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From: Lorna Smithers <LSmit...@uclan.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:24 AM
Subject: Black Lives Matter (Call for Papers)
To: Lorna Smithers <LSmit...@uclan.ac.uk>
Dear IBAR members and friends,
Please see the message below about a call for papers for 'Black Lives Matter' from Zoe Trodd.
Best wishes,
Lorna
From Zoe Trodd (ztr...@gmail.com)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the American Civil Rights
Movement and the 50th anniversary of the UK Race Relations Act, during Black
History Month, please join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights
(University of Nottingham), Bright Ideas Nottingham, the Monitoring Group
and Nottingham Contemporary for The October Dialogues 2015:
Black Lives Matter: The Past, Present and Future of an International
Movement for Rights and Justice
Nottingham Contemporary, The Space
October 28, 2015
9.30am-5pm
Plus an evening of Hip Hop performance and dialogues featuring Akala and
activist-scholars Dr. Monica Miller and Dr. James Peterson (Lehigh
University) (6.30-9pm).
Please register for the day conference, the evening event or both:
https://blacklivesmatter.eventbrite.co.uk
Stephen Lawrence. Eric Garner. Mark Duggan. Michael Brown. Sean Rigg.
Trayvon Martin. Olaseni Lewis. Freddie Gray. Kingsley Burrell. Oscar Grant.
Smiley Culture. Mya Hall. Cynthia Jarrett. Tamir Rice. Julian Cole. Tony
Robinson. Cherry Groce. Walter Scott. Colin Roach. Rodney King. Demetre
Fraser. Sandra Bland. Azelle Rodney. #SayTheirNames #ICantBreathe
#HandsUpDontShoot #BlackLivesMatter
The rallying calls of a new movement have spread across the US and the UK.
There have been around 1000 Black Lives Matter protests worldwide in the
last two years, including in at least 10 UK cities. There are now 30 Black
Lives Matter chapters across the United States. The movement responds to the
oppression, violence and exclusion that shapes black lives: in the US, 42%
of black children are educated in high-poverty schools, black Americans are
37% of the country’s homeless population, constitute nearly half of the 2
million jail population, and are 26% of those killed by police (though are
13% of the population). In the UK, black children are more than twice as
likely as white children to be living in poverty, black people are six times
as likely as whites to be stopped and searched, are more likely to go to
jail when convicted of similar crimes and will serve longer sentences, are
twice as likely to be not in employment, education or training, and are more
likely to be forcibly restrained when held under mental health legislation.
“I Can’t Breathe” evokes the suffocating daily reality of all these
statistics.
A series of panels featuring activists and researchers will explore the
roots, dynamics and possible futures of #BlackLivesMatter. Is it a movement
or a moment? A transatlantic or an American phenomenon? How does it operate
on local, regional, national or international levels? Does it have a leader?
What characterises its rhetoric, visual culture and philosophies? Is it a
new civil rights movement, a new Black Power movement or a new black
feminism? Did Black Lives Matter bring down the Confederate flag? Push
President Obama to speak with a new voice? What is its protest heritage—does
it draw from the lessons, tactics and legacies of anti-slavery,
anti-lynching, the Black Panthers, Anti-Apartheid, or other movements? Is
there a usable past for Black Lives Matter and what is that protest memory
in the U.S. and UK? What should #BlackLivesMatterUK be about? What is the
history of Black Lives Matter since the UK Race Relations Act and the U.S.
Civil Rights Movement of 50 years ago, and where is Black Lives Matter going
next?
Please send a 200-word abstract on these or related topics and a short
biographical note to C...@nottingham.ac.uk by August 24. Panels will be
announced by the end of August. In particular we welcome presentations by
postgraduate and early-career researchers (within 5 years of the PhD).
Funding will cover UK travel and accommodation for presenters, complimentary
lunch will be served, and registration is free:
https://blacklivesmatter.eventbrite.co.uk.
Supported by the British Academy
From: Lorna Smithers <LSmit...@uclan.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:24 AM
Subject: Black Lives Matter (Call for Papers)
To: Lorna Smithers <LSmit...@uclan.ac.uk>
Dear IBAR members and friends,
Please see the message below about a call for papers for 'Black Lives Matter' from Zoe Trodd.
Best wishes,
Lorna
From Zoe Trodd (ztr...@gmail.com)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the American Civil Rights
Movement and the 50th anniversary of the UK Race Relations Act, during Black
History Month, please join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights
(University of Nottingham), Bright Ideas Nottingham, the Monitoring Group
and Nottingham Contemporary for The October Dialogues 2015:
Black Lives Matter: The Past, Present and Future of an International
Movement for Rights and Justice
Nottingham Contemporary, The Space
October 28, 2015
9.30am-5pm
Plus an evening of Hip Hop performance and dialogues featuring Akala and
activist-scholars Dr. Monica Miller and Dr. James Peterson (Lehigh
University) (6.30-9pm).
Please register for the day conference, the evening event or both:
https://blacklivesmatter.eventbrite.co.uk
Stephen Lawrence. Eric Garner. Mark Duggan. Michael Brown. Sean Rigg.
Trayvon Martin. Olaseni Lewis. Freddie Gray. Kingsley Burrell. Oscar Grant.
Smiley Culture. Mya Hall. Cynthia Jarrett. Tamir Rice. Julian Cole. Tony
Robinson. Cherry Groce. Walter Scott. Colin Roach. Rodney King. Demetre
Fraser. Sandra Bland. Azelle Rodney. #SayTheirNames #ICantBreathe
#HandsUpDontShoot #BlackLivesMatter
The rallying calls of a new movement have spread across the US and the UK.
There have been around 1000 Black Lives Matter protests worldwide in the
last two years, including in at least 10 UK cities. There are now 30 Black
Lives Matter chapters across the United States. The movement responds to the
oppression, violence and exclusion that shapes black lives: in the US, 42%
of black children are educated in high-poverty schools, black Americans are
37% of the country’s homeless population, constitute nearly half of the 2
million jail population, and are 26% of those killed by police (though are
13% of the population). In the UK, black children are more than twice as
likely as white children to be living in poverty, black people are six times
as likely as whites to be stopped and searched, are more likely to go to
jail when convicted of similar crimes and will serve longer sentences, are
twice as likely to be not in employment, education or training, and are more
likely to be forcibly restrained when held under mental health legislation.
“I Can’t Breathe” evokes the suffocating daily reality of all these
statistics.
A series of panels featuring activists and researchers will explore the
roots, dynamics and possible futures of #BlackLivesMatter. Is it a movement
or a moment? A transatlantic or an American phenomenon? How does it operate
on local, regional, national or international levels? Does it have a leader?
What characterises its rhetoric, visual culture and philosophies? Is it a
new civil rights movement, a new Black Power movement or a new black
feminism? Did Black Lives Matter bring down the Confederate flag? Push
President Obama to speak with a new voice? What is its protest heritage—does
it draw from the lessons, tactics and legacies of anti-slavery,
anti-lynching, the Black Panthers, Anti-Apartheid, or other movements? Is
there a usable past for Black Lives Matter and what is that protest memory
in the U.S. and UK? What should #BlackLivesMatterUK be about? What is the
history of Black Lives Matter since the UK Race Relations Act and the U.S.
Civil Rights Movement of 50 years ago, and where is Black Lives Matter going
next?
Please send a 200-word abstract on these or related topics and a short
biographical note to C...@nottingham.ac.uk by August 24. Panels will be
announced by the end of August. In particular we welcome presentations by
postgraduate and early-career researchers (within 5 years of the PhD).
Funding will cover UK travel and accommodation for presenters, complimentary
lunch will be served, and registration is free:
https://blacklivesmatter.eventbrite.co.uk.
Supported by the British Academy
Moya Bailey
Northeastern University NULab
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
"All you touch you change." - Octavia Butler
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