Welcome everyone and thank you for joining us! This seminar is co-hosted by: Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE); Centre for Black Humanities; and the Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM)Please note that this meeting will be recorded and shared on our websites. Please note that the chat will also be recorded and shared.

Welcome everyone and thank you for joining us! This seminar is co-hosted by: Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE); Centre for Black Humanities; and the Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM)Please note that this meeting will be recorded and shared on our websites. Please note that the chat will also be recorded and shared.

Please use the chat function to introduce yourselves if you feel comfortable doing so and to contribute thoughts and comments, including introducing your own work as relevant to Mills. You may also use the chat function to ask any general questions - we will try to return to these in the discussion.If you wish to ask questions in person during the Q&A session at the end of the presentation, please use the ‘raise hand’ function.

Hi everyone, this I’m joining from the School of Education at Bristol. Thanks to the organisers and speakers for this wonderful event!

Me too, tuning in from Berkley Square. Thanks so much to the organisers & presenters for this important event!

Hi everyone. Great to be here. I’ve just joined SPAIS at Bristol as a postdoc.

Congrats & welcome, Chloe!

Hello Everyone. I'm in another office in BSq. Perhaps we should have arranged to be in the same room!

Here's a link to Zara's excellent paper - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449642.2018.1428716

What a beautiful and accurate overview, Zara, thank you.

Such a wonderful opening speech, Zara - thank you.

Sharon, we lost you!

Yes

By the way, just joining from the University of Bristol Philosophy Department. And wishing congratulations and welcome, Chloe! For those who don’t know, Chloe is joining us from an ESRC-funded University of Manchester research project that she has been doing with Gary Younge, Meghan Tinsley, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, exploring processes of contesting and removing statues that memorialise histories of slavery and colonialism.

Thank you Zara for your opening speech and tribute. 🙏

And Chloe will be returning to her PhD work on racial ignorance and UK criminal justice.

Thanks v much Joanna and Elspeth! Looking forward to connecting with many of you this year

Thanks for such an insightful, disturbing & moving presentation, Sharon

Yes, thanks for sharing Sharon and Zara

Thank you. Sharon. for the insights, connections, and embodied emotion.

Thank you Sharon and thank you Zara for a beautiful opening speech and for continuing researching white ignorance and inspiring others to engage with the work by Charles Mills.

Thank you Sharon for this beautiful tribute, for sharing your experience and insight, and inspiration 🙏

Thanks, Foluke. So delighted that you inserted that quote from Lewis G (who introduced me —in real life — to Charles) about love.

Just a heads up that I'm having some connection issues so I'm unable to see the chat: I saw glimpses of some messages both direct and general, and thank you so much for listening to my piece and to Sharon, Arathi and Foluke for their talks so far -- if you'd like to get in touch, please email me at zb14102@bristol.ac.uk, thank you

Thank you, Zara. I think we are having some bad connection luck. I have also been having trouble.

Thank you Kal! and Wow!

Tentatively still in chat - fwiw Charles wrote a 2017 paper titled 'ideology' in the Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice in which he engages Du Bois's veil of ignorance, which Elspeth has just mentioned https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315212043-10/ideology-charles-mills

Elspeth, Foluke, Arathi, Sharon, Zara, Julia - thank you all for such insightful, inspiring and moving contributions. My connection is patchy so I’m going to sign off but I’d love to listen to the rest of the recording later if possible. Wonderful event, thank you all.

Beautiful, moving tributes. Thanks to all the speakers

Thanks so much for this amazing panel. Mills' scholarship has been incredible in unpicking race and racism in many ways. The question is how do we begin to use Mills in places such as Central and Eastern Europe where race is perceived to take different trajectory compared to Western Europe and America?

Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-conflict, Postcolonial? Many thanks Zara.

That sounds like the one, Bobbi! You're so welcome

Many thanks Linda, Brilliantly put!

Really interested in your reflections Foluke - I’m thinking about how forms of ignorance are mobilised by the criminal justice system in legitimising its violent and racist policies and practices. Still thinking through this, but these alternative conceptions of justice seem really helpful in thinking bout some of the selective and forgetful framings of harm and justice that are so important in this process…

And love the idea about the missing scenes - very helpful!

I am so moved by Charles Mill's work, it inspired so many people, his own kindness and careful grappling with the roots of the problems he addressed, is so profound - as is his dedication to deep scholarship. Remembering him as that gentle giant, is fitting as it reminds us to learn to become scholars that can exemplify this kind of generosity, kindness and dedication to fundamental scholarship.

I have to leave now, but thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts, reflections and memories. I have found it very interesting and now have lots more to think about and read.

Chloe - the paper by Mills on 'White Time' is fascinating... he argues that rectificatory justice is always cast as 'untimely'

Thanks Arathi - wonderful

Thanks to all the speakers and everyone who joined!

Thank you so much for this work and in solidarity. I am looking at the issues of epistemic injustice and justice in global academic knowledge production space and would be keen to stay in touch with the researchers from this group. Best wishes, Olga

Thank you to all the speakers and everyone gathered.

Thank you to everyone for so generously sharing your thoughts and work! And deepest condolences to all who loved him.

Thank you for holding space for such a deeply moving, hopeful, caring and rigorous sharing today. It has been a privilege to attend today. What a fitting tribute to an extraordinary and exceptional scholar.

A huge thank you to Julia for her wonderful chairing!!!

Thank you so much everyone.