Outputs (6)

A history of home, culture and identity through objects (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk explores Black history through certain popular items in a familiar family home. Based on my book, Black everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House, (Routledge, 2023), this talk takes you on a journey through a few hun... Read More about A history of home, culture and identity through objects.

Candles (2022)
Book Chapter

In this short auto-ethnographic essay, Sobers uses material culture as a doorway into a deeply personal reflection. Focusing on a pair of candles given to him by his late brother, the chapter leads the reader through the complexity of family dynamics... Read More about Candles.

Reflections on anti-racism and memorialisation from South West UK (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sobers spoke at a roundtable discussion with 20 human rights advocates from across Europe, at the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), Brussels. Sobers talked about the King Leopold II statue in Brussels, and points of... Read More about Reflections on anti-racism and memorialisation from South West UK.

Small anthropology, and black everyday life, material culture and narrative: An overview (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

University of Liverpool, The Centre for Culture & Everyday Life Presents

Small Anthropology, Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: An Overview

Shawn-Naphtali Sobers

3pm, Monday 12th December 2022, SoTA library, 19-23 Abercrom... Read More about Small anthropology, and black everyday life, material culture and narrative: An overview.

Exploring health and well-being as a UK Black creative (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In an arts career spanning 30 years, Shawn has focussed on health and wellbeing in a range of his creative works in various mediums including film, photography, fiction and non-fiction writing, and also as a workshop and events facilitator. Although... Read More about Exploring health and well-being as a UK Black creative.

'Don't Wander Off' and other rules to ignore (2021)
Book Chapter

This article explores the complexities of navigating the city as a photographer during the period of the covid pandemic lockdowns. The article is a response to Chris Hoare's photobook Keywork, in which he took photographs around Bristol during lockdo... Read More about 'Don't Wander Off' and other rules to ignore.