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Autumn Term

Tuesday 30^th October

Annual Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture

Professor Carole Boyce-Davies (Cornell University, New York)

‘Re-Grounding the Intellectual Activist Model of Walter Rodney’

Tuesday 20^th November

Manuel Valle (visiting doctoral researcher from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid)

‘From Columbia University to Puerto Rico: The formation of Sidney Mintz’s anthropological perspective’

 

Spring Term

Tuesday 29^th January 2019

Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Professor of English Literature, King’s College London)

‘Creolité and Coolitude: The Indian on the Plantation’

Tuesday 26^th February

‘Slavery > Archive < History’

 Christer Petley (Professor of Atlantic History, University of Southampton)

Author of White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Summer Term

Tuesday 18^th June

Dr Renee Nelson (University of the West Indies)

"British West Indian Attitudes Towards Migration, 1948-1962"

Renee A. Nelson is lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Her research is concerned with the impact of West Indian migration on the UK in the post-World War II period - specifically, the contributions of West Indian migrants to the auxiliary services.

 

Exhibitions

Two linked exhibitions on campus organized by the Centre for the History of Medicine, celebrated the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants to the NHS and to British culture and society at large.

'Here to Stay'

Saturday 15^th June – Saturday 29^th June 2019

Oculus Building, main campus, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

This series of portraits captured by local artist Ines Dalal, of Windrush/Windrush heritage NHS staff, was accompanied by testimonies about their experiences.

Documents exhibition

20^th May – 12^th July

Modern Records office

This exhibition used archives from the Modern Record Centre’s collections to look at the experiences and contributions of BAME people to British life across the 20^th Century. It was a companion exhibition to Here to Stay.

This exhibition included documents from the 1920s to the 1990s with a particular emphasis on Britain’s health services, family and home, and the arts.