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Lapworth Lecture - How to have a (decolonial) rock in the family: questioning geology, race and empire

Name: Lapworth Lecture - How to have a (decolonial) rock in the family: questioning geology, race and empire
Start: 2026-10-15T18:00:00
End: 2026-10-15T20:00:00
Location: Lapworth Museum

Join us for a special Lapworth Lecture as part of Black History Month with Professor Kathryn Yusoff.

Date
Thursday, 15 October 2026 (18:00 - 20:00) (UK)

Location
Lapworth Museum, Aston Webb Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Contact
lapworth@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Join us for a special Lapworth Lecture as part of Black History Month with Professor Kathryn Yusoff.

How to have a (decolonial) rock in the family: questioning geology, race and empire

About Professor Kathryn Yusoff

Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interrogates geologies of race, questions of environment and extraction and the afterlives of colonial power. She is author of Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race (2024), A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2019) and co-author of Planetary Portals (2026). She represented Britain at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 as a co-curator of GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair.

A green and red graphic showing an illustration of rocks with the words "Geology of Britannic Repair" "GBR" "British Pavilion" "La Biennale Di Venezia" "Architecture 2025" — ©ChrisLane, Courtesy of British Council

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Lapworth MuseumAston Webb BuildingUniversity of BirminghamEdgbastonBirminghamB15 2TT

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