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Race & Resistance

@raceresistance.bsky.social
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Based at TORCH, University of Oxford Every Friday, 1-2pm @ Schwarzman Centre, Seminar Room 63 We bring together researchers & activists for conversations centering the histories, politics, and cultures of anti-racist movements across the globe.

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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Join Race and Resistance TODAY for a picnic in Uni Parks! We'll gather from 1pm near the Park Road entrance to Uni Parks to celebrate the end of the academic year and collectively exhale over snacks and light refreshments. All are welcome!
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TODAY + 10 June: Dr. Lyn Kouadio examines the political trajectories of Black Francophone leaders Léon-Gontran Damas and Bernard Dadié, illuminating their relational worlds and contributions to Black internationalism. Today: Room 6, New College, 5pm 10 June: online www.univ.ox.ac.uk/event/univ-o...
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Univ Online Talks: Dr Lyn Kouadio - University College Oxford (Univ)
The Master, Baroness Amos, is delighted to invite Old Members, friends of Univ, students, and staff to the next Univ Online Talk...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Pope Leo XIV's recent apology for slavery raises eyebrows and hopes, but does it hold weight? Join us tomorrow 29 May to hear Professor Anthea Butler discuss the apology, the Pope's historic recent Trip to Africa, and what this means for Black Catholics. www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/is-the...
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An Apology, or a Shield? A Conversation with Professor Anthea Butler
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Tomorrow, Stella Dadzie, founding member of OWAAD and Nana Opoku will be in conversation with Dr. Jade Bentil to discuss legacies of Black feminist activism in Britain, and what contemporary anti-racist struggles can learn from this rich history of refusal. Join us from 3pm-5pm in Ertegun House!
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In Puerto Rico, African ancestors are sidelined from national identity, while indigenous ancestors are centered as noble resistors of colonial rule. On 8 May, Dr. Isar Godreau will speak about how state education reproduces this racialized national myth-making. www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/title-...
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Proud Taínos / Unfortunate Blacks: Divergent Constructions of Ethno-Racial Resistance in School Textbooks in Puerto Rico
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Join Race and Resistance this Thursday, 30 April from 4-6pm in Ertegun House for Broadband Bridges & Black Women in Britain! Together we will meditate on Black feminist digital activism and community building amidst transformations in the digital landscape and the rise of tech fascism.
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Join Race and Resistance for a conversation with Permanent Representative of France to the Council of Europe, Professor Pap Ndiaye! Wednesday, 11 March from 11am-12pm in Room 63 Schwarzman Centre.
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join us Friday, 6 March, 1-2pm in 63 Schwarzman for a conversation with Dr. Brian Kwoba on the Black radical genius of Crucian activist and educator Hubert Harrison! Dr. Kwoba highlights the continued relevance of Harrison's radical visionary thinking today. www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-t...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Do you have some writing you’ve been meaning to start or finish? Are you struggling to carve out focused time to work? Join us this week for an hour dedicated to writing! Friday, 27 February, 1pm-2pm Room 63, Schwarzman Centre, OX2 6GG www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/race-a...
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Race and Resistance | Writing Session
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Join us this Friday from 1pm-2pm in Schwarzman Centre Room 63 for a conversation with Morgan DaCosta on the afterlives of slave codes and their enduring implications for policing and Black life in the Anglophone Caribbean. www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/police...
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Police Power, Plantation Principles
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Join Race and Resistance this Thursday, 19 Feb for a researchers' mixer! Meet us from 19:00 at the Gardener's Arms for an evening of community and conversation!
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Join us this Friday at R&R: Dr. Jade Bentil presents a cartography of the social, cultural and intellectual experiments cultivated by Black women’s anti-imperial groups in the 1970s and 1980s. 📍Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre 🗓️Friday 30th January, 1-2pm www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/our-wo...
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Our “woman talk” was about Marxism and anti-imperialism
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This Friday at R&R: Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper (QMUL) explores Black Power, anti-fascism, class struggle, and the possibilities of resistance today. 📍Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre 🗓️Friday 30th January, 1-2pm @torchoxford2013.bsky.social www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/nation...
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Nationalist Emergency: Racial Outsiders, Class Struggle and Renewing Resistance
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Welcome back to Hilary Term 2026! Our term card is complete, and we're so excited to see everyone this Friday! 🎉 Join us this Friday, in Seminar Room 63, where Dr Tiziana Morosetti will be exploring 'Racial Trauma, Representations of Blackness, and Metatheatricality'.
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Join us this Friday as Daisy J. Hung discusses her insightful new book, I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese. 📍Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre 🗓️Friday 5th December, 1-2pm @torchoxford2013.bsky.social
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This Friday at R&R: Danielle Watkis will share her research on the experiences of Black British doctoral students navigating spaces shaped by whiteness through avoidance, resistance, and engagement. 📍Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre 🗓️Friday 28th November, 1-2pm @torchoxford2013.bsky.social
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join us this Friday at R&R, where Mathilde Lyons (St Andrews) will be presenting her doctoral research on the forms of resistance for Black individuals in Fascist Italy. 📍Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre 🗓️Friday 21st November, 1-2pm 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ys98mfb8 @torchoxford2013.bsky.social
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/04/2025
Protest in Oxford bsky.app/profile/thes...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Our Trinity Term card is now complete, and we are so excited to share it with you all. You can find full details of the events on Ox Talks: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
On the 7th March, we hosted our first ‘Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination’ conference! It was a nourishing, reflective & inspiring day & we want to thank everyone for their support 💓 It wasn’t easy, but we made it a reality. We hope to be back in 2026 … @torchoxford.bsky.social
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🚨DEADLINE IS NEXT WEEK! #cfp #skystorians The deadline for our annual conference is next Friday! Have you sent in your abstract yet? This year's conference is titled Shaping Histories: Representation and Perception through Time. Keep on reading to find out about the themes we are looking for...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Writing & Meditation - CANCELLED for Hilary. If you are interested in getting involved to help facilitate Writing & Meditation, get in touch: raceandresistance@torch.ox.ac.uk
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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025. Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word! @ihr.bsky.social
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Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
PR👀FS! She’s definitely no longer a word doc! (uk & us pre-order below, you don’t pay until the book is published in May so did you even truly buy it? Exactly) 🇬🇧 geni.us/WhenWeRuled 🇺🇸 www.simonandschuster.com/books/When-W... #blackbooksky #booksky #skystorians
Black woman with a shaved head and wearing an orange dress holds up a blue proof of her book, WHEN WE RULEDFive copies of WHEN WE RULED on a pink armchair
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Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference | 6 – 7 June 2025 | University College London Legacies of Section 28: a two-day event exploring the history and legacy of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 1988. DEADLINE EXTENDED to the end of February royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Less than half of the tickets are left!!
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Tickets for our 2025 Conference are now live: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-... With this, we are excited to announce our amazing keynote speakers, who will be speaking on a panel on radical future-proofing archival praxis ✨
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hilary Term will also see the return of our Writing & Meditation workshops! Open to the entire community, these sessions work as a focused writing space to get those words down! 🙌🏽
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Our Hilary Term Card is now live 🙌🏽 The first 3 weeks of term will be dedicated to conversations around the Rhodes Must Fall movement, as it enters its 3rd year ✊🏽 We also have an exciting line-up for the theme ‘Music as Method’ 🎶🎤 Finally, we will close the term with our 2025 Conference ✨
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Deadline for our 2025 Conference call for papers is on MONDAY at 12pm, noon. Thank you to everyone who has submitted an abstract so far! ⭐️ Colleagues, friends, comrades, please share far and wide 🙌🏽
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢CFP Deadline! The deadline for our conference with #HistoryLab+ and History UK, 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis', is next week! Abstracts of 200 words are due on Friday 17th January. For more information on the conference, please see the link below... ihrhistorylab.wordpress.com/teaching-in-...
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Teaching in a Time of Crisis
CFP: Teaching in a Time of Crisis As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, …
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We are also planning a conference in Oxford in 2025, please share widely & consider submitting a proposal ⭐️
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Race & Resistance @raceresistance.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We are now on Bluesky! 🩵 Since 2013, Race & Resistance has provided space for a community of staff, students, and activists engaging with the rise of, and resistance to racial hierarchies in Oxford & beyond. You can find out more via our website: torch.ox.ac.uk/race-and-res...
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