‘Disturbance’ Short Documentary Film Screening

Professor Matt Smith, Dr Jagjeet Lally and the UCL History BAME Network present this special screening on Guyanese Historian and Activist Walter Rodney, followed by discussion.

Disturbance 1968 - made in collaboration with the University of the West Indies Museum at Mona, Jamaica as part of the museum's 2018 exhibition, Confrontations: UWI Student Protest and the Rodney Disturbance of 1968, which Smith co-curated - examines events from that globally significant year. In particular it looks at what happened when the Jamaican government declared Walter Rodney - newly-returned to the country as a lecturer from Tanzania - a subversive element and persona non grata, and a student-led demonstration in support of him turned deadly.