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Caribbean Reading Group

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...

IMAGINATIONS 6-2 Caribbean Cinema Now

After five years or so in the making, the special issue on contemporary Caribbean cinema has been published in Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies (open access). The issue consists of a combination of interviews and critical essays that provides a diverse and necessarily eclectic glimpse into recent developments in Caribbean cinema.… read on...

Walter Rodney Commission

rodneyWalter Rodney’s 1980 assassination remains a most traumatising political murder in Guyana’s history. A proper investigation into the death of the pre-eminent scholar, historian, activist and author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was evaded until 2014, when the formal Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry started work.

Please support the petition to Allow the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry Two More Weeks to Hear Testimony from Key Witnesses.… read on...