In collaboration with the University of Nottingham and Royal Institute of Philosophy, the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery invites you to this special talk.
Join Panya Banjoko, Afua Hirsch, Aness Webster and Karen Salt as the panellists for this talk on race and rasicm.
Panya Banjoko is a Nottingham based writer, Poet and Archivist whose work has been published in various anthologies. She has performed widely, including the Olympic Games (2012). She is co-founder of Nottingham Black Archive, coordinates a Writers Network and is Patron for Nottingham City of Literature. Her poem, ‘One Of A Kind’, was commended in the Writers East Midlands Poetry Competition (2017). She was one of the successful poets selected to perform in the award winning film, Brit I Am, directed by Andi Osho. Her debut collection, Some Things, will be published in June 2018 by Burning Eye Books.
Afua Hirsch is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. She is a columnist for The Guardian Newspaper, and a presenter on weekly current affairs debate show The Pledge on Sky News. She has previously worked in journalism as a West Africa correspondent, and Social Affairs editor, and in law as a human rights barrister. Brit(ish) about Britishness and identity, is published in 2018 by Jonathan Cape and is her first book.
Aness Webster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. She specialises in philosophy of race, ethics, and philosophy of law. Her research in the philosophy of race focuses on the nature of racism, in particular everyday or more subtle cases of racism. Her work pays special attention to the lived experiences of those who are targets of racism, including their emotional responses to racist incidents. She aims to make intelligible and justify many different emotional responses to racism.
Chairing this talk, Karen Salt directs the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and leads Europe’s first-ever Black Studies PhD programme—both at the University of Nottingham. Salt is an expert on sovereignty, power, collective activism and systems of governance and collaborates on a number of research projects, including the Arts Council England project, The Bigger Picture. Her monograph, The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, will be published by Liverpool University Press in Autumn 2018. She has begun work on two new monographs: States of Blackness: Nationhood and Power in Haiti, Liberia and Abyssinia and Twilight Islands: Race and Politics in the Shadows of the Caribbean.
The talk is on Thursday 26 July in The Space in the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery at 6:30pm - all are welcome though you need to book, which you can do here.
Abstract:
Contemporary Questions: Race and Racism
Join philosophers, writers, artists and activists from accross the country for a collaborative discussion exploring issues that are at the forefront of contemporary social debates. This second talk in the Contemporary Questions series focusses on Race and Racism. Racism has a long history, and constantly takes new forms as societies change. But what exactly is racism, and how do we identify it? What effects can racism have on the people who are targeted, and what should be done to end it?