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Dear colleagues, See below. All the best, Pat Dr Patricia Noxolo, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT UK ________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 08 June 2018 11:53 To: Patricia Noxolo Subject: Item for Caribbean Studies mailing list Dear Pat I hope you are well. I wondered if you’d mind sharing details of a forthcoming free lunchtime talk at the British Library with the Caribbean Studies mailing list members. ***************** Summer Scholars free lunchtime talks at the British Library during June and July Each summer the Eccles Centre hosts a series of free lunchtime events at the British Library where writers and scholars associated with the Centre discuss their work and forthcoming publications in an informal setting. The full programme spans Canadian, Caribbean and US Studies and is available to view here<https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/bl/global/eccles%20centre/pdfs/summer%20scholars%202018%20leaflet%20web%20version.pdf>. The first session on Tuesday 19 June, includes two talks on Caribbean topics: Summer Scholars: 'Windrush', Lottery Scams and Reparations Tuesday 19 June, 12.30-13.30, British Library Knowledge Centre, free (no booking required) The uses and meanings of ‘Windrush’ Elizabeth Cooper and Naomi Oppenheim explore the changing uses and meanings of ‘Windrush’ in British society through a critical discussion on curating the British Library’s exhibition Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land. Reparations and the Reordering of Transgression in the Jamaican Lottery Scam The concept of ‘reparations’ is most frequently framed as a form of redress that places compensation as the responsibility of the appropriate colonial power. In this talk, Jovan Scott Lewis explores an alternative reparative logic. He illustrates how Jamaican ‘lotto scammers’, who con American citizens into sending money to Jamaica, are reformulating sites of transgression and the currencies and processes for reparative compensation. In this process, reparations become an active claim denoting the continued productivity of the histories and circuits of colonial and postcolonial inequality. For more information on this event please see https://www.bl.uk/events/summer-scholars-windrush-lottery-scams-and-reparations ***************** Many thanks! Best Cara Dr Cara Rodway Deputy Head The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library 96 Euston Road | London | NW1 2DB | UK t: +44 (0)20 7412 7757 e: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Treasurer, British Association for American Studies<http://www.baas.ac.uk/> [Description: Eccles Refresh Email Banner French Map_US_Canada] ****************************************************************************************************************** Experience the British Library online at www.bl.uk<http://www.bl.uk/> The British Library’s latest Annual Report and Accounts : www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/index.html<http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/index.html> Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. www.bl.uk/adoptabook<http://www.bl.uk/adoptabook> The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled ***************************************************************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> : The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British Library. The British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. ***************************************************************************************************************** Think before you print ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CARIBBEAN-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CARIBBEAN-STUDIES&A=1