Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the aftermath of Empire

10 October 2024, 5:00 pm鈥�6:30 pm

Join 乱伦秀 IIPP in conversation with Dr Kojo Koram, Reader in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.

This event is free.

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Join this fascinating discussion聽on Thursday 10th October 2024聽at 17:00-18:30 (BST)聽at University College London (乱伦秀).

About this talk:

聽is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone. Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore, Ghana to Britain, this is a blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are ravaging Britain today.

Meet the panel:

Speaker: 聽| Reader in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London
Discussant:听Reverend Professor Keith Magee | Visiting Professor in Cultural Justice at the聽乱伦秀 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
Chair: Dr Cecilia Rikap |聽Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the 乱伦秀 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)

About the Speakers

Kojo Koram

Reader in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London

Kojo Koram is an academic, teaching at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in Accra, Ghana and raised on Merseyside, he is now based in London. He was聽called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011 and received his PhD in September 2017. In 2018,聽the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities聽awarded his PhD the prestigious聽Julien Mezey Award.

In addition to his academic writing,聽he聽has written for the聽New Statesman, the聽Guardian,聽Dissent,聽The Nation,聽and聽The聽Washington Post聽and has appeared on聽CNN聽and聽Sky News. He is the editor of聽The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line聽(Pluto Press 2019) and author of聽Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire聽(John Murray 2022).

Cecilia Rikap

Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at 乱伦秀 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Cecilia Rikap (PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is associate professor in Economics and Head of Research at IIPP- 乱伦秀. Until joining 乱伦秀, she was a permanent Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City, University of London and programme director of the BSc in IPE at the same university. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina鈥檚 national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Universit茅 de Technologie de Compi猫gne.

Cecilia鈥檚 research is rooted in the international political economy of science and technology and the economics of innovation. She currently studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to the emergence of intellectual monopolies, among others from digital and pharma industries, the distribution of intellectual (including data) rents, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of knowledge assetization on the knowledge commons and development. She has published two books on these topics. 1) 鈥溾€� (Routledge), recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition. 2) 鈥溾€� (Palgrave), co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall, focuses on the artificial intelligence race and clashes of power between the US and Chinese Big Tech, the US state and the Chinese states. Her recent work includes corporate planning of global production and innovation systems driven by intellectual monopolization and how these leading corporations, in particular tech giants, are developing state-like features, thus reshaping core and peripheral states. More about Cecilia Rikap

Keith Magee

Visiting Professor in Cultural Justice at 乱伦秀 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

The Reverend Professor Keith Magee, Th.D., FRHistS, FRSA聽is Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Practice in Cultural Justice at University College London (乱伦秀) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where he leads Black Britain and Beyond, a think tank and social policy platform. He is also a Fellow at the 乱伦秀 Centre on US Politics, and Chair and Professor of Practice in Social Justice at Newcastle University Law School.

Noted a聽public intellectual, theologian, and social justice scholar, Professor聽Magee has a professional career of over three decades in public theology, public policy and political affairs, all leading to social justice. The Biden-Harris Administration鈥檚 US Ambassador to the Court of St James鈥檚 has appointed Magee to the US-UK Fulbright Commission, having served on the Biden 2020 President Campaign鈥檚 African American Kitchen Cabinet. He is an elected Councillor of Democrats Abroad UK.聽The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan appointed him as a Commissioner on Diversity in the Public Realm. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and inducted into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars. He is the Chair of The Guardian Foundation, Trustee of The Gallery of Living History, Trustee of Facing History and Ourselves, and serves on the Board of the Foundation for Louisiana.

Professor Magee's research and teaching interests include social justice, civil rights, and voting rights and the intersection of US race, religion, and politics. He is the author of the award-winning聽Prophetic Justice: On Race, Religion and Politics, now in its second edition (2024). He is a CNN, NBC, BBC, LSE, and TIME contributor on issues of social justice, politics, race, and religion.

More about Keith Magee

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