Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2025

This years Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies will take place on Thursday 22 May in the Harris Lecture Theatre from 5.30pm. Our speaker will be award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester, Gary Younge. Gary will be speaking on “”The man who photobombed De Gaulle” for more information about him, please see below.

After the talk there will be drinks, from 6.30pm, and a chance to speak to our speaker further.

The lecture, named in honour of former Honorary Fellow and Orielensis Professor Rex Nettleford, former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, is intended to contribute to the advancement of academic research into the legacies of colonialism in all its forms.

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Gary Younge (Photo copyright – Jonas Mortensen)

Gary is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism and the 2025 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism. He has written six books: Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South. He has also written for The New York Review of Books. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.

For more information please visit: https://www.garyyounge.com/