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Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender Racialization among Polish Migrants and Returnees

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska

In this talk, Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska will develop the concept of peripheral Whiteness in the context of Eastern Europeans, arguing that their position is characterized by conditional access to the privileges associated with Whiteness. Focusing on the example of Polish migrants in Western European labour markets and Polish returnees at Poland’s eastern borders, the talk will demonstrate how processes of racialization are deeply intertwined with dimensions of class and gender.

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Seminar on Disability and Migration with Dr Rebecca Yeo, from University of Exeter.

03 Dec

Date: Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Room 734, James McCune Smith with online option
Speaker: Dr Rebecca Yeo from University of Exeter.

Dr Rebecca Yeo (University of Exeter), author of Disabling Migration Controls, highlights how asylum restrictions actively disable and how insights from the disabled people’s movement support justice. The seminar, held on the International Day of Disabled People, explores overlapping injustices in migration, disability, and climate crises. Drawing on the Sensing Climate project and research in Glasgow, the presentation promotes cross-movement collaboration. The project invites Disabled and d/Deaf people with chronic conditions to contribute through conversation or mural ideas. Interpreters and expenses covered.

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Reclaiming Spatial Justice: The Emancipatory Power of Commoning

10 Dec

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB
Speaker: Stavros Stavrides

The seminar will discuss the role of urban commons in producing just urban futures through community action. Prof Stavros Stavrides will be joined by Prof Andy Inch (Urban Studies and Social Policy, University of Glasgow) as the discussant. The seminar will be chaired by Prof David Featherstone (Human Geography Research Group, University of Glasgow), and is co-organised with the recently launched research network Just City by the Med.

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University of Glasgow Prison Projects Exchange

23 Jan

Date: Friday 23 January 2026
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building
Speaker: Various

Join us at the GU Prison Projects Exchange, to express interest, share experiences, foster new relationships, and build collaborations.

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