Dear all,
The next Caribbean Research Seminar in the North takes place on Friday 27 September at the University of YOrk (tree house, berrick saul building, campus west). As a one-off, this seminar will also include papers on Latin America. The programme is listed below. Registration is free. A reservation for dinner at a local restaurant will be made for 6:30 p.m. Please let us know if you are coming to the seminar, and if you would like to be included in the dinner reservation by emailing Henrice Altink ([log in to unmask]).
Programme
13:30-14:00 registration and coffee/tea
14:00-14:45 Dr Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds), ‘West African warfare in Bahia and Cuba in the first half of the 19th century’
14:45-15:30 Paul Humphrey (University of Birmingham), ‘Daughters of the Spirits: African-Derived Religions and Resistance to Patriarchy in Caribbean Literature’
15:30-16:00 Tea and coffee
16:00-16:45 David Jones (University of York), ‘ “The contemplation of human nature, under its various modifications”: Organic Constitutionalism and the Problem of Union in post-independence Spanish America’
16:45-17:30 Professor Patience Schell (University of Aberdeen), ‘Cultivating Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Chile’
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