Keynote & Roundtable

16:15–17:00 

Keynote Speaker: David Featherstone

Paper Title:
‘Glad to Make the Acquaintance of Another Antifascist’: Port Cities and the Makings of Anti-Fascist Solidarities

Biography:
David Featherstone is a Professor in Political Geography in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow and has written widely on questions of solidarity and anti-fascism. He is the author of Resistance, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks (Wiley, 2008) and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism (Zed Books, 2012) and is co-editor, with Kasper Braskén and Nigel Copsey, of Anti-Fascism in Global Perspective: Transnational Networks, Exile Communities and Radical Internationalism (Routledge, 2020). He is a member of the editorial collective of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, co-editor of the Antipode Book Series and an active trade unionist.

17:00–18:00

Roundtable Presenter: Peter Cole

Biography: Peter Cole is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University (USA) and a Research Associate in the Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He wrote Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (2018), winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize, and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (2007). He edited Ben Fletcher: The Life & Times of a Black Wobbly (revised 2nd edition, 2021) and co-edited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (2017). He co-edited and brought the novel, Presente: A Dockworker Story (2024), written by the deceased Herb Mills, to publication. He founded and co-directs the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project.
 

Roundtable Presenter (external presenter): Minna Henriksson 

Biography: Minna Henriksson is a Finnish visual artist working with a disparate range of tools including text, drawing, painting and linocut. She studied art in Brighton, Helsinki and Malmö. Henriksson’s work relates to leftist, anti-racist and feminist struggles. Her works are often based on extensive archival research and draw from real historical events aiming to bring forth marginalisation and oppression, and to highlight positions of power. Dealing with historical cases she hopes to politicise processes in the present that seem neutral and inevitable. A thematic in her work is the ideological nature of history writing itself. She is also interested in exploring language of political art and modes of representation.