Black History Month 2020 at Bath Spa is a celebration of the work that’s happening across the Black community (and all communities more widely) in academia, public services, and wider community events and organisations. This year’s Black History Month will focus on the fantastic work that Black people in the UK are doing across many sectors. 

There’s a mixture of live talks which will be streamed from Newton Park campus at Bath Spa University, online only talks, and YouTube Premieres, interviewing key speakers from across the community, as well as a Bath Spa training session on allyship. Upcoming events include:

NB. All times are UK times

Talk: Ordinary Black people doing extraordinary things – Manoel Akure

Friday 2 October, 12:00 pm YouTube Premiere – set a reminder here

Live Keynote: Chante Joseph, presenter of How Not To Be Racist, social media creative and journalist

Thursday 8 October, 6:00pm – 7:30pm – book here

Talk: Why Black Lives Matter. Why do so many Health and Social Care staff leave work sick? And what impact does this have on patients? – Jermaine Ravalier

Friday 9 October, 10:00am – 11:00am – join here

Talk: Ordinary Black people doing extraordinary things – Kai Phillip

Friday 9 October, 12:00pm YouTube Premiere – set a reminder here

Live Keynote: Shingi Mararike, news reporter for The Sunday Times

Monday 12 October, 6:00pm – 7:30pm – book here

Live Keynote: Angela Saini, author of Superior: the Return of Race Science

Thursday 15 October, 6:00pm – 7:30pm – book here

Walk-and-talk around Fairfield House (former Bath home of Haile Selassie during his exile) with Shawn Sobers

Friday 16 October, 12:00pm – 1:00pm – set a reminder here

Talk: An Uncomfortable Truth – Sado Jirde

Wednesday 21 October, 6:00pm – 7:30pm – book here

Talk: Ordinary Black people doing extraordinary things – Wayne Reid

Friday 23 October, 12:00pm – 1:00pm – set a reminder here

Talk: Blackness, Anger and Social Change – Kelechi Okafor

Monday 26 October, 6:00pm – 7:30pm – book here

Talk: Making Black History Accessible for All Ages – David Olusoga

Tuesday 27 October, 7:00pm – 8:00pm – book here

Talk: CGU event with Bath Spa University Gloria Willingham-Toure

Wednesday 28 October, 7:00pm – 8:30pm – book here

Events at SUNY Geneseo, USA

Thursday 1 October – 4-6pm (East Coast Time) 

Nicholas Buccola: “The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Struggle for the American Soul.”

About the talk: Nicholas Buccola, Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield College, will be giving a lecture entitled “The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Struggle for the American Soul.”  The lecture will be based on his book The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, about the 1965 Cambridge debate between these two writers.  

Further information and additional details.

Wednesday 14 October – 1-2pm (East Coast Time)

Dr. A’Bodjedi will talk about his role as guide and interpreter for NYETETI (the artist/actor formerly known as Samuel L. Jackson) during the actor/activist’s work on a six-part Enslaved docuseries on human trafficking. Dr. A’Bodjedi served during the UKEHANO (Welcoming Home Celebration) and UPAPO (Death-Rebirth and Purification Ceremony) among the BENGA people in EBENJE YA BOKUDA BWA NGWALO, IKUMEMBONGO (Cap Esterias, Gabon). Dr. A’Bodjedi will be introduced by Dr. Susana Castillo-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Spanish at SUNY Geneseo.