BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200916T082001Z DTSTART:20201001T120000Z DTEND:20201001T140000Z SUMMARY:Brilliant and Black presents Gary Younge UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}zyo-kev8zp5 u-36hwua DESCRIPTION:In Celebration of BHM 2020 The University of Manchester is pr oud to present: “Brilliant and Black” with Professor Gary Younge\n\nThe month of October has been celebrated as Black History Month (BHM) in the UK since 1987. This national celebration aims to recognise and celebrat e Black British achievement\, and foster general knowledge and understan ding of Black history.\n\nThis year we are honoured to welcome Professor of Sociology\, award-winning author\, broadcaster and columnist Gary Yo unge\, to deliver this year’s keynote presentation ‘The Fire This Time’ – a perspective on race inequality and the current Black Lives Matter (B LM) movement.\n\nFollowing the keynote address\, Gary will be joined by Professor Nalin Thakkar – Vice-President for Social Responsibility at Un iversity of Manchester and Naa Acquah – alumna and former General Secret ary of University of Manchester Students Union.\n\nThis event would norm ally be held on campus but given the current COVID-19 pandemic\, it will this year be delivered virtually via Zoom (details received upon Eventb rite registration) and live streamed via YouTube (https://www.youtube.co m/user/universitymanchester) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheU niversityOfManchester/). The event is open to all staff\, students and m embers of the general public.\n\nPlease register for this event here: ht tps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brilliant-and-black-celebrating-black-histo ry-month-tickets-119894456547 \n\nProgramme:\n\n13:00-13:02 – Opening by Nalin Thakkar\n\n13:02-13:05 – Message from Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell\n\ n13:05-13:15 – Opening statements by Nalin Thakkar\n\n13:20-14:00 – Keyn ote by Gary Younge: Title “The Fire This Time”\n\n14:00-14:15 – Question s for Gary Younge\n\n14:15-14:55 – Panel discussion. Panellists: Gary Yo unge\, Nalin Thakkar and Naa Acquah\n\n14:55-15:00 – Closing Remarks by Nalin Thakkar\n\n\nAbout Gary Younge:\n\nGary lived in Hertfordshire wit h his Barbadian parents until going to Sudan to teach English in a UN Er itrean refugee school when he was 17. Then\, after studying French and R ussian at Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University and journalism at London’s City University\, he started working at The Guardian in 1993.\n\nAfter s everal years of reporting from all over Europe\, Africa\, the US and the Caribbean - including a stint at The Washington Post - Gary was appoint ed The Guardian’s US correspondent in 2003\, before becoming their edito r-at-large in 2015.\n\nHe has won several prizes for his journalism\, in cluding the David Nyhan Prize for political journalism from Harvard’s Sh orenstein Centre\, and he was named as 2018’s Feature Writer of the Year by both Amnesty UK and the Society of Editors for his series on knife c rime.\n\nHe has written five books - Another Day in the Death of America \, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives \; The Speech - The Story Behind Marti n Luther King’s Dream \; Who Are We?\, And Should it Matter in the 21st Century \; Stranger in a Strange Land - Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home - A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South .\n\nHis books have received considerable acclaim\, with several of his titles either winning or being shortlisted for major literary awards - i n 2017\, Another Day in the Death of America won the J. Anthony Lukas Bo ok Prize from Columbia Journalism School and Nieman Foundation. Gary has also made several radio and television documentaries\, on subjects rang ing from gay marriage to Brexit.\n\nGary joined The University of Manche ster as a Professor of Sociology in 2019.\n\n\nAbout Nalin Thakkar:\n\nN alin is Vice-President for Social Responsibility and Professor of Molecu lar Pathology at The University of Manchester\, and Consultant Histopath ologist at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). He serv ed as an Associate Vice-President for ten years with responsibility for oversight of non-financial risk and compliance\, and research governance and integrity. In his NHS role\, he leads the head and neck adult histo pathology service for a large NHS Trust with a regional head and neck on cology centre.\n\nNalin served as a non-executive director (ministerial appointment) of the Health Research Authority (HRA) from its establishme nt in 2015 as a non-departmental public body to 2018. The HRA is one of the key regulators overseeing health and social care research with a rem it to protect and promote the interests of patients and the public in he alth and social care research. Nalin is currently a non-executive direct or of the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust\, the only specialist neuro logy and neurosurgery NHS Trust in the UK. In 2017 he was listed in the top 50 most influential BAME leaders in the public sector.\n\nNalin has served on the Royal College of Pathologists’ Ethics Committee and as a N ational Advisor to the HRA on genetic and genomic research and the use o f human tissues in research. Prior to this\, he was a National Research Ethics Advisor to the National Research Ethics Service.\n\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR