The event is taking place in room 104, Senate House, London.
Please note that this is an in-person event.
Dr Amber Lascelles, Carmen Andall Woodroofe and Lewi Mondal invite you to a series of seminars that aim to explore the contestations, methodologies, frameworks and creative interventions of Black Studies in Britain.
We welcome you to our final seminar of this series which is organised around the theme of 'Futures' and takes place on the 24th of September in Room 104 at Senate House, University of London, 6-8pm.
The seminar features contributions from Dr Christine Okoth and Francis-Xavier Mukiibi, whose interventions will be responding to where the critical and imaginative future of Black Studies in Britain may go. Francis will be reading from his very recently published poetry collection, Mutabani & [ ]ther Poems (Little Betty, 2025).
Our speakers:
Dr Christine Okoth is Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic in the Department of English at King's College London. Her work is primarily concerned with questions of environment and race in contemporary Black literature and visual art. Her talk, ‘Racial Capitalism and the Inexhaustible Novel’, is an experiment in what it would mean to structure a theoretical intervention about the composition of race as a category of racial difference around histories of mining in colonial Africa.
Francis-Xavier Mukiibi is a poet and spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage from North London. He is an alumnus of the Barbican Young Poets, Roundhouse Poetry Collective and Obsidian Foundation and received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors.
The seminars scheduled for Black Studies in Britain have covered a range of topics such as sound and sonic blackness, reflections on the past, considerations of the future and also the geographic/spatial.
Broad in discipline, the series explores the methods shaping Black Studies in the UK. These include speculations beyond Britain, and the ways such methods connect with African diasporic epistemologies and dialogues between U.S Black Studies and British contexts. The series also probes at disciplinary issues as we consider various legacies of Black Studies in Britain (e.g. Cultural Studies, Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Studies).
All welcome, refreshments provided. We would like to express our thanks to The British Association of American Studies and Royal Holloway's Humanities and Arts Research Institute for their help in getting this series off the ground.
