http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2014/06/16/race-confronting-myths-and-deconstructing-colonial-concepts/ [image 2] This year at UCL, a remarkable array of scholars from various academic disciplines across the globe convened to discuss and challenge many of the misconceptions and complexities associated with the notion of 'race'. All speakers, which included staff and students, deconstructed the outdated myths that have lingered throughout different historical contexts and illustrated just how these constructions have become widely accepted in our society. Two events, the Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies (Figs) Friday Forum<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/jfigs/figs-friday-forum/race> on 'Race' and the Critical Philosophy of 'Race': Here and Now, revealed through revolutionary research how we can begin to understand and challenge the notion of 'race', which is essentially a "colonial construct" that has been imposed on us by misinformed thinkers. . . . it is apparent that the philosophical canon is about to be re-shaped and re-ignited by a new wave of extraordinary philosophical thinkers, innovators and pioneers. Nathaniel Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, PhD Research Associate in the Philosophy of 'Race' Department of Philosophy, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT<x-apple-data-detectors://0>, www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy> ___ Emerging Scholar at the Runnymede Trust http://www.runnymedetrust.org.gridhosted.co.uk/projects-and-publications/academic-forum.html Global Outreach for APA Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers http://www.apaonline.org/members/group.aspx?id=110427 Philosophy is dead white-and dead wrong http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/philosophy-is-deadwhite-and-dead-wrong/2012122.article ___ No Reparation, Without Preparation! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/research/grants/2013-14/reparation Slaveries old and new: The meaning of freedom http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Slaveries_Old_and_New_The_Meaning_of_Freedom.cfm Europe enslaved Africans in the Caribbean: A wrong to remember and to repair http://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/events/2013-14/if-ucl-memory ___ Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/philosophy-of-race-5-6-jun-2014 Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies: Friday Forum on 'Race' http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jfigs/figs-friday-forum/race Why isn't my professor black? http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2014/03/21/whyisntmyprofessorblack/