Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies

Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2024

Given by Joan Anim-Addo (front) with Centre staff
Annual Walter Rodney lecture

Professor Verene Shepherd gave the annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2014
Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2015

Professor Vincent Brown with Fabienne Viala, former director of the Centre
Saint Michael, Barbados

Beach rum shack

(Photo credit: Dr Joanne Norcup, associate fellow)
Belize, Central America
Visiting fellow 2026

Dr Angus Martin (far left) at a round table event.
Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2018

Speaker Carole Boyce Davies with Professor David Lambert
Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2018

Given by Carole Boyce Davies

About Us

The Centre for Caribbean Studies was established in 1984 as one of the first research centres in the UK dedicated to the region. It encourages study of the Caribbean from a comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective through academic events, fellowships and research projects.

Bussa emancipation statue, Barbados. c_Joanne Norcup

In 2010 it was renamed the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies in honour of the support given by the Guyanese philanthropist and businessman.

The current Director of the Centre is Dr Camillia Cowling.

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News

Professor Thomas Glave gave a talk recently on his new book 'En Pointe, Off Kilter.'

Professor Thomas Glave at his recent book launch.

En Pointe, Off-Kilter presents a powerful new collection of essays from Thomas Glave, seamlessly blending the geopolitical with deeply felt personal reflections on his own experiences of grief and loss. Expanding on his previous work, Glave delivers striking meditations on race, British colonialism, Jamaican queer history, and trans-Atlantic slavery. Written in highly evocative, lyrical prose, this collection offers a necessary, multi-layered journey through human rights, social justice, the African diaspora, and the role of the writer-activist.

Events

Tue 17 Nov '26

5pm - 6:30pm:

"The De-Judaization of Caribbean Trade and the Making of a British Imperial Nation in the 17th Century "Talk by Daniel Rood, Associate Professor, University of Georgia

Tue 02 Mar '27

5:15pm - 7pm:

Annual Walter Rodney lecture: Professor Alejandro de la Fuente, Havard University: 'Their “exquisite works”: Rewriting the Art History of Cuba'

Wed 19 May '27

2pm - 3:30pm:

Reparative Memory / Remembering and Forgetting

Funding

The Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies provides two sources of funding:

Gad Heuman postgraduate travel bursary- available every year to support substantive research in the Caribbean by PGT and PGR students at the Warwick University up to £2,000
Caribbean Studies Visiting Fellowship- available to support a post-doctoral researcher or established academic currently based in the Caribbean who wishes to spend a short period at Warwick University with a Warwick-based academic, up to £4,000

Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2024

Annual Walter Rodney lecture

Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2015

Saint Michael, Barbados

Belize, Central America

Visiting fellow 2026

Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 2018