Wednesday 10 June 2026 5.30-6.15pm

Online via Zoom

Becoming Black Internationalists: Léon-Gontran Damas, Gabriel d’Arboussier, and Bernard Dadié

Dr Lyn Kouadio, Beacon Junior Research Fellow in Postcolonial and Race Studies

The Master, Baroness Amos, is delighted to invite Old Members, friends of Univ, students, and staff to the next Univ Online Talk, Becoming Black Internationalists, with Dr Lyn Kouadio. This event will take place online as a talk, followed by a short Q&A session, led by the Master.

In this talk, Dr Kouadio engages with three Black Francophone anti-colonial leaders, Léon-Gontran Damas, Gabriel d’Arboussier, and Bernard Dadié, examining how their intellectual and political trajectories were shaped through shared networks, encounters, and mutual influence. She argues that their anti-colonial contributions to international thought should not be treated as individual ones that might be “put in conversation”. Instead, attending to their becoming sheds light on the relational worlds they inhabited and helped to shape. Dr Kouadio’s intervention draws attention to what these Black internationalists’ becoming might illuminate for international thought and politics today.

Please contact rsvp@univ.ox.ac.uk with any questions or queries about the event.

Please register for the Zoom link here.

Please note that audio, photographs and video footage may be taken throughout our events. These may be used by the College for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and on social media, or in any third-party publication. Please contact the event organiser if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.

Published: 29 April 2026

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