(These recordings are not in date order.)
Emperor Haile Selassie I in Bath and Wells: His Journey, His Faith
With Ras Benji HaileSelassie, Bishop of Bath & Wells, and Paula Ogun
Wells Cathedral, Somerset
12 Nov 2025
Small Anthropology Methodology and Researching the Home
Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol
13 June 2025
Teshia Hinds interviews Prof Shawn-Naphtali Sobers about his new book
The Next Chapter show
CBC Mornin’ Barbados
25 May 2023
Digital Spirituality in Creative Practice and Everyday Life
with Dulcie Wagstaff
DCRC Seminar Series
26 Feb 2025
Walk-and-talk video tour around Fairfield House, former home of Emperor Haile Selassie I
Bath Spa University
16 Oct 2020
Public monuments and contested culture, Colston statue
Keynote Speech – Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture
Duldig Studio Museum and Sculpture Garden, Malvern East, Australia
8 June 2020
Ethiopian Echoes on the Bath landscape
TEDx Talk, Bath
11 Oct 2019
Interview with Dr Shawn Sobers: on BLM, Colston’ statue and the role of the arts against racism
Interviewed by journalist Melissa Chemam
19 June 2020
Rethinking Black History with Dr Shawn Sobers
UWE Race Forum Lecture
30 Oct 2020
Faith and Sovereignty: The Spiritual Dimension of the Battle of Adwa
Lecture for Fairfield House, Anniversary of the Battle of Adwa
2 Mar 2025
Visual Anthropology and Participatory Practice
Symposium – Process and Space: The Political Turn in Design Research
Centre for Architecture and Built Environment Research
UWE Bristol
5 May 2016
Hidden Presence: Comparative study of visualising the presence of Black people living in Georgian era Britain – an analysis of two participatory creative history projects
Symposium – What’s Happening in Black British History? IV
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London
21 June 2016
On Firstborn Creatives (Part 1)
New Media eXchange kickSTART 2
London College of Communication
19 June 2007
(Part 2)
In solidarity with the Colston 4
Recorded for the Justice for Colston 4 campaign
25 Jan 2021
Addis Ababa research trip – professional and personal experiences
with Rob Mitchell
Freedom in the City Festival of Learning
Assembly Rooms, Bath
29 Oct 2023
Bridging Generations for UK Black History
Taylor & Francis publishers – book promotion
25 Oct 2024
Explaining the Colston Statue toppling
Recorded for St Katherine School and Cathedral Trust, Bristol
18 Jan 2021
The future of Visual Anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter
With Professor Deborah Thomas and Dr Sireita Mullings
Royal Anthropology Institute Ethnography Film Festival
16 Jul 2021
15 Autobiographical Moments in PerpiTubeity (part 1)
Seminar – PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces. Co-curated by Pato Hebert & Alexandra Juhasz
Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, California
19 Aug 2011
(part 2 – PerpiTubeity Commentary)
Regional Transitional Blackness
with Mark Christian, Carol Leeming, Chris Zembe and Francesca Sobande.
Un/Settled Multiculturalisms series
Stephen Lawrence Research Centre
De Montfort University, Leicester
The Life & Work of Blattengeta Herouy talking to Dr Shawn Sobers, Emeyou Teklemariam & Keith Bowers
The Ethiopian Tribune
22 Sept 2021
Poem – Next GEN
Performed forUrban World Collective
Launch event to Lyrically Justified (Volume 3)
11 Aug 2020
Emperor Haile Selassie I living in Bath
Witness History – BBC World Service
24 Sept 2024
Colston statue, What Next?
MShed, Bristol
8 June 2021
Can compassionate education lead the way for equality?
with Dr Penny Hay, Blaze Wade, Stuart Read and Artie.
Bath Spa University
11 March 2022
Slavery, the Bath and North East Somerset context
with Kirsten Elliot and Kate Garbers
BANES Council
Whose Memorials?
with Dr Barby Asante
Stuart Hall Foundation
31 May 2022
Rastafari 2.0
Panelists: Hon Binghi Congo Nyah, Hon Bongo Spear, Hon Barbara Makeda Hannah Blake, Ho Desta Meghoo, Hon Ras Shango Baku, Hon Prophet Newton, Hon Jah Meeks, Hon Dr Shawn Sobers, Hon Tony Tafari
Rastafari Council of Britain
Queen Mary University, London
19 Oct 2012
Bristol’s Dark Past | The Legacy of a Slave Trader Philanthropist
Interview for Tieran Freedman
1 Oct 2022
Ethiopian Bible Readings – A Chapter a Day
Began this daily reading journey on Bible 29 Sept 2024