It’s Week 4, but the news keeps on coming. This week there are some great events and opportunities coming up.
Opportunity: Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange
The Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project proposes different models of Virtual Exchange activities with different formats, duration, time investment, thematic scope and number of participants. These opportunities are all free!
Social Circles:
Participants discuss current issues that matter to them and develop a better understanding of each other’s viewpoints in small group discussions. Online facilitated dialogue activities offer opportunities for young people to connect together in safe online spaces. Participants build meaningful relationships across borders and cultures, and practise important employability skills such as; critical thinking, cross-cultural communication, team-work and media literacy.
2020 Social Circles Topics and Dates:
“3 years after #metoo, where are we in terms of gender relations?”
- 30 November – 11 December 2020
- Live sessions: 4 & 11 December 2020
- Application deadline 15 November 2020
- Language(s): English, French, Arabic
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Event: Black History Month: Olivette Otele, Absent Black Bodies in the British Memoryscape
21 October, 2020 – 12:00pm – 1:00pm
We are honoured to welcome Professor Olivette Otele, who will focus on the way the Global North is currently looking at mass protest, racism and colonial violence seem to have shifted since the killing of African American George Floyd in May 2020. Yet, in Britain, debates about the legacies of the country’s colonial past that include memorialisation, discrimination and representation, seem to slowly descend into a disconnect between the histories of white men in urban landscape on the one hand and fear that the past as it has been presented until now, will be forgotten. A deep-seated insecurity about allegedly falling into an anachronistic witch hunt continues to shape discussions about Britain’s history. Inequalities and trauma have been noticeably absent to these debates. This presentation seeks to examine the hegemonic threads and absences of current debates about the country’s colonial past.
This session is a unique and exciting opportunity to hear about Professor Olivette Otele’s inspiring work on Black History. This will be followed by a Q & A session.
You can register Here!
Event: Comparative Politics Lecture Series
21 October, 2020: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Event: Anglo-American Relations after Brexit
22 October, 2020 – 19:00 (UTC+8)
Professor Inderjeet Parmar will join the Fortunes Society’s webinar series to speak on Anglo-American Relations after Brexit.
“The Anglo-American relationship is a fundamental, and therefore enduring, relationship between states and societies that are more accurately defined as an ‘imagined community’ underpinned by deep, shared identities, interests and governing concepts. Yet, they must also be viewed in a global context and not in bilateral terms, or cold war bipolar terms. Hence, their states’ interests are similar but not identical and therefore clash from time to time. Yet, their underlying liberal-imperial and cosmopolitan character, and dense and wide-ranging official and informal elite policy networks, underpinned by ethno-racial identities, make for an enduring relationship. This is especially significant due to moves within the core Anglo-American states due to ‘Trumpism/America First’ and ‘Brexit/Global Britain’; and equally so as the world moves towards a ‘turbulent transition’ — a partial, reluctant, and ‘messy multipolarity’ with emerging non-western powers. Conversely, those emerging powers, like China and India, have themselves attained greater position and influence largely within and through the post-1945 liberal international order built by Anglo-America. Consequently, I suggest that despite turbulence in the transitional phase, likely to be of long duration, world politics will recalibrate towards a new global compact, however unstable due to underlying inequalities between and within states and polities. I conclude that the above movements are inexplicable in liberal internationalist or realist terms, and argue that a synthesis of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Karly Kautsky might provide a better basis for understanding future directions in world order.”
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Event: US Think Tanks and Foundations in World Politics: The Nexus of Knowledge and Power
23 October, 2020: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Event: How to Talk About Race!
29 October, 2020: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Whether you want to share your experiences as a BAME person, or learn how to be a better ally to POC, or even if you just want to listen to an interesting and open dialogue about the issues highlighted by the BLM movement in a safe space, then come this event!
At the heart of this event are YOUR EXPERIENCES and QUESTIONS
The BLM EC have created an anonymous forum where students can share experiences of racial discrimination or positive experiences where their race was celebrated and acknowledged positively. Students are also welcome to submit questions they have on how to discuss race positively or how to deal with racism.
Your submissions to the forum will help facilitate the discussion and the Q&A during the event. The success of the event depends a great deal on YOUR contributions and You are warmly invited to share your experiences and questions.
We will share experiences, discuss how to speak about race positively, and highlight university resources on race and discrimination. We will also offer a range of readings and resources to learn about black history/identity and how to be a better ally.
Opportunities: Global Virtual Opportunities
Despite the on-going uncertainty around the world, now is a great time to take advantage of some fantastic virtual global experiences that are completely free and can be done from the comfort and safety of your home.
Check out the amazing opportunities Here!