Name: Talk: The history of the South Asian Diaspora in Coventry by Pippa Virdee
Start: 2026-06-27T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-27T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Priory Visitor Centre

Talk: The history of the South Asian Diaspora in Coventry by Pippa Virdee

A new approach that combines photographs, memory, and diasporic history to explore the history of Coventry’s South Asian community.
About this Event

Visualising the history of the South Asian Diaspora in Coventry by Pippa Virdee By revisiting selected images from the Coming to Coventry archive, Pippa will adopt a new approach that combines photographs, memory, and diasporic history to explore the history of Coventry’s South Asian community. This work is published in the forthcoming book, Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making, eds. A. Gerritsen, A. Nassar, S. Biswas, and P. Virdee (Bloomsbury).