With only three weeks to go, we still have some places remaining on this workshop:
CARIBBEAN SEXUALITIES: A workshop exploring desire and dissidence in the Anglophone Caribbean
WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013
12.00pm-9.00pm
Bob Kayley Theatre, Minghella Building, University of Reading, UK
In recent years, some of the most urgent and highly-charged public and political debates in the Anglophone Caribbean have centred on sexual citizenship. While it is important to acknowledge the very real barriers and prejudices that face people in relation to sexual freedoms and the urgent struggles and challenges that are ongoing, it is also important to recognize and affirm that Caribbean expressive cultural forms have – for a long time – given life and voice to a whole range of ways of living and loving. This one-off event will explore literature and film from the Anglophone Caribbean related to the re-imaginings of sexual citizenship.
There is a full programme of afternoon and evening events; you are welcome to attend one or both sessions.
12.00-5.30pm :: Caribbean Sexualities workshop :: Bob Kayley Theatre, Minghella Building
The workshop will feature two roundtable discussions: the first with Alison Donnell (Reading), Keon West (Goldsmiths), and Sexualities in the Tent speakers; the second entitled ‘Reading Sexualities, Reading Literature’, with Denise deCaires Narain (Sussex), Kate Houlden (Liverpool John Moores) and Wendy Knepper (Brunel).
5.30-9.00pm :: Caribbean Sexualities cultural evening :: Bob Kayley Theatre, Minghella Building
Writers Lawrence Scott and Bernardine Evaristo will read from their works, and Campbell X will present clips from the film 'Stud Life'. All are welcome to this free evening event and wine reception.
Attendance is free, including lunch, buffet tea and wine reception, but places are limited. Please contact Dr Nicola Abram to register, or to request a PG/ECR travel bursary: [log in to unmask] For further information on the content of the event, please contact Professor Alison Donnell: [log in to unmask]
This workshop is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It takes place as part of Professor Alison Donnell's (Department of English Literature) 2013 AHRC-funded research fellowship entitled 'Caribbean Queer: Desire, dissidence and the constructions of literary subjectivity'.
|