BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8726@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240507T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240507T190000 DTSTAMP:20240426T152838Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/victoria-gallery-museum-wowfest- stephen-small-in-the-shadows-of-the-big-house/ SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Victoria Gallery & Museum: WowFest: Step hen Small: In the Shadows of the Big House DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nSTEPHEN SMALL: IN THE SHADOWS OF THE BIG HOUSE\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Small\, Professor at the Dept of African American Stu dies\, University of California\, Berkeley\, valued WoW collaborator and a uthor of the Small Talk series\, makes his in-person debut at WoWFEST to d iscuss his latest book\; In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Ce ntury Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana (Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora). Stephen\, in conversation with WoW ’s Creative Heritage Project Manager\, Janaya Pickett\, will trace th e historical trajectory of plantations and slave cabins since the Civil Wa r and explore what representations of slavery and slave cabins convey abou t the reconfiguration of the past and the rearticulation of history in the present.  \n\nConsidering such themes as the role of white ethnic ident ity in representations of elite whites and the extent and significance of Black voices and Black visions of representations of these plantations\, S tephen and Janaya will discuss what these sites reveal about social forget ting and social remembering throughout Louisiana and the South. For Liverp ool\, a city only recently coming to terms with its immeasurable debt to e nslaved Africans\, and grappling with how to represent its slavery history \, this event could not be more relevant.  \n\nStephen Small was born i n Toxteth and moved to the United States in 1984. He earned his Ph.D. in S ociology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and is now a profess or in the Department of African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Insti tute for the Study of Societal Issues. He researches the history and socio logy of Black people across the African diaspora\, including the United St ates\, Western Europe\, the Caribbean and Brazil. In 2018 he published 2 0 Questions and Answers on Black Europe and is coauthor of Representatio ns of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums and coedit or of Global Mixed Race\, New Perspectives on Slavery and Colonialism in t he Caribbean\, and Black Europe and the African Diaspora. In June 2023\, the University Press of Mississippi published In the Shadows of the Big H ouse: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana (Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora). \n\nJanaya Pic kett is WoW’s Creative Heritage Programme Manager. She is a writer\, lo cal historian\, and facilitator whose career began in 2014 as a volunteer on WoW’s Great War to Race Riots project\, playing a key role in develop ing the hugely successful 1919 Walking Tours. Janaya has performed poetry at spoken word nights across the city\, worked as Curator for WoW’s Augu st 2021 installation Merseysounds\, event manager for the LCRCA’s Genera tions for Change\, and Project Manager for The Dorothy Kuya Archive Projec t. Janaya is currently undertaking a history MRes\, researching Black Live rpool from the 1940s to 1970s.  \n\nVictoria Gallery &\; Museum Cafe Ashton St\, Liverpool L69 3DR  \n\nTuesday 7th May\, 7pm\n\n£5 \n\n*The se are difficult times. We know some people may struggle to afford full pr ice tickets. If you would like to attend this event but can’t afford to\ , please contact info@writingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treat ed in confidence.     \n\nIf you would like to purchase a gifted ti cket for someone who can’t afford it\, please buy directly from the even t page and we will offer your ticket out. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT DETAILS\nDa te: May 7\, 2024\nTime: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n BUY TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2024/04/Stephen-Small-3.png CATEGORIES:Talks LOCATION:Victoria Gallery & Museum\, Ashton Street\, University of Liverpoo l\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406158;-2.966418 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Ashton Street\, University of Liverpool\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RA DIUS=100;X-TITLE=Victoria Gallery & Museum:geo:53.406158,-2.966418 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR