Dr Lisa Palmer

• Black feminism, the politics of love and popular culture
• Cultural politics of lovers’ rock music
• Racism
• Decoloniality
• Black Studies
• Archival practices

• Black Studies Association
  

• Understanding Popular Culture
• Power and Inequalities
• City, Community and Culture
  

• Blackness in Britain, co-editor with Dr Kehinde Andrews. Routledge (forthcoming 2016)·         ‘Men Cry too - Masculinity and the feminization of lovers’ rock.’ Book chapter in Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945, ed. Jon Straton and Nabeel Zuberi . Ashgate (2014).·          ‘Why Black Studies Matters’, Discover Society. Issue 2. November 2013
•  “‘LADIES, A YOUR TIME NOW!’ Erotic Politics, Lovers Rock and Resistance in Britain" in Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities: Women and Music. Ed.  Ifeona Fulani: New York: University of the West Indies 2012.
• “‘LADIES, A YOUR TIME NOW!’ Erotic Politics, Lovers Rock and Resistance in Britain." In African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. Volume 4, issue 2, 2011.Special issue on Being Black and Becoming European: Un/Settled Migration and Hidden Histories (Routledge).

Conference Organisation

• Blackness in Britain: The Black Special Relationship. Birmingham City University, 2015.
• Blackness in Britain: Newman University, 2013.

Papers

• Between Lover’s Rock and a Hard Place - Delineating the Decolonial Impulses of Lover’s Rock Reggae Music in Britain. Sociology in and trough the Global South. Sociology Review Foundation. March 2016
• Rock the Rhythm Lovers Rock and the cultural politics of decoloniality. Decolonising the Academy Seminar and Conference. Global Development Academy and the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies. The University of Edinburgh. February 2016.
• Reading Vanley Burke through the lens of Walter Rodney – Blackness in Britain Conference 2015. Birmingham City University.
• ‘Each One Teach One’ Black intellectual life beyond the academy - ESRC workshop ‘The role of intellectual life in struggles for racial justice’, September 2015.
• Decolonising the Curriculum NUS Black Student Conference, May 2015
• Conversations on Race in British Universities.Surviving White Institutional Spaces. University of Leeds, May 2015.
• Decolonising the Cannon. BSA Teaching Conference BCU, March 2015
• ‘Embedding Black Studies Possibilities and Challenges’ - Why isn’t my professor Black? Panel at University College London, March 2014.
• The Right’s colonization of racial victimisation - BSA Race Ethnicity Study Group Conference, mapping the Field: Contemporary Theories of Race, Racism and Ethnicity, Newman University January 2014.
• Lovers Rock and Resistance – National Women’s Association Conference. Oakland, California 2012
• Blackness and Austerity. Birmingham TUC. October 2012
• Reverend Peter Stanford – Birmingham’s First Black Minister’ Birmingham Library and Archives – October 2011.

•  ‘Obamanation!’ - Navigating Race and Blackness in “post-racial America” Obama: The First 300 Days. Conference paper presented at the University of Birmingham, October 2009.
• ‘Erotic Politics – Lovers Rock and Resistance’ – Conference: MEMORY/POSTMEMORY, MUSIC & IDENTITY: The Construction of a Diasporic Black Caribbean Experience. University of Warwick, April 2009.
• ‘Loving Blackness in Britain’ – Conference: Black Knowledges - Black Struggles – Civil Rights: Transnational Perspectives for The Collegium of African American Research 8^th annual conference.University of Bremen, Germany, March 25- 29 2009.