Manchester Postcolonial Studies Group @OfficialUoM | reading group | atelier series | conferences | led by PGR team Artemis, Emma and Philip
Joined April 2014
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19 Mar 2020
Please note: our upcoming meetings for Semester II have all been cancelled. However, our mailing list is still open (feel free to DM if you need to sign up) & we hope to share more readings that may be useful to get us through the #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronakindness stay safe x
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17 Jun 2020
"My hope resides in the fact that significant space has been cleared; my fear resides in the fact that we've proved ourselves really bad at holding the space we've cleared." My conversation with Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie bit.ly/2YEBg4K Listen in.
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17 Jun 2020
Tracing Black Ancestry: Secrets of the 1817 Slave Registers Uncovered
31 July
ONLINE EVENT
Join Paul Crooks for this captivating account of how he traced his Black Caribbean ancestors enslaved on a sugar plantation in Jamaica, 200 years ago.
bit.ly/blkances
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17 Jun 2020
Check out this interview with Fiston Mwanza Mujila on his 'resource extraction' Congolese novel, Tram 83: beyondwordslitfest.co.uk/con…
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16 Jun 2020
An Afternoon at The Digital Museum: #SCOTLAND and #SLAVERY
18 JUNE
ONLINE EVENT
How did Scots become involved? Who were the slave masters? How did Scotland benefit? How did we forget? What can we do now?
bit.ly/scotslav
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16 Jun 2020
'Britain's Forgotten Slave-owners' has been reissued on BBC iplayer, bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063db1…
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16 Jun 2020
I don’t even know what to say.
Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.
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16 Jun 2020
@UniKentEnglish webinar: ‘British Empire in English Studies’ to help participants understand British imperial domination and it's legacies. Details/Zoom link 👇
bit.ly/2AIGYdZ
@PSA_poco @Routledge_JPW @WasafiriMag @PocoSeminarOx @McrPoco @Northernpoco @CambridgePoco
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9 Jun 2020
Doctoral Research Position available in the Project "James Baldwin's 21st-Century Career" at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven @KU_Leuven . Deadline 15 July 2020. ow.ly/eMnN50zWoFX
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10 Jun 2020
'Getting Back the Land: Anticolonial and Indigenous Strategies of Reclamation', edited by Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly @DukePress (119:2), is freely available in its entirety to the end of July! ow.ly/mDnW50zWov5
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4 Jun 2020
This piece by @garyyounge on the realities of systemic racism is brilliant: newstatesman.com/politics/uk…
We spoke to Gary in 2016 about his book Another Day in the Death of America, still as sadly relevant today as it was then. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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4 Jun 2020
Our Audio Long Reads podcast is currently republishing episodes from the archives. This week’s piece was written by Gary Younge in 2015, but the events in Minneapolis and across America this week show it remains as grimly relevant as ever.
Listen now on your favourite app.
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2 Jun 2020
One of the leading thinkers on politics and society, Gary Younge is Professor of Sociology in our School of Social Sciences.
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4 Jun 2020
VIRTUAL Black Abolitionist Walking Tour
26 May
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24 June
ONLINE EVENT
90min walking tour in central London highlighting 6 sites where African American activists made an important impact on the British landscape
bit.ly/ONabotour
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3 Jun 2020
Exploring youth and violence 'in a world that’s sinking': Interesting interview between 'Hurricane Seasons' author Fernanda Melchor and translator Sophie Hughes @GrantaBooks granta.com/in-conversation-h…
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3 Jun 2020
#FromtheArchive thread
This week we would like to use our archives post to foreground previous work by black British and Caribbean writers and thinkers in light of the ongoing George Floyd protests in America and solidarity protests taking place across the world.
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1 Jun 2020
"Your silence will not protect you."
We're reading Audre Lorde to celebrate the first day of #PrideMonth! Throughout June we’ll be celebrating incredible LGBTQ writers, but to get started we want to know your favourite LGBTQ writers and activists? #ReadMoreWomen
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1 Jun 2020
Virtual talk by Esthie Hugo 'Pain, Pleasure, and the World-Food-System', Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 4 PM – 5 PM. Hosted by Durham Uni's Centre for Culture and Ecology and READ: Research in English At Durham . Email organiser Prof. Kerstin Oloff to receive the talk link.
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30 May 2020
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
- from We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks #ReadMoreWomen )
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7 May 2020
@Routledge_JPW after ppl to write short 550 word reviews of the many exciting postcolonial/world lit academic titles coming out just now.
Trying to build up a roster of reviewers. If interested please email with broad research interests at dominic.davies@city.ac.uk.
Pls RT!
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28 May 2020
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou died #OnThisDay in 2014 #ReadMoreWomen
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