Webinar Event: Afterlives of the Kingdom of Haiti, 1820-2020: Art, Refinement and Material Culture
Register for the above event here.
Congratulations to Jade Montserrat for PhD achievement.
Jade Montserrat is a renowned artist whose work resonates with IBAR’s emphasis on African Atlantic studies. She received a Stuart Hall Fellowship to undertake a…
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.…
IBAR’s Dr Nicole Willson Joins All Party Parliamentary Group on Haiti
On Thursday 8 March Dr Nicole Willson, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at IBAR, was invited to speak in parliament as part of an All-Party…
Films – Creative Conversations: Black Women Artists Making & Doing Symposium
IBAR is very pleased to announce the release of a collection of films that record the Creative Conversations: Black Women Artists Making & Doing Symposium, which…
UK Book Launch: Prof. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie “Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt & America’s Coastal Slave Trade”
UCLan’s Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) and IBAR are proud to announce a talk by renowned historian of slavery and abolition Prof…
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…
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…
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. Lisa Merrill (Hofstra) Lecture On “Spectacularising Black Bodies on 19th Century Stages,” ISM, Liverpool 27/6/17
Image: As a performative intervention, William Wells Brown placed Punch’s 17 May 1851 illustration of ‘The Virginian Slave’ alongside Powers’ sculpture of ‘The Greek Slave’…
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…
Art, Politics and Performance in the Black Atlantic 1789-2016 – April 14-15 2016
Image: Lubaina Himid “Singer” (2010), acrylic on paper, from the “Tailor, Striker, Singer, Dandy Series”, courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, photograph by Andy…
Legacies of British Slave-ownership Workshop, 24th October 2015, Manchester
This free workshop will explore the legacies of British slave-ownership in the north of England. It will showcase exciting new research that can be used…
Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
Image: Lubaina Himid “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (Cut Out) (1987) The Caribbean Research Seminar in the North is organised in association with the Society of Caribbean Studies…
Museums Taking Stand for Human Rights, Rejecting ‘Neutrality’
Article on museums and activism from Alecia McKenzie in Inter Press Service News. This is based on the ‘Broken Lives’ exhibition at Liverpool International Slavery…
‘Mobilising Memory: Creating African Atlantic Identities’, CAAR Conference, June 24 – 28 2015, Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool is home to one of the oldest and largest Black British communities. The city itself has a chequered history as Britain’s largest slave port…
Theatre and Performance Conference, 19-20 June 2015
Ⓒ Lubaina Himid ‘Naming The Money’ (2004) The conference will feature papers and performances from a wide range of disciplines and play host to an…
After Revolution: Versions and Re-visions of Haiti
Scholars from Centre for the Study of International Slavery (Liverpool) and IBAR are collaborating to host a 9-10 July 2015 conference on Haiti at UCLAN (Preston).
New York filmmaker Sikay Tang joins IBAR as Visiting Fellow
We are delighted to announce that New York based film Sikay Tang is joining IBAR as a visiting fellow from April 24th to the end…
IBAR in association with the Bronte Parsonage Museum Haworth Present Lost Children: The Black Atlantic and Northern Britain ‘An Interdisciplinary Symposium’ April 30-May 1
IBAR is proud to announce that it will host a symposium to tie in with the launch of Caryl Phillips new novel The Lost Child,…
Author Noo Saro-Wiwa Visits UCLan, Monday 16th March 2015
Author and journalist Noo Saro-Wiwa will be visiting UCLan to read from her acclaimed book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, and telling us…
Public Lecture at International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
Public Lecture at International Slavery Museum, Liverpool “‘Save the blacks from the servitude of the whites”: Congolese Writing about Congo on the Threshold of Independence’…
IBAR Research Showcase At the Media Innovation Studio 21/1/2015
IBAR is inviting everyone to find out more about the thrilling research that is being undertaken at the new institute. This event will feature presentations…
Symposium: “100 Years of D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’,” British Library, 28/11/14
Professor Alan RIce launched the Symposium: 100 Years of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, which took place Friday 28 November 2014, 12:30-17:00 at…
Representing and Remembering Slavery in the Americas 30-31st May 2014
"Two members of IBAR, Dyana Saad and Raphael Hoermann, attended the conference "Representing and Remembering Slavery in the Americas, University of York, 30-31 May 2014." Here is a report of the conference written by Dyana Saad"
A visit Sambo’s grave at Sunderland Point
Professor Alan Rice and writer Caryl Phillips visit Sambo's grave at Sunderland Point as part of his trip to UCLan on the Distinguished Visitor Programme.
UCLan Launches African Atlantic Studies Institute
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has launched a research institute to work with leading UK organisations to promote African Atlantic studies.
