Link to the full symposium programme including speakers, talks and all panels here

This event took place in March, 2025, and was mentioned in The Times Literary Supplement here.

All videos from the symposium will be uploaded to the James Baldwin and Britain YouTube channel in the coming weeks.

James Baldwin, author and activist, was renowned as the most eloquent voice of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and as a pioneering writer of queer fiction. In this series of screenings, presented in partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‘James Baldwin and Britain’ project, we examine his ongoing influence on British culture.

Press coverage for The Devils Finds Work: James Baldwin Through Film, a season of films at the Barbican curated by Associate Professor Clive Chijioke Nwonka, for the ‘James Baldwin and Britain’ project in May 2024. (Image: James Baldwin photographed by Fanny Dubes at his home in Saint Paul de Vence, France, in 1984. Courtesy of Fanny Dubes.)