A learned society for Caribbean research
We look forward to welcoming all those registered for the 39th Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, next week (1-3 July), at the Drum, Birmingham, UK.
Details of the conference are here
The final programme has now been published – download it from here… Presenters should contact their panel chairs if they have any queries about their presentations.… read on...
Kishan Munroe is a Bahamian Visual Artist. Recently he was asked, in The Nassau Guardian’s Arts & Culture’s 20 Questions, what he considered to be the artist’s role in society.
“The artist’s role in society is to, at times, represent the reality of their landscapes (social, political, spiritual etc), to act as catalysts to change those environments by addressing pertinent issues, to create other worlds, to escape these realities, to spiritually heal the broken and downtrodden, to awaken the latent consciousness of the people and to help thrust them into the future.”… read on...
The “Postgraduate Caribbean Network” presents
A Postgraduate Caribbean Studies Conference
3 June 2015 at the The University of Warwick
We welcome abstracts from postgraduates whose research concerns any aspect of the Caribbean and its diasporas, at various stages of their research for this one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Warwick.… read on...
THE SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES 2015 CONFERENCE
at The Drum Intercultural Arts Centre, Birmingham, 1-3 July 2015
Registration now open!
Conference fee (including lunch and dinner) is now lower than previously announced – £220 (Half price fees are available for students, the retired and unwaged. Daily rates are also available.)
For on-line registration, click here…
Draft programme (subject to change in the light of registrations) may be downloaded from here…
Presenters must register on-line by Friday 22 May 2015 , or the conference committee will be unable to include their papers in the final programme.… read on...
In association with the Society for Caribbean Studies
Friday 6 March, 2015
Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation
University of Hull
Oriel Chambers
27 High Street
Hull HU1 1NE
Programme
12.30-13:30 Arrival and lunch
13:30-14:20 Natalie Zacek (Manchester), ‘Holding the Whip-Hand: Gender, Slavery, and the Pornography of Pain in Jamaica and New Orleans’
14:20-15:10 Jenny Wilson (Leeds), ‘The Return of Liberated Africans from Cuba and Brazil to Africa, 1830-1870’
15:10-15:40 tea and coffee break
15:40-16:30 Wendy Asquith (Liverpool), ‘Estime’s Extravaganza: Haiti’s “Little World Fair” of 1949-50’
16:30-17:20 Jim Walvin (York), ‘Slavery in Small Things’
For details about WISE, including directions and contact details, see…
Registration is free, but compulsory.… read on...