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…
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…
