Digital Currents, Creations, and Collaborations with Dr. Francesca Sobande
Join us in welcoming Dr. Francesca Sobande, who will be leading a session under our theme, ‘.Digital Spaces & Creative Methodologies’. This session reflects on the changing currents of digital culture and technology. It draws on experiences of digital creativity and collaborations focused on Black life in Scotland, Wales, and beyond. Reflecting on that, the session addresses some of the possibilities presented by digital forms of creating and communicating as part of work related to Black history and archives. There will be a Q&A session at the end, so please come prepared with questions and comments.

Bio: Francesca Sobande is a writer and researcher, who lives in Cymru (Wales). Her books include Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2024), Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19 (SAGE, 2022), and The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Francesca is co-author/co-dreamer with layla-roxanne hill of Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the free graphic novel and animation Black Oot Here: Dreams O Us (2023). Her bylines include Disegno, Paste Magazine, and The Vinyl Factory. Francesca enjoys midnight skies and all things emo.———————-
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Date: 25 October 2024, 13:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Speaker: Dr Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organisers: Dr Chantelle Lewis (University of Oxford), Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: raceandresistance@torch.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Race & Resistance
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Holly Cooper