Events pre-2014

Jul 2010-Dec 2011: White Spaces: New Territories in Critical Whiteness Studies, Funds for International Research Collaborations, Worldwide Unviersities Network-Leeds

Sep 2012-Sep 2015: Challenging Institutional Whiteness in Post-Colonial Contexts

Panels

July 2010: Session: The need to understand ‘Race’ comparatively, globally and locally, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenberg, Sweden

July 2011: White Spaces Panel: Uses and Abuses of Culture, Worldwide Universities Network Conference, University of Cape Town

October 2013: Panel: Building the Anti-Racist University, Annual Black History Month Conference of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds

Conferences

July 2009: White Spaces?: Racialising White Feminities and Masculinities, University of Leeds (conference report taken from Policy World, Summer 2010 issue).

August 2010: New Territories in Critical Whiteness Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Leeds (conference report taken from Policy World, Autumn 2010 issue). University of Leeds Reporter article and Conference Booklet.

September 2012: Challenging Institutional Whiteness in Post-Colonial Times Practice-Based Conference, University of Leeds.

Visiting Scholars

Jan 2010: Catriona Elder WUN Supported visiting scholarship, Imperial Transformations, to Leeds Sociology and Social Policy

• Transformation of White Spaces: Whiteness, Television and the Colonial Encounter

Oct 2010: Shona Hunter WUN visiting scholarship to the University of Sydney, Australia

May 2011 Shona Hunter WUN visiting scholarship to South Africa including talks at the University’s of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Rhodes.

• The Jewel in the National Crown? The English NHS as an affective association, problems and prospects - presentation to the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa, May 25 2011.

Jun 2012: Shona Hunter visiting teaching and research to University of Mannheim, Germany funded by the Color of Power Project.

Critical Whiteness Studies: An Overview on Theories Methods and Approaches - presentation given at the University of Mannheim, Germany 25-26 June 2012

Sep-Oct 2012: Haley McEwan (University of Witwatersrand), Postgraduate Scholar Visit to University of Leeds. Part of Challenging Institutional Whiteness in Post-Colonial Contexts.

• Knowing Transformation: Race, Space, and Epistemic Power in One Post-Apartheid South African Town

June 2013: Gaia Giuliana visit to Leeds

Oct-Nov 2013: Gaia Giuliani visit to Leeds

Oct-Nov 2013: Melissa Steyn and Rejane Williams visit Leeds as part of Challenging institutional whiteness in postcolonial contexts