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. Our speaker will be award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester, Gary Younge. Please save the date, more details will be shared soon.

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.