity to make friends, share stories, and learn about cultures.
Register here for free
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Join Emre Sarikaya and others in learning the traditional art form of Ebru art! Create your own piece of art to celebrate Turkish history.

Happening Tuesday 17th June, 12:30-3pm, in FASS meeting room 1

To register, use the link below:
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PhD researchers Anna and Sebnem share how decolonial thinking plays in research journeys. Hear how decolonisation shows approaches and take part in discussion on how ideas play in Lancaster’s History department.
Everyone welcome! Follow link:
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Event to hear from a range of academics staff, examining Quaker and Black history, the far-right, decolonising library, to Black student activism. Happening 12 June, 12.15-1.30 pm, on Microsoft Teams
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green background with painting made by James Fox, text from top to bottom as follows: BRIDGING WORLDS: ENCLOSURES AND OPENINGS Exhibition with artwork from James Fox in conversation with artists from the local refugee community 9 June till 20 June Library Foyer FASS Decolonisation Lancaster University Decolonising Lancaster University

'Bridging Worlds: Enclosures and Openings' launches in Library between 9- 20 June!
The exhibition shows work by James Fox and members of local refugee and asylum seeker community
Open to all! Launch of the event happens Monday 9th 2-3pm in library foyer. Refreshments are provided

Blue background, text from top to bottom as follows: Public Engagement Network: A relational approach to public engagement Monday, June 9, FASS Meeting Room 1 10:30 - 12:30 Attending this session will enhance your understanding of how to improve engagement, develop external collaborative partnerships, and expand your repertoire of engaged research methodologies. You will be introduced to the relational method, which has historical roots in Chicago’s School of Sociology and urban ethnography, and has been refined and improved by civil society over the past 80 years.

Everyone welcome to training session by The Public Engagement Network. Dr Dayo Eseonu and Davinia Jackson share training and development opportunities, to build connections and more!

Register with link below:
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green background with image of earth with human icons scattered across. Text from top to bottom as follows: Exploring children's wellbeing in situations of mobility and displacement: The case of Syrian Armenian children and their families Institute of Development Studies - IDS Convening Space and online on Zoom 11:00 to 12:30 5 June This seminar explores how displacement and mobility shape children's wellbeing, drawing on research with Syrian Armenian children and families who moved to Armenia following the Syrian war. It highlights the value of child-centred, participatory and intersectional approaches in humanitarian contexts and offers insights for inclusive policy and practice in the fields of child and social protection and migration.

Rosie Willi, Dorte Thorses and Charles Watters present seminar on theoretical and practical contributions on how to combine wellbeing and mobility, and other related topics!

Everyone welcome in person or online.
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TOMORROW
Join the online event "Like a raisin in rice pudding: Education Research Department Online Seminar with Professor Azumah Dennis" to discuss Black women in Higher Education are both invisible and hypervisible.
 
Free, but registration is required.

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Happening today! Come join us at County Main SR2 at 16 pm

text from top to bottom as follows PABLO NERUDA ADAM FEINSTEIN, AUTHOR OF PABLO NERUDA: A PASSION FOR LIFE (BLOOMSBURY, 2004) IN CONVERSATION This round table discussion will bring together colleagues from the School of Global Affairs and the Law School to inquire about how social poetry intersects with international human rights, in particular in the context of the role of the Chilean poet in the Spanish Civil War. SGA / County Main SR2 MAY 21, 16.00-17.30 *There will be live Latin American music and refreshments to conclude the event THIS IS AN EVENT ORGANISED BY THE SGA DECOLONISING REPS. To book a place please contact Dr. Pilar Cáceres at m.cacerescasillas@lancaster.ac.uk

Pablo Neruda event - poetry, politics and human rights (with live Latin America music!)
Come learn how social poetry relates to intersectional human rights.
Happening Wednesday 21st May, at 16.00-5.30pm at County Main SR2

If interested, email Dr. Pilar Cáceres at m.cacerescasillas@lancaster.ac.uk

All are welcome to hear Prof. Haya Al-Dajanj present her pioneering and decades long work on women refugees’ entrepreneurship!
Happening Wednesday 21st May from 1-2pm in LUMS LT1

Come along to hear refugees tell their stories on the experience through displacement, boarders and survival in the UK asylum system.
Happening Monday 19th May at 9am In Management School LT17. All are welcome, just turn up!

If you have any questions, contact Dr Joanna Kostka

Green background text from top to bottom as follows Dismantling Migration Narratives The Gregson- The Meeting Room 11:00 to 13:00 Saturday 17th May As part of the Words Matter campaign and in collaboration with Migrants Rights Network, this interactive workshop invites participants to critically examine the how current language used to discuss migration in public discourse can be harmful. This workshop is especially aimed at academics and students from migrant backgrounds, though all are welcome. Refreshments will be provided!

Come along tomorrow for an insightful talk on how we can learn and teach others around us on the topic of migration!

Happening 17th May, 11am-1pm at The Gregson! Refreshments will be provided!

To register for free, follow the link below to fill out the form:
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MIGRATIONS: An International Mail Art Project, exhibition will be launching tomorrow, Thursday 15 May at 5:00pm in LICA Foyer. Open from the 16 to 26 May.

Features 382 artworks from 43 countries, sent by post in response to an open call on theme of migration through different forms. All welcome!

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Escape to Safety is an interactive multimedia installation that invites you to experience the journey of refugees seeking asylum in the UK.
🗓️ May 7–15, 2025
⏰ 10 AM – 4 PM
📍 Library Exhibitions and Event Space

Free entry. Bring friends and family!

Ole Flamenco Tina Srabonian photography exhibition 8 May+ Lancaster University Library

Cervantes Institute brings Flamenco-inspired photography exhibition by Rina Srabionian to Lancaster.
Official opening today at 1:15pm in Library room LG026.
Follow link below for more
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A Language for Mother India Sanskrit between Secular Nation and Hindu Rashtra Professor Ananya Vajpeyi Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Week 24: Tuesday 13th May 3pm, FASS Meeting Room 1

Global Religions Visiting Speaker Seminar!
Tuesday 13th May at 3pm, professor Ananya Vajpeyi (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi) will be hosting a seminar titled A Language for Mother India: Sanskrit between Secular Nation and Hindu Rashtra 
 
All welcome no need to register.

Nanjing Project Volume 5, showing this Thursday 8 May 3-5 pm at the Jack Hylton Room (Great Hall Complex, Lancaster University)
Open rehearsals held every afternoon till Wednesday 7 May from 2-5pm at Jack Hylton Room (Great Hall Complex)  
Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/kBk49i9Y8j
All events free

ESCAPE TO SAFETY EXHIBITION - STARTS TOMORROW 07/05 to 15/05

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Escape to safety is an interactive multimedia installation to experience something of what it is like to be a refugee seeking asylum in Britain.

Free reservations here: lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/436895