Events

Call for Papers – critical currents: Online Seminar Series

The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is excited to announce a call for contributions to the second season of critical currents:, our online seminar series for sharing and discussing work on race and ethnicity.  The seminars are held online and sessions last approximately one hour. The second season will run across February, June, October and December 2027. 

Building on the Study Group’s long-standing commitment to fostering critical dialogue and collaboration, critical currents: offers an open and supportive forum for researchers, artists, organisers and practitioners to test ideas, exchange feedback and connect across disciplines. 

Read the Call for Papers and submit by 2 December 2026 (11.59PM GMT).  If you have any questions, access requirements, or need support with your submission, please contact us.

Forthcoming Events

Please watch this space for details.

Past Events

7 September 2018
Invisible Bodies: Race, Embodiment and the Life-Course (A joint BSA Race and Ethnicity and Ageing Body and Society Study Group One Day Conference)
University of Kent, UK

2015
18 March 2015
Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence (supported by the BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial and the Race & Ethnicity Study Groups)
University of Warwick, UK

2013
  • Race and Ethnicity Sub-Stream (part of Social Divisions/Social Identities Stream), BSA Annual Conference, Grand Connaught Rooms, London, 3-5 April 2013. Coordinators: Stephanie Lawler, Geoff Payne and Aaron Winter
  • Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: An International Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies, University of Leeds, 18 May 2013. Organised by study group member Kavyta Raghunandan, Remi Salisbury, Richard Tavernier and the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at University of Leeds with support from the BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group,

Study Group members have also been involved in organising events in 2013, such as:

  • The Digital Race Workshop, London, 21 Feb. 2013. Organised by study group member Sanjay Sharma and the journal Darkmatter.
  • Blackness in Britain: An interdisciplinary Black Studies conference, Newman University, Birmingham, 12 September 2013. Organised by study group member Kehinde Andrews and Lisa Palmer.

If you wish to take a look at past events click here to view the archive pages.