Cultural Studies From Below Session #2: Decolonising the Archive
Schedule
Thu Apr 30 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Goldsmiths, University of London | London, EN
About this Event
Cultural Studies From Below Session #2: Decolonising the Archive
Goldsmiths Richard Hoggart Building Room 356
Decolonising the Archive are a UK-based Pan-African project whose work centres the ‘living archive’. DTA facilitate heritage-based therapeutic interventions for people of African heritage rooted in our cultural principles and technologies. For more than a decade, they have successfully built legacy through training programmes supporting community cohesion, narrative ownership, archival literacy and heritage-based therapy. Whilst DTA's core focus remains grassroots communities, their work also involves collaboration with archives, museums and other types of heritage spaces where this can be achieved equitably.
In this first session of Cultural Studies From Below, DTA's Connie Bell will share insights about DTA's mission, their current practice and how the legacy of the Cultural Studies tradition connects to their ongoing work.
Connie Bell is a Memory Worker, Cultural Producer, and Co-Founder of Decolonising The Archive (DTA) and the University of Repair. Her work explores decolonial methodologies and memory as technology within archives. A doctoral researcher at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, focusing on Caribbean theatre archives. She leads the Museum Restitution course module, addressing the ethics of displaying ancestral human remains in museums, and produces the podcast Duppy Conquerors, which examines the legacy and resilience of the Jamaican Maroons. Her practice reimagines and activates archives as spaces of repair, dialogue, and community justice.
Cultural Studies From Below is an ongoing initiative to reflect on the future of Cultural Studies as an intellectual tradition and practice. With very few academic programs and little institutional presence surviving the drastic restructuring and cultural austerity reshaping universities in the UK, finding new forms of collective work and thought is becoming increasingly pressing. We will be hosting a series of conversations over the course of the Spring and Summer of 2026. For more information, head to our website.
Where is it happening?
Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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