Big Read: Week 3 | How long should a community have to wait for justice?

Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Price: free

Windrush has migrated from being the name of a vessel to a collective noun for a generation, with prejudice initially confirmed by institutional unfairness and then fuelled by an unwillingness to acknowledge either the scale of the problem, or the need for recompense.

The difficulty for us as a wider society is that this is repeated story. The infected blood scandal, the Post Office enquiry, and now the case of Andrew Malkinson, have all revealed similar tendencies to stick to an established narrative. Is this in the interests of maintaining reputation, the status quo – or pure inertia?

In this seminar, Professor Wilson Muleya looks at the arrival of the Windrush and subsequent outcomes for what is now known as the Windrush Generation. Dr Pete Finn makes comparisons with other scandals that went on for far too long. What can we learn from society's initial reluctance to acknowledge a problem? What will make us more able to spot what's wrong and be more accepting of the need to do something about it?

Speakers:

• Professor Wilson Muleya, Head of Department for Social Work and Social Care
• Dr Pete Finn, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Politics and Sociology

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