Black history month: Panel Discussion

Mon 21 October 2019

Sidney Sussex College

Sidney’s BME officers have organised a panel discussion featuring black academics and activists, and focusing on the contributions of black Britons, the state of scholarship on black Britons, being black in academia, and the contemporary effects of the legacy of slavery and empire.

- Dr Kennetta H Perry whose work focuses on Afro-Caribbean migration to Britain following World War II and Black British belonging and citizenship after the Windrush.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/london-is-the-place-for-me-9780190240202?cc=gb&lang=en

-Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper whose work explores race, racialisation and racist discourses and their relationship to 21st policing and the criminalization of black communities.
https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/fach/dr-adam-elliott-cooper

- Chardine Taylor-Stone a queer black feminist activist writer, producer, and musician.
https://chardinetaylorstone.com


There are free tickets for the discussion available to the public, however a dinner and drinks reception following the discussion will be open to the Sidney community only.

For more information contact: bme@sscsu.org.uk

Cost: Free