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Title: Understanding Global Racisms: Beyond Euro-Americancentricity
Speaker: Prof Tariq Modood

Bio: Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol and the co-founder of the international journal, Ethnicities. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 350 articles and chapters. He was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004, elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and was awarded the Senior Scholar Award by Rice University, Houston in 2025. In 2022 he was ranked in the top 20 UK cited scholars in Politics, Law, Sociology and Social Policy. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. His latest books include Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2nd ed; 2013); and as Special Issues co-editor, with T. Sealy, Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-racism (Political Quarterly, 2022) and Global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity (Religion, State and Society, 2022). His latest book, with Thomas Sealy, is The New Governance of Religious Diversity (2024) He has a You Tube Channel and his website is tariqmodood.com.

Date and Time: Wednesday 1st October, 2pm UK / 10am São Paulo / 9am Ottawa / 3pm South Africa

Previous Events

Event poster for a hybrid master class titled 'What would the decolonisation of knowledges entail? An African Perspective.' Featuring Prof. Bhekithemba Mgomeza as speaker, details include date, time, venue at Nelson Mandela University South Africa, and a Zoom link.

What would the decolonisation of knowledges entail?
An African perspective.

Poster for an online seminar titled 'Undisciplinarity: Towards Decolonial Critical Dialogue Between the North and the South in the University in Africa,' scheduled for May 7, 2025, with details on time and speaker, Dr. William Jetro Mpofu, and discussant Dr. Guilherme Borges. The poster includes headshots of the speakers, logos of organizing institutions, and a Zoom link.

Undisciplinarity: Towards decolonial critical diaglogue between the north and the south in the univerity in Africa.

Poster for an online seminar titled 'To the right, the feminine: Religious women and the struggles over the public policy repertoire in health in Brazil,' featuring Jacqueline Moraes Teixeira as the speaker. The poster includes her photo, a brief biography, seminar date and time, and a Zoom link. The event is hosted by the Research Group 'Repariring Sociality, Safeguarding Democracy' and is funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform on Democracy, Governance, and Trust. The logos of CEBRAP, University of Ottawa, Swansea University, and Walter Sisulu University are at the bottom.

To the right, the feminine:
Religious women and the struggles over public policy repertoire in health in Brazil.

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The North-South research project “Repairing sociality, safeguarding democracy: trans-Atlantic North-South narratives and practices of deep equality” spans four different democracies: South Africa, Brazil, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is funded with a competitive three-year grant from the Trans-Atlantic Platform (TAP) on Democracy, Governance and Trust (TAP-DGT).