Happening Today!

"New Area Knowledges – Geographies of Power, Linguistic (In)Justice and Epistemologies of the South"

The lecture by Harry Wilson Kapatika (University of Johannesburg) will take place on TODAY Monday 30 June, from 1pm to 3pm (UK time) online.

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On 10th June 2025, CEISR member Dr Isabelle Cockel presented a fastinating and enlighting talk entitled:

‘Profitability, Aspiration and Segregation: Coffee as a Class and Ethnicity Signifier in Colonial Taiwan'

at the East Asia and Economic Botany, 1800-1950 Conference at Royal Botanic Gardens

In May, Dr Fatai Alli completed his PhD following an excellent performance at his viva

Titled "Civilian Democratic Control in Limited Access Orders, Examining Civil-Military Relations Using Nigeria as a Case Study".

His supervisory team: Dr Edward Stoddard, Dr Melita Lazell Lazell & Tony Chafer.

🚨 Call for Papers!!! 🚨

Cultural Vulnerabilities and Planetary Problems: Creating New Sociological Studies of Culture Between Fragility and Fortitude

This was a fascinating and valuable event and we would like to thank everyone who attended and spoke!

#knowledge #practice #decolonising #OldPortsmouth #Research

On 20 May, the Decolonising Spaces Research Group hosted Custodians of Knowledge and Decolonising Practices at the Square Tower in Old Portsmouth.

Librarians, archivists, artists, museum curators & scholars explored how colonial legacies shape the ways we collect, preserve & share knowledge.

🚨 Call for Papers!!! 🚨

Cultural Vulnerabilities and Planetary Problems: Creating New Sociological Studies of Culture Between Fragility and Fortitude

Thank you to Professor Monica G. Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge) for her powerful talk last week at our annual lecture, entitled: “What is internalised oppression and why should we care?”

#AntiRacism #Intersectionality
#InternalisedOppression #SocialJustice
#TheStructureWithin

'The ongoing pleasure paradox: how practitioners are compelled to silence, sanitise and securitise pleasure in English RSE'

By Arianna Vignali & Dr Rosa Marvell

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They're joined by two outstanding guests:

💬 Helen Stawski, Head of Policy at Oxfam GB
💬 Tamsyn Barton, former Chief Commissioner of ICAI

Both bring invaluable insights from their experience at the heart of UK and international aid.

Please listen, subscribe, and share your thoughts.

🎙️ We are delighted that the first episode of a new podcast series — Global Aid Rethink — is now live on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

In this opening episode, Dr Melita Lazell and Dr Ivica Petrikova respond to the recent aid cuts in the US & UK & what they signal for the future of global development

Call for Papers!

Cultural Vulnerabilities and Planetary Problems:
Creating New Sociological Studies of Culture Between Fragility and Fortitude

21-23 January 2026, Sapienza University of Rome

Further info below:

hsd.hr/en/2025/04/0...

We'd like to thank everyone who was involved in the fantastic event last week on:

The Discursive Construction of the Indo-Pacific: Viewed from Taiwan

Funded by CEISR's TPS Group and Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom

One of our excellent PhD students is looking for research participants!

If you or anyone you know are interested in taking part, please get in touch with Thirsha using the information below.

Upcoming:

Dr Fatima Rajina, Senior Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University

Title: The Politics of Dress and Language in the British Bangladeshi Muslim Community in the East End.

19th February, 12pm, Milldam LE1.01

SAVE THE DATE!