[Black Europe] Reading Group

Join us for the [Black Europe] reading group.

Reading Group

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Dr. Chloe Ireton: Black Lives and Thought in Early Modern Europe, 7 May 2025

“Coda: Felipa de la Cruz’s World and Letters,” in Ireton Chloe L., Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic. Cambridge University Press; 2025: 252-264.
"Introduction" in The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive, Social Text, Volume 33, Number 4 (125).
Optional: Karen Graubart, Pesa más la libertad: Slavery, Legal Claims, and the History of Afro-Latin American Ideas, William and Mary Quarterly 78:3 (July 2021): 427-58

Prof. Phiroze Vasunia: Andromeda and Representations of Myth, 26 March 2025

Elizabeth McGrath, “The Black Andromeda,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 55 (1992): 1–18.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Was Andromeda Black?,” The Root.
“How Andromeda, the Daughter of Ethiopian Royalty, Ended Up White,” The Root.
Optional: Joaneath Spicer, “Heliodorus’s An Aethiopian Story in Seventeenth-Century European Art,” in The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 3: From the ‘Age of Discovery’ to the Age of Abolition, ed. David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), 307–35.

Dr. Toyin Agbetu: Decolonisation and DEI Are Dead: Long Live Deracialisation, 5 March 2025

Hall, Stuart. “Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities.” In Theories of Race & Racism, edited by Les Back and John Solomos, 144–153. Taylor & Francis Ltd / Books, 1999.
Mbembe, Achille. “The Becoming Black of the World.” In Critique of Black Reason, translated by Laurent Dubois, 1–9. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.

Dr. Beatrix Gassmann de Sousa: Affective Debt in Film, 26 February 2025

Coffee/tea will be provided. We will circulate relevant readings and rooms at least one week in advance.

For more information, please contact Olivia Clarkson at olivia.clarkson.23@ucl.ac.uk