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SUMMARY:Black in Geography Friday 22 October 4pm BST Black History Month P
 anel: Centring Blackness through Access and Research Practice  - Dr. Jovan
  Scott Lewis (University of California Berkeley) and Cynthia Nkiruka Anyad
 i (Royal Holloway\, University of London)
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DESCRIPTION:Black in Geography student-led series - Friday\, October 22nd 
 at 4 PM BST on Zoom.\n\nBlack History Month Panel: Centring Blackness thro
 ugh Access and Research Practice \n\nThe Black in Geography seminar is a s
 eries organised by students in the Geography department at the University 
 of Cambridge. We invite Black geographers (lecturers and students) to spea
 k on Blackness\, foregrounding Black voices and experiences in a disciplin
 e rooted in coloniality and normative whiteness. Our seminars are informal
  and we do not record them\, to create a safe space for open discussion.\n
 \nIn light of ‘Black History Month’ 2021\, our conversation will be fo
 cused on centering Blackness through access and research practice. For thi
 s crucial discussion\, we are delighted to welcome two speakers representi
 ng exciting initiatives in the field: Dr Jovan Scott Lewis\, Associate Pro
 fessor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Calif
 ornia\, Berkeley\, who specializes in racial capitalism\, underdevelopment
 \, and radical terms of repair and Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi\, a first-year P
 hD student at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, researching Cultural
  Geographies of death\, memorialisation and material culture among Igbo Ni
 gerians. \n\nDr. Lewis started the Berkeley Black Geographies Project in 2
 016\, which advances a contemporary understanding of Geography and other d
 isciplinary analyses of spatial relations through the centering of Blackne
 ss across the areas of programming\, pedagogy\, and publishing. Through pr
 oactive recruitment of graduate students and faculty\, the project has com
 e to represent the central intellectual and institutional heart of the dep
 artment\, for which Geography at UC Berkeley has become recognized as an i
 nstitutional leader in the emergent discipline of Black Geographies.\n\nCy
 nthia Anyadi is the Head of Partnerships at Black Geographers\, a collecti
 ve of Black Geography students and graduates formed in 2020 in the UK\, hi
 ghlighting the many barriers which prevent students from studying Geograph
 y and how isolating the field can be even after navigating these barriers.
  Black Geographers provides scholarships\, resources\, and internship oppo
 rtunities\, with the aim to improve representation\, accountability\, and 
 access across schools and universities\, as well as within Geography profe
 ssions.  \n\nFollowing our panelists’ presentations and sharing of exper
 iences studying and researching in the discipline\, we will open the floor
  to the audience and hold an informal discussion and Q&A. \n\nTo attend th
 e seminar\, simply join the Zoom meeting on Oct 22\, 2021\, at 04:00 PM BS
 T with the following link:\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86751221558?pwd=UG
 9ER0V0YXFwN1AvejdaejhUckREUT09  \n\nRSVP to the FB event: https://tinyurl.
 com/FBeventBlackinGeo.  \n\nWho are we? A group of Ph.D. students in the G
 eography department\, at the University of Cambridge. Please feel free to 
 contact us with any questions : Ed: emk31@cam.ac.uk \; Frédérique: flf25
 @cam.ac.uk\; Matipa: mtm62@cam.ac.uk. 
LOCATION:Zoom
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