Upcoming Events:
Standing Firm in Pride and Power: Black History Month 2025 half-day conference
15 October, 12:00 to 17:00, in person and online
John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way Headington OX3 9DU
The Trusts within Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) are coming together to celebrate Black History Month 2025, a half-day conference hosted by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust’s Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic Staff Network.
The theme for this year is 'Standing Firm in Power and Pride', and the conference will feature a keynote speaker, presentations, storytelling and a panel discussion on health inequalities in social care
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University of Oxford Black History Month Lecture 2025
Power and Pride: Histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain
16 October 2025, 5.15pm to 7pm
O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College, OX1 3PG
The University of Oxford BME Staff Network and the Equality and Diversity Unit invite you to the 2025 Black History Month Lecture, delivered by award-winning historian Professor Hakim Adi. We are honoured to welcome Hakim as this year's speaker, who will explore themes of power and pride in the rich histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain, encompassing approximately 10,000 years of Britain's history.
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Kellogg College Black History Month Annual Lecture
29 October 2025, 5:30pm to 6:30pm
THe Hub, Kellogg College
Kellogg's annual Black History Month lecture to be given by Dr José Lingna Nafafé.
Legal, moral, ethical and political debate on the abolition of slavery has traditionally been understood to have been initiated by Europeans in the eighteenth century – figures such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Buxton, Thomas Clarkson, Granville Sharp, and David Livingstone. To the extent that Africans are recognised as having played any role in ending slavery, especially in the seventeenth century, their efforts are typically confined to sporadic and impulsive cases of resistance, involving ‘shipboard revolts’, ‘maroon communities’, ‘individual fugitive slaves’ and ‘household revolts’.
This lecture explores how Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, an African Prince and the historical actors with whom he was involved – such as Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Caribbean, Portugal and Spain – argued for the complete abolition of the Atlantic slave trade 147 years before Wilberforce and his generation of abolitionists.
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Calendar of EDI dates 2025/26
You may find this list of awareness days and weeks useful in timing events and communications activities.
The University of Oxford is a diverse community, with people from many religious and cultural backgrounds. While this calendar is intended as a starting point, we recognise that many other dates are significant to individuals and communities.
If we have missed an important date or got something wrong, please let us know.
Please note, some dates are observed at different times across the world. The dates below are the dates observed by communities in the UK.
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** begins with the sighting of the moon
