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Events from the last 12 months
Get Up Stand Up Exhibition Dialogues Series: Black Men and Invisibility
Date
10/09/2015
Description
Get Up Stand Up! is a collaboration between New Art Exchange and NCCL at Galleries of Justice Museum, exploring the idea of international civil rights with young people.
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Civil Rights Photojournalism and Open Letters on Race and Rights
Date
14/05/2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Text Paintings and Speech Acts - Literary Encounters
Date
28/05/2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Representation and Abstraction - Politics and the Body
Date
11/06/2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: African American Art and Influences
Date
07/05/2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
Film Screening and Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993)
Date
09/06/2015
Description
Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skilfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Critical Whiteness: US and UK Perspectives
Date
01/01/1900
Description
Offered in collaboration with the Nottingham Contemporary, this panel discussion focuses on critical whiteness - from its emergence as an area of enquiry though to its significance within contemporary struggles around race and class.
The American Mind – Race, slavery and liberty
Date
01/01/1900
Description
Please join the University of Nottingham for its annual American Studies lecture and a special Black History Month event.
Exploring Martin Luther King: the paradox of non-violence
Date
19/10/2014
Description
People often think they know Martin Luther King Jr., but do they? Over four lectures on two Sundays in Black History Month, Peter Ling will bring you closer to the life and the man, addressing topics such as what did King bring to the civil rights movement and what did he find within it? What was his form of non-violence and how radical was it?
Malcolm X in Britain – race, immigration and the transatlantic civil rights movement
Date
28/10/2014
Description
In late 1964 and early 1965, just weeks before he was killed, Malcolm X visited Britain. He took part in a debate at the Oxford Union, spoke at the London School of Economics and Birmingham University Students' Union, and visited Smethwick in the West Midlands to highlight the racist policies of the local MP and council who were trying to prevent the sale of homes to non-white families.
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