ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to extenuating personal circumstances, this seminar has now been rescheduled. Please check back here and on our social media pages for more information as to the new rescheduled date. Apologies to all who have signed up for the…
Tag: Black History Month
12th October 2022: Black History Month Special Seminar – Black Women and Legal Entanglements
ANNOUNCEMENT: Unfortunately, due to extenuating personal circumstances, Amy Latimer will no longer be able to attend our seminar. Bethany Brewer will still share her work on Rwandan Women and the Gacaca Courts. Don’t miss the first of our two…
Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams
Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a large impact on the African-Caribbean London…
27th October: Stella Dadzie
Join us for a special seminar to mark Black History Month: Stella Dadzie, ‘A Kick in the Belly’ Wednesday, 27th October 2021 at 4pm (UK) Register on Zoom here Stella Dadzie is a feminist writer, historian and education activist, best…
Joy as Gendered Resistance in Ashenda Celebrations during the Tigray War, 2020–Present, by Francesca Baldwin
Ashenda is a festival of womanhood, sisterhood, and female joy, celebrated every August in Tigray, Ethiopia. It brings together physical adornment, music, and dance to honour the feminine form, where female participants are gifted food, drinks, and money by the…
‘There has always been a Black women’s peace movement’: Women of Colour and Anti-War Activism in the U.S., 1968-1972 – Frankie Chappell
When I decided to submit a talk proposal for WHN’s 2021 Studying Herstories student conference, I had just finished an essay on women’s opposition to the Vietnam War, and had discovered some fascinating histories. The title of this blog, and…
13th October: Black History Month 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin
13th October: Black History Month Wednesday, 13th October 2021, 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2Ld0QrWSmCm6MwyLs68aw Join us for these two fascinating papers in this double bill seminar that features as…
HOW MICHELLE OBAMA’S VISIT TO A LONDON SCHOOL HELPED BOOST STUDENTS’ GRADES
July 1, 2016 2.53pm AEST Simon Burgess Professor of Economics, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Simon Burgess receives funding from the ESRC, the Education Endowment Foundation and the Department for Education. Partners University of Bristol provides funding as a founding…