CARIBBEAN RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: IDENTITY POLITICS, LABOUR, YOUTH
The Old Library, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER, 2005
11.00 am - 6.00 pm
A day's discussion of new research ideas
11.00
Welcome: Professor Charles Withers, University of Edinburgh
11.15
Dr David Lambert, Royal Holloway, University of London
Creating a National Hero: surrogacy, history and memory in post-colonial
Barbados
12.15 Lunch in the Ogilvie Room
1.30
Dr Tracey Skelton, University of Loughborough
Caribbean children and young people: questions of citizenship, global
processes and sustainable futures
2.30
Professor Linda Peake, York University
Sexing race and class: forming the Guyanese nation
3.00 Break
3.15
Professor Linda Peake, York University
Labour markets versus trafficking? Understanding women's employment in
Guyana
3.45
Professor Don Robotham, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Neo-liberalism in a small space: the state, the black bourgeoisie and
the reconfiguration of Jamaican society
4.45 Break
5.00
Discussant: Dr Par Kumaraswami, Heriot Watt University
6.00 Close and reception
There is no fee to attend the symposium, lunch and reception. An
additional dinner will be arranged after the symposium - if you would
like to reserve a place, please e-mail Donna Wright
([log in to unmask]) by Monday 31st October.
The Institute of Geography is located on Drummond St, off Nicolson St in
the Old Town, and approximately 1 km south from Waverley Station. Travel
details and location maps for Edinburgh may be found at
www.ed.ac.uk/maps/
For further details, please contact David Howard ([log in to unmask]
or tel: 0131 650 8164). The full programme is also available via
www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geography
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David Howard
Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9XP
Tel: +44 131 650 8164
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