See below for details of upcoming and past events.
The Annual CSLBS Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series 2024:
“Caribbean Journeys and Colonial Legacies: A Reading of Ocean Stirrings”
Distinguished writer Merle Collins.
14 October 2024. IAS Common Ground (Room G11), UCL.

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Professor Alex Gil, Yale University.

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A CSLBS and UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre collaborative event:
"Black Family History: Genealogy, Storytelling and Ethics in the Wake of Slavery"
A conversation between filmmaker Keme Nzerem and genealogist Bernice Bennett, moderated by historian Dr James Dawkins.
28 May 2024. Bentham House, UCL Laws.
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The Annual CSLBS Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series 2023:
“Of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture”
Professor David Lambert, University of Warwick.
25 May 2023. Torrington Lecture Theatre, Torrington 1-19, UCL.
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"Gendering Racial Capitalism: British Women Investors in Transatlantic Slavery."
Dr Lila O'Leary Chambers, University of Cambridge.
3 May 2023. IAS Common Ground, UCL.
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"Brookes (Revisited)."
Professor Elgin Cleckley, University of Virginia.
18 April 2023. National Maritime Museum, GT Lecture Theatre.
"Talking Black History Walks: A Conversation with Tony Warner."
Tony Warner (Black History Walks) and Professor Matthew J. Smith (CSLBS).
9 March 2023. Black Cultural Archives, Learning Centre.
"Interleaving Records and Policies to Illuminate the Enslaved Community at Papine, Jamaica, 1817-1832."
Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown, University of the West Indies Museum.
30 November 2022. On Zoom.

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"Speaking the Unspeakable; Or Providing the Evidence Without Being Censored."
Dr Lissa Paul, Brock University.
10 October 2022. IAS Common Ground, UCL.

The Annual CSLBS Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series 2022:
"The Measure of their Sadness: Slavery and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic."
Professor Jennifer Morgan, New York University.
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL.
Inaugural Lecture:
"A Troubled Freedom: Power and Memories of Slavery."
Professor Matthew J. Smith, UCL CSLBS.
4 March 2022, UCL.