The 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies was held at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Newcastle University on 6-8 July 2016.

Conference Programme…
Conference Poster..… read on...

In association with the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS), and the Leverhulme-funded network ‘Caribbean In/securities and Creativity’ (CIC)
The Postgraduate Caribbean Network invite you to
A Postgraduate Conference on Caribbean Insecurities and Creativity. 
It will take place on 23 May 2016, in LC-UG09, at the University of Birmingham, UK

Programme

9.00 Coffee and arrivals

9.30 Welcome by Laetitia Saint-Loubert (University of Warwick; SCS Postgraduate representative) and Pat Noxolo (University of Birmingham; SCS Chair and CARISCC Principal Investigator)

9.45 Keynote panel

Kevon Rhiney, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus: Vulnerability, resilience and livelihood in/securities to global change in Jamaica’s agriculture sector

Ron Cummings, Brock University: Colonial Encounters and Maroon In/Securities: Caribbean Literary Narratives

11.00 Break

11.15 Panel: In/secure livelihoods

Rachel-Ann Charles, Birmingham City University: Examining creative solutions to employment insecurities in Trinidad and Tobago through the use of ‘community media projects’

Sarah Peck, University of Sheffield: ‘We have to be creative’: NGO financing in insecure times

Mya Owen, University of St Andrews: Terrorism: a ‘creative’ solution to social insecurity?… read on...

An International Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: 1-4 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG
Date: 11-13 July 2016

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Winston James, University of California
Associate Professor Rhonda Williams, Case Western University

Conference aims:
American Networks: Radicals Under the Radar aims to challenge dominant narratives of artistic and political collaboration by investigating networks in the Americas which are often submerged ‘under the radar’ of conventional scholarship.… read on...

in association with the Society for Caribbean Studies

Room A214, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
Friday, 20 May 2016

SCHEDULE
12:45 – 1:15pm Registration
1:15 – 1:30pm Welcome and introductions
1:30 – 2:45pm “The State of the Field: The Black Atlantic Paradigm Today” (Manuel Barcia Paz [Leeds] and Fionnghuala Sweeney [Newcastle])
2:45 – 3:15pm Break and coffee/tea
3:15 – 4:00pm “Sense of Place and Disasters: Urban Poor Adaptation to Climate Change in the Dominican Republic” (Holly Schofield [Manchester])
4:00 – 4:45pm “A Marginal Conflict: France and the Surinamese Interior War, 1986-1992” (Sarah Wood [York])
4:45 – 5:00pm Wrap-up

A reservation will be made at a reasonably priced local restaurant for those wishing to attend dinner after the seminar.… read on...

The second session of the Caribbean Reading Group, which will be held at the University of Birmingham at 12-1pm on Friday 26th February. We have provisionally booked a seminar room at Westmere House (G15 on the campus map) but will confirm the venue nearer the time as it may have to change.… read on...