WindRush: Migration, Memory, Culture and Conversations
A BSA Postgraduate Regional Event
24 June 2026 (11am-3pm BST)
Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, Brixton, London SW2 1EF
About the Event
This cross-disciplinary postgraduate symposium, hosted during Windrush Week 2026, brings together emerging scholars and practitioners to explore the social, cultural and political legacies of the Windrush Generation in contemporary Britain. Designed to inform, educate and uplift, the event centres Black British women’s intellectual contributions while fostering dialogue across academia, heritage and community spaces.
Hosted by Natalie Clue, a second-year PhD researcher at Bayes Business School, the programme reflects her research on marketing, race and Black diasporic consumption cultures in Britain, with a particular focus on the Windrush Generation and their descendants.
The symposium features two other PhD researchers whose work engages with diaspora, identity and belonging. Sabrina Bowen explores the intergenerational transnational identities of the Anglophone Caribbean diaspora, examining how communities negotiate belonging, inequality and development. Melissa Williams investigates how the British immigration regime shapes the legal status and lived experiences of Windrush descendants, with attention to law, geopolitics and resistance.
The symposium will also feature a keynote address from Dr Wanda Wyporska, CEO of the Black Cultural Archives, whose work in heritage, leadership and social justice offers a vital institutional perspective on memory, identity and cultural stewardship.
Additional practitioner speakers from education, culture and the creative industries, as well as finance and banking, will be announced.
Hosted at Black Cultural Archives, this event provides a space for critical reflection, knowledge exchange and community connection.
Registration
This event is free to attend but registration is required.