Join us for the launching panel of the Contemporary Processes of Racialisation (CPR) Workshop series, where Dr Robert Knox (University of Liverpool), Dalia Gebrial (London School of Economics) and O.D. Enobabor (CUNY Graduate Center) will discuss contemporary and historic processes of racialisation from their diverse research contexts.

Convened by scholars from the Law and Psychosocial Studies departments at Birkbeck in collaboration with the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the upcoming interdisciplinary CPR series will run from January to June 2022. It aims to provide space for the growing community of scholars working on questions relevant to ‘race’, racism and contemporary and historical processes of racialisation. Topics of particular interest to the series are: accounts of contemporary processes of racialisation, contributions to questions around race, capital and class, and papers that consider the power of movements against racism and imperialism.

The 9th December panel will launch the online series with contributions and discussion from Dr Robert Knox, Dalia Gebrial and O.D Enobabor, scholars working on these questions in a range of contexts - from contemporary Black migrations through the America to the platform economy and international law. Chaired by Series co-convenor, Becka Hudson, all are welcome to attend the event, as well as to present and participate in next term's series. A full call for papers for the series can be found here.

O.D. Enobabor (Omawu Diane Enobabor) is a Ph.D. Student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Diane earned her B.A. from the University of Texas- Austin in African Diaspora studies, Latin American studies, and Government. While there, she cultivated her interests in Afro-Latin American relations, focusing on Afro-Brazilian culture and identity-based development. Diane's PhD dissertation project focuses on contemporary Black migrations through the Americas. Outside of academia, Diane organizes as a critical cultural worker dedicated to curating and cultivating spaces of community resistance and radical archive.

Dalia Gebrial is a PhD researcher at the LSE, studying racial capitalism and the platform economy. She is also an associate researcher at Autonomy UK, and co-author of the recently published ‘Empires Endgame: Racism and the British State’

Robert Knox is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of Historical Materialism and the London Journal of International Law. His research examines the intersection between law, capitalism and the forms of processes of racialisation on both the domestic and international stage.