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 Hogsbjerg (University of York), ‘'A Thorn in the Side of
Great Britain'; CLR James and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s
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)
On how to get to the King’s Manor campus of the University of York see
http://www.york.ac.uk/np/maps/kmdirect.htm
For further information, to register for the seminar, and 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.
Funded by JISLAC
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