Reminder: Society for Caribbean Studies Conference registration is now due!! 



THE SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES 2004 CONFERENCE



1-3 July 2004, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, Lancaster, England



Please Register at our web-site: http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/scs%202004%20registration.html



We are very pleased to be holding this year’s 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies in the Northwest of England at Lancaster University, and we would very much like to encourage you to attend, even if you are not presenting a paper. 



Conference highlights this year will include a special presentation by the Bridget Jones Award winner, Jamaican musician and researcher Olive Lewin. We are also looking forward to a performance by the British-born Bajan poet Dorothea Smartt of a piece called ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, originally commissioned by the Lancaster Litfest. We will additionally be offering a tour of Lancaster’s slave-trade heritage to be led by Black Atlantic cultural historian Alan Rice on the Saturday afternoon following the conference. 



For those interested in the arts in the Caribbean we will have several interesting panels on the visual and performing arts. And for the first time this year there will be a special roundtable discussion on issues of teaching Caribbean Studies. Please visit our web-site for a full conference programme:



http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/carib.htm



 In this year of turmoil in Haiti we also acknowledge the bicentennial of Haitian independence with two special panels around topics of the commemoration and representation of the Haitian revolution, including literary and dramatic texts on Haiti produced throughout the Caribbean. 



 Best wishes



 Mimi Sheller



Chair of the Society



 Full conference fees (220 pounds sterling/160 concessionary fee) include all meals and refreshments from afternoon tea on 1st July to lunch on 3rd July, and rum punch reception, conference dinner, and Dorothea Smartt poetry performance at the Nuffield Theatre on 2nd July. The Residential fee also includes en suite accommodation at Lancaster University on 1st /2nd July. There are also non-residential and day rates available on the registration form.



Membership of the Society is mandatory for conference attendance and must be added (£10) to the conference fee.  Members receive the Society’s newsletter, announcements of upcoming events through our email list, eligibility for Society prizes and awards, and the possibility of publication of conference papers on our website. Discounts on books and journals are also available for Society Members through the publisher’s stalls at the annual conference.