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SUMMARY:Not Set in Stone: Remembering Empire and Contesting Statues
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DESCRIPTION:A roundtable discussion on the material legacies of empire an
 d slavery in Bristol\, Oxford\, and beyond.\n\nOn 7th June 2020\, young 
 Bristolians toppled a statue of Edward Colston in the city centre and ro
 lled it into Bristol Harbour. This action marked the culmination of year
 s of contestation\, during which Bristolians had sought to displace the 
 material traces of the slave trader in the city's public space. It was a
 lso catalysed by popular support for Black Lives Matter\, Britain's larg
 est anti-racist movement since abolition.\n\nIn Oxford\, a student-led m
 ovement has sought since 2016 to remove Oriel College's statue of Cecil 
 Rhodes. Rhodes Must Fall Oxford has emphasised that bringing down the st
 atue is only one component of a much larger agenda: they seek to remove 
 colonial iconography\, reform the Eurocentric curriculum\, and address t
 he underrepresentation and lack of welfare provision for BME staff and s
 tudents ('Our Aim').\n\nAt this roundtable\, scholars and activists will
  discuss why colonial statues matter\, what it means to contest them\, a
 nd how cultural activism links to larger ant-racist\, anti-colonial stru
 ggles.\n\nSpeakers:\n* Einass Bakhiet\, Co-facilitator of the Rhodes Mus
 t Fall movement in Oxford\n* Joanna Burch-Brown\, Senior Lecturer in Phi
 losophy at the University of Bristol\n* Simukai Chigudu\, Associate Prof
 essor of African Politics at the Oxford Department of International Deve
 lopment and Fellow of St Antony’s College\, Oxford University\n* Gary Yo
 unge\, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester\n\nModerat
 or:\n* Meghan Tinsley\, Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalitie
 s at the University of Manchester\n\nThe event is free and open to the p
 ublic\, but advance registration is required.
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LOCATION:Online - follow Eventbrite link to register and for more informa
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