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Centre for Law & Social Change
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The Centre for Law & Social Change @ SOAS. Projects and collabs for progressive social change, committed to active anti-racist, feminist, and decolonial practice.
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All SOAS Students Welcome!!
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
We are back with our 25-26 events!
🎞️🎥Join us on Wednesday, 22 October, at 7-10pm, for our Liberation Film Club!
We will watch/discuss Defiance: Fighting the Far Right, the story of how - from 19761981 - Britain’s Asian community stood tall against far-right.
📍DLT Main Building, SOAS. All welcome!
October 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📣Comrades! 📣
The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️
Watch and share with your networks!!!

EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo
Law & Marxism Spring School 2025 - EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene
YouTube video by Centre for Law & Social Change
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August 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣Today brilliant Co-Director @suzanarahde.bsky.social passed her PhD with no corrections, the highest accolade in British academia. Massive congrats Dr! 🙏 engaged & inspired examiners Prof. Ruth Fletcher & Dr Thomas Bennett! 🍾✊🤓📚 @riverbaars.bsky.social @sabrinagermain.bsky.social Dr Tawhida Ahmad
June 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The Organise Editorial Collective would like to make it clear, We Support Palestine Action ‪@palaction.bsky.social‬) and reject this ridiculous reaction from the state and this latest increase in authoritarian control in the UK.

organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/06/24/w...
We Support Palestine Action | Editorial - Organise Magazine
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have announced they will proscribe Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group'. We at Organise Magazine would like to express our support of Pa...
organisemagazine.org.uk
June 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Comrades, we are ready: our Law & Marxism Spring School starts tomorrow! ❤️‍🔥
Our booklets have arrived, and you guessed it right, we are keeping our cats 😻 (and adding a dog 🐶)
We can't wait to see you!
May 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Join us for a book launch with the author @quinnslobodian.com to discuss his latest book, 'Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'

🗓️ May 7th
📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM
Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
April 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social

📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul
🗓️ Thursday, 13th May
⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Register here:
tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005
CLSGC Annual Lecture: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the...
The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory
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March 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This evening, it’s hybrid and not too late to sign up!!
Come join us! 🍏 Monday 10 March 6-8pm at @soasuni.bsky.social and online. 📘Pre-publication event with Usha Natarajan, Vanja Hamzić, Matilda Arvidsson, Rohini Sen @rohini87.bsky.social, Ivana Isailović and Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social of @the1752group.bsky.social
✏️ Register: shorturl.at/v1IvY
March 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today!!!
Next week, in London I’ll be joining a complex and much needed conversation about sexual harassment in academia together with a wonderful group of scholars.
Join us in person or online.

March 10, 6-8pm

More here: shorturl.at/v1IvY

Co-hosted by @lawsocialchange.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I did this when starter packs were popular, but never shared it because I was pretty sure I was missing tons of people. Im still sure Im missing tons of people but I don't think it matters now that they are passe... go.bsky.app/RiLvEeM
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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✨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS✨

We are excited to publish the Call for Abstracts for our 10th annual conference: ABOLITION.

The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 10-11 October 2025.

As usual, we also accept papers outside this year's theme!

marxistiskestudier.com/2025/03/06/c...
Call for Abstracts: 10th annual conference
Abolition Tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Aarhus University, Denmark10-11 October 2025 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme of &#82…
marxistiskestudier.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Next week, in London I’ll be joining a complex and much needed conversation about sexual harassment in academia together with a wonderful group of scholars.
Join us in person or online.

March 10, 6-8pm

More here: shorturl.at/v1IvY

Co-hosted by @lawsocialchange.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Come join us! 🍏 Monday 10 March 6-8pm at @soasuni.bsky.social and online. 📘Pre-publication event with Usha Natarajan, Vanja Hamzić, Matilda Arvidsson, Rohini Sen @rohini87.bsky.social, Ivana Isailović and Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social of @the1752group.bsky.social
✏️ Register: shorturl.at/v1IvY
March 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
All SOAS Students Welcome!!
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
March 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social

📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul.ac.uk
🗓️ Thursday, 13th May
⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Register here:
tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005
CLSGC Annual Lecture: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the...
The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory
tinyurl.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We are honoured to host a book event (hybrid) for '#MeToo in Academia.'
Join us on Mon, 10 March, 6-8pm at SOAS for a conversation with Dr Usha Natarajan, Dr Matilda Arvidsson and Dr Anna Bull (@annabull.bsky.social) of the 1752 Group (@the1752group.bsky.social)
❗Register here: tinyurl.com/3tajz56d
March 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm
A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms'
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🔔Important event coming up: #MeToo in Academia with editors of the forthcoming book. 10/3 6-8pm gmt. Register at link below!
It's crucial in academic publishing to hear from those affected by sexual misconduct, as well as those analysing it.

Dr Anna Bull from The 1752 Group will be speaking at launch of new book #MeToo in Academia

6pm to 8pm Mon 10 March, SOAS London and online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-l...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I hope to see some of you (in London or online) at the pre-publication event for this new edited collection on #MeToo in Academia.
It's crucial in academic publishing to hear from those affected by sexual misconduct, as well as those analysing it.

Dr Anna Bull from The 1752 Group will be speaking at launch of new book #MeToo in Academia

6pm to 8pm Mon 10 March, SOAS London and online: www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-l...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I've booked tickets for Trans Femme Futures (hybrid) at SOAS University of London on Tuesday 25th February 2025! Come join me!! www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDLMMF...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There's still time to register for our fabulous book talk (hybrid) w/ Nat Raha (@fullnommunism.bsky.social) & Mijke van der Drift! 💖 They will be in conversation w/ @riverbaars.bsky.social
& Vanja Hamzić on Tue, 25/2, 3-5pm, at SOAS.
💜 Register (+info) here: tinyurl.com/3hha7fk9
February 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms'
7 March 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm
qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms'
qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Here is a write-up from one of our first year Law students, Renite Manisha Gosal, on the launch event with our partners at the Institute of Law, Birzeit University in Palestine.

@qmul.ac.uk @statecrime.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM