Charles Leddy-Owen

‘Liberate my degree’ event

21st March 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs, News, News and Events, Previous Events

A report by CRaB member and postgraduate researcher Carlus Hudson. On March 16th, University of Portsmouth Student Union hosted a panel event “Liberate My Degree”. It brought students, academics and activists together as part of wider National Union of Students campaigns on the BAME attainment gap in higher education and lack of diversity in university curricula. This event continued the union’s “Race in Your Face” campaign from last academic year that highlighted ways in which communities perpetuate racial prejudice and discrimination. Members of the panel were Aadam Muuse (Black Students’ Officer – National Union of Students), Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa (Senior

Race in your Face 2: Liberate My Degree

10th February 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, What's On

This event organised by University of Portsmouth students may be of interest to CRaB members/followers: “Calls for the decolonization of the curriculum have become a global anthem amongst University students today. Perhaps the most profound movement of decolonization has been the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. This movement galvanized students throughout the UK to ask; why is my curriculum white? More recently at SOAS and LSE calls for decolonization have helped catalyze protests and discussion. Our objective for this open Panel Q&A is to ask: what is decolonization? Is there a need to decolonize? What is missing from

Call for papers: Workshop on Citizenship and Identity.

8th February 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, What's On

Call for papers: Citizenship Workshop – Citizenship and Identity European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group The intersection between citizenship and identity: Contemporary processes of differentiation and exclusion Workshop 7-8 June 2017, University of Portsmouth DEADLINE: 3 April 2017 This workshop seeks to provide a critical context for theoretical and empirical examinations of the intersection between citizenship and identity. Observed as the dynamic bond between a sovereign political community and the individual, citizenship is expected to shape community-building processes. The significance of identity in these processes cannot be stressed enough – it is, only, by bringing citizenship and identity together that ‘imagined community’ can