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Black Victorians
New Histories Seminar
Location: Birmingham Museum
Date: 25 Feb 2006
A day seminar to coincide with a major exhibition at the Waterhall Gallery
of Modern Art, Birmingham
Programme:
10.30 - Welcome
10.35 - Professor John Mackenzie (Emeritus Professor of Imperial History,
Lancaster University), Empire, Race and Gender: Black Victorians in Context
11.30 - Dr Jan Marsh, Finding Forgotten Figures: Researching the Black
Presence in 19th Century Visual Art in Britain: the Curator of Black
Victorians describes how the exhibition came into being
12.30 -Lunch break
2.00 -Dr Caroline Bressey (University College London) Researching the
Historical Black Presence in Britain through Photography
2.55 -Dr Robert Beckford (University of Birmingham) Black Looks: Black
Victorians, Black Birmingham and the Continuing Questioning of Place
3.50 -Tea
4.10 -Panel discussion chaired by Professor Shearer West (University of
Birmingham) with the speakers and Reyahn King (Birmingham Museums and Art
Gallery)
£20 and £10 (concessionary): cheques addressed to Birmingham City Council
and sent to: Department of Research and Development, Birmingham Museums and
Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH For further enquiries:
0121 303 4201 or e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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