2024-25 events

Book Talk and Discussion

Joint event with YPCCs and the Global History and Culture Centre 17 October, byJonathan Connolly, University of Illinois, Chicago:

Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labour in the Era of Emancipation (2024)

Annual Walter Rodney Lecture,29 October

Professor Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths)

‘Without limits: Walter Rodney’s radical Caribbean “groundings” and its continuities within diasporic practices, including the arts’

Research seminar,26 November

'Intellectual Gaslighting: Mapping the Decolonial Erasures and Recovery of Global Black Geographies in Europe'.

Dr Agostinho Pinnock, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

Research seminar,21 January

Dr Elizabeth Egan and Dr Anna Neima (University of Warwick) will hold a discussion on ‘Whiteness in the Caribbean: Histories, Cultures, Politics'.

Panel discussion, 4 March

Public History and the Caribbean

Prof. Katherine Astbury (consultant for ‘War and Resistance in the Caribbean: The Monuments at St Paul’s Cathedral’)

Maureen Cottle (curator of ‘Black in the Day’ at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum and ‘Britain Needs You’ at Belgrade Theatre)

Lily Crowther (curator of ‘Leamington Spa and the Black Atlantic’ at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum)