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Conference: Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World
We are excited to announce our upcoming conference with our Conference Call for Papers – ‘Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World’ – Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of…
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IBAR receives a £5,000 commission to investigate the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society's links to abolition and slavery in the period 1780-1865.
The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society was founded in 1781, at a time when the city’s rapidly mechanising textile industry placed it at the centre of the Industrial Revolution.…
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Arts and Activism in the Age of Black Lives Matter Webinar Series
Between June and July 2021 Preston Black History Group and the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, sponsored by the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) and the Leverhulme…
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Exhibition Lubaina Himid "Memorial to Zong" at the Lancaster Maritime Museum
Image: Lubaina Himid “Memorial to Zong,” photographer: Andy Keate, image courtesy of Hollybush Gardens & the artist IBAR is proud to announce the exhibition of Co-Director Professor Lubaina Himid’s…
About IBAR
The Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR) is a research institute utilising UCLAN’s interdisciplinary and internationally renowned research pedigree in African Atlantic studies particularly in the Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) and Art, Design and Fashion (ADF).