Welcome to the site for the Global Leicester History Festival. Below is the provisional programme for the day.
Talks:
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Place: The Venue Hall 1 |
Place: The Venue Hall 3 |
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Stream A |
Stream B |
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9.45 |
Assemble, Welcome |
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10.00 |
Plenary I. Prof Panikos Panayi, DMU, ‘The History of Migration in Leicester in National and International Context’. |
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11.00 |
Break |
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11.15 |
Session 1A. Practicing History & Multiculturalism in the Community |
Session 1B. History of Leicester’s South Asian Community |
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Rev Dr Tom Wilson & St Philip’s Centre, ‘Diasporas: Disagreements and Discoveries’. |
Dr Liam McCarthy, Univ of Leicester, ‘Finding a new “British Asian Sound”: BBC Radio Leicester 1976-1990. |
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Clare Hudson & Angela Robinson, Leicester Museum, ‘Leicester Stories: co-producing an exhibition on contemporary Leicester’. |
Dr Vimal Patel, DMU, ‘Where is Home?: South Asians in the Superdiverse City’. |
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12.30 |
Katharine Short, DMU, ‘Decolonising the archive: reflections from DMU Special Collections’. |
Prof Gurharpal Singh, SOAS, ‘The most racist city in Britain’: recollections of a childhood in the City of Leicester, 1964-76’. |
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13.15 |
Lunch Talk in the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre. |
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Session 2A. A Plurality of Voices |
Session 2B. Gifts and Globalism. |
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Colin Hyde, Univ of Leicester, ‘The Oral History Archives and Multiculturalism’. |
Michael Drucquer , Gt Meeting Chapel, Leicester, ‘Gertrude von Petzold, Leicester and England’s first female minister of religion’. |
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Dr Michelle Harrison, Univ of Leicester, ‘Multilingualism in the model multicultural city …. Leicester’s Golden Mile’ |
Maria Chiara Scuderi, Univ of Leicester, ‘Global Leicester: the Dryad Craftwork Collection at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery’. |
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Shehnaz Rawat, DMU, ‘Colonial legacies and postcolonial identities: Gujarati Muslims in Leicester 1970-1993’. |
Sue Bishop, Univ of Leicester, ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ Female agency and new cultural identities in Leicester, 1960-1991.’ |
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14.30 |
Break |
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14.45 |
Session 3A. History of Leicester’s African Communities |
Session 3B. Global Aspects of War and Peace |
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Mathew Morris, ULAS, ‘Leicester and Roman Africa – Ancient cultural diversity in the English Midlands’. |
Annabelle Larsen and & pupils of Moat Community College, ‘Moat School and Moat Boys in WWI’. |
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Dr Chris Zembe, DMU, ‘The African Diaspora in Leicester’. |
Leicester Cathedral’s military chapel – a post-colonial reappraisal. |
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Zimbabwean Community, ‘Stories in Song, Dance and Poetry’, |
Prof Kathy Burrell, Univ of Liverpool, ‘European Migration to Leicester post-World War II’. |
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16.00 |
Plenary 2. Dr Dean Irwin, ‘Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, and the Jews’. |
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17.00 |
Concluding remarks |
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17.15 |
Finish |
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Stalls and Displays – Venue Hall 2
| Braunstone History Group |
| History at the University of Leicester |
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Display – Caste in Leicester DMU Special Collections |
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Ghanaian Kente Textile Heritage Greater Wigston Historical Society and Heritage Centre Leicester Branch Historical Association |
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Leicester Cathedral Leicester Civic Society Leicestershire Fieldworkers Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society |
| Leicester Museum and Gallery |
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The Carers Centre of Leicestershire and Rutland Navrang Arts: Rebuilding Lives: 50 years of Ugandan Asians in Leicester. Re-Enactment Societies: Redcoats and Revolutionaries and Vikings of Middle England |
| ULAS |
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Victoria County History (VCH) Leicestershire Western Front Association |
Tours and Workshops:
| Stephen Lawrence Research Centre & Leicester’s ‘Carry Come Bring’ African Caribbean Archive. |
| DMU Heritage Centre TBC |
