CERS Black History Month Event: Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry

The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds is happy to announce our Black History Month (BHM) event and speaker details.

 Speaker: Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry

Welcome: Professor Ipek Demir

Chair: Dr Richard Tavernier

Title: ‘Black Futures Not Yet Lost:  Black Abolitionism and the Politics of History’

Date: Thursday, 27 October 2022

Time: 5-6.15pm (UK time)

Place: Zoom

Register here in advance for this meeting: https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkf-utqj8qGNYqm8k-w7G1T6jpFcn62TNN

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing info about joining the meeting.

Speaker Bio: Kennetta Hammond Perry is an Associate Professor of Black Studies and History at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.  Previously, she served as founding Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK where she maintains an affiliation as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow.  Dr Perry holds a PhD in Comparative Black History and her research interests include Black British history, transnational race politics, Black women’s history, Black Europe, histories of state crafted violence and the political uses of historical narratives.  She has published widely, including a book-length study on African Caribbean migration to Britain following World War II titled London Is The Place For Me:  Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford Press, 2016). Currently she is completing a new book, Insufficient Justice:  Living and Dying in David Oluwale’s Britain which uses imperiled Black life as a lens to rethink the contours of contemporary British history.