Apologies for cross-posting. Please see the below call for registration and programme for the annual Caribbean Postgraduate Network Workshop taking place in London on Nov 1st. I would be grateful if you could also circulate.



Many thanks,



Rachel.



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You are warmly invited to attend the annual Caribbean Postgraduate Network Workshop taking place on Friday 1st November at UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PN. 



Postgraduate students located in discipline-based departments often find they are the sole scholar within their department working on the Caribbean. The Caribbean Postgraduate Network seeks to bring together students who share a common interest in the Caribbean to share their work with regional specialists in a friendly and informal setting. 



The workshop will feature student presentations on aspects of their work, with responses by convenors and questions encouraged from other participants. We finish with a Roundtable discussion on research challenges and issues faced by postgraduates in Caribbean studies. 



We particularly encourage postgraduate students who are researching any aspect of the wider Caribbean and its diasporas to attend.



This event is free to attend, butto register your place please email Rachel Thompson at [log in to unmask] Please also note that although there will be tea and coffee available, lunch is not provided.



Caribbean Postgraduate Network Programme



9.30: Welcome



9.45 – 11.15 PANEL 1: RELIGION



Carlton Turner (University of Gloucestershire): “Beyond Self-Negation: Junkanoo and the Church in Contemporary Bahamian Society”



Shantelle George (SOAS, University of London): “‘An insane attempt to blend the delusions of Africa with the profession of Christianity’: Some theoretical issues concerning the Spiritual Baptist and Orisha traditions in the south-eastern Caribbean”



Janelle Rodriques (Newcastle University): “Obeah as Trickster in Hamel, the Obeah Man”



11.15-11.30: Break



11.30- 1 PANEL 2: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS



Lauren Tooker (University of Warwick): “Provincialising ethics? Reading the politics and poetics of ordinary claim-making about debt reparations in Haiti”



Gerald Jenner La Touche (University of Birmingham): “Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) in global perspective: How can the furtherance of Caribbean regional integration through the CSME foster greater economic growth and development for all member nations of the CSME in a globalising world environment?”



Alessandro Badella (Genoa University, Italy): “The Circular Trap: Clinton and Cuba, 1992-1996”



1 – 2: Lunch



2 – 3 PANEL 3: LITERATURE 



Laura McGinnnis (Queen's University, Belfast): “Contesting Myths of Masculinity in the French Caribbean Novel”



Matthew Sellers (Wolfson College, University of Oxford): “Dépassé, surpassé, trépassé: History and Memory in Ina Césaire’s Mémoires d’île” 



3 - 4 PANEL 4: RACE (AND JAMAICA)



Adam Thomas (University of California, Irvine): “Between Skin and Heart: Racial Ambiguity in the Context of Jamaican Rebellion”



Vasavi Vishen (Hindu College, University of Delhi): “Race, Religion and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica: Perspectives on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847)”



4 - 4.30: Tea and Coffee Break



4.30 - 5.30: Roundtable



“Conducting Research in Caribbean Studies: From Postgrad to PhD”



Jack Webb (University of Liverpool)



Jenna Marshall (Queen Mary, University of London)



Janelle Rodriques (Newcastle University)



Rachel Thompson (Goldsmiths, University of London)



5.30: Reception