Annual conference for the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
Every year since 1977, the Society has held a conference, attracting participants from the Caribbean, Europe, Canada and the United States. Each annual conference has sessions at which papers span a wide range of academic disciplines, usually including anthropology, geography, history, literature, culture, politics, religion and sociology. The Conferences are focussed around regular themes such as literature, gender, slavery and emancipation, but also include special sessions which commemorate important anniversaries in Caribbean history or consider major contemporary problems.
In the past the Conference has been addressed by distinguished guest speakers; these have included CLR James, Sir S Ramphal, George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Sidney Mintz, Lucille Mathurin Mair and Ken Ramchand.
It has become a Conference tradition to have a rum punch party and often a cultural event such as a poetry reading or film showing. The conference also has exhibitions by the major publishers and the smaller presses and bookshops specialising in the region.
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