What Does Diversity Mean to Me?

With funding from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, TORCH’s Annual Headline Series for 2017 is Humanities & Identities.

The series will focus on multiple research areas relating to diversity including race, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, religion, class, and inequality.

Introduced by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson, this event will bring together a panel of experts from across the Humanities and the cultural and political sectors to discuss “What does diversity mean to me?”. The panel will examine how diversity and inclusivity has shaped, and will continue to shape, the human experience and identity. We will be joined by Deborah Cameron (Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication), Ellah Allfrey (Author and literary critic), Maria Misra (Lecturer in Modern History), Jay Stewart (co-founder of ‘Gendered Intelligence’), Marvin Rees (Mayor of Bristol) and Miles Hewstone (Professor in Social Psychology). The discussion will be chaired by Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English and TORCH Director).

There will be plenty of time for audience questions and discussion, which will be followed by a drinks reception from 7.00-7.30pm. Free and all welcome.

Please register for your free ticket.

If you are unable to make it in person this event is being livestreamed at 17:30 GMT (weblink to be released closer to the event).

There will be a free crèche available at this event. Please email [email protected] if you would like to book a space for your child.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or would like further information.