Dear All,

Apologies for cross postings.

Below are booking details for the Belonging in Europe Conference. Please circulate to anyone who may find this of interest.


8 – 9 November 2007
the Equiano Centre
University College London
 
an interdisciplinary conference

 
BELONGING IN EUROPE THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND WORK   c1400 - 1945
 
 talks will include
 
 Africans in 17th century Amsterdam, gendered hierarchies in imperial Liverpool, George Padmore and the Negro Worker, Black workers in Britain during the Second World War, African migrants in 1920s and 1930s Germany, the relationship between “White” Working Europeans and those of the African Diaspora, Claude McKay and Work at Sea and in the Docks, Job mobility in England and Wales during the British slave trade 1660-1807,
African seamen in Britain 1921 – 1934.
 
Bookings can be made online, by phone or in person from the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre, details at http://www.thebloomsbury.com/belongingineurope. 
Booking deadline 24 October 2007.
Registration fee:  waged £30, unwaged £20. 

This includes the opening reception, to be held on Wednesday 6 November 2007 6pm – 9pm at London’s City Hall, lunch on Thursday and Friday, all refreshments and a buffet dinner on Thursday evening.

The conference will be held at the Department of Geography UCL, and is supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.  The second day of the conference will be held at the Museum in Docklands, and free entry will be included for all delegates to the newly opened gallery, London, Sugar and Slavery.
 
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Dr Caroline Bressey
ESRC Research Fellow
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way
LONDON
WC1H OAP

020 7679 7586