Dear all – Details of the next in our new termly Oxford-UCL seminar series, Politics And Heritage, below. DH

Rhodes Must Fall Oxford – Four Years On
Lecture Room, Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford
11am-2pm, Saturday 2 February 2019 (free)

Politics And Heritage is a new termly seminar series convened by Dan Hicks (School of Archaeology and Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) and Mike Rowlands (Anthropology, UCL). From November 2018, the series will hold three seminars per year — once per term — alternating between London and Oxford. The seminars will explore the different ways in which anthropological and archaeological approaches to the material world can inform our understanding of the forms of politics that emerge around cultural heritage.

Our second event is a book launch and workshop led by Common Ground Oxford and Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, to mark the publication of Rhodes Must Fall: the Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire (written by the Rhodes Must Fall Movement, Oxford).

Details of the book are here https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/rhodes-must-fall/

The co-organisers write: “In 2015, Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford emerged thanks to the work of a wide group of student activists seeking to transform the colonialism of Oxford University. Following the example of the Black South African student movement, Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford used the statue of Cecil Rhodes on Oxford’s High Street as a focal point for a broader struggle against the violent and colonial nature of higher education at Oxford and the larger society in which it exists. The movement in Oxford saw hundreds of people march against colonialism, stage a die-in at the Rhodes House, hold general assemblies, sign petitions, and make demands for decolonization of education. The idea for a Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford book grew out of conversations about how the movement's story could be preserved and how common depictions of the movement in the media could be redressed by those who best knew the movement's core meaning and message. Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire, is a compilation of many bold and courageous voices -- both within and beyond Britain -- with whom the movement's demand for decolonisation resonated. The event will include a panel discussion from Co-authors of Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire, a book sale, and workshops on the themes of “RMFO in the context of antiracist activism in Oxford”, led by Shaista Azziz, Natty, Dan Hicks and Junie James.”

All welcome! Details of a further seminar in London in May-June 2019 will be announced in the New Year. To confirm attendance, please email [log in to unmask]


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Dan Hicks FSA, MCIfA
Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford
http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/DH1.html

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