Events

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 14:00 to 18:00

Arden University, Berlin

Audre Lorde famously said, “…the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Can we imagine a museum approach that challenges the idea of ...

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 12:00 to 16:30

Online

The relationship between slavery and the Industrial Revolution has long been a source of historical debate. Since the publication of Eric Williams’s landmark study Capitalism and Slavery (1944), scholars have argued over the connection between the two. More recently, Pat Hudson and Maxine Berg...

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online via MS Teams

As part of the cross-faculty seminar series in collaboration with the Black and Ethnic Minority Staff Network and the Centre for Empire and Postcolonial Studies, we invite you to join us as we host best-selling author and journalist Sathnam Sangera to discuss his latest book Empirewor...

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 - 10:00 to 18:00

Online

Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group 

Friday, May 7, 2021 - 09:00 to 17:00

Online

Dr. Mishka Sinha (St. John’s College, Oxford), St. John’s and the Colonial Past 

Monday, December 14, 2020 - 08:00 to 16:00

Online

Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, War and Peace in the Twentieth Century Research Group, and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group.

Friday, July 10, 2020 - 09:00 to 13:00

Online

Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group.

Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 09:00 to 13:15

Online

Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group 

Friday, July 12, 2019 - 09:00 to 09:00

Meeting Room 12, Wilson A, The Open University, Milton Keynes

Over the last three decades, writing and researching Empire has experienced a renaissance and is more stimulating and relevant than ever. As a consequence, public discourse around the representation, impact, and legacies of Empire has turned progressively febrile

Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - 01:00 to 01:00

Seminar Room 6, The Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

Migration is one of the foundational pillars of the story of humanity. The study of migration has been energised in recent decades by new sources and frameworks such as transnational history and diaspora studies.