Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Always Active
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.

No cookies to display.

Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

No cookies to display.

Agenda

Historicising Afro-European experiences with Dr Olivette Otele, London 10.03.16

Speaker: Dr Olivette Otele, Bath Spa University

Respondent: Johny Pitts, Afropean.com. Chaired by: Professor Kevin MacDonald, UCL

Dr Olivette Otele is a Historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her current research centres around transnational history and in particular the linkage between history, collective memory and geopolitics in relation to European colonial past. As one of the recipients of an AHRC-LABEX Pasp grant, Dr Otele will start a 30 months funded research entitled “Telling one’s story, redefining collective memory: the challenges of African refugees and migrants in 21st century Europe”. Dr Otele’s work includes volumes and publications such as: “Does Discrimination Shape Identity? Identity Politics and Minorities in the English-Speaking World and in France: Rhetoric and Reality”, Journal of Intercultural Studies, (Routledge 2011) and “Bristol, slavery and the politics of representation: the Slave Trade Gallery in the Bristol Museum”, The Cultural Politics of Memory Social Semiotics, (Routledge 2012).

Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist.  He has received various awards for his work exploring Afro-European identity, including a Decibel Penguin Prize and an ENAR (European Network Against Racism) award. Johny has had work published by Penguin, Franklin Watts, Harvard University’s Transition magazine and the journal of post colonial studies, amongst others. As a photographer he has had work published by Cafe Royal Books and recently collaborated with author Caryl Phillips on a photographic essay for the BBC and Arts Council England. Johny also curates the online journal Afropean.com, part of the Guardian’s Africa Network dedicated to the Afro-European diaspora. He is working on a travel narrative and photo essay to be published in 2017, entitled ‘An Afropean Odyssey: Travels in Black Europe’.

In this event, Dr Olivette Otele will chart Afro-European experiences from Black presence in Spain in the 16th century to memorializing the past and performing identities in European public spaces in the 21st century. Johny Pitts will draw on his research and creative work which explore the human experience of being black and European in the present day.

This is part of the joint seminar series on Heritage & Politics, organised in collaboration with the UCL African Studies Research Centre.

WHEN
WHERE
UCL Common Ground, – South Wing, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, , London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom – 
CroppedEsmeraldasPainting

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *