Race & Resistance 2025 Conference | Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain
Race and Resistance Research Hub
Race & Resistance 2025 Conference | Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain
Friday 7 March 2025, All Day
Kellogg College
The Race & Resistance Research Hub are pleased to announce the tickets for their 2025 Conference:
Concessions (students, unemployed, unhoused): £10.00
General Admission: £15.00
General Admission + Solidarity Donation: £25.00
SOLD OUT
Race & Resistance is excited to announce our 2025 conference that invites scholars, activists, researchers, and professionals from all sectors to participate in an interdisciplinary exploration of the last hundred years of race and resistance. This conference aims to foster discussions on current work happening in Black Britain, with a nod to the past and a focus on the future.
The day will attempt to answer the following questions:
1. How can we speak intellectually, sensitively, and critically about race & resistance during multiple political crises?
2. How do we practically claim and ground histories (and presents) of race & resistance through interdisciplinary practice?
The day will consist of several panels of interesting and innovative papers addressing these key questions. The conference will close with a keynote panel on radical future-proof archival praxis, and a drinks reception.
Lunch and refreshments included in ticket price. Lunch is meat free. Tickets are framed around a ‘pay what you can’ model. If you are able to pay the general admission rate, please do. We are grateful to all those who have chosen to include a solidarity donation in their ticket price.
With this, they would like to announce their keynote panel speakers. The panel will be addressing the topic of radical future-proof archival praxis.
Dr Aleema Gray
Dr Aleema Gray is a Jamaican-born curator, researcher and public historian based in London. She was awarded the Yesu Persaud Scholarship for her PhD entitled Bun Babylon; A Community-engaged History of Rastafari in Britain. Aleema’s work focuses on documenting Black history in Britain through the perspective of lived experiences. Her practice is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to notions of belonging, memory, and contested heritage. She is the Lead Curator for Beyond the Bassline: 500 years of Black British Music at the British Library and the founder of HOUSE OF DREAD an anti-disciplinary heritage studio.
HOUSE OF DREAD
HOUSE OF DREAD is an anti-disciplinary heritage studio. Guided by principles of co-production and community knowledge(s), we ask questions that disrupt what is already known, provoke creativity and inspire new ways of thinking.
As a source of learning, we are powered by community and a commitment to fostering meaningful exchanges and connections. From curated events, exhibitions, and critical interventions to professional mentorship and research-driven programmes, our work foregrounds rich yet complicated stories and experiences of the people, places and movements that have been undocumented, under-researched or forgotten
Connie Bell
Connie Bell is one of the founding members of Decolonising The Archive (DTA) and University of Repair. As a Consultant, Memory Worker and Cultural Producer
Her work explores decolonial methodologies and memory as technology within archives. Her doctoral research focuses on the archives of Caribbean Theatre.
Currently Connie is the creator of the overarching course module Museum Restitution following on from the success of the Correcting Our Collecting Community Archive Course.
Désirée Reynolds
Désirée Reynolds is a writer whose fiction is concerned with working class Black women, internal landscapes and a continuous struggle against the white, male gaze, notions of beauty, race and being. Committed to anti racism and intersectionality, she draws on her experiences of these to make her creative work. Her first novel, Seduce, was published in 2013 to much acclaim by Peepal Tree Press and her short stories have been widely published in various publications and online. Reynolds is a founder and the Creative Director of Dig Where You Stand South Yorkshire, an art and archival justice movement that unearths the untold stories of people of colour in South Yorkshire and the wider northern region.
Dig Where You Stand is an archival justice movement, made up of artists, activists, educators and community members. We unearth the untold stories of people of colour living, working and putting down roots in South Yorkshire and the wider northern region. We do this by exploring archival records, using art and creativity to reimagine the lives contained within them, and sharing this work in public exhibitions and events. We also run an archival training programme for women of colour and produce educational resources to make the archives more accessible to marginalised communities. This is part of a commitment to the internationalist, working-class politics of Sven Lindqvist whose book Gräv där du står (or “Dig Where You Stand”) inspires and gives name to our work.
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