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Calling My Deadname Home: a book launch and discussion for Transgender Day of Remembrance

A book launch and panel discussion for Dr Avi Ben-Zeev's new trans memoir, Calling My Deadname Home: The Trans Bear Diaries, in honour of Transgender Day of Remembrance 2024.

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A Critical Conversation on Power, Inequality, and Viral Pandemics

Discussing how viral pandemics amplify pre-existing inequalities, in this event Prof. Steven W. Thrasher and Prof. Sunny Singh unpacked the complex layers of inequity that define modern

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Time in Social Research

The IRF, GDIRC and CLiOH hosted a one-day interdisciplinary workshop at London Metropolitan University, exploring the relationship between time and social research.

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Power of Performance: Laughter, Carnival and the Reversal of Order

A symposium jointly organised by London Metropolitan University's Interdisciplinary Research Forum, Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, CREATURE and CUBE.

Has queer media changed the world? Dr Helton Levy launches his new book, Globalized Queerness

In his new book, Globalized Queerness: Dr Helton Levy argues that global queer culture is a positive development but has yet to show local and marginalised cultures around the world.

The educational experiences of young refugees in Bangkok.

13 March 2024

In this seminar, Dr Rebecca Warren explored the educational experiences, needs and aspirations of young refugees living in extended exile in Bangkok, Thailand.

Queering Sexual Health Translation Pedagogy: A Book Event and Panel Discussion

1 February 2024

London Met hosted a book launch and panel discussion for Queering Sexual Health Translation Pedagogy, a new groundbreaking work by Dr Piero Toto.

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Women, Power and Resistance

11 January 2024

Dr Francesca Armaturo presenting at the online seminar

De-centering 1969 Stonewall Riots: A Foundational Myth for LGBTQ Community?

29 November 2023

To whom does memory speak? Image and the Uncanny in Historical Violence

8 November 2023

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Understanding Afghan migration across different times and contexts

11 May 2023

Exploring Anti-Trafficking in Nepal: examining lived experiences and embracing failure

19 April 2023

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PhD student workshop and networking event

29 March 2023

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Celebrities as Agents of Moral Opposition to Authoritarian/Illiberal Regimes

2 February 2023

Prof. Diana Stirbu at the MS Teams call with a participants of the interdisciplinary research forum

Social Integration and Place Making: Infrastructures of Belonging

3 November 2022

A group of people holding copies of Sebastian Cordoba's book 'Non-binary gender identities'

Book launch: 'Non-binary Gender Identities – The Language of Becoming'

12 December 2022

Undocumented migrants: healthcare professionals' role in healthcare access

9 February 2022

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Journalism and human rights in Mexico: how to preserve voices of the killed

16 June 2021

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Exodus From New Turkey – Turkish Intelligentsia in Exile

24 November 2021

Book launch 'Educational Research for Social Justice: Evidence and Practice'

13 October 2021

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How qualitative Network Analysis can offer new opportunities in transnational migration research?

7 October 2021

Marking Difference, Making Inequality: Thinking Intersectionally with Translocational Belongings

6 October 2021

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Journalism and human rights in Mexico: how to preserve voices of the killed

16 June 2021

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: Economic Femininity and Gender Violence

27 May 2021

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Perspectives on Nationalism and Populism

12 May 2021

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The climate crisis and gender inequality: an intimate relationship

10 June 2021

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Understanding Lambeth's LGBTQI

26 February 2021

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Diversity Sensitive Parliaments: towards more equal representation

Wednesday 24 March 2021

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Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday 9 March 2021

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Exclusion and belonging in super-diverse contexts

Wednesday 17 February 2021

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Research Ethics In The Field

Wednesday 27 January 2021

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Nationalism and Cultural Diversity

Wednesday 9 December 2020

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From Irish Fever to Chinese Flu, the Racialisation of Epidemics

Two academics and four poets respond.

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Learning from south to north: Thinking and practice on violence against women in the Global South

Wednesday 28 October 2020

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Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre launch event

Tuesday 22 September 2020