Event Details
Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM GMT
Location: G.07 Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
About the Event
Join Kenan Malik—writer, Observer columnist and BBC broadcaster—for a lecture exploring the tangled history of class, race, and identity in modern Britain.
Malik is the author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics, praised by Paul Gilroy as “a precious provocation” that “unsettles the absurdities, pieties and default settings of contemporary race-talk.” A veteran of anti-racist activism in 1980s Britain, he brings both scholarly depth and lived experience to one of our most contested debates.
The talk is co-hosted by the ERC/UKRI project Class Struggle in Greek Democracy and by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology as part of The Class Series.
About the Speaker
Kenan Malik presents Analysis on BBC Radio 4 and writes a weekly column for the Observer. His books include: Not So Black and White, The Quest for a Moral Compass and From Fatwa to Jihad, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.