LONDON: AUTOGRAPH

Paul Gilroy
THERE AIN'T NO BLACK IN THE UNION JACK

FRI 8 DEC 2017 1 - 8PM

£5
Organised by Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies Network

About the Event

Join the Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies Network (REPS) for an afternoon of talks and celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack with its author Paul Gilroy and friends.

Published in in 1987, There Ain't No Black is one of the most influential books on race, racism and blackness in Britain, and among the most widely read. In this book, Paul Gilroy explores the racial and classed contours of post-Enoch Powell Britain opening up questions on diasporic formation, British racism and nationalism, and the revolutionary potential of black Atlantic culture. The book emerges from an extraordinarily rich fissure of intellectual and cultural production whose fire still burns today.

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There Ain’t no Black is the inspiration for numerous artistic, musical, journalistic, activist and scholarly works and many authors and producers of these will be joining us for the celebrations.

From the late 1980’s, when the book was first published, social terms have changed, just as many questions remain the same. We will be exploring this transformation and its long standing interrogations. In what racialised, nationalist and classed moment are we living? How does cultural production, art and music comply with and exceed that? And, how is that being routed through modernity?

Join us in opening up these questions with Paul Gilroy and others, and to celebrate that engagement, those ongoing commitments, and its deep felt resonances.

PROGRAMME

1.00 - 2.20 PANEL 1 - ACADEMIC TAKES

Professor Les Back
Les Back teaches sociology at Goldsmiths College, London and is the authors of numerous book and papers on racism and ethnicity, popular culture and music, urban life, community, social divisions class, social theory and sociological methods.

Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya
Gargi Bhattacharyya in Professor of Sociology at University of East London. Her work and interests pertain to 'race' and racisms, sexualities, global cultures, the 'War on Terror', and, increasingly austerity and racial capitalism.

Professor Tina Campt
Tina Campt is a Claire Tow and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Barnard. 

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Professor Campt’s published work explores gender, racial and diasporic formation in black communities in Germany, and Europe more broadly. 

Professor Shirley Tate
Shirley Tate is a qualitative researcher interested in intersectional thinking. In her writing, research and teaching she draws on Black feminist, gender, critical ‘race’, queer, post colonial and Caribbean decolonial theory within her overall focus on Black Atlantic diaspora studies and emerging identifications.
 
2.40 - 4.00pm PANEL 2 - ARTIST / ACTIVIST TAKES

Fahim Alam
Fahim Alam is a filmmaker and Managing Director at Film Pill. Among his numerous projects, he has directed Lowkey’s Ghosts of Grenfell music video, and the 2011 documentary on the English uprisings Riots Reframed. Fahim holds an MSc in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies from LSE, and BA in Law from University of Oxford.

Congo Natty / Rebel MC
Congo Natty is a Londoner and a musician. He first came to prominence as part of 80s hip hop/dance act Double Trouble. In 1990 he released his first album project ‘Rebel Music’ in 1990. That was followed in 1991 with ‘Black Meaning Good’, a precursor to a style of music that eventually became known as Jungle. Through his labels X-Project, Tribal Bass and Congo Natty Recordings he cemented his name in the annals of Jungle music history.

Ingrid Pollard
Ingrid Pollard is a photographer, media artist and researcher. Pollard has developed a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens based media. Her work is included in numerous collections including the UK Arts Council and the Victoria & Albert Museum. She lives and works in London UK.

4.20- 5.30pm INTERVIEW GARY YOUNGE WITH PAUL GILROY
Followed by Q&A with audience

Gary Younge
Gary Younge is editor-at-large at the Guardian. In addition to his feature and columns for the Guardian he is writes a monthly column for The Nation, "Beneath the Radar". He has published a number of books including Another Day in the Death of America (2016)
 

5.30- 8.30pm AFTER PARTY - Caribbean food provided
Please note that the bar will be cash only. 

DJs
Lambros Fatsis: (Dr.) Lambros Fatsis is Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Southampton. When he doesn't teach or write he plays all-vinyl DJ sets of Jamaican music from the late 1950s to the late 1970s as Boulevard Soundsystem. Expect mento, shuffle, ska, rocksteady, Jamaican soul funk, and a healthy dose of heavyweight roots and dub.

Wrongtom is a record producer and DJ from South London, signed to TruThoughts label. He is responsible for the Wrongtom Meets… series, which includes collaborations in dub with Ragga Twins.


Visuals
Irene Fubara-Manuel Border Ritual
This film/animation explores, Martiniquan thinker Edouard Glissant’s notion of opacity in relation to her own body as it moves through border sites. Fubara-Manuel is a PhD student in Media Practice at the University of Sussex. 



Rabz Lansiquot Dérive
A short experiment using spare footage from 'The New Frontier', a short doc made in collaboration with Aiyana Gane and Violet Marchenkova. 'The New Frontier' explores the links between the process of gentrification and that of settler colonialism, taking Brixton, the area where Lansiquot was born and raised, as its subject. This piece is a short audiovisual document of the Brixton they want to see disappear.

It draws on Imani Robinson and Ciaran Finlayson's concept of ‘The Black Drift’, which explores the psycho-geographical contours that encourage or discourage Black passage through, often urban, space. This piece is a realisation of the Brixton that I would feel able and eager to drift through, of a home almost lost. Lansiquot is a filmmaker, DJ and member of the sorryyoufeeluncomfortable collective.


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Supported using public funding by Arts Council England


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This event is organised by Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies Network (REPS), coordinated on this occasion by Luke de Noronha, Malcolm James and Helen Kim. For more information on the Network please contact repsseminars@gmail.com