Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group
Northeast Postcolonial Calendar
| NPRG Postcolonial Theory Reading Group |
| Date/Time: Thursday 17 February, 5pm |
| Please see link for details. |
Please check back soon for more of our activities in 2021/22!
Previous events in 20/21:
| Maaza Mengiste in conversation with Neelam Srivastava |
| Date/Time: Thursday 22nd October, 5-6pm |
| Sociology Virtual Seminar Series: Colonial Mobilities and Global Inequality: Why the distinction between European movement in the 19th century and migration today matters |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 28th October, 5-6pm |
| Speaker: Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra |
| Centre for Culture and Ecology, Durham: Literature and Sketches of the 1943 Bengal Famine: On Catastrophic Realism |
| Date/Time: Thursday 29th October, 4-5pm |
| Speaker: Dr Sourit Bhattacharya |
| Decolonising Modern Languages: A Roundtable |
| Date/Time: Tuesday 17 November, 1.30-3pm |
| Panelists: Dr Catherine Gilbert, Dr Patricia Oliart, Dr Michael Tsang |
| Decolonising NCL: Staff Briefing |
| Date/Time: Tuesday 17 November, 3-5pm |
| Panelists: Newcastle University Student Union Decolonising NCL Campaign |
| Workshop - Brazil's "Racial Democracy": Deconstructing a Myth with Jens Hentschke and Loiana Leal |
| Date/Time: Thursday 19 November, 2-3.30pm |
| Speakers: Prof. Jens Hentschke and Ms. Loiana Leal |
| Decolonising NCL Panel |
| Date/Time: Thursday 19 November, 6-8pm |
| Panelists: Professor Kehinde Andrews, Dr Jason Arday, Fope Olaleye, former NUS Black Students Officer, Dr Christina Mobley |
| Film Screening: Antonio & Piti (Carelli and Piyãko, 2019), followed by discussion, and a celebration of Brazil's Black Awareness Day |
| Date/Time: Friday 20 November, 2-4.30pm |
| Organisers: Newcastle University Modern Languages Society and Sheffield Doc Fest |
| Do We Need to Decolonise Study Skills? |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 25 November, 5-7pm |
| Organisers: Dr Helen Webster |
| Carrying the Burden: Genocide Commemoration and Education in the Rwandan Diaspora |
| Date/Time: Thursday 26 November, 2-3pm |
| Organisers: Dr Catherine Gilbert |
| ATNU/IES Virtual Speaker Series: Envisioning the Digital Black Atlantic: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Practice |
| Date/Time: Monday 25 January, 5pm |
| Speaker: Professor Roopika Risam |
| Politics Virtual Seminar Series: Black Americans and the Franchise: Past, Present, and Future |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 3 February, 3pm |
| Speaker: Dr Bridget King |
| Decolonising the Nineteenth Century: A Post-Doctoral Workshop |
| Date/Time: Thursday 4 February, 10am-12nn |
| NPRG Seminar Series: Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group Welcome Event |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 17 February, 4pm |
| NPRG Postcolonial Theory Reading Group |
| Date/Time: Thursday 18 February, 4pm |
| Please see link for details. |
| Book Launch: Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020 |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 3 March, 3pm |
| Please see link for registration. |
| NPRG Seminar Series: Book Launch: Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915 |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 3 March, 4pm |
| Speaker: Dr Jack Webb |
| Português@Newcastle - Decolonising Imaginaries |
| Date/Time: Friday 5 March, 10am - 3pm |
| Please register. |
| NPRG Postcolonial Theory Reading Group |
| Date/Time: Thursday 18 March, 4pm |
| Please see link for details. |
| NPRG Seminar Series: World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 14 April, 4pm |
| Speaker: Dr Filippo Menozzi |
| NPRG Postcolonial Theory Reading Group |
| Date/Time: Thursday 15 April, 4pm |
| Please see link for details. |
| Decolonising Medical Sciences |
| Date/Time: Tuesday 27 April, 5pm |
| Organiser: Newcastle University Student Union |
| Please see link for registration. |
| Inaugural Lecture: What’s love got to do with it?: Law and Literature in 1920s British Somaliland |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 5 May, 5.30-6.30pm |
| Speaker: Professor Katherine Baxter |
| Please see link for registration. |
| NPRG Seminar Series: Postcoloinal Pedagogy and the Task of Decolonisation |
| Date/Time: Wednesday 19 May, 5:30-6:30pm |
| Speaker: Professor Ato Quayson and Professor Stephanie Newell |
| NPRG Postcolonial Theory Reading Group |
| Date/Time: Thursday 20 May, 4pm |
| Please see link for details. |
| Toppling Colston: Heritage and Teaching Practice after Black Lives Matter 2020 |
| Date/Time: Tuesday 8 June, 11am |
| Please see link for registration. |
| NPRG Postcolonial Theory Reading Group |
| Date/Time: Thursday 17 June, 4pm |
| Please see link for details. |