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 30 January 2009, 1:45 - 5:30 pm
Club Room, CCA: The Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
1:45 Introduction and announcements
2:00 Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow).
“The coward slave we pass him by”: Burns and Slavery Revisited
2:45 Pat Noxolo and Marika Preziuso (Loughborough University)
Wilson Harris and Maryse Condé: Language in Translation
3:30 Tea and coffee break.
4:00 Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary, University of London)
Volcanic Blackness: C. L. R. James and Aimé Césaire
4:45 Leah Gordon will present her documentary film Atis-Rezistans: The Sculptors of Grand Rue.
5:45 Seminar closes and dinner (optional).
For further information, to book a place at the seminar and for dinner at a local restaurant, please contact: Alasdair Pettinger via email at alasdair@bulldozia.com
For details of the venue see www.cca-glasgow.com
For map see http://bit.ly/16WJL
Registration 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 Henrice Altink ha501@york.ac.uk stating your topic and giving the name and email address of your supervisor. We may contact your supervisor to confirm your status.
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Last updated 7 January 2009