Jake Hodder
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RACE group pre-conference: Black Archives workshop
October 1, 2019
On 27th August 2019 the Royal Geographical Society’s Race, Culture and Equality (RACE) group held their annual RGS-IBG pre-conference event at the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton, London. BCA was founded in the early 1980s and, after a successful Heritage Lottery Fund bid in 2010, found a permanent home in the former Raleigh Hall, …
Tuskegee, Alabama
September 1, 2018
To walk into the archives of Tuskegee University is a reminder of the remarkable role which the institution has played in shaping the African American experience. As soon as you enter, the juxtaposition of that experience is visibly apparent; a story of both the spectacular vibrancy of black popular culture, but also the horrors it …
Workshop II: Spaces of Display, 27 March 2018
June 1, 2018
Our second practitioner workshop, ‘Spaces of Display’, met in March at Primary, an artist-led studio and exhibition space situated in a former Victorian primary school in Nottingham. The setting was generative of the overall aim and ambition of the workshop: to explore some of the wider themes of the project in relation to conferences as …
CFP: “On being at sea: historically experiencing movement across the waves”
January 26, 2018
Update: We still have some last spaces in our upcoming RGS-IBG Conference session which we hope may be of interest to some of you. The session is sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group. ———————————- On being at sea: historically experiencing movement across the waves CFP: RGS-IBG Conference, Cardiff August 28-31 2018 Jake Hodder and …
CFP: “On being at sea: historically experiencing movement across the waves”
December 7, 2017
On being at sea: historically experiencing movement across the waves CFP: RGS-IBG Conference, Cardiff August 28-31 2018 Jake Hodder and Stephen Legg, School of Geography, University of Nottingham A networked conception of space now informs the ways in which geographers consider a host of trans-local historical phenomena, from empires to trading companies, missions to exploration, …
Reading Group: World Fairs
December 1, 2017
‘Messages of Peace and Images of War: Modern Architecture and Diplomacy’ in Devos, R., Ortenberg, A. & Paperny, V., eds., (2016). Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War, pp.1-22. ‘Modernity on display: the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan’ in Kargon, R.H., Fiss, K., Low, M. & Molella, A.P. (2017). World’s Fairs on …
Black History Month 2017
November 1, 2017
Black History Month was established as Negro History Week in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, widely known as the ‘Father of Black History’. Woodson had established the Association for the Study of Negro History and Life (ASNLH) in 1915 and, the following year, launched its widely respected Journal of Negro History a year later in …
Recent Call for Papers
October 1, 2017
As part of the grant we’ve recently issued two call for papers. The first, ‘Geographies of Sensory Politics’, is for a session at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in New Orleans next April. It will give us the chance to explore one of the important conceptual and methodological concerns of the …
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City
September 1, 2017
Located between West 135th and 136th street in Harlem, the Schomburg Centre is part of the New York Public Library (NYPL). The centre’s history is rooted in the 135th street branch, opened in 1905 as part of the enormous library construction programme funded by Andrew Carnegie. From the start of the 1920s the library became a …
2nd Annual Advisory Board Meeting, July 2017
August 1, 2017
At the start of July we had the second meeting of our Advisory Board. Similar to our previous get together at the end of our first year, we invited our UK-based Board members to join us in Nottingham for a two-day meeting, divided into four sessions, in order to discuss the progress we had made on the grant, …
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