Dear all
The next Caribbean Research Seminar in the North will be on January 28 2011, in Newcastle. The programme is below, and also available online at http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/seminarInfo/Newcastle11.htm. This will be the tenth anniversary seminar, we hope many of you will be able to come.
Please email me ([log in to unmask]) to let me know if you will be attending. As usual, there are bursaries available for postgraduate students; to apply for one, please email Henrice Altink ([log in to unmask]).
Best wishes
Diana Paton
Celebrating ten years of the
Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
2001-2011
Friday January 28th, 2011
Newcastle University
Space 7 Culture Lab
King's Walk, Newcastle NE1 7RU
Programme
12.30-1.30 Registration and lunch
1.30-2.20 Sarah Barber, Lancaster University. "But it just doesn't work for the 17th century! Re-writing Caribbean history"
2.20-3.10 Rochelle Rowe, Essex University. "The 'Ten Types-One People' beauty competition in Jamaica in the 1950s and 60s: institutionalising a formula for the visual representation of Caribbeanness"
3.10-3.40 Tea and Coffee
3.40-4.30 Jorge Catalá Carrasco, Newcastle University. "Mass Media within the Cuban Revolution (1959-1965)"
4.30-5.30 Thomas Glave, SUNY Binghamton. "Queer Caribbean Sexualities: Telling Stories"
5.30 Wine reception
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 Henrice Altink ([log in to unmask]) stating your topic and giving the name and email address of your supervisor.
Registration is free. A reservation for dinner at a local restaurant will be made for the evening. Please let us know you are coming, whether you would like lunch, and if you would like to be included in the dinner reservation, by emailing Diana Paton ([log in to unmask]).
Location maps and travel directions: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/travel/
Sponsored by Newcastle University's Americas Research Group http://www.ncl.ac.uk/americas, JISLAC, and the Society for Caribbean Studies
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