IBAR and project partners launch exhibition catalogue “Facing the Past: Black Lancastrians”
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Facing the Past symposium and catalogue launch at the Judges’ Lodgings Museum on 18 July 2023 in…
Global News Coverage of Commemoration hosted by IBAR: Battle of Bamber Bridge 80th Anniversary
Prof Gary Younge and Prof Alan Rice. Photo: Tony Maiden (tony@prestonblackhistorygroup) The events held on 23-25 June 2023 to mark the 80th anniversary of the…
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…
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…
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…
CFP: The Anthropocene and Race Conference
Feb 5-6 2021 The Anthropocene and Race University of Central Lancashire, Preston Hosted by the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, the Asia Pacific Studies Institute…
The Amazing Ira Aldridge: The story of a black American actor on British stages in the nineteenth century
Tuesday 19 November, 5:30pm Livesey Cafe, University of Central Lancashire, Heatley Street, Preston African American actor, Ira Aldridge arrived in England in 1827 and forged…
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…
IBAR’s Dr Nicole Willson Recovers Will of Historical Black Queen
Dr Nicole Willson, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, has discovered a translation of the original will of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
