Seminar series

The Centre runs a regular seminar series with invited speakers.

Time and location

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Event schedule

Semester 1, 2024/25

Thu 24 OctSpeaker: Dr Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia)‘Apartheid in the air: South Africa, the United States and the White Brotherhood in the Jet Age’5-6:60pm, G04 Screening Room, 50 George Square
Wed 30 Oct  – PanelAkram Salhab (Queen Mary, University of London), Donald Bloxham (University of Edinburgh), Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)‘Genocide, colonialism and pedagogy: Lessons from Palestine’

4pm, Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Co-badged with ECGH

Thu 28 NovDr Umut Kuruüzüm (Istanbul Technical University & Vienna University)

Title: ‘Trapped Under the Orient’s Night: Blind-Sourced Child Labour in the Turkish Tobacco Supply Chain’  

Abstract: This paper examines how the network, cut by a contract, has historically underpinned the unfair exchange of Oriental tobacco, through a study of tobacco-producing households situated along the Aegean coast of Türkiye. Drawing on fieldwork carried out between June 2022 and August 2024, it argues that under a globally linked, corporate subcontracting scheme means that children are chronically blind-sourced into labour within their families, even at night. While sourcing continues, the long-established presence of children at the bottom of the supply chain remains concealed and unaddressed due to a lack of evidence and the shifting of responsibility to local subcontractors and families through corporate boundary redrawing.

5-6:30pm, venue tbc; Co-badged with SPS/Social Anthropology

Semester 2, 2024/25

Tue 25 March Olivia Wyatt (Queen Mary University of London) ‘“Black is Beautiful”: The Politics of Pigmentation within the British Black Women’s Movement, 1970-1990’ 5-6:30 pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
Fri 4 April Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews), Huw Halstead (University of Edinburgh), Yannick Lengkeek (University of Birmingham), and Daniel Knight (University of St Andrews) ‘Everyday Life Under Dictatorship in Southern Europe: Intimacy, Sociality, and Loneliness’ 5-6:45pm, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1. Co-Hosted with the British School at Athens
Thur 24 April Anca Cretu (University of Warwick). Title and location TBC

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