Inter-Community Dialogues In Britain (All times North American Central Standard Time Zone)

8:30a.m.  OPENING REMARKS - Arunima Datta, University of North Texas

9:00 - 10:00a.m.  KEYNOTE - Expressions of Blackness, Caroline Bressey, University College London

10:30a.m.  PANEL I - RE-VISIONING BLACK BRITISH HISTORIES

Chair: Ana Roeschley, University of North Texas

• Kennetta Perry, Northwestern University - “Whose” Black in Black History? The Intellectual and Political Imperatives of Historical Knowledge
• Radhika Natarajan, Reed College - Hear Whose Voices? Imperial History and Twenty-First Century Solidarities
• Saima Nasar, University of Bristol - Sisters in Struggle: Feminist Activism and Welfare Citizenship in Britain
• Priyanka Zylstra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Historicizing Political Blackness in Britain’s Afro-Asian Feminisms

12:00 - 1:00p.m.  LUNCH

1:05 - 2:30p.m.  PANEL II - BLACK RELATIONS & DIALOGUES IN 20TH CENTURY BRITAIN

Chair: Andrew Nelson, University of North Texas

• Kieran Connell, Queen’s University Belfast - Actually Existing Multiculturalism
• Laura Tabili, University of Arizona - Black Solidarities in Interwar Britain
• Marc Matera, University of California Santa Cruz - Afro-Asian London in the 1930s and 1940s/Britain’s Early Race Relations Capitals and Black British Histories
• Leonard Butingan, University of California Santa Cruz - It’s Not Just Black and White: Blackness, Television, and Cultural Politics in Britain 1978-1998

2:30 - 3:00p.m.  TEA BREAK

3:00 - 5:00p.m.  ROUNDTABLE - RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGIES IN BLACK BRITISH

Led by Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

5:00 - 5:30p.m.  CONCLUDING REMARKS