The War on Culture:

Professor Dan Hicks, Author of  The British Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution will be giving the Bernie Grant Memorial Lecture 2022 lecture. Followed by a panel of discussions and questions from the audience, chaired by our chairman Roger Mckenzie.

Using Frantz Fanon’s essay on Racism and Culture as a guide, and taking stock of the 125th anniversary of the looting of the Benin Bronzes in 1897, the talk brings those issues up to date by asking what an anti-racist, anti-war movement for culture could look like today, as we resist ongoing assaults against education, equality and the arts.