Join us in October to mark Black History Month

Join us online and at the City Art Centre each Friday in October to hear a lecture marking Black History Month 2024.

 

All lectures are free, but pre-booking via Eventbrite is essential.

 

In partnership with the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER).

Front, side and back images of a bronze sculpture of a woman's head

The Black Woman Modernist Muse in Jacob Epstein's Art, 1915-1959

Friday 18 October 2024, 2:00pm

Black History Month Lecture in partnership with CRER

Dr Rochelle Rowe shares from her research into the Black women art models who worked with famous British sculptor Jacob Epstein, but whose lives and... Book now More info
A composition of Hephzibah Israel wearing a pink and black sari and the Black History Month Scotland logo - a stylised image of an elephant with trunk raised

Reform in Translation: the travel of peoples, languages and ideas of selfhood

Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00pm

Black History Month Lecture in partnership with CRER

NOW RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER AT 12 NOON Translation historian of South Asia, Dr Hephzibah Israel, will present on how ideas on reform... Book now More info
An abstract painting of shades of red, blue, green and yellow - almost like layers of crayon with bits scratched through

Decolonized Transformations: Carter G. Woodson Vision of the Importance of Black History and Anticolonialism

Friday 25 October 2024, 2:00pm

Black History Month Lecture in partnership with CRER

This talk will provide an overview of the work being conducted by the Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG) to investigate the University of... Book now More info