Please join us for our second town hall meeting, which will focus on Decolonising the Curriculum, the University and beyond!

As part of this Town Hall, Gurminder Bhambra and Dalia Gebrial, who are two of the editors of Decolonising the University (and a former staff and student at Warwick!) will give a short talk on the work they've done around decolonisation and some of the wins they've had (for instance Dalia was involved in the Rhodes must Fall movement at Oxford) to inspire us in thinking about the kinds of initiatives and actions we can take. This will also be a chance to share concerns, ask questions, or propose other initiatives and ideas around questions of diversity.

In advance of that Town Hall, we'd also holding a staff-student reading group to talk about the framework of decolonisation. We've booked Room H542 on Wednesday 20 February from 1-2:30.

For that reading group, we'll be reading the introduction and two chapters of Decolonising the University ("Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change" by Dalia Gebrial and "Black/Academia" by Robbie Shilliam) as well as a short excerpt from Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser's "Notes For a Feminist Manifesto." We hope that these readings can open up a larger conversation on the kinds of changes we'd like to see happen in our curriculum, our department, and our university. The readings are attached here. Given recent events, we would also very much welcome readings or discussions on fighting sexism, racism, anti-semitism, transphobia, and homophobia on campus. The readings are provided in the above links!

If you have any questions, please email m.abramson@warwick.ac.uk