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CALL FOR REGISTRATION – Seminar on Caribbean Literature and Space, Friday 8th November 2013, Ron Johnston Resource Room, Geography Building, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. Dr Patricia Noxolo, on behalf of The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, invites registration to attend a seminar on Caribbean literature and space, to be held on Friday 8th November, in the department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Programme 9.30 Coffee and welcome 10.00 Keynote session Pat Noxolo, University of Sheffield - Caribbean literary Geographies: troubling spaces Susan Mains, University of Dundee - TBA Malachi McIntosh, Cambridge University - TBA 12.00 Lunch 1.00 Panel session 1 Claudia Maria Fernandes Correa, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil - Dis/place is not home: body and place in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s ‘She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks’ Angela Last, Central Saint Martins University of East London - Caribbean Literature between geo-poetics and geo-politics 3.00 Break 3.30 Panel session 2 Alexis R. Charles, Stanford University - Intergalactic Caribbeanness: Caribbean culture in space in Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘Midnight Robber’ Suzanne Scafe, London South Bank University - Mapping affective spaces in the work of contemporary Jamaican writers Jon Pugh, Newcastle University - Caribbean literature and the turn toward ‘everyday spaces’ in the social sciences and humanities 5.30 Close The seminar is free of charge to attend, but please register by 25th October, for catering purposes. Please go to http://tinyurl.com/caribbeanspaceandliterature to register your attendance The RITA group is holding a series of seminars across the UK during the academic year 2013-14, and will be holding its next annual conference on 15th/16th April 2014. The seminars are funded by the Institute for the Study of the Americas (http://americas.sas.ac.uk/). The Sheffield seminar has also enjoyed the additional support of the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) (http://siid.group.shef.ac.uk/).