Histories of RGSI research symposium

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09.30 Welcome (with tea and coffee)
10.00 Panel One
Marie Molloy – ‘Addressing Race and Racism’: Diversifying History Curricula in School and Colleges via University-led Outreach and Widening Participation Activities
Haseeb Khan – Roots in Manchester and Louisville: Muhammad Ali visits Phil Magbotiwan in Manchester, 1971
11.00 Break
11.15 Panel Two
Mark Fenemore – The ‘wrong sort’ of Nazi Serial Murderers: Paul Ogorzow and Bruno Lüdke
Rebecca Ball – Sex, Contraception and Abortifacients in English working-class Autobiographies 1900-1945
Marta Suarez – The Lion Cub, the Witcher, and the War: Ciri and Gendered Violence in the Witcher Universe
12.45 Lunch
1.45 Book Talk
Gavin Schaffer – An Unorthodox History: British Jews since 1945
2.30 Policy engagement with MetroPolis, the university’s think tank
Kay Lalor and Rossella Pulvirenti – Influencing Asylum Law in a Hostile Environment: The Rwanda Policy and the European Convention on Human Rights
3.15 Break
3.30 Panel Three
Lucy Burke – Cultures of Life and Death: Disability and Dementia in Literary Depictions of the Climate Emergency
Anne-Marie McCallion – A Third Conception of Justice: Recognition, Redistribution, and Repatriation
Rob Ellis – Understanding Deinstitutionalization in the Capital: London, Community Care and the 1959 Mental Health Act
5.00 Close