Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diasporas, in association with the Society for
Caribbean Studies
Friday 10th September 2010, 12.30 pm 17.00 pm
Leeds Metropolitan University
Room Number: RB 408, The Rose Bowl
City Campus, Portland Crescent
Programme
12:30 – 1.00 Registration and Welcome
1.00 – 2.45 Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Metropolitan University & Jenny Zobel, York St John University
'Lorsque je Vais dans mon Village (When I return to my Village): Zobel's Visions of Home and Exile'.
Sarah Lawson Welsh, York St John University
‘Feeding, Feasting, Fasting: The Role of Food in Caribbean Literature'.
2.45 – 3.15 Coffee
3.15 – 4.00 John McLeod, University of Leeds
'English Somewheres: Caryl Phillips's North'.
4.00-5.00 Menelik Shabazz, Director/Screenwriter (Burning an Illusion, 1981, Time and Judgment, 1988)
Screening of BBC documentary CATCH A FIRE (1995) which tells the story of Paul Bogle and the Morant Bay rebellion (1865) followed by a discussion of its legacy.
Dinner @ Japanese Restaurant Little Tokyo
For further details, please contact:
Emily Zobel Marshall, A216
Broadcasting Place
Civic Quarter, 0113 812 0000, Ext: 24964
e.marshall@leedsmet.ac.uk
Location maps and travel directions are available at:
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/metoffice/estateservices/090616_Campus_Maps_and_Directions_Jun_09.pdf
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/metoffice/estateservices/transport/
Registration is free.
Funded by JISLAC
