3 MARCH

SOAS

10am

Decolonising Political Economy (Sara Stevano, Tobias Franz, Jess Whelligan, Lynsey Robinson)

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11am 

Queer Anti-Racist Manifestos  (Abeera Khan and Shreeta Lakhani)

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12pm 

The Neoliberal State and the Struggle for Change (Chris Nineham)

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1pm

Community Organising How-to's: Facilitating (in) Radical Spaces (Maya Bhardwaj and Fatima Ibrahim)

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2pm 

Syria's Revolution, the Left, and International Solidarity (Shireen A-B, Gabriel, Lubayed)

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4pm 

Strikes and the Sudanese Revolution (Raga Makawi)

 

BIRKBECK

10.30am-12 noon

NB. Outside the Bartlett main entrance, 22 Gordon Street

Slow Common Room (Jane Rendell, Zoe Quick and Sophie Hope)

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As an act of Slow Scholarship we will spend some down-time together sharing ways to slow down the pace of the neo-liberal university and explore more collective, co-operative ways of organising our working lives. Bring along your slow work and any books you’ve been meaning to read for some collective reading aloud, as well as any creature comforts. And if there is time, join us for a game of Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives where players will collaborate to found and run a democratic university. 

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4pm 

Main building, BBK

Co-operative higher education (Mike Neary, Lincoln)

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Mike Neary (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln)  is part of a project to create a co-operative university across the UK, led by the Co-operative College in Manchester: https://www.co-op.ac.uk/blog/why-a-co-operative-university-now. Could Birkbeck be run as a co-operative by its staff and students? Mike will be joining us to discuss alternative models to marketised higher education and his forthcoming book: Student as Producer: how do revolutionary teachers teach?

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5pm
Carbon emissions and climate change: is net zero *really* #notzero? (Dr Becky Briant, Geography, Birkbeck)

 

Net Zero 2050 sounds like an admirable target for the UK but is the use of the term 'net' really just an excuse for inaction? This teach out will explain the concept of net zero by looking at the science of the carbon cycle, the concept of cumulative emissions and the feasibility of removing carbon from the atmosphere.

 

6pm

'Trans Rights, the Equality Act & Women's Spaces: Myths and Facts’ (Dr Sarah Lamble, Law, Birkbeck)

 

Recent proposals to reform the 2004 Gender Recognition Act have sparked fierce debates about sex, gender and self-identification in the UK. Discussions around legal protections relating to sex and gender have become increasingly polarised as the media repeatedly frames these debates as a struggle over ‘sex versus gender’ and ‘women versus trans.’ Various claims have been made on different sides of the debate about the implications of gender self-ID on gendered spaces, particularly women-only spaces. But what does the law actually say about the provision of women only spaces and what are the rights of trans people in gendered spaces?  This workshop will explain the relationship between the Gender Recognition Act, the Equality Act and review some common myths about the legal status of sex and gender.