Barriers to Black Academia: Slavery and Colonialism and the Case for Reparative Justice

Recordings of all panels are available to view below

Barriers to Black Academia - Panel 1: Discussion of the barriers of representation, experience and funding in the UK

This series of online panel discussions about the absence of Black UK academics in this area of teaching and research – and the implications of this absence – will culminate in a roundtable and report on the recommendations for how Black British scholars of the present and the future suggest UK universities and funding councils should lift the barriers to Black academics in this field of study in particular, notably as a form of reparative justice.

• Dr Diya Gupta, Institute of Historical Research

• Paulette Williams, Leading Routes

• Amatey Doku, Nous Group

• Malik Al Nasir, Artist, Historian and PhD Researcher at University of Cambridge

Moderator/Chair: Mara Livermore, MA student UoL Read more about our panel speakers

 

Barriers to Black Adademia - Panel 2: Tell our own story: research methods and approaches within communities and the academy which centre Black voices in slavery research.

This series of online panel discussions about the absence of Black UK academics in this area of teaching and research – and the implications of this absence – will culminate in a roundtable and report on the recommendations for how Black British scholars of the present and the future suggest UK universities and funding councils should lift the barriers to Black academics in this field of study in particular, notably as a form of reparative justice.

• Malik Al Nasir, Artist, Historian and PhD Researcher at University of Cambridge

• Michael Ohajuru, Senior Fellow Institute of Commonwealth Studies

• Nasra Elliot, Liverpool Black History Research Group

• Niya Bates, Princeton PhD Researcher and Public Historian

• Stephen Small, Professor in the Department of African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.

Moderator/Chair: Dr Richard Benjamin, UoL Visiting Professor of Slavery and Public Engagement

 

Barriers to Black Academia - Panel 3: Universities and Reparative justice : what could this look like?

This series of online panel discussions about the absence of Black UK academics in this area of teaching and research – and the implications of this absence – will culminate in a roundtable and report on the recommendations for how Black British scholars of the present and the future suggest UK universities and funding councils should lift the barriers to Black academics in this field of study in particular, notably as a form of reparative justice.

• L'myah Sherae, Chief Coordinator, The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Race Equality in Education

• Esther Stanford-Xosei, INOSAAR International Network of Scholars & Activists for Afrikan Reparations

• Professor Afua Cooper, Dalhousie University

• Dr Hank Gonzalez, University of Cambridge

Moderator/Chair: Malik Al Nasir, Fore-Word Press & PhD researcher University of Cambridge