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This event examines the forgotten crisis unfolding in Sudan. Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights!

Ala Kheir is a photographer based in Khartoum, Sudan. He is the co-founder of the Sudanese Photographers Group.

Through photography, Kheir actively engages with the city of Khartoum, creating personal perspectives and narratives about his immediate space. His work has been showcased in various spaces in Africa and around the world.

Kheir runs The Other Vision (TOV), a photography platform that focuses on photography education and training in Sudan, through which he assists young photographers and connects Sudanese artists to the rest of the continent. Through TOV, Kheir engages with the public in an attempt to address social issues and change in Sudan.

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What is dignity in research? Whose dignity do we value, and whose do we neglect, in the design, implementation and impact agendas of our research?  How do we study dignity as lived experience and why is this important?

To explore these questions, we (Dr. Sayra van den Berg (Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War) and Dr. David Mwambari (KU Leuven)) are hosting a York Africa Research Network (ARN) funded workshop on the 22^nd of March on ‘dignity as decolonial research method’. For this workshop we invite proposals from people whose work engages with dignity, broadly understood, in research. The workshop aims to provide a space for constructive and compassionate conversation among researchers to share and reflect on the various roles that dignity does and can occupy in research.  

We welcome proposals from diverse disciplinary, theoretical and epistemological perspectives, including but by no means limited to ethnography, arts-based research methods, indigenous knowledge systems, and decolonial feminisms. We particularly encourage submissions from early career scholars whose work engages with dignity in African contexts. Due to space limitations and the participatory nature of the workshop, individual proposal submissions will undergo a selection process.

Workshop objectives: over the course of one day, participants will:

1. Discuss the role of dignity in various research efforts
2. Share diverse approaches to, and tools for, centralising dignity in research
3. Reflect on accompanying challenges and explore potential strategies to overcome them
4. Articulate a space for dignity in individual and joint research agendas
5. Identify and strengthen opportunities for collaboration

Workshop format:

The workshop will take place in-person on the 22^nd of March, at Heslington Hall, in York and run for the full day. Participants will be expected to prepare a short (maximum 2000 word) research memo to share in advance of the workshop, to give an individual presentation during the workshop and actively participate in discussions throughout the course of the day.

Submission guidelines and timelines:

The call for proposal submissions is now open and will close on Friday the 9^th of February at midnight. Decisions on the outcome of submitted proposals will be made the following week and communicated to all applicants by Friday the 16^th of February. Workshop participants should submit their research memos (of maximum 2000 words) to Sayra van den Berg by the 11^th of March.

To submit a proposal for participation in the workshop please complete the google form that can be found here. Proposal guidelines ask applicants to provide a title and brief (maximum 300 words) abstract.

Questions about the workshop can be sent directly to Dr. Sayra van den Berg

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Learning, remembering and correctly pronouncing one’s name are important steps to ensure respect and inclusion, particularly in our diverse community. Our names are connected to our identity, heritage and culture. There are complex meanings and power within a name, but quite often the stories are hidden.

This will be the third consecutive year that we run our own 'My Name Is' event at the University of York. Our event was developed from Race Equality Matter's #MyNameIs campaign, though the session has been much more open and welcoming of people's diverse and complex stories, as they represent an individual's relationship with gender, ethnicity, family, history and culture. Every year, the discussions have been rich and critical, with many colleagues finding resonance and reflecting upon what has been shared. 

This year, we once again welcome members of the University of York to join this online networking and discussion event at 1.00 pm on Thursday, 22 February. Join us to listen to each other’s stories, share, and plan future actions. What are your experiences and relationship with your name(s)? How can stories of our names bring to life issues around equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)? What future conversations and actions would you like to initiate? How do we collectively move forward on diversity and inclusion?

Provisional Programme:

• Welcome
• Stories from the panellists
• Discussion: sharing your stories, planning future actions

Our panellists:

• Kofi Appiah, Computer Science
• Maria Ayaz, Equality and Diversity Office
• Aiko Mizumori Hirst, Office of Philanthropic Partnerships and Alumni
• Emma Stephen, EDI Exchange