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What would a world be like without the Arts, Humanities and Languages? Sharing the reasons why we matter at the University of Bristol.
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Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word!

CALL FOR PAPERS Centre For Black Humanities 10th Anniversary Symposium: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’ Keynote Speaker: Professor Christina Sharpe 8-9 th April 2027 University of Bristol The Centre for Black Humanities is an interdisciplinary research collective dedicated to advancing scholarship on the artistic and intellectual contributions of people of African descent. It is inspired by and expands legacies of scholarship, art, and activism relating to Black lives across time and space. Building on our international and multilingual networks, and our home in the port city of Bristol, our research often engages with communities beyond traditional academic settings and addresses inequality and social justice through innovative collaborations. By centring an ethics of care and generosity, despite the chronic conditions of life in and beyond the academy, we support earlycareer scholars and visiting scholars/practitioners. In turn, we seek to interrogate and repurpose institutions of knowledge production such as universities, museums and publishing houses, within entangled contexts of reparative justice, decolonization, and the climate crisis. We imagine collectivity, community and collaboration as methods for Black Humanities research going forwards.To celebrate the Centre’s 10-year anniversary, we will be holding a two-day symposium entitled: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. The keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe, Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University (Canada), and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and Ordinary Notes (2024). We invite scholars and practitioners (at all levels, independent and affiliated) to submit abstracts for presentations of 15 minutes. The event will be held in person at the University of Bristol. We invite presentations that speak to Black Humanities in its multi/anti/undisciplinary forms. We are particularly interested in work that speaks to the following themes: - Collectivity, Collaboration and/or Community in Black Humanities - Black Humanities/Studies in times of polycrisis - Black Health - Environmental Justice - Radical Imaginaries (how creative works make sense of Black pasts/present and help to shape Black futures) - Methods for solidarity and/or incompleteness - Folklore and storytelling as method - Translation and multilingual solidarities - Beyond critique Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio of no more than 100 words, to cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk. Abstracts should be submitted no later than Friday 30th October 2026. A publication and podcast series are planned to follow on after this event. You may reach us at cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk in case of any questions or observations.
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We are excited to announce the 2026 Symonds Lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Howes on October 3rd from 5PM. The event is free, open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.
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Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
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The first of 8 posts from our student researchers, who have been teaching me a great deal about the history of @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social