Global Coventry

Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, and Chair of Asian Art at University of Leiden, Netherlands. At Warwick, she co-directs the Global History and Culture Centre.Aya Nassar is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.Pippa Virdee is Professor of Modern South Asian History at De Montford University, UK.Somak Biswas is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick.

• 1. Introduction, Dr Somak Biswas (University of Cambridge, UK), Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK), Dr Aya Nassar (University of Warwick, UK), Professor Pippa Virdee (DeMontfort University, UK)Part I: New Ways of Seeing the City2. Since when are we global? Material traces of Coventry’s global past’, Professor Anne Gerritsen (Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK)3. Local Ethnic Diversity and Unemployment in Coventry, Dr Matteo Mazzamurro (Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark)4. ‘Visual Vocabularies’: Showing the Hidden Histories of South Asians in Coventry, Professor Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University, UK)Part II: Interventions and Encounters in the City5. The ONE MILE WALK: Dust, Holes, Frictions, and Reconciliation, Dr Aya Nassar (Durham University) and Professor Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, University of London)6. The Multiplicitous City: Race, Class, Gender and Space, Dr Tana Forrest (University of Edinburgh, UK)7. Coventry Community Development Project: Race and Poverty in 1970s Hillfields, Dr Ben Kyneswood (Coventry University, UK)8. Radioactive Rotis and Punjabi Women, Dr Shahnaz Akhter (University of Warwick, UK) Part IV: Place-making in the City9. ‘Kin Wa’: The Chinese Meeting Place in Coventry, 1960s-80s, Professor Pippa Virdee (De Montfort University, UK)10. Queer Refugees in Coventry, Dr Somak Biswas (University of Cambridge, UK)11. ‘For me, Here Life is Perfect’: Voices from the Lockdown Echoed by a Research-Art Response’, Dr Reem Doukmak (University of Warwick, UK)12. ‘Kalmaan Coventry Diyaaan’: The Quills of Coventry; Vernacular Writing in the City, Professor Virinder S. Kalra (University of Warwick, UK)