The Exchange: Exchanging ideas, raising awareness and addressing issues that are often underrepresented in the public arena and in academic research.
We are bringing together scholars and activists who work within and outside of traditional academic spaces, whose work focuses on the social justice agendas that the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and Leading Routes are responsive to.
We will discuss recent interventions both within and outside of UK higher education that are committed to tackling intersecting forms of racialised injustice within and beyond the westernised university.
We have an exciting line-up of speakers who will be reflecting on their work in a range of areas from policing, race and schools, to decolonial anti-racist education and student activism. Our speakers will ask what it means to be a scholar activist, what its limits and possibilities are, and what principles and values they feel underpin their work.
We invite activists, scholars, academics, students and thinkers who are interested in questioning the contemporary politics of race and racism, and the tools and tactics needed to dismantle it, to join the conversation.
Speakers:
Keynote: Dr Nathaniel Coleman is an independent scholar-activist based in Birmingham, writing a book about our collective memory of the colonial and anti-colonial arguments by which Birmingham built and attempted to abolish British Empire.
Malia Bouattia is an activist, the former president of the National Union of Students, and co-founder of the Students not Suspects/Educators not Informants Network.
Paulette Williams is the founder and managing director of Leading Routes, a pioneering initiative that aims to prepare the next generation of Black academics.
Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities at the University of Manchester. Committed to bridging the gap between scholarship and activism, Remi is a steering group member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project.
Roxy Legane is the director of Kids of Colour, a Manchester based anti-racist organisation supporting young people of colour to explore their experiences of ‘race’, identity, and challenge institutionalised racism shaping their lives. She is a steering group member for Northern Police Monitoring Project. Alongside community organising, Roxy is studying for her PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University which explores the impact of police in schools in Greater Manchester on racialised young people.
Moderated by Dr Fatima Rajina, Dr Karis Campion, and Dr Yusef Bakkali – Legacy in Action Research Fellows, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre
Bookings will close at 17:00 on 28 April 2021 before the start of the event.
Registrants will receive a link to join the online webinar before the event via their provided email address.
Please contact the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at slrc@dmu.ac.uk if you have any questions.
This event is free and open to all.