29 October 2015, 10:30 – 18:00
- Event Type: Workshop
- Venue: The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House, first floor)
- Venue Details:
- Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Convenors: Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru
Programme
10.30-10.45 Registration: tea & coffee
10.45-11.30 Keynote address: Eric Huntley
11.30-1.00 Session One: Challenging the Conventional Narratives
Chair: Rovianne Matovu (Freelance Museum Educator)
Catherine Johnson (Author and Educationalist), ‘Looking at Our Past Through Fiction: Engaging Young Readers With Black British History’
Ryan Hanley (New College, Oxford), ‘A More Interesting Narrative: Moving beyond Equiano and Slavery in the study of Eighteenth-Century Black British Writing’
David Killingray (ICwS), ‘Black British history is happening – but to what end?’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session Two: Teaching Black British History
Chair: Kwaku (Black British Music)
Martin Spafford (Retired history teacher), ‘The new GCSE course on migration to Britain: Black British history on the official exam curriculum’
Dema Wonga (Narrative Eye), ‘Inclusive Curriculum: Learning to see the diversity of Britain’
Robin Whitburn (Institute of Education) and Abdul Mohamud (Institute of Education), Black British History: Justice and Political Action in the Classroom.
3.30-4.00 Tea/coffee
4.00-6.00 Session Three: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Miranda Kaufmann (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Ian Duffield (University of Edinburgh) ‘“Through a Glass Darkly?” Black Women in London, 1760-1860, as seen via the Old Bailey Sessions Papers trial reports online and related online newspaper reports.’
Jeffrey Green (Independent Historian), ‘The murderer, the servant, and Lady Mary Grey:
Victorian Africans and the historical record’
Jan Marsh (National Portrait Gallery), ‘Re-framing the Nation’
Advolly Richmond (Independent Researcher), ‘God and Coffee: The Forgotten Story of the Reverend Thomas Birch Freeman, Botanist’
6.00-6.30 Final Thoughts and Conclusions
Chair: Michael Ohajuru
Panel: Sean Creighton, Miranda Kaufmann, Abdul Mohamud, Paul Reid, Martin Spafford
6.30-7.30 Reception
There will be a registration fee of £20 (£5 for students/unwaged) to cover the costs of lunch and refreshments.
Registration is now open. To book a place please go to: http://goo.gl/UgGlZp
