Black History Month talk by Siddharth Kara
Dates
29 October 2023
Times
5.30-6.30pm
Location
Zoom event
Summary
As part of our series of Black History Month talks, Wadham is proud to welcome Siddharth Kara, who will speak on modern slavery in Africa and Asia.
Professor Siddharth Kara (University of Nottingham) is part of the Rights Lab’s Measurement and Geographies Programme and is a British Academy Global Professor (2020-2024). He was one of only 10 academics globally to receive the prestigious BA Global Professorship in 2020.
Professor Kara's books on modern slavery are 'Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery' (2009); 'Bonded Labor': 'Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia' (2012); and 'Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective' (2017). He adapted his first book into a Hollywood film, 'Trafficked'.
During 22 years of field research, Professor Kara has travelled to more than 50 countries to document the cases of thousands of enslaved people and child labourers. He advises several UN agencies and numerous governments on anti-slavery policy and law. His research as a BA Global Professor with the Rights Lab will provide the first comprehensive academic study of slavery and child labour in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
