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Decolonising the Academy

Education Power and Social Change

Online event January 21st 4.00-5.30pm

Featuring Professor Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University and Dr Nadine El-Enany, Birkbeck, University of London

2020 was a momentous year, where anti-racist and decolonial activism came to the fore in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. However even as Colston’s statue was toppled and Donald Trump defeated, a senior Government minister has attacked Critical Race Theory and universities UK report states that UK higher education institutions are guilty of institutionalised racism. So how are higher education institutions going to move beyond mere paper pushing exercises and performative gestures to really address the legacies of empire and the contemporary practices that continue to have an adverse impact on global black and brown majority communities? What is the role of the role of education in bringing about academic and societal transformation in relation to the…