Event overview
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The Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (CCDS) in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum will host its fourth ‘Diasporic Dialogues’ conference 8/ 9 July 2019.
“In the wake, the past that is not past reappears, always to rupture the present.” Christina Sharpe
CCDS’ Diasporic Dialogue conference series aims to extend our understanding of diaspora, to connect diasporas and, in the process, to forge new critical directions. This year, we take up questions of slavery, about which, notably, UK universities have been overwhelmingly silent. Given the UK’s history of prestigious institutions and their entanglement with the ‘profits of racial slavery’ alongside its centuries-long established black presence, this conference intends to a) question practices that serve to inhibit such necessary intellectual labour b) connect related theorising and practice, especially that centring the Caribbean region, North America, Africa and Europe and c) bring into relation the past centred on slavery, the present built on continued racial inequalities normalised through practices of slavery and colonialism, and the future burdened, already, with pressing issues of restorative justice and equity.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Jul 2019 |
10:00am - 8:00pm National Maritime Museum Greenwich |
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| 9 Jul 2019 |
10:00am - 8:00pm MMB, Goldsmiths University of London |
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