Black History Month Events

Black History Month Events


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Race Science: A Myth Made Real

Date: Wednesday 05 October 2022
Time: 16:00 - 17:15
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Eventbrite Seminar
Speaker: Angela Saini, Science Journalist and Author

Award winning British journalist and author will discuss the myth of race as a biological attribute from its origins to the present day. Open to all University of Glasgow staff and students. Please register using your UofG email address.

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The Carrolup Exhibition

Date: Thursday 06 October 2022 - Thursday 10 November 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

The Carrolup Exhibition features works of art produced during the 1940s and 1950s by young Aboriginal people in Western Australia, Noongar children forcibly removed from their families and communities and detained in the Carrolup Native Settlement. It reprises a tour of their work in the early 1950s
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Anti-Racism and Educational Leadership: Changing education?

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: tbc
Speaker: Professor Paul Miller

Racism is real, and it is a reality experienced daily by staff and students of racially diverse heritage in educational institutions in the UK. This presentation will look at education as a site of racism and whiteness. It will also look at the experiences of racially diverse staff and students in educational institutions. It will end by looking at how some leaders are engaging with and trying to tackle racism to improve conditions for both staff and students.

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Sharing My Life Transformation to Radical Blackness and Renegade Scholarship

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: tbc
Speaker: Barbara Becnel

PhD candidate, social justice activist, and author Barbara Becnel has more than 20 years of experience working for prison reform in the state of California, while writing nine award-winning non-fiction books on street gang culture, as well as over one-hundred journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. This talk will explore the ’in between’ of Barbara's life journey.