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Live On Stage
Thursday September 5 2024, 7pm BST

Black Arsenal: Club, Culture and Identity

History &
Social Policy

Arsenal Football Club is special. Its multicultural fandom reflects a changing city and a unique relationship with Black British popular culture. Thanks to its decades of fielding iconic Black players on the pitch and the storied and diverse histories of its terraces, the club has come to be understood as the locus of everyday Black identification.

Join us live at the Barbican Centre to hear from a variety of voices connected to Arsenal, from its former players, its fanbase, and from the world of music and entertainment to reflect on Arsenal’s relationship with Black Britain and beyond.

Discover how Arsenal Football Club has become central to modern Black identity on September 5, and have your questions answered in the Q&A.

Black Arsenal: Club, Culture and Identity
by Clive Chijioke Nwonka and Matthew Harle

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Event Name

Black Arsenal: Club, Culture and Identity

ATTEND IN-PERSON
Speaker

  • Clive Chijioke Nwonka

    Associate Professor of in Film, Culture and Society at University College London, and co-editor/author of Black Arsenal: Club, Culture and Identity.

Speaker

  • Paul Davis

    Former professional footballer for Arsenal FC

Speaker

  • Clive Palmer

    Contributor to the ArsenalVision podcast

Speakers are subject to change.

Location
  • Barbican Centre
  • Silk St
  • London
  • EC2Y 8DS
Time
  • Thursday 5 September 2024
  • 7pm to 8:30pm BST

Speakers

Speaker

Clive Chijioke Nwonka

Associate Professor of in Film, Culture and Society at University College London, and co-editor/author of Black Arsenal: Club, Culture and Identity.

Lecturer in Film, Culture and Society at University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies. His research centres on the study of Black British and African American film, with a particular focus on the images of Black urbanity and the modes through which Black identities are shaped by representations of social environments and the hegemony of neoliberalism within forms of Black popular culture.
Speaker

Paul Davis

Former professional footballer for Arsenal FC

He is currently Senior Coach Developer at the FA and has worked with young managers like Steven Gerrard, Mikel Arteta and Frank Lampard. As a player, he made 447 appearances for Arsenal, winning two league titles, a League Cup and FA Cup double in 1993 and the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1994. 
Speaker

Clive Palmer

Contributor to the ArsenalVision podcast

Speakers are subject to change.