Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2023, June). Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?. Paper presented at Oral History Society Making Histories Together Conference 2023, Nottingham

In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

Windrush reluctance (provocation) (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2023, June). Windrush reluctance (provocation). Presented at Christ Church Windrush Celebration service, Christ Church. Bath

Expressing need to keep politics in the Windrush conversation, some of the unease about the label 'Windrush Generation', and questioning whether it is a history to celebrate, rather than reflect on more critically in the context of colonial exploitat... Read More about Windrush reluctance (provocation).

Material culture and the echoes and legacies of transatlantic enslavement - before and after the Colston statue (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2022, November). Material culture and the echoes and legacies of transatlantic enslavement - before and after the Colston statue

The Duldig Annual Lecture on Sculpture was inaugurated in 1986 to commemorate the life and work of the sculptor Karl Duldig and his wife, the artist and inventor Slawa Horowitz-Duldig.  Now in its 36th year, the Duldig Annual Lecture has continued... Read More about Material culture and the echoes and legacies of transatlantic enslavement - before and after the Colston statue.