22 September - 31 October 2020, 10:00 - 18:00
Digital exhibition curated by Professor Lucy Bland, based on her book Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’, the Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War.
21 October 2020, 18:30 - 19:30
Dr Cynthia Okpokiri presents her ongoing research to explore how authority figures interact with black children, young people and parents/carers in sectors including education, social work and social care, law and justice, and health care.
22 October 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
Black Thought, Social Justice, and Embracing a Humanizing Critical Sociocultural Knowledge of Teaching, talk with Prof. Keffrelyn D. Brown.
28 October 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Join us for a fascinating talk from Prof Graham Farrell (University of Leeds) on how crime has changed as a result of COVID-1D, how we can reduce its harms, and how it might continue to change in the post-covid world.
28 October 2020, 19:30 - 20:30
Join Asanté as she discusses her experience of how black history was taught, not only with a focus on ‘African Americans’ but also black people as slaves in which she argues “has created a significant misrepresentation of the presence of black people in the UK”.
29 October 2020, 19:30 - 20:30
This is a contemporary poem written and performed by Taylor Mitchell. ‘Your silence violates us with violence’ illustrates the amalgamation of British and American culture in relation to race and systemically ingrained racism that has been woven into the fabric of our western entertainment and media.
10 November 2020, 14:30 - 15:30
Focusing on practices of care, this conversational event brings together science and art in the context of environmental issues and air quality.
10 November 2020, 19:00 - 20:00
Marina Velez Vago investigates the idea that new values and re-valuing can emerge from working-with local farmers and shepherds, and looks at these through the lens of the works produced as well as through conversations, pastoral walks and interventions.
11 November 2020, 16:30 - 17:30
Join us for a fascinating talk from Essex Police's Joanne Traynor about the inter-personal and situational factors that influence how communications officers interpret and code police incident logs.
11 November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Jane Heal, University of Cambridge, discusses the importance of shared projects and the first-person plural.