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Film Screening to mark Refugee Week 2016

11th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen Impact & Outreach, News and Events, Previous Events

On 22 June 2016 CRaB teamed up with localmigrant advocacy and support group Friends Without Borders to mark Refugee Week 2016. We screened the film Dirty Pretty Things, which follows the experiences of ‘illegal’ immigrants in London. The film was followed by a panel discussion chaired by CRaB’s Charlie Leddy-Owen involving John Bosco-Nyombi, Treasurer of Friends Without Borders, Majid Dhana, Red Cross volunteer and poet, and the Chair of Friends Without Borders, Michael Woolley. Discussing the themes raised in the film, John and Majid spoke very movingly about their experiences of injustice with the UK’s immigration system and the lasting effect

CRaB launch event: Lecture by Professor John Solomos – ‘Conceptualising 21st Century Racisms’

11th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, Previous Events

CRaB was officially launched on 8 January 2016 with a talk by Professor John Solomos of the University of Warwick. John is one of Britain’s foremost scholars of race and racism and spoke on the topic of ‘Conceptualising 21st Century Racisms’. Following an introduction by the University of Portsmouth’s Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Professor Pal Ahluwalia John spoke about how the theoretical advances in the study of race and racism that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s – notions such as the ‘new racism’ or ‘cultural racism’ – were still highly salient today in relation to recent reconfigurations of

‘Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth’: Public lecture by Ryan Hanley

27th October 2016 Jodi Burkett News and Events, Previous Events

In honour of Black History Month, please join us on Monday, 31st October (refreshments from 5:30) in DS 2.14 for the following talk: Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth Portsmouth is not the first place that springs to mind when we imagine the eighteenth-century black British presence. But, as ‘the world’s greatest naval port’, it served as one of the main entry points for African and African-American sailors travelling to Britain. When they arrived among the dirt, noise and drunkenness of the industrialising port city, some of these individuals took it upon themselves to save the souls of Portsmouth’s ‘poor sinners’. What