The Edinburgh Race Lecture Series - The Eclipse of Black Women in Anti-Discrimination Law - Iyiola Solanke
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Wed 9 December 2020
17:30-18:30
The Edinburgh Race Lectures presents
The Eclipse of Black Women in Anti-Discrimination Law
Professor Iyiola Solanke, Chair of European Union Law and Social Justice within the University of Leeds Law School.
Chaired by Dr Chisomo Kalinga, Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow
About the seminar
To what extent do Black women enjoy legal protection from discrimination in the labour market? How can this be improved? This talk will examine these questions through an exploration of anti-discrimination law and its impact in the UK, North America and the EU. Drawing upon ideas in their recent book, Discrimination as Stigma (Hart 2017), Professor Solanke will argue for a re-design of anti-racial discrimination law that departs from the experiences and perspectives of Black women.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A chaired by Dr Kalinga.
Iyiola Solanke is the Chair of European Union Law and Social Justice within the University of Leeds Law School. She is a former Visiting Professor at the Harvard University School of Public Health and Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. She is the author of ‘EU Law’ (Pearson 2015), ‘Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law’ (Routledge 2011) and ‘Discrimination as Stigma - A Theory of Anti-Discrimination Law’ (Hart 2017) as well as many articles in peer reviewed journals. Professor Solanke is an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple and founder of the Black Female Professors Forum, which promotes the visibility and progress of Black women in academia. She recently chaired the Inquiry into the History of Eugenics at UCL.
The Edinburgh Race Lectures are a series of events organised in collaboration with RACE.ED, a cross-university network concerned with race, racialisation and decolonial studies from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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This event is free and open to all but registration required (link below).
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