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Caribbean Discussion Group
Announcing a new Caribbean Discussion Group which will begin meeting on
Tuesday 21st April, 2009. Although based at Glasgow University, this group
welcomes all researchers with an interest in issues relating to the
Caribbean and the Atlantic.
The group seeks to provide a supportive, interdisciplinary network of
students and staff. The meetings will cover a wide range of issues including
history, politics, slavery, memory, medicine, religion, literature and
cinema. With a truly interdiscplinary aim, this network is open to
researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Education, LBSS
and Medicine as well as researchers from outwith the University.
Meetings will take place every Tuesday 5-6pm in meeting room *311, 2nd
Floor, 6 University Gardens*. They include:
1. 21st April- Kei Miller: Who Yo Mammy? The Troubled Genealogy of the
Caribbean Epistolary Novel
2. 28th April- Alasdair Pettinger- A Brief History of Voodoo
3. 5th May- Graham Campbell- Lessons fi Liberate we - Jamaica, the
Caribbean and the Latin American left turn
4. 12th May- Brigida Pastor- From History to Story in Cuban Film: A Search
for New Trends in Postrevolutinary Cuban film
5. 19th May- Katie Gough- History and Performance in the Caribbean
6. 26th May- Nick Nesbitt Democratizing Democracy: Haiti, and the Politics
of Truth, from Toussaint to Aristide
7. 2nd June- David Featherstone- Pan-Africanism and Anti-Fascism
8. 9th June- Stephen Mullen- Scottish Caribbean Connections
9. 16th June- Dr Lizanne Henderson- Burns and Slavery
10. 23rd June- Lorna Burns- Universality ‘Re-visioned’: Caribbean
Aesthetics, Surrealist Practice and Contemporary Post-continental Philosophy
For full details see
http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/arts/graduateschool/events/caribbeandiscussiongroup/
If you are interested in the Caribbean Discussion Group please email Michael
Morris at [log in to unmask] giving your details and your focus of
interest.
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Dr Karina Williamson
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
The University of Edinburgh
Hope Park Square
Edinburgh EH8 9NW
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Hi there,
I hope you're well. I've organised a group at Glasgow University and would
greatly appreciate if you could circulate widely around your university. Yo=
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are, of course, warmly invited to attend.
Caribbean Discussion Group
Announcing a new Caribbean Discussion Group which will begin meeting on
Tuesday 21st April, 2009. Although based at Glasgow University, this group
welcomes all researchers with an interest in issues relating to the
Caribbean and the Atlantic.
The group seeks to provide a supportive, interdisciplinary network of
students and staff. The meetings will cover a wide range of issues includin=
g
history, politics, slavery, memory, medicine, religion, literature and
cinema. With a truly interdiscplinary aim, this network is open to
researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Education, LBSS
and Medicine as well as researchers from outwith the University.
Meetings will take place every Tuesday 5-6pm in meeting room *311, 2nd
Floor, 6 University Gardens*. They include:
1. 21st April- Kei Miller: Who Yo Mammy? The Troubled Genealogy of the
Caribbean Epistolary Novel
2. 28th April- Alasdair Pettinger- A Brief History of Voodoo
3. 5th May- Graham Campbell- Lessons fi Liberate we - Jamaica, the
Caribbean and the Latin American left turn
4. 12th May- Brigida Pastor- From History to Story in Cuban Film: A Searc=
h
for New Trends in Postrevolutinary Cuban film
5. 19th May- Katie Gough- History and Performance in the Caribbean
6. 26th May- Nick Nesbitt Democratizing Democracy: Haiti, and the Politic=
s
of Truth, from Toussaint to Aristide
7. 2nd June- David Featherstone- Pan-Africanism and Anti-Fascism
8. 9th June- Stephen Mullen- Scottish Caribbean Connections
9. 16th June- Dr Lizanne Henderson- Burns and Slavery
10. 23rd June- Lorna Burns- Universality =91Re-visioned=92: Caribbean
Aesthetics, Surrealist Practice and Contemporary Post-continental Philosoph=
y
For full details see
http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/arts/graduateschool/events/caribbeandiscussi=
ongroup/
If you are interested in the Caribbean Discussion Group please email Michae=
l
Morris at [log in to unmask] giving your details and your focus of
interest.
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