Prof Olivette Otele: James McCune Smith Annual Lecture

Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow

'A voice from the North': black women in academia and activism in contemporary Europe

The talk will explore the legacies of European colonial past in contemporary Europe and their links with quests for social, racial and gender equality. It will also explore the tensions between grassroot activism, the work on reparatory justice and researching on the history of enslavement when one is Black and a woman in academia in Europe.Professor Olivette Otele, PhD, FRHistS is a Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement at the University of Bristol. She is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Historical Society and a Trustee of the Research Committee at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, London.Her areas of research are colonial and post-colonial History, Memory, Politics, women and the histories of people of African descent. She has been the recipient of several renown national and international research grants (UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, European Commission-RISE, Canadian-Social Science and Humanities Research Council). Her latest books include a monograph shortlisted for the Orwell Book Prize for Political Writing in 2021, African Europeans: an untold History (Hurst, 2020) and an edited volume, Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021). As a public historian, Professor Otele is also a regular contributor to TV, radio and newspapers (BBC, SKY News, Guardian, Times, New Yorker, Radio France, Vogue Italia, etc.).

Prof Olivette Otele: James McCune Smith Annual Lecture

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