Seminar Series TB2 2019/20
Michell Chresfield (University of Birmingham), ‘Race, Identity, and the Making of America’s Triracial Isolates’
Wednesday 12th February, 4pm, Fry Building, Room G.09
James Dawkins (University College London), ‘Shared History / Conflicting Memories – Remembering the Slave- owning History of the Dawkins Family, 1664-1833’
Wednesday 22nd April, 4pm, Fry Building, Room G.09
Symposium: What is the Reparative History of Race? Tuesday 5th May, 3.30pm, Lecture Room 8, Arts Complex Co-hosted with the Department of History
Speakers:
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Kennetta Perry, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre (De Montfort
University)
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Shahmima Akhtar (Institute of Historical Research)
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Jessica Moody (University of Bristol)
Seminar Series TB1 2019/20
Dr Stephen Mullen and Marenka Thompson-Odlum (Glasgow)
Wed 9 October, ‘Slavery, Abolition, and the University of Glasgow’ 4pm, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, LR8.
Karfa Diallo, Founder of Mémoires et Partage and Bordeaux's Black History Month, ‘Expériences sociales et pédagogiques d'un travail sur la mémoire de la traite négrière à Bordeaux, premier port colonial français.’
Wed 16 October, 1-2pm, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, LR8. (Note: this talk will be in French.)
Host department: French, in collaboration with the Bristol Bordeaux Partnership http://www.bristolbordeaux.org/
Dr David Kerr (Johannesburg), ‘Playing with space and time: Street sonics and electronic music production in Dar es Salaam’.
Tues 12 November, 4:30pm, G16, Victoria Rooms
Co-hosted with the Department of Music
Dr James McNally (Bristol), ‘‘From St. P to Southern Meadows: Towards an Afro-Bristolian Hip-Hop Perspective’
Tues 3 December, 4:30pm, G16, Victoria Rooms
Co-hosted with the Department of Music.
Seminar Series TB2 2018/19
Dr James West (Northumbria University), ‘Write Me In!: African American Third Party Candidates and the 1968 Presidential Campaign’
Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16.00pm, Woodland Road 10, G4/5
Dr James McNally (Bristol), ‘From St. P to Southern Meadows: Towards an Afro-Bristolian Hip-Hop Perspective’
Tuesday 19 February 2019, 4.30pm, Room G16, Victoria Rooms
Music research seminar (Co-hosted with the Centre for Black Humanities)
Professor Hazel Carby (Yale University), ‘Difficult Times’
Tuesday 12 March 2019, Centre for Black Humanities Annual Lecture 2019 Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, 17.00pm
Dr Anyaa Anim-Addo (Leeds), ‘“The Greatest Fair in the History of the West Indies”: Politics and Promoting Place, 1891-1939’
Tuesday 2 April 2019, 15.30pm, Arts Complex Lecture Room 8 (Co-hosted with Department of History)
Seminar Series TB1 2018/19
Ronnie McGrath, “Signs and symbols: the consciousness of 'Black art' in the postmodern world.”
17 October 2018, 4.00 PM - 5.00 PM (LT3, Arts Complex)
Dr Lara Choksey, "Welfare Fictions: Post-war Meritocracy and the Brixton Uprising."
15 November 2018, 4.00 PM - 5.00 PM (LR8, Arts Complex)
"Missing Voices ….The battle of Cuito Cuanavale “
Talk and film screening on the battle that Nelson Mandela described as 'the turning point for the liberation of our continent and my people'
with Colonel Rui Goncalves, Military Attaché Angolan Embassy and Simon Bright, Documentary Filmmaker
26 November 2018, 4.00 - 5.30pm (Priory Road Complex, D Block, 2D3)
Nick Aikens, “Curating Black British Art.”
4 December 2018, 3.15 PM - 4.15 PM (Senate House Seminar Room 5.10)