Date: Wednesday 30th January 2019, 5-7PM<\/p>\n
Location: ARTS LR\/LT1, University of Birmingham<\/p>\n
What can be learnt about the workings of power from those who challenge power? This lecture draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as harassment and bullying. The lecture approaches complaint as a form of diversity work: the work some have to do in order to be accommodated. Making a complaint requires becoming an institutional mechanic: you have to work out how to get a complaint through a system. It is because of the difficulty of getting through that complaints often end up being about the system. The lecture explores how the experiences that lead to complaint and the experiences of complaint are hard to untangle. It reflects on the role of academic networks and professional intimacies in shaping what happens to complaints and to those who complain.<\/p>\n
This lecture\u00a0is open to all. The venue is wheelchair accessible and attendees are welcome to bring dependents where necessary. For further access requirements please contact r.sykes@bham.ac.uk.<\/p>\n
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Sara Ahmed is the author of 10 books including: Living a Feminist Life<\/em> (2017), The Cultural Politics of Emotion<\/em> (2014),\u00a0Willful Subjects<\/em> (2014), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life<\/em> (2012), and The Promise of Happiness<\/em> (2010). Up until the end of 2016, Sara was Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and prior to that\u00a0she was based in Women\u2019s Studies at Lancaster University.<\/p>\n The talk will be preceded by a special meeting of CCLC’s\u00a0Queer and Now reading group on Tuesday 29th January (6-7pm), Arts 105. Please email A.C.Brown@bham.ac.uk for readings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date: Wednesday 30th January 2019, 5-7PM Location: ARTS LR\/LT1, University of Birmingham What can be learnt about the workings of power from those who challenge power? This lecture draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of … Continue reading “CCLC Public Lecture: Sara Ahmed, ‘Complaint as Diversity Work’ (30\/01\/19)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cclc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}