Society for Caribbean Studies

Call for Papers
Havana, December 4-5, 2017

This Call for Papers is seeking abstracts and papers from scholars who have worked on the themes of the Caribbean philosophies of independent radical thinking, Walter Rodney and the question of enslavement. The objective of the two-day colloquium will be to: “bring together women, men and youth from grassroots organizations and academia in Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and beyond who share Rodney’s core principles to examine today’s social, economic and political environment, and to renew our commitment to the struggle for another world.”… read on...

and see you next year in Senate House, University of London

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The conference will take place in the Essex Business School at the University of Essex.

You can find an interactive map of the campus here…

The University website has a page Travelling to Colchester Campus…

For those of you travelling to the University via train/public transport, here are some recommendations. If you travel to Hythe station as opposed to Colchester town, you’ll arrive within about 10-15 minutes walking distance of the University (and we recommend checking out the route on google maps in advance).… read on...

a few minor changes to the programme…… read on...

Jorge Ibarra Cuesta, one of the most influential and lucid researchers in the field of Cuban history has died at the age of 85. He was the author of a large body of work that is essential to understanding the process of construction of the Cuban nation.

In 1996 he was was honoured by the Ministry of Culture with the National Prize for Social Sciences and in 2008 he was awarded the national History Prize by the Cuban National Union of Historians, in both cases for his life’s work.… read on...