University News Last updated 19 May 2015
This October will see Birmingham City University's second interdisciplinary conference where scholars, intellectuals and activists come together to examine how Black British intellectual life has been influenced by African American scholarship.
Despite the absence of Black Studies programmes in British Universities, Black communities in the UK have a long history of community activism that has been deeply engaged with the scholarship of Black America.
The conference invites papers that begin to reframe and trouble ideas of African American exceptionalism as it relates to ideas of Blackness and Black intellectual thought in the UK and the wider African diaspora.
The conference will take place on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 October 2015 at Birmingham City University
For full details of the papers or to book your place visit blackstudies.org.uk
Confirmed keynotes
- Professor Patricia Hill Collins
- Associate Professor Barnor Hesse
- Professor Gus John
- Professor Denise Ferreira De Silva