Previous Events

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.

GCSJ seminar series: Medical circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya is a social justice issue (but we don't talk about it)

Monday, June 20, 2022 - 12:00 to 13:30

Online

Dr Mark Lamont (OU) discusses medical circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya as a social justice issue (but we don't talk about it).

China/Europe and the Changing Global Order seminar series

Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 12:30 to 14:00

Online

Join Professor Giles Mohan, Dr. Indrajit Roy and Dr. Nana de Graaff to hear the latest in cutting edge research on how China’s rise is reshaping the global economy, the liberal international order and the meaning of development.