A reminder of the last event of our Caribbean Seminar Series in 2021:
Cuba: An American History
14 December 2021, 5:30 pm-7:00 pm (rescheduled from December 1)
This online seminar is a book launch for Ada Ferrer's new book. Spanning more than five centuries, her book is an ambitious and moving chronicle of the country's history and its relationship with the United States. Read more about this event here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2021/dec/cuba-american-history
Speaker:
Ada Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, where she has taught since 1995.
Free registration via Eventbrite here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuba-an-american-history-tickets-178011496177
Also:
Join us for the first seminar of our Caribbean Seminar Series in 2022!
Sowing Roots: Caribbean Garden Heritage in London
26 January 2022, 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
This online seminar will explore a new oral history project and exhibition at the Garden Museum focused on the horticultural traditions that Caribbean people carried with them when they moved to the UK after World War II: from breadfruit, provision grounds, and botanical gardens, to chocho, ackee and the green spaces of South London. Read more about this event here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2022/jan/sowing-roots-caribbean-garden-heritage-london
Speakers:
Janine Nelson, Head of Learning at the Garden Museum, London.
Dr Elizabeth Cooper, historian and curator.
Dr Ekua McMorris, London-based fine artist with a doctorate in photography from the University of Brighton
Free registration via Zoom here:
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vdeCsqDgsG93208Eb7Y5i-8kfwO9k-7jw
Also for 2022, save the dates alert!
16 February
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford University)
9 March
Labour Rebellions of the francophone Caribbean: The 1930 Darboussier Strike in Guadeloupe
Kesewa John (UCL Institute of the Americas)
25 May
Bob's Back From London: Music, Power, and Decolonization in Jamaica
Matthew Smith (UCL History and Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership)
Best wishes,
Oscar Martinez
Events and Communications Officer
UCL Institute of the Americas
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