Bridges and Battlefields in Education

Join us for this 'Hierarchies of Racism?' event with speakers Dr Sundeep Lidher a Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800) at King’s College London, and Wolfson Alumna Dr Sharon Walker who is a lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol.

Dr Sharon Walker is a sociologist of race and education. Her research examines the material and discursive processes that reproduce the idea of racial difference, and racist practices and outcomes in education. More broadly, she is interested in the cultural politics of race, and in race as a technology of state formation and practices of governance. Methodologically her research draws on critical discourse analysis, corpus approaches to discourse analysis and multi-sited ethnography. Theoretically, her work is influenced by perspectives from cultural studies, postcolonial sociology, and intellectual history.

Dr Sundeep Lidher is Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800) at King’s College London. She has co-led various public history projects, including the multi-award-winning AHRC-funded 'Our Migration Story' website, a collaboration between the universities of Cambridge, Manchester, and The Runnymede Trust. Her work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, and in various policy reports. Sundeep is working on her first monograph, which develops her PhD research on the imperial and global dimensions of British citizenship and immigration policy in the years between 1945 and 1962.

This is a hybrid event which will take place in-person in the Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre) and also on Zoom.

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If you would like to attend online, please register for the Zoom link.

This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.

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Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Barton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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