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Events from the last 12 months

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Civil Rights Photojournalism and Open Letters on Race and Rights

Date: 14/05/2015
Description: Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Text Paintings and Speech Acts - Literary Encounters

Date: 28/05/2015
Description: Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Representation and Abstraction - Politics and the Body

Date: 11/06/2015
Description: Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: African American Art and Influences

Date: 07/05/2015
Description: Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.

Film Screening and Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993)

Date: 09/06/2015
Description: Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skilfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Critical Whiteness: US and UK Perspectives

Date: 01/01/1900
Description: Offered in collaboration with the Nottingham Contemporary, this panel discussion focuses on critical whiteness - from its emergence as an area of enquiry though to its significance within contemporary struggles around race and class.

The American Mind – Race, slavery and liberty

Date: 01/01/1900
Description: Please join the University of Nottingham for its annual American Studies lecture and a special Black History Month event.

Exploring Martin Luther King: the paradox of non-violence

Date: 19/10/2014
Description: People often think they know Martin Luther King Jr., but do they? Over four lectures on two Sundays in Black History Month, Peter Ling will bring you closer to the life and the man, addressing topics such as what did King bring to the civil rights movement and what did he find within it? What was his form of non-violence and how radical was it?

Malcolm X in Britain – race, immigration and the transatlantic civil rights movement

Date: 28/10/2014
Description: In late 1964 and early 1965, just weeks before he was killed, Malcolm X visited Britain. He took part in a debate at the Oxford Union, spoke at the London School of Economics and Birmingham University Students' Union, and visited Smethwick in the West Midlands to highlight the racist policies of the local MP and council who were trying to prevent the sale of homes to non-white families.

'Crossing Borders: Knowledge Networks, Ideas and Values among Cubans in Canada and Western Europe', Professor Jean Stubbs

Date: 03/02/2016
Location:: Trent Building LG11
Description: Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Research on Cuba: Research Seminar Series 2015-16 with Professor Jean Stubbs

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