SRD 2025: Dorothy Kuya Memorial Lecture - Dr Guilaine Kinouani

Join us at Liverpool Town Hall for the 26th Slavery Remembrance day. This year we welcome award-winning writer, psychologist, group analyst and thinker - Dr Guilaine Kinouani to Liverpool to deliver the Dorothy Kuya Slavery Remembrance Memorial Lecture.

With a background in critical psychology and Black studies, Guilaine explores the impact of racism and whiteness on the mind and body. Her books 'Living While Black' (2021) and 'White Minds' (2023) examine racial trauma and the everyday dynamics of whiteness.

Guilaine’s lecture, "Remembering without Remembering: the Kongo, enslavement, absence, presence, resistance", is an exploration of the impact of transatlantic slavery on the Kongo Kingdom. Guilaine will argue that a focus on West Africa has created a hegemony and almost erasure in understanding of the legacy - geopolitically, culturally and environmentally - of transatlantic slavery within Central Africa.  

“Outside of our conscious awareness, and despite a collective act of ‘forgetting’, the Kongo persists. It is ever-present in the mist of its absence. The disavowed enslavement and brutalisation of the region can be felt in the soil that carried these millions of trembling and shackled feet.  

“For the Dorothy Kuya Slavery Remembrance Memorial Lecture I will explore the erasure of this history and the fundamental paradox of absence and presence; what it can teach us about death, life and resistance, and, critically, what it might mean to ‘remember without remembering’.” 

This event is part of Slavery Remembrance Day 2025.

Doors open at 5:30pm with the lecture starting promptly 6:30pm. There will be refreshments on arrival.

Please note – this event is taking place at Liverpool Town Hall:
Liverpool Town Hall
High St
Liverpool
L2 3SW