WHBBHX
What’s Happening in Black British History? X
Workshop
Ken Edwards Building
University Road, The University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH
Thursday 2ndMay 2019
10.30- 11.00 Registration: Tea & Coffee
11.00-11.30 SESSION ONE: New Books
Chair: Miranda Kaufmann (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Chris Zembe Black British History: New Perspectives from the Roman Times to the Present Day, ed. Hakim Adi (ZED Books, March 2019)
Kate Morrison The Book of Secrets(Jacaranda, April 2019)
Rob Waters, Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (University of California Press, December 2018)
SESSION ONE podcast
11.30-13.20 SESSION TWO: Archeological Evidence of Africans in Britain
Chair: Jose Carvajal Lopez (University of Leicester)
Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Leicester) From Carthage to Cornwall: Africans in Ancient Britain
Mathew Morris (University of Leicester Archeological Services) Africans in Roman Leicester? New evidence for ancient multiculturalism
Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London) Bioarchelogicq I al Evidence for population diversity in Medieval London
Jessica Scorrer and Katie E Faillace (Cardiff University) Skeletons of the Mary Rose: The Evidence for North Africans aboard a Tudor warship
SESSION TWO podcast
13.20- 14.00 LUNCH
14.00- 15.50 SESSION THREE: The Dual Heritage Experience in Britain
Chair: Jordan Harris (University of Leicester)
Liam McCarthy (University of Leicester)Racism, Violence and Sex: An alternative history of the American ‘occupation’ of Leicester in the Second World War
Sue Bishop (University of Leicester)Redefining the Domestic Politics of British ‘Blackness’? ‘Mixed’ Black Caribbean and white British romantic relationships in postwar Leicester
Annabelle Gilmore (University of Sheffield)Walking the Line: Parallels of mixed-race identity in the eighteenth and twenty-first century
Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester)Cultural resistance’ and shifting notions of blackness in local football in Leicester c 1970-2010: What is Cavaliers FC resisting now?
SESSION THREE podcast
15.50- 16.10 TEA/COFFEE
16.10-17.10 KEYNOTE followed by Q&A Kennetta Hammond Perry (Director, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montford University, Leicester)
KEYNOTE podcast
17.10- 18.00 Final Thoughts and Reflections on the Day
Chair: Michael Ohajuru(Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
We will invite the audience to contribute their thoughts too, so be ready!
18.10- 19.00 Drinks Reception(Attenborough Arts)