Forthcoming Events
May
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What happened to 'garibi hatao'? India's Congress Party and the politics of poverty
Speakers:
James Chiriyankandath (ICwS)
Arunima Datta (ICwS)
Date: Tuesday 22 May
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Black Britain Seminar Series: African, Not ‘Black’ History: Arguments for ‘African’
Speakers:
Kwaku is an NVQ assessor, tutor, journalist, music and media industry consultant and facilitator; music industry lecturer at College Arts, and former lecturer at City & Islington College, City University London, and University of Westminster’s BA and MA music industry courses. He's the project designer and key tutor on BTWSC's courses. (BTWSC was co-founded in April 2002 by its co-ordinator, Ms Serwah, FRSA, a Ghanaian-born barrister, social activist, and a Brent Citizenship Award 2007 awardee. The organisation's name is an acronym taken from the initials of Ms Serwah's first project: the 'Beyond The Will Smith Challenge' competition). He is founder of BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress, which highlights black music with a British bias, music industry issues and education, and offers a forum for debating and networking; and a pathway to music industry education.
Date: Tuesday 29 May
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 349 (SH)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Cultures of Decolonisation, c.1945-1970
Speakers:
Keynote: Dr Bill Schwarz
Convenors: Dr Claire Wintle (University of Brighton)
Dr Ruth Craggs (St Mary’s University College)
Date: Wednesday 30 May - Thursday 31 May
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 349 (SH)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Sir Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal in conversation about the Queen and the Commonwealth
Speakers:
Date:
Thursday 31 May
Time:
18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Macmillan Hall
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
June
International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The law of exclusion from refugee status: recent developments
Speakers:
Professor Geoff Gilbert
Date: Wednesday 6 June
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: IALS
Contact: RLI@sas.ac.uk
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: Exploring W. African Worlds: "Agay the Salt Carrier" (1831) by Mrs Bowdich (Lee)
Speakers:
Professor Mary Orr (Institute of Commonwealth Studies & University of Southampton)
Chair: Dr Mandy Banton (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Date: Wednesday 6 June
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982
Speakers:
Date:
Thursday 7 June
Time:
10:00 - 19:00
Venue: Macmillan Hall
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
Secrecy and Disclosure: Freedom of Information and the Commonwealth
Speakers:
Date:
Thursday 14 June
Time:
09:30 - 17:30
Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
Decolonization Workshop
Speakers:
Date:
Friday 15 June
Time:
10:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
Monarchy, Republicanism and the Privy Council
Speakers:
His Excellency Judge Patrick Robinson
Date: Tuesday 19 June
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Venue to be confirmed
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
Jamaica 50 Lecture Series (provisional)
Speakers:
Professor Stephen Vasciannie, Principal of the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica
In collaboration with the Jamaican High Commission
Date: Tuesday 19 June
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Venue: Macmillan Hall
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
'Connecting Cultures' and internationalisation through Commonwealth Foreign Languages (CFL)
Speakers:
Date:
Wednesday 20 June
Time:
10:00 - 17:15
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
Skeletons in Britannia’s Closet? Reassessing British Documents on the End of Empire in the light of the ‘Migrated Archives’
Speakers:
Professor Wm. Roger Louis (University of Austin at Texas)
Date: Wednesday 20 June
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: The Jessell Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk
The Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi Activism (Day One)
Speakers:
Date:
Monday 25 June
Time:
13:00 - 17:30
Venue: STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
The Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi Activism (Day Two)
Speakers:
Date:
Tuesday 26 June
Time:
09:00 - 16:30
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
July
Black Britain seminar series: Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons
Speakers:
Darrell M. Newton, Salisbury University, USA
Date: Thursday 5 July
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
The War of 1812: Memory and Myth, History and Historiography
Speakers:
Synopsis and confirmed speakers
Date: Thursday 12 July - Saturday 14 July
Time: 13:00 - 17:30
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
October
ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indigenisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence
Speakers:
Date:
Thursday 25 October
Time:
11:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk