After Multiculturalism? Conversations between History and Sociology
When:
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Venue:
Senate House
No booking required
University of East Anglia in collaboration with the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London and the Runnymede Trust
After Multiculturalism? Conversations between History and Sociology marks the beginning of a year-long Institute of Historical Research seminar series on race, decolonisation and difference in postcolonial Europe. In this first session, in three dynamic conversations, established and emerging international scholars of contemporary Britain will discuss: the past and present of ‘multiculturalism’; the shifting politics of class, race and difference in post-1968 Britain; and the role and responsibilities of anti-racist scholarship. What is lost and what is gained by framing the history of post-1968 Britain as a history of multiculturalism? How do historians and sociologists differently approach the category of ‘white working class’? And what can sociologists and historians learn from each other to drive scholarship on race and difference forward? At a moment when pundits continue to pronounce that multiculturalism has ‘failed’ in Britain and across Europe, this symposium will explore the role and responsibilities of anti-racist scholarship.
Lunch will be served from 11.45am
Symposium co-convenors: Camilla Schofield and Tariq Modood
The seminar series is funded by the British Academy and supported by the Raphael Samuel Centre
Contact name:
Tanesha Westcarr