Past Events

27 January, 1pm – 2:30 pm

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A BILT/CBH/UNESCO Global Chair/Bristol Conversations in Education Seminar series.

Christy Pichichero, Associate Professor of History and French at George Mason University: ‘TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies.’
27 January, 4pm – 5.30 pm on Zoom.

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Co-organised with ODSECS

Decolonising Education from Theory to Praxis – Seminar two: Conceptualising Decolonisation as Praxis. The aim of this online seminar is to set out our initial understanding of decolonisation as praxis. We will return to reconsider this understanding in the conclusion.
24 February, 1pm – 2:30 pm

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A BILT/CBH/UNESCO Global Chair/Bristol Conversations in Education Seminar series.

Kennetta Hammond Perry, (Director of The Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University), ‘Endangered Citizens and Impossible Victims:  David Oluwale and the Archive of Black Life.’
Wednesday 9th March, 4pm – 5.30pm, Humanities Building, The Research Space (first floor, room 1.H020).

Caroline Bressey, (UCL), ‘Imagining the Black Cook in Victorian England’.

In this paper I will be focusing on a strand of my current project exploring relationships of work in the multi-ethnic city at the end of the long 19^th century.  In this thread, using reports and advertisements in newspapers, I explore the labour undertaken by Black working-class women, in particular the roles they were given to play within the hierarchies of domestic labour in the spaces of domestic and commercial kitchens, and the experiences they (may have) had cooking in them.

Wednesday 16th March, 4pm – 5.30pm, online. Zoom link to follow.

Amber Lascelles (University of Bristol),  ‘“The Dancing Women Move Forward”: Embodied Black Feminist Resistance to Neoliberalism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body’

In Tsitsi Dangarembga’s acclaimed 2018 novel This Mournable Body, representations of Black women’s bodies lay bare neoliberal myths of racial equality and economic progress. Set in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare in the 2000s, the novel explores narrator Tambudzai Sigauke’s experiences of misogynoir, poverty and poor mental health. This talk argues that in addition to revealing the difficulties of agency, Dangarembga imagines embodied forms of resistance, positioning the solidarity of community as an empowering alternative to neoliberal individualism. This talk is based on a chapter of a monograph-in-progress that traces how writers including Dangarembga, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand and Bernardine Evaristo shape global conversations about Black feminism and use their fiction to reimagine the possibilities of solidarity.

Rescheduled to: Wednesday 27th April, 4pm- 5.30pm. 

Conceptualising decolonisation as praxis – Seminar three: Decolonising the Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. This online seminar will focus on efforts to decolonise the curriculum, assessment and pedagogy. Building on the theoretical insights developed in the previous seminar, it will consider what it means in practical terms to decolonise the curriculum and the implications for assessment and pedagogy. The seminar will make a case for decolonising the curriculum both in terms of realising epistemic justice but also to prepare future generations with the capabilities to lead sustainable livelihoods within culturally diverse, peaceful, just and democratic societies.
31 March, 1pm – 2:30 pm

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A BILT/CBH/UNESCO Global Chair/Bristol Conversations in Education Seminar series.

Decolonising Education from Theory to Praxis – Seminar four: Decolonising Research.The seminar will argue the central importance of decolonising research as a means for realising sustainable futures but also as a means to transform the epistemic basis of the curriculum.

19 May, 1-2:30 pm

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A BILT/CBH/UNESCO Global Chair/Bristol Conversations in Education Seminar series.

Decolonising Education from Theory to Praxis – Seminar six: Embedding Change and Future Directions. Drawing on the evidence presented in previous seminars as well as on the wider evidence base about realising change in higher education, this seminar will consider how decolonial approaches can be embedded within higher education systems and processes.
16 June, 1pm – 2:30 pm

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A BILT/CBH/UNESCO Global Chair/Bristol Conversations in Education Seminar series.