Sciences Po Lille is happy to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of blood' speech with One-day conference convened by Olivier Esteves & Stéphane Poriona (January 26th 2018 - room Louise Michel)

 

“ […] Powell became the touchstone for speaking about race and nation, and still continues to be so many years after his death.

Just when you think that he has finally been dispatched, back he comes.
Like a traumatic memory he always returns.

As a result, white fears of black, and an inchoate jumble of racial bigotry, crossed the threshold from private reverie to public wisdom”

(Bill Schwartz, Memories of Empire (Vol.1), The White Man’s World, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 19).

 

Please find here the programme.