Here is a selection of videos from academic events, campaigns and other initiatives
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08-12-14
Eugenics at UCL: The Galton Collection
Subhadra Das (Curator, UCL Teaching & Research Collections, Biomedical & Galton) introduces the Galton Collection at UCL. On 10 October 1904, Francis Galton wrote to...
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Eugenics at UCL: We inherited Galton
On 10 October 1904, Francis Galton wrote to Sir Arthur Rücker (Principal of the University of London) with an offer to fund a study of...
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Eugenics at UCL: The Race Scientist
Carole Reeves (UCL Science & Technology Studies) discusses the Haarfarbentafel, an instrument in the Galton Collection. On 10 October 1904, Francis Galton wrote to Sir...
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Eugenics at UCL: The Head Hunter
Debbie Challis (UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) talks about the archaeologist Flinders Petrie’s racial theories. On 10 October 1904, Francis Galton wrote to Sir...
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Legacy of eugenics: mini-lecture
Dr Debbie Challis explores Sir Francis Galton's legacy of eugenics and how it shapes modern day perceptions of heredity. Dr Challis has curated an exhibition...
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Eugenics@UCL: In the #GaltonLectureTheatre
A video summary of the revelatory exploration of Francis Galton’s ‘Eugenics Record Office’ at UCL 110 years to the day when Galton wrote to Sir...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Debbie Challis
Debbie Challis (Petrie Museum of Egyptology) discusses 'The Petrie Museum of Race Archaeology?' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Grace Redhead
Grace Redhead (History) discusses ''The Sickle of Africa': Sickle cell anaemia and race in postcolonial Britain' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Paulo Drinot
Paulo Drinot (Institute for the Americas) discusses 'Race and Labour in Early Twentieth Century Peru' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Tatianna Rodrigues
Tatianna Rodrigues (Geography) discusses 'Racialization of the Caribbean 'coolie'' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum on Race
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Philippe Marlière
Philippe Marlière (French and European Politics) discusses 'The question of 'race' in the 'colour-blind' French republic' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Nicholas Grindle
Nicholas Grindle (Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching) discusses 'Painting and the representation of gypsies as a distinct race in Britain, 1750-1950' as...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Carole Reeves
Carole Reeves (Science & Technology Studies) discusses 'Death by Hair: The Haarfarbentafel Killing Machine' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Keith McClelland
Keith McClelland (Legacies of British Slave-ownership) discusses 'The Legacies of British Slave-ownership' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart (Anthropology) discusses 'The 'congenital defect' of being Katharina Reinhard, Sinteza / Mischling, in 1936 Frankfurt: Racial Health, Eugenics and the dark past of...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Kevin Inston
Kevin Inston (French) discusses 'Michel Leiris: The Ethnographer Faced with Colonialism' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum on...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Helga Satzinger
Helga Satzinger (History) discusses 'Race, the Sciences and Gender' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum on Race
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Caroline Bressey
Caroline Bressey (Geography) discusses 'Race, Identity and the Black Presence in Victorian Britain' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Wai Kit Ow Yeong
Wai-Kit Ow-Yeong (English) discusses ''Racial Harmony'? The Politics of Race in Contemporary Singaporean Short Stories' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Kate Quinn
Kate Quinn (Institute of the Americas) discusses 'Black Power in the Caribbean Context' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Pedro Carneiro
Pedro Carneiro (Economics) discusses 'Labour market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Shanell Johnson
Shanell Johnson (Black & Minority Ethnic Students' Officer, UCLU) & Teresa McConlogue (Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching) discuss 'BME student attainment at...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Ben Campkin
Ben Campkin (Urban Laboratory) discusses 'Where Race, Regeneration, and Injustice Meet' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum on...
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UCL JFIGS Friday Forum ‘Race’ 20 Piotr Godzisz
Piotr Godzisz (Slavonic & East European Studies) discusses 'Natural, more or less: Do sexual orientation and gender identity deserve the same level of protection as...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Sahra Gibbon
Sahra Gibbon (Anthropology) discusses 'Re-Biologizing Race? Genetic Ancestry and mestiçagem in Brazil' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Michael Berkowitz
Michael Berkowitz (Hebrew & Jewish) discusses ' Confronting race - between Jews - in Israel's first decade: Dark and Bright, a play by Leon Bernstein...
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: Race – Melvyn Stokes
Melvyn Stokes (Film History) discusses 'Miscegenation in Hollywood Cinema' as part of the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum on Race
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UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Friday Forum: “Race” – Elizabeth Harvey
Elizabeth Harvey (European Languages, Culture and Society) discusses 'Mind the Semantic Gap: Addressing Cultural Difference in Prof Stuart Hall's 'Postracial' Discussions' as part of the...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – O’Neill and Bernasconi
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Professor Onora O'Neill (Chair, EHRC) Opening Address Professor Robert Bernasconi (Penn State) Theorizing Racism in Britain: The Contribution...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Dhanda
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Meena Dhanda (Wolverhampton) Enacting legal protection against Caste-discrimination: Why the delay? 05-06-14 Institute of Philosophy and Institute...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Klug
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Brian Klug (Oxford) Tricks of Language: Naming Bigotry against Muslims and Jews 05-06-14 Institute of Philosophy and...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Beckles-Raymond
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Gabriella Beckles-Raymond (Canterbury Christ Church) Mixed Race Masquerades: The Myth of Multiracial Harmony in Britain 05-06-14 Institute...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Kwesi Tsri
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Nicholas Kwesi Tsri (UCD) Africans are not black: Why the use of the term 'black' for Africans...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Lever
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Annabelle Lever (Geneva) Democracy, epistemology and the problem of all-white juries 06-06-14 Institute of Philosophy and Institute...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Coleman
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (ICwS &UCL) Michael Gove, William Wilberforce, and the defect of durable degradation 06-06-14...
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Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now – Khan
Critical Philosophy of Race: Here and Now Dr Omar Khan (Runnymede Trust) Critical Philosophy of Race: Here in Future 06-06-14 Institute of Philosophy and Institute...
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JUST 85 PROFESSORS (BE THE CHANGE MIX)
There are just 85 black professors out of nearly 20,000 in the UK and this number has barely changed in eight years. That’s 0.4%, which...
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Just 85 Professors (Be the change mix) – Lyrics
There are just 85 black professors out of nearly 20,000 in the UK and this number has barely changed in eight years. That’s 0.4%, which...
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Student Voices: Why Isn’t My Professor Black?
The student voice collected by the BMESO for the conference chaired by the Provost of UCL, the conference title is 'Why Isn't My Professor Black?'.
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Living History Exhibition | UCLU Black History Month 2013
University College London Union (UCLU) take great pride in the Living History Exhibition because it has introduced a new way to raise the aspirations of...
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UCL Students’ Union BME Officer Report 2013
The role of the BME Officer at UCL Students' Union is to: (i) advise the Vice-Provost (Education) on the academic and non-academic aspects of the...
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09-12-14
Why isn’t my professor black? Nathaniel Coleman
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman's presentation at Why Isn't My Professor Black?
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Why isn’t my professor black? Shirley Ann Tate
Dr Shirley Tate is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at University of Leeds
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Why isn’t my professor black? Nathan Richards
Nathan Richards is film-maker and a PhD Candidate at Goldsmith's University
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Why isn’t my professor black? Lisa Palmer
Lisa Amanda Palmer, a lecturer in working with children, young people and families at Newman University, Birmingham
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Why isn’t my professor black? William Ackah
William has been a lecturer in Community and Voluntary Sector Studies at Birkbeck since 2005. Prior to that he was head of Widening Participation at...
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Why Isn’t My Professor Black? Q&A
There are just 85 black professors out of 18,510 in the UK and the number has barely changed in eight years. The percent of black...
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Why is my curriculum white?
In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, '42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity,...
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UCLU Black History Month 2014
Hajera Begum: Black History Month is a time where we celebrate the successes and achievements of black people – this includes African, Caribbean, Asian, Arab...
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[Audio] Personal perspectives on how to approach the promotions process
Each of the files below feature a short discussion between senior staff who offer advice from a personal perspective on how to approach the promotions...
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22-02-15
Warwick Open Education Series: Why Is My Curriculum White?
'Why is my Curriculum White?' examines and unravels the ideologies behind the existence of syllabuses that fail to reflect global experience and thought, and poses...
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09-04-15
Does Affirmative Action Create Unfair Advantage?
Affirmative action to advance equality is a controversial issue in many countries. Black economic empowerment and employment equity measures have not made much headway in...