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The University of Liverpool's Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) is hosting a symposium as part of a city-wide programme of events to mark Slavery Remembrance Day 2024.
The event, on Wednesday 21 August, (2pm-4pm) will bring together museum practitioners, scholars, and community-based historians to discuss the buildings, places, and spaces associated with the representation of slavery and its legacies.
This includes conversations about the Transatlantic Slavery Gallery (1994), the development of the International Slavery Museum, which opened in 2007 during the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, and projects, buildings and spaces throughout the African Diaspora.
The event will be hosted by Dr Richard Benjamin, Senior Lecturer for Contemporary Museum Practice and Co-Director of CSIS and focus on how past experiences and new practices can inclusively and equitably shape future museum design and development. Speakers include Professor Ola Uduku, Head of School at the Liverpool School of Architecture, Michelle Charters, Head of the International Slavery Museum and historian Mike Boyle.
