Wednesday May 7th, 2014
University of Leeds
Liberty Building, SR G.33
Programme
13:30-14:00 registration and coffee/tea
14:00-14:45 Dr Nicola Foote (Florida Gulf Coast University), ‘British
Caribbean Migrants in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, 1900-1950’
14:45-15:30 Dr William Van Norman Jr. (James Madison University), ‘The
Importance of the Study of Secondary Crops: Coffee, Cuba, and the Slave
Trade’
15:30-16:00 Tea and coffee
16:00-17:30 Dr Emma Christopher (University of Sydney), Presenting her
documentary ‘They Are We’. (The story of a remarkable reunion, 170 or so
years after a family was driven apart by the ravages of the transatlantic slave
trade)
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 Jennifer Nelson ([log in to unmask]).
Location maps and travel directions:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/site/custom_scripts/campus_map.php
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