Previous Events

Workshop: Dwelling on the everyday: Architecture, Ghosts, Ellipses

Friday, July 29, 2022 - 13:30 to 17:30

Online

The two international interdisciplinary workshops that examine dwellings and the ways in which the past resonates in and through them.

Conference: Racialised Performance in Western Classical Music

Monday, July 18, 2022 - 10:00 to Tuesday, July 19, 2022 - 17:00

Bedford Room, RHUL, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RE or Online via MS Teams

Bringing together minority-led scholars from Europe, East Asia and the US, this conference specifically aims to address Western classical music performed by minorities, especially East Asians.

Conference: Amazing Grace and its legacies: reflections at 250

Friday, July 15, 2022 - 10:00 to Saturday, July 16, 2022 - 17:30

Walton Hall, The Open University and Olney Parish Church

The Open University’s Music Department, the Cowper & Newton Museum and Olney Parish Church are delighted to be co-hosting this conference as part of a year-long programme of events to commemorate the 250^th anniversary of ‘Amazing Grace’, widely believed to have first been sung at Olney on 1 January 1773.

Workshop: Dwelling on the everyday: Architecture, Ghosts, Ellipses

Friday, July 8, 2022 - 13:30 to 17:30

Online

The two international interdisciplinary workshops that examine dwellings and the ways in which the past resonates in and through them.

GCSJ seminar series: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a disinformation primer

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 12:00 to 13:30

Online

Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody (OU) discusses what we can learn from conflicting reports on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

GCSJ seminar series: To smell is to kill: sensate regimes of war and martial power

Friday, June 24, 2022 - 12:00 to 13:15

Online

Dr Kevin McSorley (OU) offers a critical inquiry into war and its sensate regimes.

Refugee Week 2022 seminar: Blood and Gold – a journey

Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 12:30 to 13:30

As part of Refugee Week 2022, the Sanctuary Working Group at the OU is hosting three events. In the final session, Mara Menzies explores migration journeys through her award-winning show Blood and Gold.

Economics seminar series: Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 17:00 to 18:30

Online via MS Teams

This talk explores the concept of essential work using a global feminist social reproduction perspective. Based on research conducted in the first phase of the pandemic, it shows that the meaning of essential work in essential work legislations/classifications is more ambiguous and politicised than it may appear.

Refugee Week 2022 seminar: Identity over time

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 12:30 to 13:30

Online

As part of Refugee Week 2022, the Sanctuary Working Group at the OU is hosting three events, including a digital photographic exhibition of works by amateur and professional Swansea photographers.

Refugee Week 2022 seminar: No Friends but the Mountains

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 12:30 to 13:30

Online

As part of Refugee Week 2022, the Sanctuary Working Group at the OU is hosting three events, starting with a showing of the wonderful short film ‘No Friends but the Mountains’, composed of Kurdish voices and Welsh animation.