CCS Webinar: Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism as Decolonial Praxis in British Universities Speaker: Remi Joseph-Salisbury Date: Wednesday 11 November 2020 Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time Topic: There have been growing calls to transform universities in recent years. In the UK context, a range of student (and staff) campaigns have coalesced into a movement to 'decolonize'. This work has been buttressed by a summer of unprecedented Black Lives Matter protests. Simultaneously, however, there is a mounting (government-driven) backlash against the teaching of theories such as Critical Race Theory and Marxism, and students and academics of colour continue to face a range of racist and raicalised challenges in British Universities. Taking this as the contextual backdrop, this presentation draws upon ongoing research on anti-racist scholar-activism in British universities. Drawing upon the insights of research participants, I consider the range of ways in which anti-racist scholar-activists work within and against the university to service communities of resistance. We might think of this as a form of decolonial praxis.  Speaker Bio: Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Presidential Fellow in Ethnicities and Inequalities at the University of Manchester, UK. He is interested in the study of race, racism, and anti-racism, with particular interests in education and policing. In 2020, he authored a report on 'Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools', and co-authored 'Race and Ethnicity in British Sociology'. He is the author of 'Black Mixed Race Men', co-editor of 'The Fire Now: Anti-Racism in Times of Explicit Racial Violence' and is currently working on a co-authored book on anti-racist scholar-activism in UK universities. Remi organises with the Northern Police Monitoring Project, an abolitionist group based in Manchester, and is the Race and Resistance columnist at Red Pepper Magazine.  Join Zoom Meeting https://ukzn.zoom.us/j/95891566466?pwd=WFlCZjZMaWtMOWlOUkk0OGd0aDUwdz09 Meeting ID: 958 9156 6466 Passcode: 833868 One tap mobile +16699006833,,95891566466#,,,,,,0#,,833868# US (San Jose) +19294362866,,95891566466#,,,,,,0#,,833868# US (New York) Dial by your location         +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)         +1 929 436 2866 US (New York)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)         +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 958 9156 6466 Passcode: 833868 Find your local number: https://ukzn.zoom.us/u/a0CA5Ena3 Join by Skype for Business https://ukzn.zoom.us/skype/95891566466  Back