The 2025 Annual Gloria Carpenter Lecture took place on 10 November 2025, at 5.30pm, at Selwyn College.
Professor Monica Moreno Figueroa’s lecture, A Space That Makes Space for Transformation: Rethinking Racisms and the Challenge of Collaboration, explores how we can create spaces that make space — for listening, connecting, and relating — in the face of racisms and inequality.
Rather than reproducing the extractive and competitive logics that dominate academia and public life, Professor Monica Moreno Figueroa will share experiments in research and practice that place curiosity, collaboration, and transformation at their core. Drawing on global and relational perspectives, the talk considers how dismantling the logics of racisms and related inequalities requires not only analysis but also new ways of working together, cultivating communities of care, and embracing the emotional dimensions of oppression.
The event will be held both in person and online.
About the Annual Gloria Carpenter Lecture
The lecture celebrates Gloria Claire Carpenter, who was the first Black woman at the University of Cambridge. A Jamaican, she studied law at Girton College in 1945. She became a prominent social reformer, playing an instrumental role in the foundation of the Law Faculty of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.
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