The World Reimagined Globe Launch: Uncertain Voyage

WHEN: Friday 4th October, 13:00 – 17:00
WHERE: University of Exeter, Queen’s Building, EX4 4QH
The full programme will be confirmed in due course, and will include a musical performance, exhibitions, and keynote speakers across the afternoon.

Specific locations in the Queen's Building include: The Quad, Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1, Senior Common Room, Foyer (between the Queen's Cafe and Senior Common Room).
If you have any queries about this event, please email the HASS Faculty Operations team via [email protected].

Background:

The World Reimagined is a groundbreaking art installation project which aims to redefine how we understand the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and its lasting impact.

The university has been gifted two globes from this initiative, with one now installed at Exeter, Streatham Campus. The globe was gifted to the University on the agreement that it would be used for hosting educational and cultural events and activities.

The Exeter (Streatham Campus) based globe - ‘Uncertain Voyage’: A complex Triangle created by Nadia Akingbule

“The design on this globe explores an aspect of the complexity of Britain’s relationship with Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean across generations, and the legacy of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans on the UK’s role and reputation in the world.

Featured in the design are a man and woman who have arrived in Britain from the Caribbean, with the HMT Empire Windrush also visible, the ship that carried passengers on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948.”

For information on travelling to the University's Streatham Campus, please visit the webpage here.

Host or Publisher University of Exeter