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Recipient of Bridget Jones Travel Award 2020/21 – Amilcar Sanatan

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Amílcar Peter Sanatan is a PhD. candidate in Cultural Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His research examines the role of urban development and slum clearance policy in the postcolonial nation state.

His poetry has appeared in BIM Magazine, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, The Caribbean Writer, Cordite Poetry Review, Gutter, Interviewing the Caribbean, Magma, Moko Magazine, PREE Lit, Sargasso and Sinking City. 

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Conference 2021

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44th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies via
Zoom, 5-10 July, 2021

You can download the programme here…

You can download the poster here…

The conference pack… [delegates only, password protected, if you have lost the password email s.cushion23@gmail.com]

Sessions will NOT be recorded, except for the keynote and the final plenary on Saturday (Two Generations of Welsh-Caribbean Ties: The Lewis Family). … read on...

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Climate Change and the Caribbean

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Society for Caribbean Studies would like to thank all those who came to the SCS Live Q&A/discussion event, entitled ‘Climate Change and the Caribbean‘.

Dr Edil Sepulveda is a NASA scientist, licensed attorney, climate change expert, and Puerto Rican Diaspora organizer. His talk is still available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4swRlke_w&feature=youtu.be

Please note: due to the pandemic, SCS has not been able to run our annual conference in 2020, but we look forward to seeing you at our annual conference in 2021!… read on...

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Statement on the cancellation of Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, 1-3 July 2020

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I hope that you are all keeping well and safe. As promised in our earlier statement, this statement is to confirm the committee’s decision to cancel the 2020 Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) annual conference.

I know this will come as a disappointment. 2020 would have been our 44th annual conference, and the conference has become a well-established and highly enjoyable part of many people’s academic year.… read on...