Billed as ‘a day-long, co-productive community conversation, about Abolition, Birmingham, and Commemoration’, and convened and chaired by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038 will take place on Saturday 1 June at The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham B1 2DR.

The event takes as its starting point the ‘deception’ of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, and of ‘the state-sponsored jingoistic jamboree that, in 2007, was the British commemoration of that “abolition’s” bicentenary’, and asks: ‘How d’you repair a damage like this great deception?’

The one day event aims to bring together ‘a potential partnership of academic, denominational, and GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, and Museum) institutions, and of freelancers, volunteers, and activists, in Britain and Jamaica, for a co-productive workshop about how best to undo the deceptive legacies of 2007 and prepare the evidential bases for fresh abolitionist bicentennial commemorations during the 2030s’.

The event is supported by a grant from the Society for the Study of Labour History.

Further information about the motivation for the conference and the programme can be found here.