Tag: Black History

The last forgotten victims of the Nazis? – Professorial Lecture featuring Professor Robbie Aitken

Professor Robbie Aitken and Sheffield Hallam University Logo (courtesy of Sheffield Hallam University)

Professor Robbie Aitken on bringing forgotten history to light Ahead of his free-to-attend inaugural lecture – The Last Forgotten Victims of the Nazis? The Nuremberg Race Laws as a Threat to Black German Futures (Wednesday 20 March) – Professor Robbie Aitken has been discussing his professorship, his career to date, and his hopes of challenging society’s ideas about history. Professor […]

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Racism in healthcare: an anti-racist manifesto for change – Friday 21 October 2022 at 11am

As part of Sheffield Hallam’s Black History Month 2022 programme, the first Inclusive Hallam event of this academic year focuses on addressing racial inequality in one of the UK’s most treasured public institutions – our National Health Service. Drawing on the ‘Nursing Narratives’ project, co-led by Sheffield Hallam’s Professor Anandi Ramamurthy, the event will bring together a panel of Black […]

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Remembering Germany’s Black victims of the Holocaust – Professor Robbie Aitken

Picture of Professor Robbie Aitken

Remembering the forgotten Black victims of the Holocaust is the aim of two new memorials initiated by Professor of Imperial History, Robbie Aitken. He applied to lay the new memorials to bring new visibility to Germany’s Black history, following his extensive research into the history of Germany’s Black community and compensation claims by Black Holocaust victims. The memorials were recently […]

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