BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:In Conversation with Professor Mia Bay & Dr. Meleisa Ono-George - Professor Mia Bay (University of Cambridge)\, Dr Meleisa Ono-George (The Q ueen's College) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250509T130000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250509T140000 UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0b590d12-974d-4ce7-a423-e90e2f492c 8d/ DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue our discussion around the intellectual histories of Black women\, with an ‘in conversation’ session with Prof essor Mia Bay and Dr. Meleisa Ono-George. Prof. Bay and Dr. Ono-George wil l lead with a conversation about their methodologies\, praxis\, and engage ment with these histories\, after which we will facilitate a Q&A session\, where we welcome your questions\, thoughts\, and provocations.\n\nBiograp hy: Mia Bay is the newly appointed Paul A. Mellon Professor of American Hi story in the University of Cambridge. Previously she taught at University of Pennsylvania\, where she was Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor o f American History\, and in the Department of History at Rutgers Universit y\, where she also led the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. She is a scholar of American and African American intellectual\, cultural and soci al history whose interests include black women’s thought\, African Ameri can approaches to citizenship\, and the history of race and transportation .\nBay’s most recent book is the Bancroft prize-winning Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Harvard University Press\, 2021. Her prev ious books include To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. Hil l & Wang\, February 2009\; The White Image in the Black Mind: African-Amer ican Ideas About White People 1830-1925\, Oxford University Press\, 2000\, and the edited works Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women\, Chap el Hill: University of North Carolina Press\, 2015\, which she co-edited w ith Martha Jones\, Farah Griffin and Barbara Savage\, and Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line\, Rutgers University Press\, 2015\, whi ch she co-edited with Ann Fabian.\nBay's current scholarly projects includ e a book on the history of African American ideas about Thomas Jefferson\, and a study of streetcars and segregation in the nineteenth century Unite d States.\n\nBiography: Dr. Meleisa Ono-George is a social-cultural histor ian of race and gender\, with a focus on Black women’s histories in Brit ain and the Anglo-Caribbean. She is interested in the everyday ways people oppressed within society negotiate and navigate structures of power and i nequality\, as well as the legacies and politics of writing such histories within contemporary society.\nDr Ono-George’s current research focuses on the life of an Afro-Jamaican woman in late eighteenth-century Jamaica a nd Britain and the archival remnants of her life. She is also currently de veloping a community-engaged project which looks at the history of Black m othering in Britain and the use of creative storytelling. Both projects dr aw upon her interest in community-engaged and Caribbean research methodolo gies. \nDr. Ono-George’s first book\, My Name is Amelia Newsham: Science \, Art and the Making of Race\, is forthcoming from Viking Books.\n-----\n Bluesky: raceresistance.bsky.social\nSubscribe to our mailing list by send ing a blank email to:\nrace-and-resistance-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk.\nS peakers:\nProfessor Mia Bay (University of Cambridge)\, Dr Meleisa Ono-Geo rge (The Queen's College) LOCATION:Radcliffe Humanities (2nd floor Lecture room)\, Woodstock Road OX 2 6GG TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0b590d12-974d-4ce7-a423-e90e2f492c 8d/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:In Conversation with Professor Mia Bay & Dr. Meleisa Ono- George - Professor Mia Bay (University of Cambridge)\, Dr Meleisa Ono-Geor ge (The Queen's College) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Amelia Newsham & 18th century Black British histories - Dr Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240524T130000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240524T140000 UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/82e2569f-c5be-4283-8ec3-c8444e6ac9 16/ DESCRIPTION:Race & Resistance is pleased to welcome Dr. Meleisa Ono-George \, as part of our Trinity seminar series. Dr. Meleisa will speak to the gr oup about some of her current work\, including her forthcoming book My Nam e is Amelia Newsham: Science\, Art and the Making of Race (Viking Books)\, and her experience navigating the histories of Black individuals in 18th century Britain. After this\, the session will open to a Q&A\, so come pre pared with some questions.\n\nBiography: Dr. Meleisa Ono-George is a socia l-cultural historian of race and gender\, with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean. She is interested in the eve ryday ways people oppressed within society negotiate and navigate structur es of power and inequality\, as well as the legacies and politics of writi ng such histories within contemporary society.\nDr Ono-George’s current research focuses on the life of an Afro-Jamaican woman in late eighteenth- century Jamaica and Britain and the archival remnants of her life. She is also currently developing a community-engaged project which looks at the h istory of Black mothering in Britain and the use of creative storytelling. Both projects draw upon her interest in community-engaged and Caribbean r esearch methodologies. \nDr. Ono-George’s first book\, My Name is Amelia Newsham: Science\, Art and the Making of Race\, is forthcoming from Vikin g Books.\n-----------\nTwitter: race_resistance\nSubscribe to our mailing list by sending a blank email to:\nrace-and-resistance-subscribe@maillist. ox.ac.uk.\nEmail raceandresistance@torch.ox.ac.uk with any questions.\nSpe akers:\nDr Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College) LOCATION:Venue to be announced TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/82e2569f-c5be-4283-8ec3-c8444e6ac9 16/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Amelia Newsham & 18th century Black British histories - D r Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:In Conversation with Peter Brathwaite: Rediscovering Black Portrai ture: History\, Art and the Archives - Peter Brathwaite\, Dr Meleisa Ono-G eorge (The Queen's College) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231023T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231023T183000 UID:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/43a0f379-c57c-42d8-ba62-81bacb6203 19/ DESCRIPTION:Join opera singer\, broadcaster\, visual artist\, and writer P eter Brathwaite and Meleisa Ono-George\, historian of modern and Black Bri tish history\, for an intriguing discussion on the recently published book \, Rediscovering Black Portraiture\, and the interplay between art\, archi ves\, and the history of Black people in Europe.\nSpeakers:\nPeter Brathwa ite\, Dr Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College) LOCATION:Shulman Auditorium (At The Queen's College) TZID:Europe/London URL:https://new.talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/43a0f379-c57c-42d8-ba62-81bacb6203 19/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:In Conversation with Peter Brathwaite: Rediscovering Blac k Portraiture: History\, Art and the Archives - Peter Brathwaite\, Dr Mele isa Ono-George (The Queen's College) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR