The seventh annual REPS Symposium will be held at the London School of Economics on Friday 1st July 2016. It has been organised with the support of the LSE Sociology and Social Policy departments, LSE PhD Academy, and LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights. For more information please email reps.phd@gmail.com
Programme
9.00am Arrival and registration (PhD Academy, 4th floor, Lionel Robbins Building)
9.30am Welcome by Dr Suki Ali (Teaching Room, PhD Academy)
10.00am-12.15pm Stream A: ‘Intersections and Inequalities’ morning session (Teaching Room, PhD Academy)
Chair: Dr Suki Ali
‘The Colour Line Between Exclusion and Citizenship: intersections of race, gender and class in the experience of parenthood in Italy’ – Irene Fattacciu, University of Florence and University of Turin
‘Racialization Experienced by Graduates of African Origin: a comparative perspective between France and the UK’ – Elodie Druez, Sciences Po
‘Negotiating a “Middle-Class” and Visible Minority Ethnic Identity: a comparative study of British South Asian professionals’ – Rima Saini, City University
‘The Northeastern Question: racialized history, migration into “mainland”, racism and rethinking Indian citizenship’ – Rohini Rai, University of Manchester
10.00am-12.15pm Stream B: ‘Race, Violence and the Body’ morning session (McKenzie Room, Sociology Department)
Chair: Dr Simidele Dosekun
‘Oyinbo as Other: the making and meanings of whiteness in Lagos, Nigeria’ – Nicola Horne, UCL
‘A Historical Perspective: racialised beauty for British South Asian women through the lens of skin colour and skin lightening’ – Somia Bibi, University of Warwick
‘When Does Racial Stereotype End? A look at Japanese-Brazilian in Sao Paulo: imaginary of Asian body and racial relationships’ – Helena Prado, Ecole des Hautes Etudes
‘Am I Afrodescendiente? Mestizaje, physical appearance and politics in Venezuela’ – Nadia Mosquera-Muriel, University of Sussex
12.15pm-1.45pm Lunch (PhD Academy)
1.45pm-4.00pm Stream A: ‘Intersections and Inequalities’ afternoon session (Teaching Room, PhD Academy)
Chair: Dr Malcolm James
‘Researching the Sociocultural Implications of Contemporary Cultural Production: an ethnographic study of intercultural approaches within Berlin’s highbrow music sector’ – Kristina Kolbe, LSE
‘A Postcolonial Deconstruction of Western Media Representations of the 2014 “Occupy Central” event in Hong Kong’ – Huimin Wang, University of Leeds
‘The “Other” Proletariat: post socialist class formations among Roma’ – Barbora Cernusakova, University of Manchester
‘White Migrants and Anti-Discrimination Law in the UK: bridging the EU/UK gap with critical race theory’ – Dagmar Myslinska, LSE
1.45pm-4.00pm Stream B: ‘Race, Violence and the Body’ afternoon session (McKenzie Room, Sociology Department)
Chair: Dr Awol Allo
‘Blackness, Childhood, and Black Childhood: a history of negation in the United States’ – Jacob Breslow, LSE
‘From Modern State Formation to Mark Duggan: examining the “colonial dimension” of the Metropolitan Police Service’ – Jasbinder S Nijjar, Brunel University
‘Post-2011 Black Rights Movements in Tunisia’ – Marta Scaglioni, University of Bayreuth
4.00pm-4.30pm Tea and coffee (McKenzie Room, Sociology Department)
4.30pm-6.00pm Plenary discussion (McKenzie Room, Sociology Department)
6.00pm Drinks reception (McKenzie Room, Sociology Department)
Riots Reframed is a feature-length documentary which reframes England’s 2011 riots through voices of resistance – threading these perspectives together using moody instrumentals, dramatic monologue and raw spoken word. Riots Reframed is a poetic but fierce challenge to the system we live under—a radical social commentary grounded in knowledge and art that synthesises a number of voices, from prominent social, cultural and political analysts, to prisoners still recovering from time inside. To learn more about the film visit 
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