This free event is on the Windrush day next Tuesday 22 June with a keynote lecture by Stella Dadzie who will be discussing her latest book A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance.

Other speakers include Mike Anderson, Cathy Bergin, Paris Connolly, Ursula Edgington, Prof Richard Hall, Marlon Moncrieffe, Patricia Neville, Anita Rupprecht, Gill Scott, Lukasz Swiatek and Vedrana Velickovic.

With panels on ‘Anti-colonial pasts in the present’, ‘Building Anti-Racist Universities’, ‘Legacies of Sussex slave-ownership and abolitionism’, and ‘Remembering Windrush and its legacies’, this one day symposium aims to hold a conversation about ‘doing anti-racist research’ in the context of Black Lives Matter, Rhodes Must Fall, decolonising the curriculum and other initiatives in HE and wider anti-racist activism.

For further details and registration link, please visit:

http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-memory-narrative-and-histories/centre-events/annual-symposia/cmnh-symposium-anti-racist-research-in-the-age-of-black-lives-matter2