Battle of Bamber Bridge 80th Anniversary Commemoration Event
Image: Professor Alan Rice meets with key stakeholders for the 80th Anniversary event (left to right: Prof Rice, IBAR, UCLAN; Jemma Rodgers, Producer, The Return…
Artist Dr Jade Montserrat Will be Re-Joining IBAR as MIDEX Fellow
We are pleased to announce that Scarborough-based artist Dr Jade Montserrat is our visiting fellow for spring and summer 2023 at MIDEX and IBAR. Her…
UCLan researchers and Preston Black History Group launch new book ‘England is my home’: Windrush lives in Lancashire
A new book ‘England is my Home’: Windrush Lives in Lancashire was launched on Tuesday 25 October 2022 at the Jalgos Club in Preston. The…
Prof Gretchen Gerzina launches a new edition of “Black England”
NB. Sadly, due to unforeseen circumstances, both events are cancelled. If there are new dates in the future, we will advertise them. Apologies from the…
IBAR a Key Partner as Judges’ Lodgings Museum commissions Kendal artist Lela Harris for its Facing the Past project
At a public lecture at the Judges’ Lodgings Museum in 2020, Professor Alan Rice was asked what could be done to change things at the…
Black Mobilities Conference – Public Recordings Available
In January 2022 IBAR hosted the online conference Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World. The keynote lecture of the event and a creative practitioners’ roundtable…
Uncovering Hidden Histories : a creative practice PhD to uncover, explore and engage people with black histories in Lancaster and Morecambe
Image: Lancaster Maritime Museum (interior shot) Applications are invited for a Creative Practice PhD (via MPhil) studentship at the UCLAN Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora…
Artist Commission: Black Lancastrians in the 18th Century
Image: Judges’ Lodgings interior shot with portraits of Lancastrians involved in the business of slavery and mahogany furniture forested by enslaved Africans in the West…
Lancashire’s Unknown Black Soldiers
Image: Postcard dated 10 December 1918 from Salomón de la Selva to W. Adolphe Roberts. Walter Adolphe Roberts Archive, MS 353, National Library of Jamaica,…
Black Mobilities Conference
BLACK MOBILITIES IN THE ATLANCTIC WORLD International Conference Institute for Black Atlantic Research University of Central Lancashire 13-14 January 2022 | online via Microsoft Teams…
“Call Mr. Robeson.” A Life, With Songs, Written and performed by Tayo Aluko
IBAR is very proud to present Call Mr. Robeson. A Life, With Songs, Written and performed by Tayo Aluko. It will be shown at the…
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…
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…
MIDEX Online Talk Stephanie Volder
The UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (in conjunction with IBAR and the In Conversation Lecture Series) will host its first online talk.…
Creative Conversations: Black Women Artists Making and Doing
Influences and Inspirations of Literature and Language on Black Women’s Creativity Two-day Symposium at UCLAN, 16-17 January 2020. Organised in celebration of the many achievements…
IBAR Fellow Astrid Haas to lecture “In Conversation”
IBAR Fellow Astrid Haas is giving the following Lecture Black Inter-American Mobilities and Autobiography in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860) Lecture sponsored by IBAR and…
Two New Research Fellows at IBAR
We welcome our new Research Fellows, Dr Astrid Haas and Dr Nicole Willson, who have both taken up appointments at IBAR in September 2019. Astrid…
Queen Quet Presents On ‘The Reality of Being Gullah/Geechee’
Celebrating Black History Month, IBAR, in conjunction with the Lancashire Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) and the School of Humanities and Global…
CfP for the Twelfth Biennial MESEA Conference, to be hosted by IBAR in 2020 at UCLan Cyprus
MESEA The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas In May 2020, IBAR will be hosting the Twelfth Biennial MESEA Conference, “Communities of Engagement:…
An evening with the award-winning author Caryl Phillips
As part of the upcoming 43rd Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, which is being hosted by IBAR at UCLan, IBAR is delighted…
43rd Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS)
On the 3rd – 5th July 2019 IBAR will be hosting the 43rd Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS). The programme can…
Windrush Day Celebration: Stories of Migration
On Friday 21st June 2019 IBAR hosted an event to celebrate Windrush Day. The event was organised by IBAR and UCLan’s Diversity and Inclusion Team…
Conference: Gender, ‘Race’ and Performance: Re-visiting the Black Atlantic
The upcoming conference, “Gender, ‘Race’ and Performance: Re-visiting the Black Atlantic,” will be held at the University of Liverpool, 11-12 June 2019. The conference has…
Bestselling author Reni Eddo-Lodge in Conversation With Award-Winning Artist Jade Montserrat
Reni Eddo-Lodge, the bestselling author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race, will be reading extracts from her work and be…
IBAR Director Lubaina Himid wins Turner Art Prize for 2017
It is with great pleasure that the Institute for Black Atlantic Research joins in the celebrations of the award to Lubaina Himid of the Turner…
Women’s Spring: Feminism, Nationalism and Civil Disobedience
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 706741-BWBN Registration is now…
Legendary Dub Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson at IBAR
The Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR) is proud to announce that legendary Dub Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson will perform on Saturday October 14th 8pm…
Prof Lubaina Himid Shortlisted for Turner Prize 2017
IBAR is proud to announce that its Co-Director Lubaina Himid has been shortlisted for the 2017 Turner Prize. Lubaina, who is Professor for Contemporary at…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Bluecoat 300: Charity, Philanthropy and the Black Atlantic
Bluecoat 300: Charity, Philanthropy and the Black Atlantic A weekend conference and public participation event Liverpool 24-25 November 2017 Conference 24 Nov: Dr Martin…
Exciting Postgraduate Opportunity!
Reference RS1625 Applications are invited for a full PhD (via MPhil) studentship in the School of Humanities and Social Science. The studentship is tenable for…
Slavery, Emancipation and Art Workshop – Thursday 20th April 2017
Location: Media Innovation Studio, 4th floor the Media Factory, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE – 10:00 – 17:00 ‘The artist must take sides.…
Exciting PhD Opportunity at IBAR
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE PhD (via MPhil) Studentship in the Institute for Black Atlantic Research Applications are invited for a full time PhD (via…
Exciting Music and Freedom event being held on March 31st at UCLan as part of Ribble Valley Jazz Festival (RVJF)!
On the 31st of March an exciting and innovative event is being held at UCLan, as part of Ribble Valley Jazz Festival between March 25th – April…
Book Now for ‘What’s Happening in Black British History?’ IV (WHBBH6)
IBAR would like to welcome you to the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History?’ IV Workshop at the University of Central Lancashire on Thursday the 16th…
Exciting Conference on Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic to be held at IBAR
The conference The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic will be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR),…
Yvonne Reddick and Raphael Hoermann receive fellowships at the Linnaeus Foundation
September and October 2016 – Dr. Yvonne Reddick received a 1-month fellowship and Dr. Raphael Hoermann a 3-month fellowship at the Linnaeus Foundation in Sweden to work…
200,000 Euros for Dr. Izabella Penier
August 2016 – Dr. Izabella Penier has received 200,000 Euros from the Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action programme for the Postdoctoral Fellowship project. This is…
Literary Hauntings: A Walking Tour of Lancaster & Its Dark Past
This tour will take visitors on a journey through Lancaster’s hidden history of Black Presence and the literature that recalls it. Our journey spans the…
Prof. Lisa Merrill (Hofstra) on her time as an IBAR Fellow
In April and May 2016, Prof. Lisa Merrill from Hofstra University in New York joined IBAR as its second IBAR Fellow after New York film-maker…
Meet the Artist – Jade Montserrat
Documentary photograph by Alethea Raban, ‘Interrogations and Interrelations: Iterations of the Rainbow Tribe’, ]performance s p a c e[ , 2014. Image courtesy of the…
