When: Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMWhere: Peston Lecture Theatre, The Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End
A Public Lecture by Professor Vincent Brown (Harvard) highlights the ways in which Black history is world history, and as such, it has lessons – and warnings – for the world.
The past several years have witnessed transatlantic efforts to deny and disparage Black perspectives on our common history. This is a denial of our right to critically analyze all of our history from points of view that emerge from a history of enslavement, impoverishment, and racial violence, and that question the customary disavowal that these things constitute fundamental features of the Atlantic experience. Reframing narratives of the Age of Revolution, this lecture highlights the ways in which Black history is world history, and as such it has lessons—and warnings—for the world.
This event will be advertised as part of QMUL Black History month (October 2023) and will be co-sponsored by the Schools of Geography, History, and English and Drama.