Outline programme: (provisional)
Thursday 2nd November, 2017
City North Campus, Perry Barr
12pm-1pm | Registration |
1pm – 1.45pm |
Introduction: Kehinde Andrews |
1.45pm - 2.30pm |
Panel: Why Black Studies? With Black Studies Students |
2.30pm-3.30pm | Panel: Religion and Spirituality |
4pm - 5.30pm |
Panel: The Journey to Black Liberation |
5.30pm – 6.30pm |
Dinner |
6.30pm – 7.30pm |
Keynote: Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira |
7.30pm- 8.30pm |
Keynote: Audience with Linton Kwesi Johnson |
Friday 3rd November, 2017
City North Campus, Perry Barr
1pm – 2.30pm |
Panel: Black Radical Pedagogy |
2.30pm – 4pm |
Exhale Performance and Workshop |
4.30pm - 5.10pm |
Black Archives with BCA and New Urban Collective (Amsterdam) |
5.10pm - 5.40 | Presentation of Artwork: Joyce Treasure (Black Studies Student) |
5.40pm – 6.30pm |
Dinner |
6.30pm – 7.30pm |
Panel: Neo-liberal Critical Black Studies and Black Study |
7.30pm - 8.00pm | Huey and Louis: Short film with director Q and A |
8pm- 8.45pm |
Keynote: Aurora Vergara Figueroa |
Saturday 4th November, 2017
Curzon Building, City Centre
10am - 3.30pm |
There will be sessions running about the Black Studies degree and the Library of Birmingham has offered a tour of their archive for those who sign up.
More details of both to follow. |
3.30pm – 5pm |
Plenary: Making Blackness Visible Feat. New Urban Collective, Ylva Habel, Black Cultural Archives, Mónica Moreno Figueroa |
5pm – 6pm |
Keynote: Juilet Hooker |