JISLAC: Joint initiative for the study of Latin Ameria and the Caribbean

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