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"'Comings and Goings' Calypso: A Moment and Movement Concerning Memory,
Migration and Displacement" is a transdisciplinary seminar which seeks
to interrogate the musical practices of West Indian Carnival by
exploration of its roots/routes through, and contribution to, the
evolution of contemporary music practices in Britain today, and by
extension, its wider impact on British culture.

Convened by Geraldine Connor, she proposes an agenda that critically
examines the practice of these musics within the multifaceted field of
cultural theory by addressing how they have responded to or directly
affected issues of aesthetics, globalisation, coloniality, post
coloniality, the post-war movement, identity, representation, cultural
interpretation, social commentary, contemporary music, memory and
history.

The starting point of these explorations is grounded in an initiative of
the Historical Museum of Southern Florida who have developed a web
exhibition, www.calypsoworld.org (co-curated by Stephen Stuempfle and
Ray Funk), and conference project on the international dissemination of
calypso music from Trinidad from the mid-twentieth century.

As part of a series of four world wide conferences, two of which have
already taken place in Miami and New York, the Leeds seminar which is
due to take place from the 3-5 November 2005 will be the third event.
The fourth and final conference is scheduled for the Trinidad and Tobago
Carnival in 2006.

Invited participants at the Leeds seminar include: Ray Funk, Stephen
Stuempfle, John Cowley, Gordon Rohlehr, Milla Riggio, Hollis Liverpool,
Arthur France and many others.

The seminar in Leeds will be accompanied by an exhibition of photographs
and memorabilia of the Leeds Carnival. The exhibition will be curated by
Max Farrar and is located in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and
Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

For more information and registration please contact Josine Opmeer at
the address below or visit
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/events/2005/1103/index.html



Josine Opmeer
Centre Coordinator
AHRC CentreCATH, University of Leeds
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Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1629
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