The Society for Caribbean Studies website
Welcome to the Society for Caribbean Studies website. Here you can find information about the various activities that we run,
such as our Annual Conference and the Caribbean Seminar
in the North series. You will also be able to find details of the vari
ous
prizes and bursaries we offer to Postgraduates and Students: the Bridget
Jones Award for Caribbean Studies and the David Nicholls Memorial Prize for Postgraduate Students
2013 Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
To register for the conference, click here.
The 2013 conference of the Society will be held at the University of Warwick from 3-5 July. This multi-disciplinary conference brings together scholars from all over the world to present the latest research on the Caribbean and its diasporas from a range of disciplines and across all the linguistic areas of the region.
This year, the opening address of the conference will be given by Professor Neil Lazarus of Warwick University. A renowned scholar of postcolonial studies and world literature, Professor Lazarus will reflect on the Caribbean from the perspective of new thinking on uneven development and the theorisation of world literature.
For the provisional programme, please click here. Please note that this programme may by subject to change.
All speakers must register by 1st May 2013.
David Nicholls Memorial Prize for Postgraduate Students
If you are a postgraduate student who presented at the 2011 or 2012 SCS conference, your work is eligble for the Nicholls prize. For further information, see 'Bursaries and Prizes'
The Society for Caribbean Studies is a registered UK charity (charity number 1115665)