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Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities The seminar will take place in Bristol on 22 and 23 November 2007. Time Day One: 10.00-16.15 (followed by a visit to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) Day Two: 9.30-18.00 The objective of the seminar is to assess the merits of the governance arrangements in place, to provide a balanced critique of them, and to suggest how particular reforms can preserve a vibrant and effective relationship between the non-independent Caribbean on the one hand and their metropolitan centres on the other. Keynote speaker: Dr Paul Sutton (University of Hull) - Non-independent territories and small states: retrospect and prospect. Other confirmed speakers include: Dr Emilio Pantojas Garcia (University of Puerto Rico), Professor Justin Daniel (University of the French Antilles and French Guyane, Martinique), Professor Gert Oostindie (KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden), Dr Lammert de Jong (former resident-representative of the Netherlands government in the Netherlands Antilles) Professor Tracey Skelton (National University of Singapore), Dr William Vlcek (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), Gordon Baker (Chatham House), Dr Peter Gold (UWE, Bristol), Dr Jorge Duany (University of Puerto Rico), Sir Ronald Sanders (former High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda to the UK, and business executive), and Frank Savage (adviser: Overseas Territories Department of the FCO). Other Participants: There is space for up to 15 additional participants. There is no registration fee but it is necessary to reserve a place by submitting a completed registration form. Lunch and refreshments will be provided free. For more details see http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/faculty/news/0708/govincaribbean/index.shtml. Organiser: Dr Peter Clegg (UWE, Bristol) - [log in to unmask] or contact Rose West at [log in to unmask] for further details. This seminar and a second seminar to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in April 2008 have been made possible by a grant from the British Academy's UK-Latin America and the Caribbean Link Programme, (with further support from Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, and the School of Politics at UWE, Bristol, and the University of Puerto Rico). As part of the British Academy award, there are several other smaller events being organised at the Institute of the Study of the Americas in collaboration with the Caribbean-British Business Council, London (20 November), Warwick University (20 November), Bristol University (21 November), University of the West of England (21 November), and Liverpool University (26 November). For further information on any of these events please contact Peter Clegg at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found