UCL Americas Research Network 2024 Conference – Historical Roots, Modern Realities: Nationalism Across the Americas

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW)  annual one-day conference, co-organised with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library builds upon this year’s Institute of Historical Research seminar series theme of Black Women of the political, financial, social, and intellectual elite. The annual conference will further expand on this theme to include Black Women’s activism at every level, from the grassroots to the elite circles, at any point in the history of the Americas. Papers, panels, and roundtables will engage with the activism, cultural outputs, social and intellectual networks, and life experiences of Black Women activists. Panels will focus on: Angela Davis (and Claudia Jones). Black Women’s Voices. Institutional Activism. A Roundtable on ‘Representations of Black Women: Modern and Historical Depictions’. The conference will also engage with the British Library’s exhibition on Breaking the News and the day will include a private Show and Tell […]