CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity

CoDE SEMINAR: 'I’m Just a Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me for Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested in Generative Artificial Intelligence'

🗣️Dhiraj Murthy
📅12.30-2pm [UPDATED START TIME], 11 Dec 2025
📍Uni of Manchester & online
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Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: Yousef Makki - Garden Court North Chambers Pete Weatherby KC will be speaking at the University of Manchester's panel on the unlawful killing of Yousef Makki.

Our panel event: 5pm today at Uni of Manchester
gcnchambers.co.uk/event/reflec... Feat. Jade Akoum, David Conn, Dr Patrick Williams, Pete Weatherby KC, Prof Eithne Quinn
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REMINDER: our next seminar is from Ulla McKnight, who will be sharing her research on racialised health inequalities. You can join us in person or online, 1pm Thurs 20 Nov 👇🏾

#ERSBookSymposium 📕

What is antiracism, how should it be done, and what are its aims?

Brett St Louis @ethnicityuk.bsky.social engages with John Solomos's #Antiracism, exploring the plurality of antiracisms and how to build alliances. @politybooks.bsky.social

Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Still time to book for this event in Leicester on Friday on language policing and the right to satire 👇🏾

1 WEEK: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions

📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building

Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX

University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers

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January 2026 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke UP) edited by Sarah Bufkin & Ida Danewid theorises racial capitalism in (post)imperial Europe.

My contribution discusses the relationship between racialisation of Roma through workfare & debtfare, and high industrial employment in Czechia

Muslim war memorial: ministers’ delay leaves trust to find £1m - Hyphen Long-awaited project could help counter far-right myths about Muslims not being part of Britain’s history, argue supporters

@meghanetinsley.bsky.social comments on the importance of representation in memorials in this article about delays to a proposed Muslim war memorial by @weronikas.bsky.social in @hyphenonline.com
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Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings - Siobhan O’neill, 2025 Racially minoritised and working-class communities in the UK continue to be underprotected and overpoliced. One aspect of that overpolicing that has thus far be...

New article from Siobhan O'Neill

📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings

Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
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doi.org/10.1177/0306...

Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings - Siobhan O’neill, 2025 Racially minoritised and working-class communities in the UK continue to be underprotected and overpoliced. One aspect of that overpolicing that has thus far be...

New article from Siobhan O'Neill

📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings

Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal
@uomsociology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0306...

Decent homes for all Come along to learn what you can do to make sure Manchester provides good quality, safe, secure and affordable homes for those who live here

🏠 Decent Homes for all
📅 9.45-1pm Fri 21 Nov 2025
📌 Ascension Church Hulme

Exploring progress so far, & next steps in, providing good quality, safe, affordable and secure homes for Manchester residents.
@ndenoronha.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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SEMINAR: Addressing racialised health inequalities in Sexual health care by using race as a marker of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis infection – what could possibly go wrong?
🗣️Ulla McKnight (Sussex)

📅1-2.30pm, Thurs 20 Nov 2025
📌Manchester/online
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Join us for this panel event exploring Manchester criminal prosecutions by focusing on the experiences of Jade Akoum, whose brother Yousef Makki was killed in 2019 aged 17.

Free - all welcome.

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship:

'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre

Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott

Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
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Leading Bangladesh’s government colleges toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4: principal and vice-principal perspectives This qualitative study examines prevailing leadership styles in Bangladesh’s government colleges and their potential to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. Using semi-struc...

📝Leading Bangladesh’s government colleges toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4: principal and vice-principal perspectives

- Subrata Kumar Mallick on how college leaders put SDG4 (inclusive/equitable education) into practice in their work
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Building resilient communities through urban regeneration: Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in North Manchester at The University of Manchester on Fi... PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Building resilient communities through urban regeneration: Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in North Manchester at The University o...

Fully funded PhD opportunity

Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in N Manchester to create more resilient communities

Apply by 14 Nov

Working with Camilla Lewis @tinebuffel.bsky.social @muarg.bsky.social
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NEW: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions

📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building

Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX

University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers

Introduced by @duncanivison.bsky.social, last night Professor of Sociology Gary Younge delivered the inaugural @faberbooks.bsky.social lecture as part of @mcrlitfest.bsky.social

It was presented in partnership w/ @ethnicityuk.bsky.social and chaired by Prof Claire Alexander of @uomsoss.bsky.social

📢We have just released a few more tickets for Gary Younge's Faber lecture this Thursday evening 👇🏾
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“Courage, vision, planning & fearless work”: the Congress Lives On.
📅 Mon 3 Nov | Manchester Central Library
With Gary Younge, Young Identity & Shirley May.
Reflection, resistance & creativity to honour Black histories & the 1945 Pan-African Congress. ✊🏾

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize. 25 days left to enter. Open to UK-based entrants aged 18-30, the Stuart Hall Essay Prize awards £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay best offers an original, radical critique of contemporary society. Welcoming academic, journalistic and creative essays that resonate with the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. Inviting new and unpublished essays of 4500-5000 words connecting with Hall’s interests and his concern to address the current ‘conjuncture’. Submissions due by November 3, 2025. Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years.

Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.

Portrait of Gary Younge and Faber members logo and 10th anniversary badge

FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge

📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website

@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot

New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in
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Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot A groundbreaking new study from The University of Manchester has challenged traditional ideas of race and national identity in France, revealing how French citizens of Indian descent are navigating th...

🔗Read more about the story here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...

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Early Career Researcher Network meeting:

🗣 Activism & Academia (followed by 'Pigeonholed', Faber lecture by Gary Younge)

📆Thurs 16 Oct 2025 Manchester
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Call for papers - On the Body | Jessica Cox Hello again! Mathilde Lyons and I are very excited to announce the launch of On the Body: an interdisciplinary conference on race and racialisation in medicine and humanities, held on the 7th of Novem...

Call for papers:

'On the body' conference
7 Nov, Uni of Dundee

Race & racialisation in medicine and humanities. More info 👇🏾
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From patriotic to racist – can the England flag ever be reclaimed? A group raising money to get every lamp post in their village adorned with the ‘beautiful’ St George’s flag has been met with backlash. Helen Coffey asks whether the far right’s commandeering of our n...

“A flag doesn’t hold any inherent meaning – it’s about why you put it up and what’s behind it.” Bridget Byrne comments on the recent increase in St George's flags
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EVENT: Collaborative Café: Conversations on Racism

📆 12-4:30pm,Thurs 11 Sept 2025
📍Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool

Dialogue & discussions on racism & intersectionality. Organised by Dr Niroshan Ramachandran.
@uomsociology.bsky.social
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