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The Centre for Law & Social Change @ SOAS. Projects and collabs for progressive social change, committed to active anti-racist, feminist, and decolonial practice.

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exciting new work!! #SocialHistory #RacialCapitalism #HistoryofSexuality #HistoryofColonialism
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Hybrid Event: Join @mattie-armstrong.bsky.social's UK launch of Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways, w Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent). All welcome! 📆 Friday 13 March 5-7pm Register: tinyurl.com/3fc6des8 Dates provided🌙 @soasuni.bsky.social
poster for the event with the details and portraits of Mattie and Aparajita and the book cover
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
And also, join us on Friday 13/3 with Mattie Armstrong, launching their book on the colonial Indian railways, their labour as a microcosm of colonial capitalism, register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Book launch: Mattie Armstrong: Respectability on the line (Hybrid)
We are delighted to welcome Mattie Armstrong-Price (Fordham) for the UK launch of their book, Respectability on the Line, University of California Press, 2026. Prof. Armstrong will be in conversation ...
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Come join!! 19 March 5pm at SOAS and online. Register for link: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Book Launch: André Dao, Human Rights for the data society (Hybrid)
We are beyond excited to welcome André Dao for the pre-launch of his forthcoming book, Human Rights for the Data Society. André Dao (Melbourne) will be in conversation with River Baars (SOAS).
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!
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Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots"
Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics?
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣 📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We are back with our 25-26 events! 🎞️🎥Join us on Wednesday, 22 October, at 7-10pm, for our Liberation Film Club! We will watch/discuss Defiance: Fighting the Far Right, the story of how - from 19761981 - Britain’s Asian community stood tall against far-right. 📍DLT Main Building, SOAS. All welcome!
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
📣Comrades! 📣 The videos from our 2025 Law & Marxism Spring School are on our YouTube Channel! 📽️ Watch and share with your networks!!! EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene - youtu.be/j6MApCcKHHo
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Law & Marxism Spring School 2025 - EcoMarxism with Dr Hamza Hamouchene
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📣Today brilliant Co-Director @suzanarahde.bsky.social passed her PhD with no corrections, the highest accolade in British academia. Massive congrats Dr! 🙏 engaged & inspired examiners Prof. Ruth Fletcher & Dr Thomas Bennett! 🍾✊🤓📚 @riverbaars.bsky.social @sabrinagermain.bsky.social Dr Tawhida Ahmad
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Organise Magazine @organisemag.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Organise Editorial Collective would like to make it clear, We Support Palestine Action ‪@palaction.bsky.social‬) and reject this ridiculous reaction from the state and this latest increase in authoritarian control in the UK. organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/06/24/w...
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We Support Palestine Action | Editorial - Organise Magazine
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have announced they will proscribe Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group'. We at Organise Magazine would like to express our support of Pa...
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Comrades, we are ready: our Law & Marxism Spring School starts tomorrow! ❤️‍🔥 Our booklets have arrived, and you guessed it right, we are keeping our cats 😻 (and adding a dog 🐶) We can't wait to see you!
Law & Marxism Spring School booklets with cute cats Law & Marxism Spring School programme with cute cats
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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for a book launch with the author @quinnslobodian.com to discuss his latest book, 'Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right' 🗓️ May 7th 📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS ⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This evening, it’s hybrid and not too late to sign up!!
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today!!!
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I did this when starter packs were popular, but never shared it because I was pretty sure I was missing tons of people. Im still sure Im missing tons of people but I don't think it matters now that they are passe... go.bsky.app/RiLvEeM
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
✨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS✨ We are excited to publish the Call for Abstracts for our 10th annual conference: ABOLITION. The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 10-11 October 2025. As usual, we also accept papers outside this year's theme! marxistiskestudier.com/2025/03/06/c...
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Call for Abstracts: 10th annual conference
Abolition Tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Aarhus University, Denmark10-11 October 2025 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme of &#82…
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ivanai.bsky.social @ivanai.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Next week, in London I’ll be joining a complex and much needed conversation about sexual harassment in academia together with a wonderful group of scholars. Join us in person or online. March 10, 6-8pm More here: shorturl.at/v1IvY Co-hosted by @lawsocialchange.bsky.social
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Come join us! 🍏 Monday 10 March 6-8pm at @soasuni.bsky.social and online. 📘Pre-publication event with Usha Natarajan, Vanja Hamzić, Matilda Arvidsson, Rohini Sen @rohini87.bsky.social, Ivana Isailović and Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social of @the1752group.bsky.social ✏️ Register: shorturl.at/v1IvY
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
All SOAS Students Welcome!! Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition. Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.
Poster with the lecture details and image of Adam speaking into a mic, with his book entitled Black resistance to British Policing
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul.ac.uk 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We are honoured to host a book event (hybrid) for '#MeToo in Academia.' Join us on Mon, 10 March, 6-8pm at SOAS for a conversation with Dr Usha Natarajan, Dr Matilda Arvidsson and Dr Anna Bull (@annabull.bsky.social) of the 1752 Group (@the1752group.bsky.social) ❗Register here: tinyurl.com/3tajz56d
Poster, with a QR code, with the event information
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UCL Gender and Feminisms Research Network @ucl-gfrn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism
A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms'
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🔔Important event coming up: #MeToo in Academia with editors of the forthcoming book. 10/3 6-8pm gmt. Register at link below!
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Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I hope to see some of you (in London or online) at the pre-publication event for this new edited collection on #MeToo in Academia.
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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I've booked tickets for Trans Femme Futures (hybrid) at SOAS University of London on Tuesday 25th February 2025! Come join me!! www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDLMMF...
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There's still time to register for our fabulous book talk (hybrid) w/ Nat Raha (@fullnommunism.bsky.social) & Mijke van der Drift! 💖 They will be in conversation w/ @riverbaars.bsky.social & Vanja Hamzić on Tue, 25/2, 3-5pm, at SOAS. 💜 Register (+info) here: tinyurl.com/3hha7fk9
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UCL Gender and Feminisms Research Network @ucl-gfrn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms' 7 March 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms'
qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture.
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here is a write-up from one of our first year Law students, Renite Manisha Gosal, on the launch event with our partners at the Institute of Law, Birzeit University in Palestine. @qmul.ac.uk @statecrime.bsky.social
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Comrades! 😻 We extended our deadline - you can submit your abstracts by Monday, 24/2! 📣 We are not expecting a new/finished paper/article/chapter. Send us something you are working on and would like to receive feedback.
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005
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The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory
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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Are you QT? Do you HoMo? Submit to our call!! 💜✊💜
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Exciting!! The QTHoMos are at it again, this time in Paris 💜
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
#CallforPapers GLQ is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue to be titled: "Post/Anticolonial Queer and Transgender Studies: Radical Efflorescence from the Global South," edited by Svati P Shah and Paul Boyce. View the full CFP here: buff.ly/3CIKGnR
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We are hosting a book launch (hybrid) for Nat Raha (@fullnommunism.bsky.social) and Mijke van der Drift's Trans Femme Futures! 💖 They will be in conversation with @riverbaars.bsky.social & Vanja Ramzić on Tue, 25/2 at SOAS. Register (+info) here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-l...
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here's your friendly reminder to send your application for the Law & Marxism Spring School 🤩 Deadline 10/2! Share this with your favourite scholar activists! We can't wait to meet you in May 😻
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Marie Thøgersen @mariethogersen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Based on the first edition I’d say everyone should go! 🔥
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸
Law & Marxism Spring School - call for abstracts (with cute communist cats)
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Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm giving an online talk on my book, 'Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court', this Monday (3rd Feb) at 12.30, topped up with newer ideas on whether we should pay 'wages for victims'. Register here: @cambridgegender.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victims-an...
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Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court
Part of the Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar Series.
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
**TODAY**
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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸
Law & Marxism Spring School - call for abstracts (with cute communist cats)
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Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Join us on 5 February at 4pm for a lecture by @pashukanist.bsky.social on international law, racism, and coloniality. Hosted by @uoelawschool.bsky.social and the Al-Waleed Centre. Register here: llc.ed.ac.uk/internationa...
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International Law and Racism Today: Colonial Legacy or Structural Necessity?
A public seminar featuring Dr Robert Knox (University of Liverpool) and co-organised by the School of Law and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of ...
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Delighted to be welcoming Zoe Adams to discuss her latest book A Legal Concept of Work. She'll be in conversation with Rob Knox. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/law-and-ma...
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Law and Marxism Book Series: A Legal Concept of Work
Eventbrite - QM School of Law presents Law and Marxism Book Series: A Legal Concept of Work - Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
📣 HEAR THEM SPEAK: 13 pro-Palestine students remain suspended by NYU for demanding endowment transparency. Join the fight this Thursday, 12:30 PM at Garibaldi Plaza, WSP: Press conference + picket at Bobst. DISCLOSE. DIVEST. SHUT DOWN NYU TA. AMNESTY NOW. FREE PALESTINE. ✊
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
not to brag but my teaching slides for international economic law are 🔥🔥🔥
An image of a lecture slide with a meme that says - the two most stolen items in the world: surplus value of workers labour (next to an image of a ballpoint pen) and indigenous land (next to an image of a lighter)
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Emily Jones @emilyjones.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Non/Human Law Research Group at Newcastle Law School is pleased to be hosting a lecture by the fabulous @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on 'The Coloniality of Measuring Famine.' 27th February, 4-5pm GMT In person and on Zoom. All welcome. For more information/register: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...
Image shows a poster giving the title and event details - all of which can be found using the registration link in the post.
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tinainalaina.bsky.social @tinainalaina.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#CallForAbstracts 🗓 Deadline: 3 March 2025 Special Issue: "Fear and Looting in the Periphery: Approaching Social Harm in Southern Europe." Calling academics & activists in critical criminology, geography, abolitionism, and transformative justice. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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