Seminar series | Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
PAST EVENT | 14 May 2019 17:00 - 11 June 2019 17:00
Seminar Convenor: Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History, Barnard College, Visiting Fulbright Professor, Pembroke College, and DPIR
Join us on Tuesdays at 17:00 during Trinity Term for a special seminar series convened by this year’s Visiting Fulbright Professor, Premilla Nadasen, exploring the history of anti-racist activism and organizing.
No registration is required for these seminars.
Seminar 5: Tuesday, June 11 (7th week), The Harold Lee room, 5pm: “Reproduction in the Afterlife of US Slavery”, Presenter: Dána-Ain Davis
“Reproduction in the Afterlife of US Slavery”, Presenter: Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center in New York. Davis’ work covers two broad domains: Black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. With regard to the former, Davis has co-edited or co-authored two books on feminist ethnography with Christa Craven, reasserting the importance of feminist ethnographic production as a fundamental anthropological intervention. The most recent being Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (2016). Davis also examines the ways race and racism animate neoliberalism and reproduction. This foci has resulted in one co-edited volume with Shaka McGlotten, Black Genders and Sexualities(2013) and two single authored books Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and Hard Place (2006) and the recently published Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (2019).
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Seminar 4: Tuesday, June 4 (6th week), The Harold Lee room, 5pm: “The Black Revolution: The Urgent Need for Radical Politics”, Presenter: Dr. Kehinde Andrews
“The Black Revolution: The Urgent Need for Radical Politics”, Presenter: Dr. Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews is a Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University’s School of Social Sciences. Andrews is currently engaged in a project examining the role of Black radicalism in contemporary organising against racial oppression. At Birmingham, he has led the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association. He is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of race, ethnicity and racism; Black Studies and how communities overcome inequality. His most recent book is Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018).
Seminar 3: Tuesday, May 28, (5th week) The Harold Lee room, 5pm: “Black British Feminist Organising: Politics, Practice and Influence in a New Era”, Presenter: Chardine Taylor-Stone
Chardine Taylor-Stone is an award-winning cultural producer and feminist activist.
She is the founder of Black Girls Picnic a global movement in collective self-care for Black women and girls and Stop Rainbow Racism. In 2015 she was featured in The Voice newspaper as one of the 'Women Who Rocked the World' , Diva Magazine’s LGBT Power List 2016 and Buzzfeed’s ‘The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016‘ and the 'Pride Power List 2017'. In 2017 she was awarded the British LGBTQ award for Contribution to LGBTQ life. As a writer, educator and commentator Chardine uses music, art and fashion history to instigate socio-political analysis. She often lectures and facilitates workshops on topics such as Black / Working Class feminism, Black Queer identities, Afrofuturism and music subculture histories. She also bangs the drums in Black feminist punk band Big Joanie whose album Sistah’s was released in 2018 to critical acclaim.
Seminar 2: Tuesday, May 21, (4th week) The Mary Hyde Eccles room, 5pm: “Education in Exile: Palestinians Schooling, 1948–1967”, Presenter: Mezna Qato
Mezna Qato is a junior research fellow in history at King's College, Cambridge. She is completing a book on the history of education for Palestinians in the aftermath of the 1948 war. Her work revolves around three themes: social histories of Palestinian and Arab exile, the politics and practice of archives, and comparative settler colonialism. Her next project is a history of Palestinians in Haiti. She is a founding committee member of the Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, an editorial board member of the Middle East Research and Information Project, and co-author of An Arab Left Reader (forthcoming). Her most recent artwork, a scorebook on life in exile, was recently in exhibition at the 16th Venice Biennale.
Seminar 1: Tuesday, May 14, (3rd Week) The Pichette Auditorium, 5pm: “Writing Black Britain a Reflection: The Case of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Black Activism”, Presenter: Elizabeth Williams
Based at Goldsmiths University of London, Elizabeth is a historian of Modern British and South African History and the history of the Black Diaspora. Since successfully acquiring a PhD in History from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London, Dr. Williams has written and published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and published the single-authored book, The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle (IB Tauris pbk 2017). Among various projects, she is currently editing a book on Black British intellectual engagement with the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Dr. Williams has guest lectured in the UK and internationally such as the national University of Malta, the Universities of Cape Town, Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, Sol Plaatje University, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and more.
Seminar series | Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
PAST EVENT | 14 May 2019 17:00 - 11 June 2019 17:00
Seminar Convenor: Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History, Barnard College, Visiting Fulbright Professor, Pembroke College, and DPIR
Join us on Tuesdays at 17:00 during Trinity Term for a special seminar series convened by this year’s Visiting Fulbright Professor, Premilla Nadasen, exploring the history of anti-racist activism and organizing.
No registration is required for these seminars.
Seminar 5: Tuesday, June 11 (7th week), The Harold Lee room, 5pm: “Reproduction in the Afterlife of US Slavery”, Presenter: Dána-Ain Davis
“Reproduction in the Afterlife of US Slavery”, Presenter: Dána-Ain Davis
Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center in New York. Davis’ work covers two broad domains: Black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. With regard to the former, Davis has co-edited or co-authored two books on feminist ethnography with Christa Craven, reasserting the importance of feminist ethnographic production as a fundamental anthropological intervention. The most recent being Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (2016). Davis also examines the ways race and racism animate neoliberalism and reproduction. This foci has resulted in one co-edited volume with Shaka McGlotten, Black Genders and Sexualities(2013) and two single authored books Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and Hard Place (2006) and the recently published Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (2019).
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Seminar 4: Tuesday, June 4 (6th week), The Harold Lee room, 5pm: “The Black Revolution: The Urgent Need for Radical Politics”, Presenter: Dr. Kehinde Andrews
“The Black Revolution: The Urgent Need for Radical Politics”, Presenter: Dr. Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews is a Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University’s School of Social Sciences. Andrews is currently engaged in a project examining the role of Black radicalism in contemporary organising against racial oppression. At Birmingham, he has led the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association. He is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of race, ethnicity and racism; Black Studies and how communities overcome inequality. His most recent book is Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018).
Seminar 3: Tuesday, May 28, (5th week) The Harold Lee room, 5pm: “Black British Feminist Organising: Politics, Practice and Influence in a New Era”, Presenter: Chardine Taylor-Stone
Chardine Taylor-Stone is an award-winning cultural producer and feminist activist.
She is the founder of Black Girls Picnic a global movement in collective self-care for Black women and girls and Stop Rainbow Racism. In 2015 she was featured in The Voice newspaper as one of the 'Women Who Rocked the World' , Diva Magazine’s LGBT Power List 2016 and Buzzfeed’s ‘The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016‘ and the 'Pride Power List 2017'. In 2017 she was awarded the British LGBTQ award for Contribution to LGBTQ life. As a writer, educator and commentator Chardine uses music, art and fashion history to instigate socio-political analysis. She often lectures and facilitates workshops on topics such as Black / Working Class feminism, Black Queer identities, Afrofuturism and music subculture histories. She also bangs the drums in Black feminist punk band Big Joanie whose album Sistah’s was released in 2018 to critical acclaim.
Seminar 2: Tuesday, May 21, (4th week) The Mary Hyde Eccles room, 5pm: “Education in Exile: Palestinians Schooling, 1948–1967”, Presenter: Mezna Qato
Mezna Qato is a junior research fellow in history at King's College, Cambridge. She is completing a book on the history of education for Palestinians in the aftermath of the 1948 war. Her work revolves around three themes: social histories of Palestinian and Arab exile, the politics and practice of archives, and comparative settler colonialism. Her next project is a history of Palestinians in Haiti. She is a founding committee member of the Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, an editorial board member of the Middle East Research and Information Project, and co-author of An Arab Left Reader (forthcoming). Her most recent artwork, a scorebook on life in exile, was recently in exhibition at the 16th Venice Biennale.
Seminar 1: Tuesday, May 14, (3rd Week) The Pichette Auditorium, 5pm: “Writing Black Britain a Reflection: The Case of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Black Activism”, Presenter: Elizabeth Williams
Based at Goldsmiths University of London, Elizabeth is a historian of Modern British and South African History and the history of the Black Diaspora. Since successfully acquiring a PhD in History from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London, Dr. Williams has written and published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and published the single-authored book, The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle (IB Tauris pbk 2017). Among various projects, she is currently editing a book on Black British intellectual engagement with the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Dr. Williams has guest lectured in the UK and internationally such as the national University of Malta, the Universities of Cape Town, Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, Sol Plaatje University, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and more.