{"title": "The Reluctant Ethnographer: Using multimodal ethnography to decolonise the figure of the child", "start": "2026-10-28T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-praise-addiction-professor-elizabeth-f-s-roberts", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A seminar at SOAS titled \"The Reluctant Ethnographer: Using multimodal ethnography to decolonise the figure of the child\". In it, Brenda discusses her 18-month multimodal ethnography with children who had experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention in an inner London borough. She reflects on the ethical and methodological challenges of the research, including tensions between her identities as a practitioner and researcher. She also shows how such a methodology can decolonise research with children marginalised through racism, poverty, ableism and insecure immigration status, challenging the colonial trope of the passive and damaged child.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-reluctant-ethnographer-using-multimodal-ethnography-to-d-43643/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/reluctant-ethnographer-using-multimodal-ethnography-decolonise-figure-child", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2099ffe3eea7b0cdea77d020133d6074628d70c6fcde72c87d745ee0a5a17013-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Homelands research seminar series: Scraps into Delicacies", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "food-drink/food-culture"], "description": "A research seminar titled \"Scraps into Delicacies: Sustainable and Cultural Food Practices of Diasporic Communities in London\", part of the Homelands research seminar series. It is run by Emily Falconer of the University of Westminster's School of Social Sciences together with Cavendish Living Lab community connectors Mariam Selim and Yumeng Yang, in partnership with the university's Centre for Social Justice Research. Drawing on focus groups with Korean, Caribbean, Italian, Chinese, Alevi and Jewish communities in London, it explores food practices that promote sustainability through low-waste cooking, preservation and adaptation, and argues that food is also a site of identity, belonging and exclusion in a global city. 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The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. Attendance is free but registration is required, with seating allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-kno-43667/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a3032d06453f61472b5faf6331ace0c9f76c3a2e2be8952a7d176992e71c768-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our Adoption Project: A Soft Inheritance Launch Event", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "The People Speak", "address": "Aberfeldy Street 27, London", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/family", "art"], "description": "The launch of Soft Inheritance, an adoptee-led, multidisciplinary arts exhibition that explores adoption, featuring the Talkaoke talk show, which is spontaneous and open to all. The People Speak collaborate with Our Adoption Project on the event, which aims to challenge traditional narratives around adoption through reflection, storytelling and creative perspectives. The project foregrounds lived experience, examining family and identity beyond conventional framing and letting multiple viewpoints coexist. The exhibition will run at PINK, Hilton House, Stockport, after the launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-adoption-project-a-soft-inheritance-launch-event-42615/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5fba018d492792d34739a75e9ee4b06b8297324fbbc0bb0821bf78010fc5f58-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The ecologies of the marginalised, everyday socio-environmental struggles in São Paulo’s peripheries", "start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Development Planning Unit, UCL", "address": "Tavistock Square 34, WC1H 9EZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-in-sao-paulos-peripheries-tickets-2001880806381?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A talk in the DPU Dialogues in Development series about everyday socio-environmental struggles in the peripheries of São Paulo, at the intersection of housing exclusion and environmental crisis. It features Dr Lucas Lerchs, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and is chaired by Dr Giovanna Astolfo. The research explores how everyday inhabitation processes of ecological reserves are co-produced and transformed by conditions of socio-ecological marginalisation. The talk is followed by a 30-minute screening of a documentary filmed in the periphery of São Paulo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-ecologies-of-the-marginalised-everyday-socio-environment-45822/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/nov/ecologies-marginalised-everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-sao-paulos-peripheries", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ec19515a0463886a1ebdc80fa1315efd68c43c6fe0fd2f9e05e5e4a6ab9a36-600.webp"}, {"title": "What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998637389233", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain' exploring what people leave behind and carry with them when they move to Britain. Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. 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The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e938b9debef8b95d6129d3c305ce4e2fbad2471ae52b2b6be8eef06b5002bc31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Season 1: Mapping Your Practice", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary", "community"], "description": "A workshop session opening the first season of ICA Creatives × RESOLVE, a programme of workshops, conversations and site visits. It is run with RESOLVE, an interdisciplinary design collective working across architecture, engineering, technology and art. The season introduces participants to Starting from the Endz, RESOLVE's framework centring the local knowledge, lived experience and creativity of young people as a starting point for collective learning. Activities include emotional mapping, collaborative making sessions and visits to organisations working with and for young people, leading to a youth-led symposium in December 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/season-1-mapping-your-practice-36631/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1b7873597dbda49982a87f1a64ed4bd5c164b11a0212d66bec9e1f2412bcd86-1200.webp"}]}