And we’re off! The conference on Utopia and the Return of History is under way. Looking forward to two days of imagining other ways of being, and learning about projects that are already enacting them.

Join us on Monday and Tuesday at the conference on Utopia and the Return of History for three public plenaries, featuring Ken MacLeod, Joy James, and Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass.
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I cannot wait to welcome Joy James to The University of Manchester
on Monday for a public lecture on radical care, community, and abolition. Join us at 6pm in University Place, Theatre A. All are welcome!

I'm looking at you, 'progressive patriotism' . . .

Great to see The Ethics of Researching the Far Right: Critical Approaches and Reflections out & have it in our Manchester University Press series Racism, Resistance and Social Change.

Congratulations to the editors A V Joan Braune Dr Meghan Tinsley & Aurelien Mondon, & contributors. 1

Yesterday UCU Migrant Members Standing Committee met. A short 🧵on upcoming actions. Have a read & if you can support get in touch!

In short:
1)webinar in June on redundancies/restructure & its impact with immigration law
2)looking for testimonials of impact of graduate scheme

Yesterday, staff and students marched from the University of Manchester to the Whitworth Gallery, where the Senate convened, demanding the uni cut ties with BAE Systems, HSBC, Tel Aviv University that enable the oppression and suffering of Palestinians Youth Front For Palestine Manchester Leftist Action…

Really excited to contribute this piece to the Ethnic and Racial Studies symposium on ali meghji's Critical Synergy.

Out today in the Racism, Resistance and Social Change series:

'The ethics of researching the Far Right'
ed. A V Joan Braune Dr Meghan Tinsley & Aurelien Mondon

'Required reading for anyone documenting the far-right.'
Shane Burley בד

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#LSEBJS

Shame on you, HOME
‘If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.’
-Desmond Tutu

'I am a historian because I am convinced that comprehending the legacies of colonial conquest... that have shaped our world is essential to our hopes to remake it. As a creator of memory, though, I know that the history we need doesn’t usually deliver the folklore that we want.'

Via Free Movement Home Secretary James Cleverly🇬🇧 is reviewing the Graduate Visa Scheme, brought in 1 July 2021, after the previous post-study work visa was rescinded by Theresa May in 2012. We've always said that this visa scheme is prone wherever the wind goes political.
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It was a pleasure joining the conversation about decolonisation and intellectual responsibility at Institute for Global Prosperity yesterday. I’m grateful to the organisers for creating space for rage and reflection, and to Ilan Pappe for his excellent keynote.

The weaponisation of free speech in the aftermath of the attack against Charlie Hebdo in 2015 has led to racism not simply being denied as it always was in France but actively encouraged as a symbol of republican belonging

This is the reactionary republic in a nutshell

It was a pleasure speaking with Toby Miller on his culturalstudies podcast. You can listen to our conversation here:
podbean.com/eas/pb-9p4nx-1…

Solidarity with Jairo I Fúnez-Flores, a brilliant, engaged, anti-racist scholar under attack from the far right.

Boycotting Israeli academic institutions does not undermine academic freedom.

Maya Wind Maya Wind shows “how Israeli universities are not independent of the Israeli security state but, rather, serve as an extension of its violence”

mondoweiss.net/2024/03/how-is…

My weekend reading (and Suki’s weekend pillow) is Amín Pérez’s latest!

In this section, Dr Sadia Habib, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Chloe Peacock & I have a chapter on researching toppling statues during a ‘culture war’. We talk about difficult interviews, standpoint, & ‘impact’. I’m glad we had the chance to step back & reflect on our CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity) research.

It was a pleasure to work with Aurelien Mondon A V Joan Braune on this book, and to grapple with this challenging topic in a series of conversations with the members of The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right.