Odile Jordan 4/18/26 Odile Jordan 4/18/26

Love and work, love is work

I ended my busy work week at a great workshop at the Warburg Institute yesterday, titled ‘Love and Work: Materialising creative approaches to archives’.

Odile Jordan 3/23/26 Odile Jordan 3/23/26

Sancho Conference

Our long-awaited conference was a huge success! Titled Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His Word, the two day conference included 22 international speakers and a live performance of Sancho’s music compositions.

Odile Jordan 1/17/26 Odile Jordan 1/17/26

BSECS 2026

My first conference presentation was at the annual British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies at Pembroke College this January.

Odile Jordan 11/15/25 Odile Jordan 11/15/25

Presenting at Fulham Palace

On Wednesday, my colleague Libby and I presented our current work on the Switching the Lens database, which compiled over 3,300 baptism, burial and marriage records of Londoners of colour between 1560 and 1860.

Odile Jordan 10/16/25 Odile Jordan 10/16/25

BHM: Panel at St Barnabus, Kensington

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a panel at St Barnabus Church, Kensington for Black History Month.

Odile Jordan 10/3/25 Odile Jordan 10/3/25

Global Fellowship Symposium

This September I travelled to Boston for Northeastern’s Global Fellowship Kick-Off Symposium. I presented a lightning talk about my work and got to hear what all the other Fellows are up to.