International Conference “Black Studies in Europe”

The first edition of the international conference Black Studies in Europe: A Transnational Dialogue aimed to question the many ways in which Black Studies developed as an academic field in European countries. Building on American scholarship and literature of black people and black experiences in the US, which have dominated academia and black activism since the 1960s, the participants took part in roundtables and discussed how to establish theories and epistemologies relevant to European con..