Wednesday 15 February - After 7/7

"After 7/7
A Panel Discussion

Wednesday 15 February, 2006, 5.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Ben Pimlott Building
Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW

The Race Forum (British Sociological Association) in collaboration with the new Xenos research initiative (Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College) has organised a panel of leading thinkers to consider the aftermath of the July 7 2005 bombings in London.

Have anti-war, anti-racist and other progressive critics of a new phase of Western global military hegemony articulated an effective response to the events of 7/7?
Have progressives adequately considered the nature, reach and challenge of the geopolitics of �Islamist terrorism�?
Do existing varieties of anti-racist politics offer anything in understanding and responding to the precarious conditions of a perpetual �war against terror�?
What are the challenges faced in rejecting UK government policy and discourse, based on a valuing religious group identities (such as Muslim communities), while forging local and transnational alliances with groups under threat and saturation surveillance?
What political and ethical spaces are available to critics of both a US-led �Empire� and transnational jihadist movements?


Panellists
Avtar Brah (Birkbeck College, University of London) � Chair / Discussant
Chetan Bhatt (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Suresh Grover (The Monitoring Group, London)
S. Sayyid (University of Leeds)
Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)

Programme
5.30pm Introduction and Panel Discussion
7.30pm Launch of Xenos Research Initiative
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