Past Events

Book Talk and Discussion

Joint event with YPCCs and the Global History and Culture Centre 17 October, by Jonathan Connolly, University of Illinois, Chicago:

Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labour in the Era of Emancipation (2024)

Annual Walter Rodney Lecture, 29 October

Professor Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths)

‘Without limits: Walter Rodney’s radical Caribbean “groundings” and its continuities within diasporic practices, including the arts’

Research seminar, 26 November

'Intellectual Gaslighting: Mapping the Decolonial Erasures and Recovery of Global Black Geographies in Europe'.

Dr Agostinho Pinnock, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway.

Research seminar, 21 January

Dr Elizabeth Egan and Dr Anna Neima (University of Warwick) will hold a discussion on ‘Whiteness in the Caribbean: Histories, Cultures, Politics'.

Panel discussion, 4 March

Public History and the Caribbean

Prof. Katherine Astbury (consultant for ‘War and Resistance in the Caribbean: The Monuments at St Paul’s Cathedral’)

Maureen Cottle (curator of ‘Black in the Day’ at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum and ‘Britain Needs You’ at Belgrade Theatre)

Lily Crowther (curator of ‘Leamington Spa and the Black Atlantic’ at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum)

Research seminar, 14 November, by PhD candidate, (SMLC), Abigail Coppins
Linked to her thesis on ‘Women and Children from the Caribbean inside the prisoner-of war prisons of Portchester and Forton Castle, 1793-1815.
Research seminar, 26 November: ‘Intellectual Gaslighting: Mapping the Decolonial Erasures and Recovery of Global Black Geographies in Europe’ with Dr Agostinho Pinnock (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Research seminar, 21 January: ‘Whiteness in the Caribbean: Histories, Cultures, Politics' with Dr Elizabeth Egan and Dr Anna Neima (University of Warwick)
Research seminar, 21 February – Dr Joanne Norcup Associate Fellow, YPCCS

‘The life and legacies of the Caribbean Photography of Harry Hamilton Johnston.’
Annual Walter Rodney lecture, 12 March, presented by Dr Fabienne Kanor
Society for Caribbean Postgraduate conference – 18^th – 19^th April 2024
Annual Ameena Gafoor lecture, May, presented by H. E. Hon President Donald Ramotar on ‘Cheddi Jagan: Developmentalist and Political Visionary’.