Race Relations in Oxford
PAST EVENT | 03 December 2014 14:00 - 04 December 2014 16:00
This forum is convened by Professor Stephen Tuck on the subject of Race Relations in Oxford in the 1960s and the present day.
The Pembroke College Mahfouz Forum Series was established to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and discussions. Events are convened by Pembroke academics and kindly funded by Foundation Fellow HE Mahfouz bin Mahfouz.
These events are open to all:
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
2-3.45pm: Malcolm X in his final year, and in memory (venue: Pembroke Pichette Auditorium)
Talks: Saladin Ambar, Malcolm X and human rights; Dawn Marie Gibson, Malcolm X’s religion; Britta Waldschmidt Nelson, Memory of Malcolm X
Reflections: Rodnell Collins, Remembering Uncle Malcolm; Louis Nthenda, Meeting Malcolm X
Chair: Stephen Tuck (Pembroke)
5pm: Malcolm X’s speech at the Oxford Union (venue: Oxford Union, St Michael's St)
Comments: Angela Davis (American Civil Rights activist since 1960s); Ben Okri (Booker-prize winning author and poet); Christie Davis (part of original Union debate, 1964); Graeme Abernethy (Author of The Iconography of Malcolm X)
Reflections: Hope Abrahams (sister of 1964 Union President)
Chair: Elleke Boehmer (Professor of English Literature)
Thursday 4th December 2014
10am: Civil Rights Circulations (venue: Pembroke Pichette Auditorium)
Talks: Imaobong Umoren, Race women across borders; Joe Street, Malcolm X in Smethwick, 1965; Jed Fazakerly, British multiculturalism
Reflections: Donald Hinds (author of Journey to an Illusion 1966)
Chair: Joshua Aiken (Pembroke)
12.30pm: Seeking racial equality in Oxford, 1964 and 2014 (venue: Pembroke JCR)
Roundtable: Clive Sneddon (Author of report on colour bar in student housing, 1964); Louis Nthenda (who invited Malcolm X to Oxford); Michael Joseph (Pembroke, former CRAE chair); Anne Meeker (St Hugh’s, current CRAE co-chair); Anuradha Henriques (Wadham, co-author 100 Voices)
Please note that the Oxford Union will be holding a debate to commemorate Malcolm X's visit 50 years ago, on Wednesday 3rd December (open to Union members only: see www.oxford-union.org for more):
8pm: “This house believes extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice.” Participants include: Cornell West (American philosopher, academic and activist), Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty), Angela Davis
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Race Relations in Oxford
PAST EVENT | 03 December 2014 14:00 - 04 December 2014 16:00
This forum is convened by Professor Stephen Tuck on the subject of Race Relations in Oxford in the 1960s and the present day.
The Pembroke College Mahfouz Forum Series was established to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and discussions. Events are convened by Pembroke academics and kindly funded by Foundation Fellow HE Mahfouz bin Mahfouz.
These events are open to all:
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
2-3.45pm: Malcolm X in his final year, and in memory (venue: Pembroke Pichette Auditorium)
Talks: Saladin Ambar, Malcolm X and human rights; Dawn Marie Gibson, Malcolm X’s religion; Britta Waldschmidt Nelson, Memory of Malcolm X
Reflections: Rodnell Collins, Remembering Uncle Malcolm; Louis Nthenda, Meeting Malcolm X
Chair: Stephen Tuck (Pembroke)
5pm: Malcolm X’s speech at the Oxford Union (venue: Oxford Union, St Michael's St)
Comments: Angela Davis (American Civil Rights activist since 1960s); Ben Okri (Booker-prize winning author and poet); Christie Davis (part of original Union debate, 1964); Graeme Abernethy (Author of The Iconography of Malcolm X)
Reflections: Hope Abrahams (sister of 1964 Union President)
Chair: Elleke Boehmer (Professor of English Literature)
Thursday 4th December 2014
10am: Civil Rights Circulations (venue: Pembroke Pichette Auditorium)
Talks: Imaobong Umoren, Race women across borders; Joe Street, Malcolm X in Smethwick, 1965; Jed Fazakerly, British multiculturalism
Reflections: Donald Hinds (author of Journey to an Illusion 1966)
Chair: Joshua Aiken (Pembroke)
12.30pm: Seeking racial equality in Oxford, 1964 and 2014 (venue: Pembroke JCR)
Roundtable: Clive Sneddon (Author of report on colour bar in student housing, 1964); Louis Nthenda (who invited Malcolm X to Oxford); Michael Joseph (Pembroke, former CRAE chair); Anne Meeker (St Hugh’s, current CRAE co-chair); Anuradha Henriques (Wadham, co-author 100 Voices)
Please note that the Oxford Union will be holding a debate to commemorate Malcolm X's visit 50 years ago, on Wednesday 3rd December (open to Union members only: see www.oxford-union.org for more):
8pm: “This house believes extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice.” Participants include: Cornell West (American philosopher, academic and activist), Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty), Angela Davis
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