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Students’ Q&A with Documentary maker Christopher Everett
On 21st October 2021, students at Edge Hill University were able to meet the documentary filmmaker Christopher Everett after a screening of his film, Wilmington on Fire. It was the first time that the film has been seen in the UK and both staff and students were able to put questions to Chris about the…
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Antiracism Film Club
ICR member, Dr Heather Marshall, has won a grant from Edge Hill University’s EDI Innovation Fund to support her initiative of an Antiracism Film Club. The Club will be based in the Faculty of Education, and aims to establish a space for dialogue and learning among students and staff regarding urgent antiracism questions.
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Britishness, Identity and Belonging in Education
ICR member, Dr Shereen Shaw, has published a new book on Britishness in education with Springer Nature. Britishness, Identity and Belonging in Education seeks to address the ways in which changing discourses of Britishness and British Values both impact upon young people in their education and are expressed by them growing up in multicultural Britain,…
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Black Marxism After 40 Years
The historical development of world capitalism was influenced in a most fundamental way by the particularistic forces of racism and nationalism. Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (New York, 1983). Forty years ago, Cedric J. Robinson published his landmark book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.…
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#BIAJS23 Programme
‘Race in Jewish Worlds: Antiquity to the Present.’ 10-12 July 2023 Sponsored by the Department of History, Geography and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University & the European Association for Jewish Studies. The 2023 British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (#BIAJS23) will explore how race has affected, and been a part of, Jewish lives and beliefs…
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Witch Hunts: Race & the Persecution of Women, Antiquity to the 21st Century
14-15 February 2023, annual ICR conference, in partnership with the Università degli Studi di Firenze (UniFI) & MONITORacism magazine. Hosted by the Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS), UniFI. Venue: Aula Magna, Via San Gallo, Firenze. Supported by SAGAS, UniFI, the Institute for Social Responsibility and the Department of History, Geography &…
