Posts tagged with ‘Black History Month 2016’
The evolution of an EMCEE: History of hip hop with Akala
History of Hip Hop – The Evolution of an Emcee – Overview of the oral traditions, musical, cultural and political movements that have contributed to the evolution of Emceeing so far with guest speaker, Akala.
Tags: akala, Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, emcee, hip hop, people and culture
Kathak dance taster sessions
Join us for an for some invigorating Kathak dance taster sessions with teacher Vina Ladwa right here at the University!
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, dancing, kathak
CANCELLED – Street Dance: demo and lesson
It’s not every day that we have a Street Dance demo and lesson right here at the University so make sure you don’t miss out!
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, street dance
Salsa: demonstration and teaching
Join us for an for an invigorating demonstration and teaching of Salsa right here at the University!
How interdisciplinary research can engage young minds through outreach
With ever-increasing funding constraints from ‘traditional’ UK research councils, in addition to the resulting uncertainty in long-term EU funding due to the outcome of the UK Brexit vote, the need for demonstrating the impact of research that goes ‘beyond academia’ has never been greater.
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, colloquium, dr mark richards, School of Physics and Astronomy
Making Black histories visible in Cotton Heritage venues in the Derwent Valley
Presented by the School of Geography and Institute for the Study of Slavery in association with the AHRC Global Cotton Connections project and Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group.
Tags: AHRC Global Cotton Connections project, Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Institute for the Study of Slavery, Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group, School of Geography
The Slave’s Cause: A New History of Abolition
Please join the Department of American and Canadian Studies and the Centre for Research in Race and Rights for its distinguished annual lecture, delivered this year by Professor Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut, and a world-leading expert on the history of slavery and abolition.
Tags: abolition, Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, slavery
Sembene!
In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a dockworker and school dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This feature-length documentary tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema”, the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give African stories to Africans.
Tags: BFI, Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, sembene!, The National Lottery
Let’s play vinyl
Don’t miss the chance to play your old reggae records on this Heritage HiFi. Dust off your old 45s and join us.
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Heritage HiFi, people and culture
The October Dialogues 2016
On the 200th anniversary of Bussa’s Uprising to end slavery in Barbados, join us for a day of dialogues and debates on transatlantic slavery and its legacies.
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Nottingham Contemporary, renaissance one, the october dialogues 2016