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Date & Time
Thursday 17th February 2022
14:00 – 15:00 GMT
Location
Online Event
Author: fowlerl5
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What is historical criminology? What does thinking historically about crime and justice entail? How is historical criminology currently practised? What are the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to historical criminology? These questions underscore this inaugural Meet the Authors at #HCNet event hosted by LSBU.
The aim is to provide a platform to support rich discussion about historical criminology amongst those with an interest, in academia and beyond. Ultimately, we aim to promote new ideas on historical criminology, continuing to widen awareness and generate rich conversation.
Historical criminology as a tool is relevant for the classroom, for research, and appeals to a wider public fascination concerning the role of history in our lives. The event offers the opportunity to meet the authors of this new book, Historical Criminology, including the possibility to pose a range of questions about their collaboration, the content of their work, and the historical methodology itself. Attendance offers the opportunity to generate discussion about the role of historical criminology, bringing together a diversity of ideas from each question posed.
Provisional programme
6pm – Welcome & virtual housekeeping
6.05pm – Chair’s Introduction
6.10pm – Authors’ Presentation
6.40pm – Panel discussion
7.00pm – Audience Q&A
7.20pm – Closing remarks & summary
7.30pm – Close
This event will be delivered via Zoom. You will receive the joining instructions in your confirmation email and again a few days before the event.
Biographies
Dr David Churchill is Associate Professor of in Criminal Justice, in the School of Law, University of Leeds. Dave’s expertise includes the following areas: historical criminology; criminal justice history; policing and crime control; security technologies and the security industry; cities and urban history; Victorian leads.
Dr Henry Yeomans is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, in the School of Law, University of Leeds. Henry’s expertise includes the following areas: alcohol; behavioural regulation; historical criminology.
Dr Iain Channing is Lecturer in Criminology, in the School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business), University of Plymouth. Iain’s research specialises in policing in historical and contemporary contexts.
Dave, Henry, and Iain will share with us the collaborative efforts that went in their fantastic new text Historical Criminology.
The event will be chaired by Dr Esmorie Miller, Lecturer in Criminology, at London South Bank University, and Chair of #HCNet – home of the British Society of Criminology’s Historical Network.
Date & Time
Friday 11th February 2022
18:00 – 19:30 GMT
Location
Online Event
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This is part of a series of online, public events in which LCC Student Changemakers talk with guests from other educational institutions, nationwide and worldwide, about decolonising and diversifying the creative curriculum and teaching practices. In this first event, Changemakers will be in conversation with guests from Senec University in São Paulo, Brazil, and sharing insights into how such change is being made through staff-student partnerships in different cultural contexts.
Banner artwork by Tianyue Cheng, 2020
Disclaimer: Live events will be recorded and made public on LCC YouTube channels afterwards. By attending a live event, guests agree to their contributions being captured and used for this purpose.
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Date & Time
Wednesday 9th February 2022
16:00 – 17:30 GMT
Location
Online Event
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Hosted by the UAL Decolonising Wikipedia Network for the 2021-22 project London’s Colonial Her/Histories. We will have guest presentations from representatives of the following projects, and we will be asking how and why this knowledge could be accessed via Wikimedia:
London Metropolitan Archive’s Switching the Lens – Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage, 1561 to 1840
Chiswick House and Garden’s Black Chiswick through History
UCL’s Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
The event will be hosted by Lucy Panesar, UAL’s Wikimedian in Residence and Alex Duncan, Arts + Feminism Edit-a-thon host, and the discussion facilitated by Dr. Ileana L. Selejan, Research Fellow at the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute.
This event will be hosted in Zoom Webinar and recorded for the UAL YouTube channel. It will be followed by another event on 10 May. A separate series of DWN workshops is on offer to UAL students and staff on researching and editing Wikipedia’s colonial history through a decolonial lens.
For more information about the project and events visit: https://decolonisingwikipedianetwork.myblog.arts.ac.uk
Disclaimer: Live events will be recorded and made public on LCC YouTube channels afterwards. By attending a live event, guests agree to their contributions being captured and used for this purpose.
Zoom Privacy Notice: This event will be hosted on Zoom. UAL’s Virtual Event Privacy Notice sets out how your personal information will be collected and processed when you register and attend a UAL virtual event on Zoom.
Date & Time
Tuesday 8th February 2022
17:00 – 18:00 GMT
Location
Online Event
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The 1955 ‘Bandung’ Conference is a moment in time which invites us to ask, as some of those who lived through and witnessed it also did: what is the scope of decolonisation? What does it want? Who are its agents? Focusing on two mid-century conferences that sought to ‘talk decolonisation’ and some writers associated with them, this talk examines some of the ideas and insights about decolonisation-as well as its paradoxes and challenges- which emerged in the Bandung moment and remain relevant to ours.
The Race, Gender and Sexualities Research Group (School of Law and Social Sciences) at London South Bank University (LSBU) is delighted to host an evening with Professor Priyamvada Gopal who will be speaking on ‘Old Beginnings: the Scene of Decolonisation’.
Professor Priyamvada Gopal is the author of a recently published book, Insurgent Empire: Resistance and British Dissent and article ‘On Decolonisation and the University’ (2021). She is an academic at Cambridge University, a political and human rights activist in the UK and India, and a proponent of ‘decolonising’ academic institutions.
This event will be chaired by Dr Shaminder Takhar, Associate Professor of Sociology and co-lead of the Race, Gender and Sexualities Research Group. We hope you will join us to hear Professor Gopal’s lecture on the importance and relevance of decolonisation.
This event will be delivered by Zoom. You will receive joining instructions in the run up to the event.
Follow Professor Gopal on Twitter: @PriyamvadaGopal
Provisional Programme
5.30pm – Welcome and zoon functionality
5.35pm – Introduction & scene setting
5.40pm – Keynote Lecture – Old Beginnings: the Scene of Decolonisation – Professor Priyamvada Gopal
6.25pm – Audience Q & A
6.40pm – Final words and summary
6.45pm – Close
Date & Time
Monday 7th February 2022
17:30 – 18:45 GMT
Location
Online Event
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This session in our 2021/2022 seminar series features two speakers.
The first paper, presented by Shreya Gutpa, is titled: ” Decolonising Collections: Investigating knowledge formation networks in colonial India with specific reference to numisatics”
‘The histories of the South Asian collections located in UK museums are inextricably tied to colonialism. The exact conditions under which these objects were transferred from the colony to the metropole are still being researched. In the case of South Asian collections, collecting histories have focused on two types of objects. First are the ‘oriental’ objects collected and even looted by British officials. Second are the antiquities collected under the institutional surveys of the early days of colonial rule. Here Indians took on the role of intermediaries, working as translators or assistants to colonial officials in the Indian administration.
My project takes this story forward by exploring a fuller history of collection and knowledge production. I do this by looking at the Indian collectors involved in assembling the coin collections housed in various museums in England. While these collections are named after British collectors, Jose Gerson da Cunha, H. Nelson Wright, Alfred Master and R. B. Whitehead, we know little about the Indian scholars and collectors who were involved in the collections’ formations. I will explore their involvement in collecting, investigating, and studying South Asian coins. Together European and Indian numismatists and their networks helped in the co-production of knowledge about Indian history based on these coins. Telling this fuller history of the formation of coin collections and the production of knowledge by addressing colonial histories will be a step that contributes towards decolonising the country’s colonial collections.’
Shreya is a first-year PhD candidate working on an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Project in the History department at the University of Exeter in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The project is titled “Decolonising Collections: Investigating knowledge formation networks in colonial India with specific reference to numismatics”. Shreya will explore the history of four collections of Indian coins, currently held in the Ashmolean, the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam. While these collections are named after British coin collectors, we know little about the Indian scholars who helped them in assembling the collections. She aims to uncover the role of Indian scholars and collectors in creating these collections.
The project’s larger aim is to investigate the role of Indian scholarly networks in producing expert knowledge about Indian history. It aims to contribute to the work of decolonising museums by telling a fuller history of South Asian collections in the UK.
The second paper, presented by Marvi Slathia, is titled: “Glancing culture of POJK people in Jammu and Kashmir through their narratives.”
‘The proposed paper focuses on the culture history, memory and practices of the Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) people residing in J&K after their migration in 1947. The main thrust will be on the oral narratives of these survivors, who are chroniclers of the agony, pain, trauma, brutalities and loss of families, property, culture and identity in the violent division of the erstwhile princely state. Though J&K did not witness the Partition in the manner the other parts of India did, the survivors of the event in this geographical area faced the backlash and fury of communal forces immediately post-Partition in 1947.
The proposed paper will broadly focus on the life of these survivors through these tumultuous days and their new existence in independent India. The interviews conducted encompass the social, economic and cultural aspects of the migrants’ changed circumstances and are witness to ever-haunting memories and longing to revisit their homeland. The recollections of these survivors revolve around accounts of various common festivals in their motherland, such as the Baisakhi Mela, and food they in undivided Jammu & Kashmir, which were celebrated by people of all religions. How all that is drastically changing in present generation worry them. The words of these last survivors embrace hope for a better future. The paper records the journey of the migrants through different places, holding on to the few possessions they hastily managed to retrieve from their sudden uprooting. Most of these migrants are helpless to ensure the survival of their mother tongue, culture, traditions, etc. They have to depend on the dominant culture of the natives for their survival as well articulated by Gramsci. The paper highlights the poignant stories of three generations survivors from POJK different communities residing in the Jammu region.’
Marvi Slathia is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India. She is doing ethnographic study of border areas refugee of 1947 in different time interval of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir. Her M.Phil dissertation draws on ethnographic research conducted with 1947 Partition Survivors in Jammu region. She has presented her research work at many international and national forums including the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Lund University, Sweden, ECSAS 2021, University of Vienna, Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata and Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) New Delhi, IIT Madras and among others on the theme of Partition, Migration, Citizenship, Refugees, Borders and conflict in Jammu and Kashmir. She has published her research articles in journals and seminar proceeding volumes. Since graduation, she has occasionally contributed to the newspaper Kashmir Times published from Jammu and Kashmir, including several opinion and analytical pieces. Her research interests include Oral Narrative, Partition History, Migration, Refugees, Citizenship Laws and Women at the Borderland of Jammu.
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Date & Time
Wednesday 2nd February 2022
17:00 – 18:00 GMT
Location
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An opportunity for BACLS members to share ideas about and experiences of decolonising the curriculum.
The seminar will take the form of 5-minute reflections from teacher-researchers followed by an open discussion.
Date & Time
Postponed
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African women filmmakers are continuously making powerful statements through their creative efforts in film and television. These statements are remarkably changing film narratives and drawing global attention to the film industries in Nigeria and Africa at large. However, these women and their films are excluded from global film and screen studies programmes. At this virtual roundtable with three prestigious filmmakers, Kemi Adetiba, Omoni Oboli and Tope Oshin, we will discuss how women are dismantling historic barriers to filmmaking, crafting on-screen stories and shaping academic narratives about Nollywood, Africa’s largest film industry. The Zoom link will be circulated to registrants before the event.
Date & Time
Wednesday 26th January 2022
16:00 – 19:00 GMT
Location
Online Event
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As well as Black History Month being an opportunity to look to the future and celebrate the achievements of Black People here & now, it’s also an important time to reflect on the past & what has come before that has led us to where we are in society. With the ongoing debate around statues of problematic figures of the past being so divisive, LSBU presents this session with one of our very own academics & researchers, Dr Sami Pinarbasi, to hear his thoughts on the matter & why he’s taking action…
“In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, many statues that feature throughout the urban landscapes of our cities have come under well-deserved scrutiny. One of these statues, located in Manchester, is of Robert Peel. It is no coincidence that Peel, and his statue represent the intersection of modern policing, race, capitalism, and slavery. It is with this in mind that this session will explore our popular understanding of Peel and his historic legacy” – Sami Pinarbasi
Dr Sami Pinarbasi is a researcher based at LSBU. His research interests include a microhistorical focus on Manchester in the 18th and 19th centuries, capitalism, slavery and abolition and digital humanities. He is currently investigating LSBU’s connections to slavery, imperialism, and colonialism.
This event has been co-organised by Equinet, LSBU’s Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic & Allies Network and LSBU’s Race, Gender and Sexualities Research Group. It will be delivered via Zoom. You will receive the joining instructions 2 days before the event takes place.
Check out our full programme events for Black History Month 2021 here!
Date & Time
Wednesday 27th October 2021
15:00 – 16:00
Location
Online Event
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As part of our ongoing LGBTQ+ Thought Leaders Series and Black History Month 2021 at LSBU, we are delighted to welcome special guest Dr Ronx for an insightful & thought-provoking evening to hear about their passion for everything they do!
Dr Ronx is an emergency medicine doctor, a TV presenter (you may have seen them presenting Channel 4’s investigative documentary ‘Is Covid Racist?‘), advocate & activist and inspirational speaker – that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They’re community focused, support many charities & organisations through fundraisers & campaigns as well as mentor young people wanting to apply to medical school. All of which is done in their unique style – both in their impressive way of communicating with the public, especially young people…
…And their actual style with Dr Ronx proudly being known for their ‘penchant for suits and Nike Air Max 95’s. The latter, whilst not seemingly as important as some of their other achievements, is part of what makes them so approachable – being able to be their true quirky self is fundamental to their work around acceptance, equality & happiness.
Dr Ronx describes themself as a a queer, black, androgynous intersectional feminist. Armed with this and along with their medical knowledge, Dr Ronx uses their voice and their platforms – whether Instagram, TV & beyond – to educate, inspire and challenge public perceptions & opinions on a wide variety of topics including: racism, LGBTQ+ & women’s rights, domestic abuse, public health and much more. Their motto “ You cannot be, what you do not see” is testament to their commitment to inspire young people to ensure their voices are heard and know their dreams are achievable. And as someone who put themself through medical school, Dr Ronx knows that their own experience & being seen can help young people believe in themselves & what they’re capable of.
Having overcome many challenges, Dr. Ronx’s story, whilst unique, resonates with many young people and certainly with many of our own students who have to fight that bit harder to get to where they want to be. At LSBU, we believe there should be ‘No Barriers to Brilliance‘ – and Dr Ronx truly embodies this. So we hope you’ll join us to explore their passion & drive, challenge your own perceptions and ultimately, feel inspired!
Programme
5pm – Welcome & Zoom functionality – Neil Hudson-Basing, Corporate Events Manager, LSBU
5.05pm – Intro & scene setting
5.10pm – In conversation with… Dr Ronx
5.40pm – Audience Q&A
6.10pm – Closing remarks, summary & thanks
6.15pm – Close
This event will be delivered via Zoom. You will receiving the joining instructions a few days before the event takes place.
Check out our full programme events for Black History Month 2021 here!
Date & Time
Tuessday 26th October 2021
17:00 – 18:15
Location
Online Event
LSBU Decolonising the Curriculum 