Race Forum at Birkbeck & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Lecture
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‘Wrongs not righted: how might we think about repair?’
Race Forum at Birkbeck & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Lecture
Tuesday 5 November, 6pm – 7.30 pm
B34 Malet Street, Main Building
Professor Catherine Hall, UCL
Focusing on the troubling history of the entanglements between Britain and Jamaica between slavery times and now this talk will argue that there are wrongs to be righted. How might we think about repair?
Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History and Chair of the Centre of the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL. She has written extensively on the history of Britain, gender and empire including Family Fortunes (1987), co-authored with Leonore Davidoff, Civilising Subjects (2002) Macaulay and Son (2012) and, with others, Legacies of British Slave-ownership (2014). From 2009-16 she was principal investigator on the LBS project www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs. Her latest book is Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the history of racial capitalism (2024).
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