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UK Book Launch: Prof. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie “Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt & America’s Coastal Slave Trade”

17 Feb 2020

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…

CFP: The Anthropocene and Race Conference

14 Feb 2020

Yvonne Reddick

July 24-5 The Anthropocene and Race University of Central Lancashire, Preston Hosted by the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, the Asia Pacific Studies Institute and…

Creative Conversations: Black Women Artists Making and Doing

11 Dec 2019

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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”

11 Dec 2019

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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…

The Amazing Ira Aldridge: The story of a black American actor on British stages in the nineteenth century

07 Nov 2019

Nicole Willson

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

10 Oct 2019

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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

30 Sep 2019

Nicole Willson

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’

19 Sep 2019

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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…