Date: Friday 27 September 2019 Time: 18:15 - 22:00 Categories: Exhibitions, Social events Venue: The Riverside Museum Speaker: Rachel Douglas, Rosie Spooner, Christine Whyte and Peggy Brunache
In 1791, enslaved people rose up and took control. They defeated armies, abolished slavery and made a new country: Haiti. For one night only, Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture (played by actor Shelton Makora) will be at Glasgow’s Riverside Museum to tell his incredible story, with a range of hands-on activities.
Date: Wednesday 09 October 2019 Time: 13:30 - 15:00 Categories: Public lectures, Academic events Venue: The Hunterian Museum Speaker: Rachel Douglas
Profits from slavery transformed Glasgow. Haiti was one of the most intensive forms of Caribbean plantation slavery and the site of the Haitian slave-led revolution leading to independence (1804). How has Haiti been held up as a beacon to unsilence the past? CLR James’s classic anticolonial history shows the way. This public Black History Month lecture launches Rachel Douglas's new book Making the Black Jacobins: CLR James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press).
Date: Wednesday 09 October 2019 Time: 15:30 - 17:30 Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures Venue: University Chapel Speaker: Christine Whyte
The University of Glasgow has mounted a small exhibition in the heart of the Main Building, the University Chapel, reflecting on its connections to slavery. On 9 October, Christine Whyte will lead a tour of this exhibit and introduce a guest speaker from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture on the role of museums in commemorating slavery.
Date: Tuesday 15 October 2019 Time: 17:30 - 20:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Bute Hall Speaker: Professor David Blight
This year’s James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Blight. David is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is one of the leading historians of slavery and the US Civil War and is well-known for his incisive political commentary. His latest book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History
Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Gilbert Scott / Main building room 355 Speaker: Naa Densua Tordzro
Naa Densua Tordzro will be talking about African textiles and their meaning to the wearer and his/her surroundings, based on the type of material used and the patterns and symbols on that material.
Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Gilbert Scott / Main building room 355 Speaker: Pieter van der Houwen
UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Pieter van der Houwen will explore different aspects of the African Diaspora on the basis of African communities in New York, Guangzhou and Johannesburg in his talk entitled "External Africa".
Date: Thursday 24 October 2019 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Gilbert Scott / Main building room 355 Speaker: Elsa Gebrehiwet
Elsa Gebrehiwet will explore differences and similarities between South Africa and Eritrea over the past 50 years. Apartheid might have been invented in South Africa, but it is by far the only country that suffered from it. The lesser known history of Eritrea will be brought to live, by linking it to key figures in the Black History movement, such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.
Date: Thursday 31 October 2019 Time: 18:00 - 19:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: The Hunterian Museum Speaker: Director of The Hunterian, Steph Scholten, Curator for Archaeology & World Cultures, Andy Mills and Dr. Lola Sanchez-Jáuregui,
As part of Black History Month The Hunterian will offer an evening of discussions around decolonising our collections.
