“CREN is a post-graduate led network, committed to exploring issues of race and ethnicity within academic research and practice.”
News
Black Feminism Series 2017
To signal our ending, CREN are proud to announce our 2017 seminar series: “the work is harder but it is still the same.” For more information about… Read more “Black Feminism Series 2017”
Semenya, Race and Sex
By Bernie Snell (23 August 2016) Usain Bolt and Caster Semenya are two extraordinary athletes dominating their sports, but the disparity in how they are treated by… Read more “Semenya, Race and Sex”
Zuckerberg is right; Black Lives Matter!
Written by Remi Joseph-Salisbury (March 10, 2016) Mark Zuckerberg has expressed dismay and disappointment at Facebook employees’ continued defacement of Black Lives Matter slogans at a Facebook Headquarters… Read more “Zuckerberg is right; Black Lives Matter!”
Events
After the first meeting in October 2014, it was agreed that a large part of CREN’s role as a student-led network would be to set up a series of events which brought students, community members, and academics from different geographic locations into contact with each other to facilitate discussions of the ways in which ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ intersect with academic research and practice.
From 2014 – 2017, members of the steering committee hosted a series of events across the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York, ranging from research seminars, 2 conferences, film screenings and symposiums, all of which drew attendees from across (and beyond) the UK.
To find out more about these past events, clink on the links from the list below.
October – December 2014
November 2014: CREN Sheffield Inaugural Meeting
November 2014: Film Screening “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992” with Suryia Nayak
December 2014: CREN Leeds Inaugural Meeting
January – March 2015
January 2015: CREN York Inaugural Meeting
Film Clubs 2015
April – June 2015
April 2015: “Concerning Violence” Film Screening with Introduction by China Mills
May 2015: Surviving in a White Institution – A Symposium
Conference 2015
The first conference hosted by the Critical Race & Ethnicities Network took place in June 2015, and included keynote papers from Professor Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education), Dr China Mills (University of Sheffield) and Dr Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University), as well as a poetry evening featuring Anthony Anaxagorou, Hamja Ahsan, and Hafsah Bashir.
May 2016
Conference 2016
Members of CREN were delighted to organise the second installment of our annual conferences, this year titled “Intersectional Interventions: Connecting oppression anywhere to oppression everywhere”.
