Reading Bass Culture
On 26 April 2018, Linton Kwesi Johnson read from a selection of his poetry and discussed with Professor Paul Gilroy the inter-generational and transat...
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Contemporary Black and Asian British writing is changing how we see and read literature in English around Britain today. This series brings some of the best writers working in and beyond the UK into conversation with readers to discuss reading, writing, and how literature shapes our perceptions of the world and our identities within it. Included in this series you will find writers reading from and discussing their work, responses to this literature by a variety of readers including students, and a special poetic performance. Contemporary Black and Asian British writing is changing how we see and read literature in English around Britain today. This series brings some of the best writers working in and beyond the UK into conversation with readers to discuss reading, writing, and how literature shapes our perceptions of the world and our identities within it. Included in this series you will find writers reading from and discussing their work, responses to this literature by a variety of readers including students, and a special poetic performance.
'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark
In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the pu...
Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community
Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how the...
M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. In disc...
Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institution...
Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about t...
Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy
Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settli...
D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’
D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective. T...
Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour a...
Bernardine Evaristo on writing Britain’s Black histories
In conversation with Dr Zoe Norridge and Marsha Hutchinson, Bernardine Evaristo reads from and discusses her remarkable verse novel, The Emperor’s Bab...