Black History 365: Public Lecture Series – Word, Sound and Power
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Black History 365: Public Lecture Series – Word Sound and Power: Curating Rastafari Community Histories
The Learning Skills progamme is pleased to welcome Dr Aleema Gray who will deliver an online public lecture as part of Black History 365. Aleema will explore curatorial and academic practices through the lens of word, sound and power.
What does it mean to know and represent within the context of academic and curatorial practices? How can oral history methodologies be used to affirm alternative knowledge(s)? And what is at stake when researchers position themselves within their work? Drawing on her research, Bun Babylon, Aleema will explore the methodological approaches behind curating community-engaged narratives through the lens of words, sounds and power.
Biography
Aleema Gray is a Jamaican-born curator, researcher and public historian based in London. She has recently completed her PhD at the University of Warwick on a history of the Rastafari movement in Britain. Aleema’s work focuses on documenting Black history in Britain through the perspective of lived experiences. Her practice is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to notions of belonging, memory, and contested heritage. She is the founding member of the Young Historians Project and was previously the Community History Curator at the Museum of London. Aleema is currently the Lead Curator for Black British Music Exhibition at the British Library.
This online event is free but booking is required.