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Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin this fall for a speaker series on the theme of Black Britain. An announcement for the first session, scheduled for October 4, including the opportunity to register, will follow.

Black Britain Series Schedule 

 

Monday, 4 October, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
The Contours of Race in Britain Past and Present
Shahmima Akhtar, Royal Holloway University of London
Liam Liburd, University of Durham

Thursday, 21 October, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Forgotten Lives: The Individual and the Archive in
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Black British History
Gretchen Gerzina, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ryan Hanley, Exeter University

Friday, 29 October, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CDT
Early Modern Black Britain: Now and Then
Tamara Lewis, Southern Methodist University
John Meyer, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, 6 December, 6 p.m. GMT, noon CST
Borders, Deportation and Discrimination
Luke De Noronha, University College London
Andrew Thompson, Oxford University 

For full details, visit: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/bies/events/black-britain-virtual-series