Race, Class and Conviviality in Changing Times

It is over 20 years since the publication of Paul Gilroy's seminal After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? We are now faced with a drastically different social context, but Gilroy's conceptualisation of conviviality is still generative within the academy and beyond.

This event will explore the changing context and think through conviviality - our capacity to be at ease with difference - as it emerges in towns and cities across the UK, as well as charting new inflections that require attention today.

• Alexandra Kelbert: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre
• Sita Balani: Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London
• Malcolm James: Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at University of Sussex
• Michael Pope (Chair): Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies at the Sarah Parker Redmond Centre

This event is hosted by the Sarah Parker Redmond Centre.

Event venue & nearby stays

UCL, 26 Bedford Way, London, United Kingdom

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