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What’s Happening in Black British History? VII Workshop
Note new venue ..
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Thursday 26th October 2017
10.00- 10:30 Registration: tea & coffee
10.30- 11:30 Keynote Speaker David Olusoga
11.30- 13:00 Session One: Broadcasting Black British History
Chair: Jyoti Mehta
Catherine Fletcher (Swansea University) Broadcasting and the historian
James Van Der Pool (BBC TV Producer) The Making of BBC 2’s series Black and British: Forgotten History
Colin Grant (BBC Radio Producer) The perils of mimicry and minstrelsy in broadcasting
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session Two: What do young people see happening in Black British History?
Chair: Thabo Stuck (The BRIT school, Croydon)
The three speakers are students at the BRIT school
Black History in the curriculum and school.
Past & Present: Black History in the local community.
Cultural Appropriation
15:00 – 16:30 Session Three: Imagination and Reality: Africans in Sixteenth Century Britain
Chair: Michael Ohajuru
Miranda Kaufmann (Institute for Commonwealth Studies) ‘An Untold Black Tudor story: Edward Swarthye, alias negro”
Cassander L. Smith (University of Alabama) Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Saviors and Black Legend Rhetoric in 16th Century Guinea.
Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University, Virginia) What Mary Phyllis Said: An Inquiry into the Politics of the meaning of Black Voices in the English Archives.
16: 30- 17:00 Tea/coffee
17:00 – 17:30 Final Thoughts and Conclusions Panel
Chair: Ali Meghji
Panel: To Be Announced
17:00 – 18:30 Reception
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Pleased to announce date and venue for What’s Happening in Black British History VII WHBBH7
Note new venue ..
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Thursday 26th October 2017
Keynote speaker – David Olusoga
