Programme
9:30-9:45 Registration and tea/coffee
9:45-10:00 Welcome and introduction
Jeff Bowersox and Erica Carter, King’s College London
10:00-11:15 Keynote Address
“Black France and the African Diaspora: National Identity and Transnational Vision”
Tyler Stovall, UC Berkeley
Chair/Commentator: Erica Carter, King’s College London
11:15-12:30 Commodifying Race, Gender, and Sexuality
“Racialized Hierarchies of Sexuality in Orientalist Cigarette Advertisements”
David Ciarlo, Colorado
“Scandinavian Human Exhibitions. Race, Gender, and Sexuality at the Turn of the Century”
Rikke Andreassen, Roskilde
Chair/Commentator: Alex Clarkson, King’s College London
12:30-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:00 Blackness and Music
“Sophisticated Ladies: Adelaide Hall and Elisabeth Welch and the Integration of Black Music in Britain”
Neil Wynn, Gloucestershire
“‘Nel blu dipinto di blues’: African American Music in Italy, 1930-60”
Christian O’Connell, Gloucestershire
Chair/Commentator: Dan Matlin, King’s College London
3:00-3:15 Tea/coffee
3:15-5:00 Playing Politics
“Topsy in the Senate House: Alexander Crummell and Uncle Tom's Cabin”
Sarah Meer, Cambridge
“Transatlantic Black Radicalism in Britain: Old Print Media, Performance and Radical Ideas in the Work of Robert Wedderburn (c.1762 -1835?) and Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 - ?) and their Legacy”
Alan Rice, Central Lancashire
“‘Hair, the Musical’ and the Theatricalization of Race, Rock and Rebellion across the UK and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s”
Tavia Nyong’o, New York University
Chair/Commentator: Kevern Verney, Edge Hill
5:00-5:15 Concluding remarks
Jeff Bowersox, King’s College London
5:15-6:00 Wine reception
This event has been made possible through the generous support of the School of Arts & Humanities and the German Department at King’s College London.