The First Annual George Padmore Institute Lecture: Prof David Scott

Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and the Genealogy of Caribbean Intellectual Traditions, with Professor David Scott (Columbia University)

All are welcome to the inaugural George Padmore Institute Annual Lecture, a new series designed to platform path-breaking scholarship on anti-imperialism, anti-racism, internationalism and the politics of culture. In doing so, the series carries on the spirit of the Trinidadian poet, publisher and activist John La Rose, who strove to honour the pan-Africanist George Padmore and his “independent, radical vision and outlook connecting the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, North America and Asia.”

The George Padmore Institute (GPI) was established in 1991 by La Rose and others associated with New Beacon Books, Britain’s first black publisher and bookshop; both are based in Finsbury Park, North London. In the decades since, the GPI has become an essential archive and much-used educational resource centre for the study of black communities of Caribbean, African and Asian descent in post-war Britain and continental Europe. This lecture series, a new collaboration with the QMUL School of History, celebrates the GPI’s work and its influence on education and academic scholarship alongside art, culture and community organising in contemporary Britain. Please consider supporting the GPI: https://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/support-us

David Scott is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the founder and editor of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism and the author of many books, including Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures (1999), Conscripts of Modernity (2004), Omens of Adversity (2014) and Stuart Hall’s Voice (2017). Professor Scott is currently completing a book on ‘New World Slavery in Moral History’ as well as a biography of Stuart Hall.

This event has been generously supported by the School of History, Queen Mary University of London.

Host or Publisher School of History, Queen Mary