Black History Month: 100 Years On

Black History Month: 100 Years On

Tuesday 8 October 2024, 6.30pm - 8pm

All welcome

At Race & Resistance, every month is Black History Month. However, this October, we have organised an exciting and special evening lecture to not only celebrate Black history, but also in acknowledgement of the virulent attacks on Black studies in UKHE this past year. With this in mind, we have worked in collaboration with the Oxford UCU branch to bring this event to you all.

Join us as we welcome Dr. Kesewa John (Goldsmiths, University of London), who will deliver a lecture entitled, Black History Month: 100 years on. There will be a Q&A session at the end, so please come prepared with questions and comments. Refreshments will be available.

Biography: Kesewa John (she/her) is a historian focused on the overlaps between Caribbean radicalism, intellectual history, and gender. Her research explores liberation movements, and is attentive to transatlantic, multilingual linkages between Afro-Caribbean activists and the evolution and circulation of Black radical thought. Kesewa is particularly interested in the intersections of Black feminist and Black radical histories of Caribbean activism. 

Her current research projects include a monograph about the region’s radical press and Caribbean decolonisation, and an archiving project exploring the intellectual trajectory of Caribbean Studies in the UK. Kesewa John is a Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths. She is the Vice-Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies, the UK’s only learned society focused on promoting scholarship about the Caribbean, its people and its diasporas.

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Part of the Race and Resistance Research Hub events.