Conference / Symposium

Conference / Symposium

Conference / Symposium

Conference / Symposium

Conference / Symposium

Conference / Symposium

ICWS@70 Zimbabwe - The State We’re In

The Commonwealth & Resilience in 21st century

The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socio-economic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees and asylum seekers. Each one had a unique story of transition and migration, which was infinitely personal and varied. As the recent stories around ‘the Windrush Generation’ have shown, very often individualexperiences of those...

What's Happening in Black British History X - Session Two

ICWS@70: Black British History Workshops

What's Happening in Black British History X - Session Three

What's Happening in Black British History X - Session One

What's Happening in Black British History X - Keynote: Kennetta Hammond Perry

ICWS@70 - South Africa's election and the media 03.04.2019

Speakers: Professor James Manor, former Director of the ICWS Salil Tripathi, Journalist and Chair, Writers in Prison, PEN International Nupur Basu, Journalist Chair: Mrs Rita Payne, Emetitus Chair, Commonwealth Journalists Association In the past five years, there have been over 200 attacks on journalists and bloggers across India, with the greatest number of cases in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Three leading commentators on modern-day India will discuss the...

"Britain, BREXIT and the future of the Commonwealth"

"Britain, BREXIT and the future of the Commonwealth" Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable MP

Professor Tony Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge , together with Dr Max Edling, Reader in Early American History at King’s College, London; Professor William Gervase Clarence Smith, Professor of Economic History of Asia and Africa at SOAS; and Professor John Darwin ( retired Professor of Imperial and Global History at Nuffield College, Oxford) debate American Empire: A Global History...

Speakers: Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow ICWS, and former BBC World Service Africa Editor Kayode Samuel, former government official in Nigeria and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Martin Kasirye, Head, Election Support Section, Commonwealth Secretariat Chair: Dr Sue Onslow Acting Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Speakers: Joshua Castellino, Cara Priestley, Colin Nicholls QC, Dallia Mitchell

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Mandela Round Table: Nelson Mandela and the Legacies of Liberation Panel 2 'Pulling the branch of a tree' 'troublemaker' the legacies of 'inconvenient truths' - Nelson Mandela, Bernie Grant & Raising the Black Voice in Britain Elizabeth Williams (Goldsmiths, University of London) While he lived and in death Nelson Mandela was admired and eulogised arguably more than any other man of his generation. Bernard Grant never reached the same level of...

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Mandela Round Table: Nelson Mandela and the Legacies of Liberation Panel 1 Nelson Mandela and the Genesis of the ANC's Armed Struggle: Notes on Method Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria) In recent years the circumstances surrounding the ANC’s turn to armed struggle have been the subject of much controversy amongst historians. The debate has been fuelled by scholars determined to overturn what they see as years of historical fabrication propagated by...

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Mandela Round Table: Nelson Mandela and the Legacies of Liberation Panel 1 Nelson Mandela and the Genesis of the ANC's Armed Struggle: Notes on Method Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria) In recent years the circumstances surrounding the ANC’s turn to armed struggle have been the subject of much controversy amongst historians. The debate has been fuelled by scholars determined to overturn what they see as years of historical fabrication propagated by...

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Mandela Round Table: Nelson Mandela and the Legacies of Liberation Panel 2 'Pulling the branch of a tree' 'troublemaker' the legacies of 'inconvenient truths' - Nelson Mandela, Bernie Grant & Raising the Black Voice in Britain Elizabeth Williams (Goldsmiths, University of London) While he lived and in death Nelson Mandela was admired and eulogised arguably more than any other man of his generation. Bernard Grant never reached the same level of...