5 MARCH

SOAS

Day theme: Antiracism

 

9am

Queer And Trans Communities in a Fascist Hindu State  (Jo Krishnakumar)

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10am

TBC (Hagar Kotef)

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11am 

TBC (Sita Balani)

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12pm

Celebration of women's movements and resistance in India (SOAS India Society)

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1pm

Feminist Knowledge Production within the University (Sophie Chamas)

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2pm-4pm

Britain's racist society: Nottinghill race riots, Brexit and racism on the streets of Ladbroke Grove (Carol John and Isis Amlak)

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Anthropology and decolonisation & Anthropology of conflict and rupture @ Gazebo on the Green

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2pm @ Gazebo on the Green

Humbling anthropology – the (im)possibility of an anthropological engagement with whiteness and racism (Victoria Klinkert)

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2.40pm @ Gazebo on the Green

‘Native anthropology’: a reflection (Imran Jamal and Maiko Kodaka)

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3pm @ Gazebo on the Green

Thinking anthropologically about rupture - from ethnic coups & conflict in Fiji and Myanmar, to crisis at SOAS (Jastinder Kaur)​

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4pm

Community organizing how-to: building a team (Maya Bhardwaj and Fatima Ibrahim)

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BIRKBECK

4pm

‘Precarity Resisted, Precarity Rebranded’  (Dr Ella Harris and Dr Mara Nogueira, Geography, Birkbeck)

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This session situates the experiences of labour precarity in cities across the Global South and the Global North. Starting in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), we'll explore the political struggles of street vendors for the right to access urban space, foregrounding the city as an arena for political contestation. Then, moving to London (UK), we'll think about how precarity is starting to impact on groups who've traditionally been secure. We'll see how, in this context, precarious labour is often not acknowledged as such, branded, instead, as palatable, even desirable ways of working. The juxtaposition of those experiences will invite a reflection on how distinct socio-political contexts shape the trajectories of precarity, how it is experienced and the potentials for resistance.

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5pm

#MeToo and Social Change (Dr Tanya Serisier, Law, Birkbeck)

 

#MeToo was perhaps the biggest ever moment of feminist organising around sexual harassment and violence. At the time it was assumed that it was a 'watershed moment', a 'reckoning' or even a 'revolution' in gender relations in countries like the US and UK. Over two years on, it is worth thinking about the strengths and limitations of #MeToo as a force for social and cultural change, its legacies and what it might take to bring about lasting change around sexual violence.

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5:30pm

Can Documentary Make Space? (Jason Fox)

 

For the poet Eileen Myles, writing a poem is neither necessarily political nor intrinsically ethical, but it can be both when it makes a new space for people who didn’t have space before to gather, or when it shifts someone’s imagination about what is socially possible, or even when it means that someone who doesn’t get paid to create usually does get paid and can afford to create again. A poem can be political if it allows someone a sense of freedom that they didn’t previously know how to demand or claim. Whatever else a poem may be for Myles, it is fundamentally the effort to invent a place to gather where there wasn’t one before. Can documentary be discussed in the same way?

6pm
Using Bystander Intervention to Disrupt Harm in Public Places (Workshop) (Molly Ackhurst, Law, Birkbeck)

Seeing someone be harassed or harmed in public spaces can be overwhelming. We don’t want to make things worse, but we also want to find a way to support the person being harmed. In this teach-out, we will talk through alternative ways to disrupt harm in public spaces - so that we can stay safe, be supportive, and avoid calling the police. We’ll also explore the reasons we don’t intervene and begin to develop our bystander-intervention muscle memory through practice!