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White Thinking in sport and beyond: an evening with Lilian Thuram

16 May 2022, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm

White Thinking in sport and beyond: an evening with Lilian Thuram

French former footballer Lilian Thuram joins us to discuss the changing role of athletes in the wider (geo)politics of racism & nationalism

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Mispa Same Essaka

Location

Archaeology G6 Lecture Theatre
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY

In collaboration with the Arts & Humanities faculty EDI, on Monday 16th May the SPRC is hosting the former captain of the French national team Lilian Thuram. He will be talking about his latest book, White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity (2021), discussing the comparative experience of racism in the UK and France and commenting on the changing role of professional athletes in the wider (geo)politics of racism, nationalism and austerity.

Lilian Thuram will be joined by Prof Paul Gilroy (Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre) and Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Vice-Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the Arts and Humanities faculty), Mbango Mispa SAME ESSAKA (co-chair of the Arts & Humanities faculty EDI committee) and Dr Clive Nwonka (Lecturer in Film, Culture and Society, Institute of Advanced Studies).

About the Speaker

Lilian Thuram

Lilian Thuram, born in Guadeloupe in 1972, had a prestigious international career in football for the French national team – World champion in 1998, European champion in 2000, World Cup finalist in 2006 – and played for elite European clubs such as Juventus and Barcelona. In 2008, he created the Lilian Thuram Foundation to educate against racism, and he has become a high-profile activist himself. He is the author of various non-fiction books.