Time:  Thursday 13 June, 16:45 – 18:30 Location: Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre  Free but requires registration. See LINK Organised by students in the postgraduate community in the History Department. Dr Andrea Livesey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Slavery at Liverpool John Moores University, will be discussing her ground-breaking research on Imagining ‘Granny Marie’: Understanding Black Maternal…

Time:  Tuesday June 11, 11am-1pmLocation: Cavendish Colloquium Seminar Room Open to LU staff and students only, please register interest with Dr Esmorie Miller, e.j.miller@lancaster.ac.uk You be the Judge’ Roundtable Discussion on the Mau Mau. This insurgency, also known in Britain as the ‘Emergency Period’, was an eight-year span of violence in colonial Kenya (1952-60).

Location:  Storey Gallery, Lancaster city centre Time: 10th-15th June. Free, all welcome! See attached poster for more details.

Time: Tuesday, May 21st, 1-2pm Location: Event & Exhibition Space in the Library Free but registration recommended. See LINK This event is a student-led workshop on Sara Ahmed’s book Complaint! (2021) with the aim of fostering students’ collective voice. It is for students only – but all students across degree level and study. If you are staff please share…

Time: Sunday 19th May, 4.00pm-7.00pm Location: The Herbarium in Lancaster Free. Open to the public An evening of art and celebration! This exhibition will share photographs taken by local refugees and people seeking asylum. They will be sharing their stories through images. Created by people who have experienced displacement firsthand, as part of an ongoing photovoice research…

Time: Friday May 17th, 1-3 pm Location: Lancaster Castle Entrance Free but requires registration – LINK Join us for a free walking tour of Lancaster’s historic Castle Quarter and its surroundings. We’ll view some of the city’s most iconic sites and landmarks, and we’ll consider how Lancaster’s story links with histories that span from the Roman…