Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
This email is to give you details of upcoming events organized at the University of Glasgow around the new Arts Lab theme: decolonizing Glasgow and the post/colonial led by Christine Whyte, Stephen Mullen and me. Please book now as places are going fast! If you know of others who would be interested, please forward this email to them.
Tuesday 19 March, 4•6pm
The launch event for the theme will be a public lecture ‘Blackness and Borders’ by Kaiama Glover, Professor of French and Africana Studies, Columbia University.
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kaiama-glover-lecture-on-blackness-and-borders-tickets-57939926881
Tuesday 19 March, 2•3.30pm
Digital Humanities Workshop: ‘The Desires of the Humanist: On the Interpretation of Digital Caribbean Dreams’ with Kaiama Glover, Professor of French and Africana Studies, Columbia University. Venue: Hugh Fraser room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Limited places (50). We would like to give theme participants the opportunity to register first before we advertise more widely. Book here now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kaiama-glover-digital-humanities-workshop-tickets-57940602903
Wednesday 20 March, 4•6pm, The University Chapel
Public lecture and book launch ‘The Slave Master of Trinidad’ by Selwyn Cudjoe, Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College. Venue: The University Chapel, Main Building, G12 8QQ. Sponsored by the University of Glasgow Slavery Committee. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lecture-and-book-launch-the-slave-master-of-trinidad-tickets-57985623561
Related to our theme, there are a couple of other excellent events coming up at the University of Glasgow in March:
Lorna Goodison, Jamaican Poet Laureate
6pm - 8pm on the 14th of March in Bute Hall
Book here now — https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lorna-goodison-poet-laureate-of-jamaica-in-conversation-with-louise-welsh-tickets-56037901873
Decolonising the Academy at the University of Glasgow
10am-5pm on the 26th of March, Film and Television Studies, Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue
Book here now — https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-the-academy-at-the-university-of-glasgow-tickets-56318768954
Hope to see you at these events. Posters attached
All good wishes,
Rachel Douglas
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Dr Rachel Douglas
Lecturer in French
University of Glasgow
School of Modern Languages & Cultures/
Sgoil nan Nua-Chànan is nan Cultar
Room 310B, Hetherington Building
Bute Gardens
Glasgow, G12 8RS
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 0141 330 3660
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