

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Teaching Black British Writing in China: Professor Deidre Osborne
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dr Michelle Asantewa talks with Prof Osborne  on how Black British writing/history is valued  more in China  than in UK academiaAbout this EventDr Michelle Asantewa will be in conversation with Professor Deidre Osborne.Professor Osborne is editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature, the first comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture, which covers 65 years of writing.In 2014 Professor Osborne co-founded the MA in Black British Writing/Literature at Goldsmiths University, a ground-breaking course taught nowhere else. It received the Student Union Teaching Award for "Compelling and Diverse Curriculum" in (2018)In 2017, Osborne wrote the syllabus and produced materials[to facilitate the Edexcel Examination Board's A-level Black British Literature syllabus.Professor Osborne was responsible for organising two notable international conferences at Goldsmiths University : "On Whose Terms?": Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts, in 2008, and On Whose Terms? Ten Years On… (2018). She co-convened the spoken-word poetry conference at Royal Central School of speech and Drama in 2022 and supported the International Black Speculative Writing Festival, directed by Kadia Sesay, at Goldsmiths in 2024.Professor Osborne is now Distinguished Professor in Literatures and Drama in English at Central China Normal University where she teaches Black British writing to Chinese students.Significantly she now teaches the unique course that she co-created at Goldsmiths, in China, where students have opportunities to study Black British literature on a scale not possible in Britain.In this rare public appearance, Professor Osborne will be in conversation with independent scholar, Dr Michelle Asantewa from WaywivWordz HERE.They will cover:Britain and China an academic comparisonRace and gender in academiaInstitutional racism at Goldsmiths and the BFI, (British Film Institute)Chinese reception to Black writing and historiesThe current state of Black PublishingFuture opportunities and challengesThis event is organised by Black History Walks as part of 60 Years Since 1965 the first ever Race Relations Act, and 20 years of the African Odysseys film seriessBlack History Steam train tourBlack History Bus Tour/ River CruiseHackney, Mayfair, St Paul'/Bank, Theatreland and Soho Black History WalksAfrican Odysseys, Racism in Academia and @BFI SouthbankIsmahil Blagrove season of films and booksFrantz Fanon weekender60 years of Black British Civil Rights, racism @BFI with Professor Gus JohnKung Fu and anti-racist street fighters with Professor Lez HenryWorld Wars and Black soldiers. African Odysseys @BFI with Professor Patrick Vernon60 years of Black history Success Stories 1-20Sign petition to save African Odysseys and Black film history at BFI Southbank HEREAbout African OdysseysThe volunteer-run, African Odysseys film programme screens educational, popular, anti-racist, films with Q&amp;A's . It regularly filled the BFI Southbank 450 seater at 2pm on Saturdays when cinemas are typically 'dead'.The British Film Institute refused to answer 8 simple questions or meet the volunteers, then cancelled the programme so they could 'cut costs and promote diversity' HEREAfrican Odysseys continues to show films across London as can be seen HERE  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/481b4230-e237-11f0-983f-3f1406156a47-rimg-w1104-h740-dcf3f6f8-gmir.jpg   https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/48601360-e237-11f0-b1e5-fb8d04c0193d-rimg-w681-h740-dcffffff-gmir.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gem8h2CiRE&amp;t=6shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2WhsNMloqY&amp;t=5s
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- **Event Categories**: art, entertainment, literary-art, black-history-month, performances, sports, workshops, theatre, festivals, business, conferences, spoken-word
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- **city**: London
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Birkbeck, University of London
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- **full address**: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

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