David Olusoga OBE in conversation with Olutayo Adesina
Join us for a very special inaugural event to welcome Professor of History, Olutayo Adesina, to The University of Manchester.
Olutayo was among the eight recipients of the 2023/2024 British Academy Global Professorship awards, which seek to foster collaboration between international researchers and universities in the UK on new and cutting-edge research projects. A distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL), Professor Adesina was recognised for the British Academy Awards with his project, “The Town And Gown Interface: Ibadan And The Decolonisation of Social Knowledge in the 20th Century”. The research will be conducted at The University of Manchester over the next four years.
Olutayo will be in conversation with British-Nigerian historian David Olusoga OBE, who is a BAFTA winning film-maker, author and Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester. Together they will discuss the importance of recent research into black history and culture, its relation to the changing world we live in, and the respective place of history in Nigeria and the UK.
The conversation will also reflect on the course of Olutayo’s academic career and on the work he will undertake, over the next four years, as the recipient of the prestigious and coveted British Academy Global Professorship.
An audience Q&A will follow the discussion.
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