Locating contemporary concerns within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond. Seminar 1: What is Fascism and Where Does it Come From? Presenter: Dr Geoff Eley  Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA. 4-5.30pm (BST) 19 October 2022, Chair: Lizzie Seal Register via Eventbrite About the seminar series What role can a historical criminology platform have in matters of contemporary concern? Where do our contemporary concerns with topics such as anti-fascism, decolonization, gender, free speech, and critical race theory intersect with the multidisciplinary logics guiding criminological observance of historical methods, pedagogies, and wider community participatory action?…

Speaker: Professor Ana Aliverti, University of Warwick. Title: Policing the Borders Within: Globalisation, State Power and Magic  Speaker Bio: Ana Aliverti is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (Oxford, 2012), an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distinction, Oxford, 2008), an MA in Sociology of Law (IISL, 2005) and a BA in Law (Honours, Buenos Aires, 2002). Her research explores questions of national identity and belonging in criminal justice, and of law, sovereignty and globalisation. She has led extensive empirical work in the UK’s criminal justice and immigration systems. She is the author of Crimes of Mobility (Routledge, 2013) and Policing the Borders Within (OUP, 2021). She was co-awarded…

Locating contemporary concerns within wider historical criminological interests, in academia and beyond. Seminar 2: Decolonialization and Counter-Colonial Criminology Presenter: Dr Biko Agozino is a Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech University, Virginia, USA. Chair: Esmorie Miller Register via Eventbrite About the seminar series What role can a historical criminology platform have in matters of contemporary concern? Where do our contemporary concerns with topics such as anti-fascism, decolonization, gender, free speech, and critical race theory intersect with the multidisciplinary logics guiding criminological observance of historical methods, pedagogies, and wider community participatory action? @BSC's #HCNet brings together a seminar series covering this multidisciplinary…

Crisis Ordinariness and Racial Justice. Speaker: Prof Nasar Meer. Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh. This talk explores how societies adapt to a form of ‘crisis ordinariness’ (Berlant 2011) in which the regularity of racial injustice prevails without the need for pre-meditated racist intentions. Underwritten by a ‘racial contract’ (Mills 1997), and propelled by racial mechanics in seemingly disparate and ancillary social spheres (Meer 2022), the argument advanced here is that social systems bear the imprints of older racial injustices that are not merely…

Counterterrorism in the UK: The Policing of Muslims in the name of fighting armed Muslim Groups In this session, Rizwaan Sabir will critically map the connections between counterinsurgency warfare and the domestic ‘war on terror’ being fought in the United Kingdom through policing, counterterrorism, and counter-extremism policy, law, and practice. The session will draw upon Sabir’s recently published book ‘The Suspect’ which employs counterinsurgency warfare theory and doctrine to conceptualize and frame his experience of being arrested and detained by UK authorities on suspicion of terrorism for possessing a document he downloaded from the US Department of Justice website for his…

Anti-Fascism, Decolonisation & Critical Race Theory.   Presenter Biographies & Session Information Dr Esmorie Miller is a Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Workshopping Critical Race Theory in British Criminology: Why the Outrage? Chair: Lizzie Seal Register here.