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Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies

Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies

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The Centre for Caribbean Studies was established in October 1984 with assistance from the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation. It was the first such Centre in the UK to recognise the significance of the Caribbean region and its historically interdependent linkages with the UK and the world. Its principal aim is to stimulate teaching and research on the Caribbean. It also encourages the study of the Caribbean in an Atlantic context, emphasising African, North and South American, Asian and European influences from a comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. Additionally, it serves as a national forum for individuals and organisations with an interest in and concern for the diaspora as well as those countries bordering the Caribbean.

In 2010 on its 25th anniversary, the Centre was re-named the Yesu Persaud Link opens in a new windowCentre for Caribbean Studies in honour of the Guyanese philanthropist and businessman and in recognition of his long association with and support for the Centre, which has grown to become one of Europe’s leading institutions for Caribbean scholarship.

The current director of the Centre is Professor Ben Richardson.Link opens in a new window

Latest News

9TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES 2024

Date: Thursday 18th April- Friday 19th April 2024

Venue: University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, CV4 7AL

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Friday 15th December 2023

The Society for Caribbean Studies’ Postgraduate Network invites submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words for research papers or posters on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas, for its annual postgraduate conference. We welcome abstracts from postgraduates at various academic disciplines and stages of their degree, whose research concerns any aspect of Caribbean Studies.

There is still time to send abstracts for the 2024 PG conference to be held at the University of Warwick @SocCaribbean

This is a friendly and productive space for postgrads to share research... community-languages.org.uk/scs/call-for-pLink opens in a new window

Annual Walter Rodney Lecture, 2022

Last year's annual Walter Rodney lecture given by Professor Sasha Turner, Coming to Grips with Caribbean History: Sources and Production, was the Centre's first in person event since the Pandemic.

Sasha Turner is the author of the multi award winning Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica and is associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

Please see this page on our website for a recording of the lecture:

The Walter Rodney Lecture (warwick.ac.uk) 


Recent Talks

For a recording of a recent talk by Dr Steve Puig, please see this link

Caribbean Centre talk by Dr Stève Puig_ Haiti and Congo_ transatlantic solidarity in Youssoupha’s rap-20230215_170527-Meeting Recording.mp4

Events

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