Politics of the Archive
5 December, 6:00pm,LSE
Matt Cook (Professor of modern history at Birkbeck, University of London) and Lisa Palmer (Programme Director for Black Studies Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University) present 2 papers; one explores queer social scenes in England in the
1960s, and the other explores Caribbean young people's engagement with Black radical thought and activism during the 1970s.
The event is chaired by Sadie Wearing (Associate Professor in Gender Theory, Culture and Media, LSE).
12 December, 6:00pm, LSE
Join Sherene H. Razack (Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA) in the discussion The Racial/Spatial Politics of Banning the Muslim Woman's Niqab. Bans, whether travel bans or bans on the wearing
of the niqab in public space, mark Muslims as neither inside nor outside the law. They usher Muslims into a spatial void. Occupying a space where law has declared its own absence, the banned Niqabi is denied the right to public space even as she is formally
a citizen. What do bans provide to those who are compelled to engage in it? The event is chaired by
Marsha Henry (Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, LSE).