Discussing Decolonisation x Black History Month: A guest lecture by Dr John Narayan (KCL)

Discussing Decolonisation 24/25 kicks off in October 2024 with a guest lecture by Dr John Narayan (KCL) on the history of Black radicalism, focusing on The Black Panther Party. This event also ties in with Black History Month 2024, the theme of which is ‘Reclaiming Narratives’, and will include plenty of time for audience Q&A.

*Image shows members of the Black Panthers at a rally in 1968. (Photo credit: Stephen Shames, sourced from The New York Times).

Speaker bio:

John Narayan joined King’s in September 2019 having previously held a lectureship in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Prior to this he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham. John is the chair of The Institute of Race Relations and a member of the Race & Class Editorial Working Committee and of the Global Black Thought editorial board.

John has interdisciplinary research interests, which centre on the interlinkages between globalization, inequality and racialization, and on the global aspects of anti-racist and democratic politics. His most recent research has focused on the understudied transnationalism of Black Power and political theory created by groups such as The Black Panther Party. This project has sought to retrieve this history and highlight how the global politics of Black Power provides lessons about the link between anti-racism and democratic politics in an age of resurgent nativism in Europe and the USA. John has published the results of this research in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Theory, Culture and Society, Current Sociology, and The Sociological Review. He is currently completing his second monograph based on the project’s findings.

John will speak about his research at YSJU on Tuesday 15th October, 6-7.30pm. More details and abstract to follow. 

Booking:

Booking for this event will be available via Eventbrite from October 2024 onwards. In the meantime, please save the date in your diary, and email Lucy Potter (l.potter@yorksj.ac.uk) and/or Dr Laura Key (l.key@yorksj.ac.uk) if you have any questions.