The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the BME Network are delighted to invite you to The World Reimagined Globe Launch: ‘Uncertain Voyage’, on Friday 4th October 2024.
WHEN: Friday 4th October, 13:00 – 17:00
WHERE: University of Exeter, Queen’s Building, EX4 4QH
- The Quad
- Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1
- Senior Common Room
- Foyer (next to Queen’s Café)
The full programme will be confirmed in due course, and will include a musical performance, exhibitions, and keynote speakers across the afternoon.
Background:
The World Reimagined is a groundbreaking art installation project which aims to redefine how we understand the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and its lasting impact.
The university has been gifted two globes from this initiative, with one now installed at Exeter, Streatham Campus. The globe was gifted to the University on the agreement that it would be used for hosting educational and cultural events and activities.
The Exeter (Streatham Campus) based globe – ‘Uncertain Voyage’: A complex Triangle created by Nadia Akingbule
“The design on this globe explores an aspect of the complexity of Britain’s relationship with Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean across generations, and the legacy of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans on the UK’s role and reputation in the world.
Featured in the design are a man and woman who have arrived in Britain from the Caribbean, with the HMT Empire Windrush also visible, the ship that carried passengers on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948.”
To register your attendance for what promises to be an enjoyable afternoon, please sign-up via the Eventbrite page.
We hope to see you there!
With best wishes,
The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the BME Network
Imperial & Global Forum 
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