We hope that you are keeping well in the context of the global spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) Committee is issuing this holding statement to reassure you that we have not yet made a decision to cancel our conference at Butetown Community Centre, 1-3 July 2020, but that we are closely monitoring the UK and international situation, and we will make a decision in late April.… read on...

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Monday April 6th, 2020.
KEYNOTE: Dr. Paul Ian Campbell
Date: Wednesday April 29, 2020
Time: 10:00 a.m. -4: 00 p.m.
Venue: University of Leicester

The Society for Caribbean Studies Postgraduate Caribbean Network invites submissions of abstracts of not more than 250 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas for its annual postgraduate conference.… read on...

We hope to see you next year in Cardiff

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Hazel Franco, dance ethnographer, choreographer, UWI coordinator and CXC examiner for dance. Trinidad and Tobago

Award winning choreographer, Hazel Franco took a deep interest in the folk dances of Trinidad and Tobago very early in her career. Of all the dances, however, the Bele/Belaire engaged her the most. Its elaborate costumes, multiethnic dance movements and the foregrounding of women spurred her on to post-graduate studies in dance.… read on...

Travel to Preston
Preston is a city in the North of England. IBAR is part of University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), which is within easy access of the city centre. Details of how to get to IBAR/UCLAN, by rail, bus, coach or car, are available here: https://www.uclan.ac.uk/visit/how_to_find_us.php

Accommodation in Preston
In Preston city centre there are quite a few hotels available, usually with ensuite and breakfast included.… read on...