Black Britain Virtual Speaker Series
The British, Irish and Empire Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin's fall 2021 semester theme is Black Britain. For further information, please contact Marian Barber at Marian.Barber@austin.utexas.edu. All panels are at noon Central Time (18:00GMT). Our panels are as follows.
Monday, 4 October, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Zoom registration required: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/8699589695
The Contours of Race in Britain Past and Present
Shahmima Akhtar, Royal Holloway University of London
Liam Liburd, University of Durham
Thursday, 21 October 10, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Forgotten Lives: The Individual and the Archive in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Black British History
Gretchen Gerzina, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
Ryan Hanley, Exeter University
Friday, 29 October, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Early Modern Black Britain: Now and Then
Tamara Lewis, Southern Methodist University
John Meyer, University of Texas at Austin
Friday 12 November, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Race, Ethnicity and the Visual Arts in 21st Century Britain
Eddie Chambers , University of Texas at Austin
Richard Hylton, SOAS, London
Monday, 6 December, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Borders, Deportation and Discrimination
Luke De Noronha, University College London
Andrew Thompson, Oxford University
Philippa Levine, Director, Program in British, Irish and Empire Studies, University of Texas at Austin