UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast

Luke de Noronha welcomes Kojo Koram, Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press, 2022). Discussing his recent book, Kojo addresses questions around 20th century decolonisation, neoliberalism and national sovereignty, tying these threads to today’s spiralling global wealth inequality, accelerating climate crisis, migration and bordering, and the precarity expanding across so many different sectors in our society.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-kojo-koramThis conversation was recorded on 15th April 2022Speakers:Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Kojo Koram, Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law, University of LondonExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditors:Anita LangaryandKaissa Karhu www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

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

We’re joined by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor of History and author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, for a conversation on his intellectual trajectory and the idea of the planetary. Speaking on the climate crisis and the human condition, Dipesh states that “unless we realise our geological agency and the geomorphological role we play that is changing the landscape of the planet, we won’t realise the depth of the predicament that we’re in.”Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-dipesh-chakrabartyThis conversation was recorded on 13th June 2021Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of ChicagoExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditors:Amie Liebowitzwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Luke de Noronha is joined by Gracie Mae Bradley, policy expert, writer and campaigner, and Interim Director of Liberty. Involved in the wider grassroots movement for social justice in the UK and having written extensively on state racism and civil liberties, Gracie joins us to speak about the state response and policing throughout the pandemic, race disproportionality, and the trend towards pre-criminalisation.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-gracie-mae-bradleyThis conversation was recorded on 24th June 2021Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Gracie Mae Bradley, policy expert, writer and campaigner, and Interim Director of LibertyExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer and Editor:Kaissa Karhuwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts