Listening Salon - Memory and Identity

With Ruqayya Bryce and Darold Cuba.

How can we have a more comprehensive understanding of our histories? How might this impact national identity? What is the balance between acknowledging the difficult chapters alongside the more positive ones? How do we trace these legacies into our understandings of who we are collectively? With both memory and identity in dispute, what are the ways we need to discuss these questions to be inclusive of the spectrum of historical behaviours and how they shape contemporary society’s ideas of itself?

Darold Cuba is a History PhD candidate at St John’s College, Cambridge whose thesis explores “the intellectual, political, cultural, psychological and social histories of the phenomenon of self-emancipated freedmen communities” and other phenomenons of marronage. The founder of MaronnageOrg, Darold chairs the Cambridge AntiRacism Forum