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 3rd October 2008, 12.30 pm 17.30 pm
Hosted by the Department of History of the University of York
Kings Manor Campus,Room KG07 [12.30pm-17.30pm]
12.30 LUNCH
13.30-13.45
Introduction and Announcements
13.45-14.30
Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Amherst College, U.S.), ‘For Edward: The death of the father in Kamau Brathwaite’s Barbajan poems’
14.30-15.15
Christian Hogsberg (University of York), C.L.R. James and the labour rebellions of the 1930s in the British Caribbean
15.15-15.45
Coffee & Tea Break
15.45-16.30
Shirley Tate (University of Leeds), ‘Creolising Europe?: Black beauty and feminist knowledge’
16.30-17.15Sharon Meredith,'Music and Diaspora: Celtic traditions in the Caribbean’.
17.30 Conference Closes & Dinner (optional)
For further information, how to get to the King’s Manor, to register for the seminar, and to book a place for dinner at a local restaurant, please contact:
Dr. Henrice Altink
Dept. of History
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
Ha501@york.ac.uk
01904-432989
Registration (including lunch) is free. A limited number of bursaries to cover the costs of travel within the UK are available for postgraduate students attending this event. To apply, please email Diana Paton Diana.paton@ncl.ac.uk
Funded by JISLAC