Celebrate Black History Month 2016

The University of Nottingham is celebrating Black History Month with music, public lectures, open discussion and […]

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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

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.

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Beyond the walls: murals as activism

Join us as we reflect on the success of Nottingham’s first Black History Mural and screen a new film, Beyond the Walls.

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2016, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, New Art Exchange

Ethnic homelands: contemporary and historical perspectives

Please join the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice and the Centre for Research in Race and Rights for a panel discussion on ethnic homelands in contemporary and historical perspective.

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Majority Nationalism: from inclusion to exclusion

Eric Kaufmann will deliver a public lecture on ‘Majority Nationalism: from inclusion to exclusion’, as part of a workshop organised at The University of Nottingham.

Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Eric Kaufmann, nationalism, the Identities Citizenship Equalities and Migration Centre, the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area

The early years of the Black Panther Party

Please join the Centre for Research in Rights and the Department of American and Canadian Studies for this special lecture by Dr. Joe Street to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party: “The Baddest Motherf****rs Who Ever Stepped Foot Inside History: The Early Years of the Black Panther Party.”

Tags: America, Black Panther Party, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, civil rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Joe Street, race

Injustice – a film about the struggle for justice

Please join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights in association with Bright Ideas Nottingham, Embrace, Nottingham Black History Society, and the Nottingham Black Lives Matter chapter for a screening of Injustice (2001).

Tags: America, Black Lives Matter, Bright Ideas, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Embrace in Community, justice, law, Nottingham Black History Society, police, race, Rights and Justice

Heavenly sounds in hi-fi: the art and philosophy of easy listening

Alternately despised and rehabilitated, easy listening music dominated the popular music landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, introduces a selection of recordings that attempts to encompass a sprawling, multifaceted and complex genre.

Tags: American Music Listening Group, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, race and rights, seminar

The rebirth of the protest song in the era of #BlackLivesMatter

Music has played a key role in the angry response to racist policing and contemporary America. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, plays and discusses some examples and asks whether the protest song is enjoying an artistic and political renaissance.

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