On Wednesday 18 June, the Histories of Activism research group at Northumbria University and the DFG-AHRC project ‘University Students as Migrants’ are jointly hosting an informal workshop that explores activism and campaigns for social and political change in educational settings. Rather than formal papers, the contributors will share insights and questions from chapters, articles and projects they are currently working on.
This is a small-scale event focused on dialogue and joint reflection. If you would like to join the conversation, please email me and I’ll provide details on the room. The programme is featured below.
12:00 Opening discussion: crossing disciplinary and national boundaries in our work
12:20 Marcelle Dawson (University of Otago) on ideology, identity politics and intersectional struggle in student activism
12:35 Henry Dee (DFG-AHRC project ‘University Students as Migrants’) on comparing divestment campaigns and fees protests in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds from the 1970s to 1980s, and the question how and when students, local and international, effectively built power and challenged universities as financial institutions.
13:00 Break for refreshments
13:15 Anne Heffernan (Durham University) on the activist and educator Mabel Atkinson Palmer and her student days in early twentieth-century Glasgow
13:40 Ed Anderson (Northumbria University) on Indian students in late colonial Britain
14:05 Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University) on refugee students and the politics of scholarship provision
