UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast

Co-author of Social Media and Hate, Shakuntala Banaji joins Clive Nwonka to delve into the theoretical and practical intersections of misinformation and online hate speech in contemporary societies. Shakuntala discusses online and offline activism, the intellectual source that inspired her work, and the broader question of media and communication study and its relevance for the analysis of race and racism.Trigger warning: reference to threat of sexual assault and violent imagery (12:45 – 13:05)Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-shakuntala-banajiThis conversation was recorded on 15th March 2022Speakers: Clive Nwonka, Lecturer in Film, Culture and Society at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies //Shakuntala Banaji, Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change at LSEExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor: Amie Liebowitz and Kaissa Karhuwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Clive Nwonka is joined by Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand, a deeply personal and wide-ranging mediation on Black culture, political freedom and humanity. Farah discusses writing with an ethic of care, honouring grace, mercy and beauty, and the relationship between rage and resistance. Farah also reflects on what she sees as the three sites of engagement for African-American and African diasporic studies: in the classroom, in the world, and in the planet.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-farah-jasmine-griffinThis conversation was recorded on 18th February 2022Speakers: Clive Nwonka, Lecturer in Film, Culture and Society at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies //Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia UniversityImage: Photo © Peggy Dillard TooneExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor:Kaissa Karhuand Anita Langarywww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Luke de Noronha welcomesLisa Lowe, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration, to talk about her book,The Intimacies of Four Continents, where she examines links between transatlantic slavery, Asian indenture, imperial trades and colonialism. Concerning liberalism, Lisa discusses how ideas of reason, civilisation and freedom are continually dividing the human according to a coloniality of power or a colonial division of humanities, affirming liberty for European man but subordinating the colonised and disposed.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-lisa-loweThis conversation was recorded on 19th July 2021Speakers:Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Lisa Lowe, Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Director of American Studies Graduate Studies at Yale UniversityExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor:Kaissa Karhuand Anita Langarywww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Laleh Khalili,, Professor of International Politics and author of Sinews of War & Trade, joins us for a conversation on land reclamation, dredging and the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of the movement of technologies, capital, people and cargo. Addressing the significant bodies of water around which a politics has taken shape, Laleh discusses the tension of the sea as a romanticised incredible and abstract space, yet also a space of death, exploitation, slavery and colonialism, highlighting the geoeconomical inequalities in the world.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-laleh-khaliliThis conversation was recorded on 30th June 2021Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of LondonExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor:Amie Liebowitzwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar and poet, joins us to reflect on engaging with the works of Black feminist scholars, ancestral listening and her connectedness to seals. Author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis discusses how colonialism, enslavement and the plantation economy resulted in the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal. Alexis also talks about her forthcoming biography of Audre Lorde and deep diving into Lorde’s life and love of geology.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-alexis-pauline-gumbsThis conversation was recorded on 29th July 2021Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Alexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar, poet and activistExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor:Kaissa KarhuandAmie Liebowitzwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Luke de Noronha welcomesNandita Sharma, activist scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, to discuss borders, migration and citizenship in relation to the pandemic and climate catastrophes. Nandita addresses the demand for a planetary commons, and the need to live in a worldly space in which the fundamental political foundation is freedom from exclusion, freedom from dispossession and freedom from displacement.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-nandita-sharma This conversation was recorded on21stJune 2021Speakers:Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Nandita Sharma, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer and Editor:Kaissa Karhuwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts