Join Dr Dhanveer Singh Brar, Lecturer in Black British History in the School of History at University of Leeds in conversation with Dr Lara Choksey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter.

A paper will be shared with registered participants a week in advance to facilitate a workshop discussion.

Date: Thursday 27 May 2021

Time: 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT)

Location: An online event hosted via Zoom

Overview

“Knowing Manufacture of an RnB Feeling” is an essay on RnB as an aesthetic structure of thinking. Based around a response to the work of Free.Yard, in particular their piece REGNORTS (N22 MOMENTATION MIX) the essay moves through debates in the field of black diasporic intellectual production concerning the politics of class, form and gender.

About the speaker

Dr Dhanveer Singh Brar is a Lecturer in Black British History in the School of History at University of Leeds. Previously he has held posts as Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; a Junior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London; and as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania.

Dhanveer has published two books, Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) with The 87 Press, and Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century with Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press.

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Exeter Decolonising Network: Knowing Manufacture of an RnB Feeling