Equiano Centre Event by UCL-Arts & Social Science

  

Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to English and Nigerian parents. She is the author of six books of fiction and verse fiction including Lara, Blonde Roots and The Emperor’s Babe. She is also an editor, literary critic and has written for BBC radio and theatre. She teaches creative writing at Brunel University and for UEA-Guardian Masterclasses. During 2012 she is Chair of both the Caine Prize for African Fiction and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and Guest Editor of the Winter issue of Poetry Review. She has won several awards and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004, of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006 and an MBE in 2009.

Fiona Paisley is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane.  A cultural historian of the history of human rights and the politics of race and gender in a variety of early twentieth century imperial and colonial settings, her research focuses on the ways in which Europeans and Indigenous peoples have separately and sometimes in cooperation debated the morality of settler colonialism in Australian and the Pacific.  Among numerous publications she has written three books – Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women’s Rights, 1919-1939 (Melbourne University Press, 2000), Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, 2009) and The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and London (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2012).

We have a limited number of signed copies of The Lone Protestor available.  If you would like to purchase a copy please send a cheque for £20 (including UK and EU postage and packing) payable to University College London to The Equiano Centre, Geography, UCL, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP.