Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies Launch

Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies Launch

Black History Month College of Arts
Date: Tuesday 27 October 2020
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Venue: Zoom
Category: Ceremonial events, Academic events
Speaker: Zandra Yeaman, Helen Minnis, Jackie Kay, Glasgow City Councillor Graham Campbell and Miles Greenwood
Website: www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-the-beniba-centre-for-slavery-studies-tickets-124102244153

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, directed in 2020-2021 by Dr Peggy Brunache, Lecturer in Transatlantic Slavery. This research centre aims to focus attention on slavery and its legacies in Scotland and globally, through academic research, public events, and engagement with ongoing anti-racist activism and reparative justice. The date of the launch is significant. The name was chosen for the centre because Beniba was a woman, a mother, who was held in slavery by Robert Cunningham Graham, former Rector of the University of Glasgow (1785-1787). We know very little about the life of Beniba, but her name indicates that she was born on a Tuesday and was perhaps, of Akan origin. For that reason, we chose to launch the centre on a Tuesday - to give respect and remembrance to the innumerable lives of ancestral Africans and their contributions throughout the slavery era.

This image shows Roaring River Estate, which was associated with Robert Cunninghame Graham, former Rector of the University of Glasgow (1785-87).

We have confirmed five speakers for the event: 

  • Graham Campbell, Glasgow City Councillor
  • Zandra Yeaman, CRER
  • Professor Helen Minnis, UofG
  • Miles Greenwood, the Glasgow Life's first Curator for Legacies of Slavery and Empire
  • Jackie Kay, poet & novelist, who will give two readings: an extract from her reissued book, The Lamplighter; and a selected poem. 

Register for this event via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-the-beniba-centre-for-slavery-studies-tickets-124102244153 

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