Category: Lecture
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Imagined Portraits: Lela Harris in Conversation with Imogen Tyler
As part of Litfest 2023, I had a discussion with Lela Harris. In this video, we discuss the six paintings Lela created for the ‘Facing the Past Project’ that sees imagined portraits of known Black Lancastrians hanging in the Judges’ Lodgings Museum alongside portraits of prominent eighteenth-century Lancastrians involved in the Atlantic trade in enslaved…
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Work with Joseph Rowntree Foundation
What has worked (and what hasn’t) in anti-stigma activism? A Joseph Rowntree Foundation “Stigma and Poverty Design Team” Literature Review by Imogen Tyler Since November 2022, I have been working with the Joesph Rowntree Foundation as part of a “Exploring Stigma and Poverty” Design Team (Alana Avery; Nkechi Adeboye; Steve Arnott; Stef Benstead; Sarah Campbell; Heather Coady; China…
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The British Library Keynote Lecture with Dr Chantelle Lewis
Living the wake of Colonial Capitalism: Racism, Poverty, Class and Struggle Chantelle Lewis and I collaborated in this keynote lecture/conversation hosted by the Identities journal and the British Library. We presented a chronology of race and class through histories of both oppression and resistance in Britain and across the Empire – and it has now…
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Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World
Thanks to everybody who has sent me messages and emails about the lecture ‘Enclosures and the Making of the Modern World’ which I made for the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project in 2022. I am currently working to write up the lecture in a published article, and will update you all when I have done this.…
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Destigmatising Welfare (talk)
In June 2023, I gave a talk on ‘Destigmatising Welfare’ for the The Shame and Medicine Project and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at University of Exeter. You can now view this talk online here
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‘Hanging Town, Haunted City: Researching Connected Sociologies of Colonial Capitalism in Place’ (archived from December 2021).
Annual Lecture for North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, Professor Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University In June 2020, hundreds gathered in Lancaster’s Dalton Square to participate in a vigil in response to the Black Lives Matter uprisings. Over the weeks that followed, the protests focused on Lancaster ‘s St George’s Quay, (where Lancaster Slave Ships…
Professor Imogen Tyler 