Race Forum

Birkbeck, University of London is a global centre for research and teaching on ‘race’ and racism. The College is home to multidisciplinary communities of scholars and students, academic programmes and research centres committed to the study of this subject area. The College continues to build on this work as it enters its third century.

The Race Forum at Birkbeck hosts conferences, lectures, seminars, symposia and reading groups that focus on the rigorous reconstruction of and reckoning with histories and legacies of colonisation. These events, that are free and open to all, illuminate transcontinental histories of empire and postcolonial cartographies of state and corporate negligence and violence and reconnect them to contemporary public debates on reparation, justice and freedom and the responsibilities of public institutions such as universities.