Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diasporas,
in association with the Society for Caribbean Studies and the Department of
History of the University of York
Friday 3 October 2008
King’s Manor campus, Room KG07
12:30-17:30
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-13:45: Introduction and announcements
13:45-14:30: Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Amherst College, U.S.), ‘For Edward: The
death of the father in Kamau Brathwaite’s Barbajan poems’
14:30-15:15: Christian Hogsberg (University of York), ‘C.L.R. James and the
labour rebellions of the 1930s in the British Caribbean’
15:15-15:45: Coffee and tea break
15:45-16:30: Shirley Tate (University of Leeds), ‘Creolising Europe?: Black
beauty and feminist knowledge’
16:30-17:15: Sharon Meredith, ‘Music and Diaspora: Celtic traditions in the
Caribbean’.
17:30: Conference closes and dinner (optional)
For further information, how to get to the King’s Manor, to register for
the seminar, and to book a place for dinner at a local restaurant, please
contact:
Dr. Henrice Altink
Dept. of History
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
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01904-432989
Registration (including lunch) is free. A limited number of bursaries to
cover the costs of travel within the UK are available for postgraduate
students attending this event. To apply, please email Diana Paton
[log in to unmask] stating your topic and giving the name and email
address of your supervisor. We may contact your supervisor to confirm your
status.
Funded by JISLAC
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