This forum is convened by Professor Stephen Tuck (Director of TORCH) on the subject of Race Relations in Oxford in the 1960s and the present day. The forum marks the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's visit to Oxford, and a campaign by students to end the colour bar in student housing.
It is supported by the Pembroke College Mahfouz Forum Series, which was established to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and discussions. Events are convened by Pembroke academics and kindly funded by Foundation Fellow HE Mahfouz bin Mahfouz.
Please see the Pembroke College website for further information.
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
2-3.45pm: Malcolm X in his final year, and in memory
Talks: Saladin Ambar, Malcolm X and human rights; Dawn Marie Gibson, Malcolm X’s religion; Britta Waldschmidt Nelson, Memory of Malcolm X
Reflections: Rodnell Collins, Remembering Uncle Malcolm; Louis Nthenda, Meeting Malcolm X
Chair: Stephen Tuck (Pembroke)
5pm: Malcolm X’s speech at the Oxford Union (please note this is at the Oxford Union, but is open to all)
Comments: Angela Davis (American Civil Rights activist since 1960s); Ben Okri (Booker-prize winning author and poet); Christie Davis (part of original Union debate, 1964); Graeme Abernethy (Author of The Iconography of Malcolm X)
Reflections: Hope Abrahams (sister of 1964 Union President)
Chair: Elleke Boehmer (Professor of English Literature)
Thursday 4th December 2014
10am: Civil Rights Circulations
Talks: Imaobong Umoren, Race women across borders; Joe Street, Malcolm X in Smethwick, 1965; Jed Fazakerly, British multiculturalism
Reflections: Donald Hinds (author of Journey to an Illusion 1966)
Chair: Joshua Aiken (Pembroke)
12.30pm: Seeking racial equality in Oxford, 1964 and 2014
Roundtable: Clive Sneddon (Author of report on colour bar in student housing, 1964); Louis Nthenda (who invited Malcolm X to Oxford); Michael Joseph(Pembroke, former CRAE chair); Anne Meeker (St Hugh’s, current CRAE co-chair); Anuradha Henriques (Wadham, co-author 100 Voices)
Chair: Shakina Chinedu (chair of network of BME staff HE networks)
Please note that the Oxford Union will be holding a debate to commemorate Malcolm X's visit 50 years ago on Wednesday 3 December, 8 pm (open to Union members only).
Malcolm X 50th Anniversary Oxford Union debate:
“This house believes extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice.”
Participants include: Cornell West (American philosopher, academic and activist), Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty), Angela Davis
Professor Stephen Tuck will also be presenting an hour-long documentary on Radio 4 on Saturday 6th December at 8pm.
Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
Malcolm X in Oxford
Audience: Open to all
