Embracing Cultural Diversity for Success
Riaz Khan, Author, Playwright, Lecturer (DMUIC) & Leicester College This session will discuss my lived experience as a young man living in Leicester during the troublesome times of the National Front and racism. Growing up we faced many hurdles due to our ethnicity. Whether it was at school, on our estate, or in the …
Date: 13 January 2021,18.00-19.00 UK time This International Sports' History and Culture (@ICSHC) research webinar is part of the Decolonising DMU project Dr Amanda Shuman is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She received her PhD in East Asian History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and researches the …
From the early modern period, actors have been praised for being "protean" when they perform cross-racial impersonations. This talk will think through that legacy and how virtuosity in acting is implicitly and explicitly racialized. Speaker Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) Biography Ayanna Thompson is director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona …