Conference programme:

10.00 Registration, coffee

10.30 Sport

Phil Vasili - The stories of Black footballers in Britain

Mike Marquese - Cricket in war and peace

Ron Shillingford - How boxing has evolved through Muhammad Ali's influence

12.00 Lunch [BASA AGM (for members only)]

1.30 Stage and Screen

Stephen Bourne - Secrets and Lies: Black Histories and British Historical Films [video extracts will include David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and The Sailor's Return (1978)]

Pearl Connor-Mogotsi - The Pearl Connor Afro-Asian-Caribbean Theatrical Agency 1956-1976

3.00 Coffee

3.30 Stage and Screen (continued)

Vayu Naidu - The way we are: a synopsis of multiple identities of British Asian Theatre today

Leon Robinson - Echoes of the Ballet Nègres (1946 - 1952)

The conference concludes with 'The Carnival Makers' - a presentation about the history of the Notting Hill Carnival, given by Greta Mendez, Sue McAlpine and Charlotte Woolford.

Fee, including sandwich lunch: Institutions, £20; Individuals, £12; BASA members, £10; Concessions, £7; Concessions, BASA members, £6.

For further details contact Black and Asian Studies Association, c/o Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, London WC1 5DS

or Email H.Adi@mdx.ac.uk or tel: Hakim Adi 0208 411 6244

Venue: Camden Town Hall, Council Chamber, Civic Floor, Judd Street entrance, London WC1 (Nearest Tube/Rail: King's Cross/St Pancras)

Reception/security telephone no: 020 7974 5710