With discrimination and hate crime on the rise, this conference explores the relationship between knowledge and truth, and truth and policies.
About the event
At a time when every form of discrimination and hate crime is on the rise, this conference explores the relationship between knowledge and truth and truth and policies.
Homophobia and misogyny are rising in schools, and the recent riots demonstrated the risk of the far right and the consequences of a decade in which data demonstrating the growing risk has been ignored and denied. Within this context, the failures to adequately conceptualise how discrimination was created, the mechanisms that maintain it and its cumulative traumatic impacts not only facilitate the existence of discrimination, but also maintains a perpetrator perspective through which victims are denied understanding and the full psychological and physical impacts remain hidden.
The conference will explore these themes with the following speakers:
- Panel One: Research, Knowledge, and Epistemic Injustice
- ‘Institutional Racism: Colonialism, Epistemic Injustice and Cumulative Trauma’. Dr Shamila Ahmed, University of Westminster
- ‘Medical ambivalence and Long Covid: The disconnects, entanglements, and productivities shaping ethnic minority experiences in the UK’. Prof Damien Ridge: University of Westminster
- 'UK Counter-terrorism law policy and practice: Community narratives’. Tufyal Choudhury. Associate Professor in the Durham Law School'?
- 15 mins Panel Q&A
- Panel Two: The hurdles to achieving democratic epistemic policies, equality and justice
- ‘Gendered Inequality, and epistemic injustice’. Harriet Wistrich: Solicitor and Director of Centre for Women’s Justice
- ‘An Epistemic critique of the Governments National Race Plan’. Paul Giannsi: Hate Crime Advisor to the National Police Chiefs' Council
- ‘Policing and discrimination’. Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe OBE. Frontline Policing Metropolitan Police Service. NPCC Lead for National Crime Coordination Committee including Domestic Abuse
- 15 mins Panel Q&A
- Plenary Discussion
- Drinks and Networking
This event is supported by the Centre for Social Justice Research.
Location
UG.O5 Regent Street, University of Westminster W1B 2HW
