Tuesday 19th March 2024 – 4:15pm-5:30pm // free and online // Eventbrite registration required for non-UWE colleagues
By Malcolm Richards – Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education and Childhood
The third in an exciting series of collaborations by Network for Black Studies in Education, in collaboration with UWE ECRG, Bristol Caribbean Kitchen, Bookbag (Exeter), and Phoenix Agenda Supplementary School (Leicester).
Overview
Culture Club: Words, Sight and Sounds remixes traditional book club formats, using digital sources to encourage a creative learning space for teachers, student teachers, community educators, and academics. We are specifically interested in developing deeper understandings of the wide-ranging area of Black Studies scholarship, and its relevance to local-global contemporary education.
Our guest discussant
We are delighted to welcome as our guest, Dr Rita Gayle (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK).
Rita Gayle (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for The Conjunctures Strand of The Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham. Rita is a co-founder of the research group, Global Black Geographies with Dr Agostinho Pinnock in 2019. Rita can be found online on X : @rita_gayle
How it works:
Rita has selected THREE digital resources inspired by Words, Sights, and Sounds, for us to respond with. Two of these stimuli are freely available from digital sources, with URL links provided on registration.
Attendees will have several weeks to engage and reflect with the resources.
Event structure:
On the day, Dr Rita Gayle will explore THREE which stimuli speak to how creativity, place and space affect the production and transfer of Black knowledges.
· (from 4.15pm) Embodiment of Black Life – a specially curated SOUND playlist by Dr Rita Gayle
· Introduction Amy Saleh (UWE Bristol)
· Presentation of WORD and SIGHT by Dr Rita Gayle
· Opening reflections
· Community dialogue with connections to wider Black Studies scholarship
· Closing words with Dr Rita Gayle
Registration:
- For UWE students (MA/EdD/PhD) or UWE staff, please email Malcolm Richards directly for information and registration: malcolm.richards@uwe.ac.uk
- For non-UWE colleagues, please register for the event on Eventbrite: Culture Club: Words, Sight and Sounds w/Dr. Rita Gayle (Uni of Birmingham) Tickets, Tue 19 Mar 2024 at 16:30 | Eventbrite
Save the date:
· Dr Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter, UK) – Volume. 4 – (Tuesday 28 May 2024)
· Ass. Professor Obianuju Juliet Bushi (University of Windsor, Canada) – Volume. 5 – (Tuesday 9 July 2024)
Thanks:
Culture Club: Words, Sights and Sounds is a series of exciting collaborations by the Network for Black Studies in Education, with Bristol Caribbean Kitchen, Phoenix Agenda Supplementary School (Leicester, UK), UWE ECRG Equity in Education, and our growing connections with local-global community organisations.
If you would like to hear any more about joining the Network for Black Studies in Education with UWE, or this event, please contact Malcolm Richards malcolm.richards@uwe.ac.uk
