16th May 2024 BST from 9-10.30am with Áine Kelly-Costello, a New Zealand-based climate justice and disability rights campaigner, storyteller and journalist, host of the second series of the Enabling Commons podcast and climate lead for Disability Debrief. If you would like to sign up for the session, please complete the form below and we will send you a Zoom […]
In case of interest, our second ‘In conversation with’ session will take place on Thursday 16th November 2023, from 6pm – 7.30pm GMT with Dr Emma Geen. In 2021 to 2022 Emma co-produced the world's first community climate action plan by and for Disabled people for the Bristol Disability Equality Forum. In this session, Emma will […]
Event details Black History Month Lecture The momentous Black Lives Matter movement that swept through the UK following the police killing of George Floyd in the US in May 2020 exposed an uncomfortable and unsettling truth: thirty years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, institutional racism still exists, and remains both insidious and pervasive. […]
Event details Black History Month Lecture TT Arvind is Professor of Law and Head of Department at York Law School. He joined York in September 2007 as one of the founding members of the law school and returned to it in September 2018, after spending six years at Newcastle from 2012-2018. He has also previously worked […]
Event details School for Business and Society Lecture Professor Aliverti will look at the example of migration policing in the UK, where immigration policies have added safeguarding and care for the vulnerable to the priority of detecting and ejecting illegal migrants. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with police and immigration officers since 2016, this lecture […]
We will also have sessions on: 11th January 2024 from 2-3.30pm GMT with Dr Polly Atkin, poet and nonfiction writer, who will be reflecting on the risks of continuing this vulnerabilisation of disabled people in dominant responses to the climate crisis and the importance of involving disabled people in every stage of climate discussions. If […]
12th March 2024 from 5-6.30pm GMT with Prof Julia Watts-Belser, scholar, activist and founder of the brilliant Disability and Climate Change public archive project. If you would like to sign up for the session, please complete the form below and we will send you a Zoom sign in link nearer the time. If, for any […]