Please see below the updated programme of the Caribbean Postgraduate Workshop to be held at the Institute for the Study of the Americas on 11th May. PLease note that there is a registration fee of £10 which is to cover the costs of lunch and refreshments - please make sure to register BY THIS THURSDAY LUNCHTIME - this is so we know the numbers for catering purposes. To register please go to http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.html?id=11621 to register and pay online, or write to [log in to unmask]
CARIBBEAN POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
ISA, 11 MAY 2012
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome
10.10 – 11.10 Panel One: History
Sian Williams, Southampton and National Maritime Museum
Circuits of Knowledge: The Royal Navy and the Caribbean, 1756 – 1815
Steve Cushion, ISA, The British in Cuba: Sources on the slave trade
11.10 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Panel Two: Literature
Angela Whale,
Symbolic Spaces: Identity, Borders and Migration in the Novels of Pauline Melville
Janelle Rodriques, Newcastle, “Too much row an’ contention in this yard”: Obeah and Nationalism in Alfred Mendes’ Black Fauns
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 Panel Three: Identities
Shirley Pemberton, ISA
The transnational socio-cultural practices of the St. Kitts-Nevis communities in 1960s Britain
Kavyta Raghunandan, Leeds University
Indo-Trinidadian: Negotiating ‘Indianness’ among young Trinidadian women
2.30-3.30 Open Discussion: Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the Caribbean
Chair and Introduction: Kate Quinn, ISA
3.30 – 4.00 Tea and Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.30 Panel Four: Skills and Resources
Professor Liz Dore, ISA Professorial Fellow, Using Oral History in Researching the Caribbean
Bill Booth, ISA, Organising a Conference
Jonathan Harrison, Senate House Library, Caribbean Collections at Senate House Library
5.30 Reception
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