Afua Hirsch in conversation
Afua Hirsch, Guardian columnist, award winning writer of Brit(ish) film producer and presenter of the recent television series Africa Renaissance will be interviewed, by MMU PhD student Khadija Diskin. This In conversation event will be broadcast live and will be followed by a short Q&A session with a select ticketed audience of students and staff from the Manchester Universities collaborating in the PAC@75 event.
For staff and students of Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Manchester, University of Salford and Bolton University, please pre register with your university address too get your e-audience tickets. Tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Biographies
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is a former barrister, journalist and documentary maker. Her current projects include a 6-part series with Samuel L Jackson, a major BBC series about African art, and another about whiteness, both forthcoming, and an Audible original series We Need to Talk About The British Empire. She regularly writes, reports and speaks on international current affairs, and has published two bestselling books, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, and Equal To Everything, about the UK Supreme Court. Afua was a judge on last year’s Booker Prize and is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Khadijah Diskin
Khadijah Diskin is a Ghanaian British research assistant and doctoral candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her previous academic history saw her studying a BA in Education at UCL, she then went on to complete a PGCE in Post Compulsory education,( also at UCL) which lead to her qualification as a further education lecturer. Khadijah also achieved an MSc degree in sociology at LSE. Much of her current and past academic history has seen her work focus specifically on intersectionality, critical, queer and decolonial theories. Her current PhD is a critical-psychosocial and decolonial analysis of Lacanian ‘jouissance’ and ‘desire’ with a focus on Black African students in the UK. Khadijah is also an avid Pan-Africanist, community activist and mother to a wonderful 3 year old.
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