An interdisciplinary research seminar on the Caribbean and its diaspora, in association with the Society for Caribbean Studies
Supported by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA) and the Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester.
Friday, 6th October 2006, 1.30 pm - 6.00 pm
The Manchester Museum
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Seminar Programme: Caribbean Visual
Culture
12:30 - 1:00
Registration and Welcome
1:00 - 2:00
Laurence Brown, University of Manchester;
"A Visual History of Emancipation in the French Caribbean".
Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire; "Abolition and Memorialisation: The Local and Global Politics of a Black British Artist's Response"
2:00 - 2:15 Coffee
2:15 - 3:15
Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University
of Essex; "Encountering the Visual: Stradanus Revisited".
Leon Wainwright, Manchester Metropolitan University; "Notes towards Caribbean visual analysis."
3:15 - 3:30 Coffee
3:30 - 4:30
Plenary
Session: Christopher Cozier, Artist and writer
based in Trinidad
For further information please contact, Dr Christer Petley, School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University