Past Events
2015-16
Tuesday 26th April, Dr Aaron Kamugisha ( University of the West Indies)
‘Caribbean Racial States: Creolisation and Racism in the Anglophone Caribbean’
Wednesday 27th April
Dr Aaron Kamugisha ( University of the West Indies)
‘Caribbean Cultural and Political Thought: A Workshop’
Tuesday 3rd May, Dr Dominique Rogers, (Université des Antilles)
‘Free people of colour in the French Caribbean during the early modern period: old and new perspectives’
Tuesday 2nd February, Dr Parvati Kumaraswani ( University of Reading)
'Beyond Havana: Literary Culture in the periphery of the periphery'
Tuesday, 1st March, Dr Jean Pierre Le Glaunec ( University of Sherbrooke)
‘Vertières, Haiti, November 18 1803: History and Memory of a Non-Event’
Annual Walter Rodney Lecture
Tuesday 27th October, 2015 Professor Vincent Brown, Harvard University:
Designing Histories of Slavery in the Database Age.
Tuesday 17th November: Professor Manuel Covo, University of Warwick
The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, the United States and Commercial Republicanism
Friday, 27th November:
'Inimitable Painting': The Work of Stanley Greaves and Wilson Harris
– a one day symposium inspired by Greaves’ new series of paintings, Dialogue with Wilson Harris, featuring talks by Gemma Robinson and Leon Wainwright. For more details, contact Mike Niblett, M.Niblett@warwick.ac.uk
Tuesday, 1st December: Professor Patricia Stuelke (Dartmouth):
Acoustic Adjustments: The Noriega Playlist and the Neoliberal Makeover of Panama
Tuesday 8th December: Professor Gad Heuman, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick.
Gender and Protest at Morant Bay and in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean
2014-15
2013-14
2012-13
18 October - Perry Gauci (Oxford University) presented a paper on ‘An Empire of Liberty: the Spanish Town Affair 1754-8’. This seminar was jointly hosted with the 18th Century Centre.
25 October - Lawrence Scott was in conversation and reading from his new novel, Light Falling on Bamboo.
22 November - Thomas Glave gave a talk, 'Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood'. This event was jointly hosted with Hispanic Studies.
4 December - Colin Babb talked about his latest book, They Gave the Crowd Plenty Fun: West Indian Cricket and its Relationship with the British-resident Caribbean Diaspora.
5 February - Mike Niblett (YPPCS Postdoctoral Fellow) presented a paper on ‘Oil on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics’.
5 March - Selwyn Cudjoe (Wellesley College) presented a paper on ‘Ignorant Negroes, Tyrannical Masters: William H. Burnley and the Caribbean
Slave Experience’.
30 April - Cassandra Pybus (Sydney/KCL) visited the Centre, where she met with staff and students.
22 April-4 May - Malik Ferdinand (Université Antilles-Guyane) was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre from 22 April to 4 May.
3 May - a one-day symposium, 'Islands Unchained: Commodity Frontiers, Food Regimes, and Archipelic Aesthetics', on Caribbean literature and the environment was organised by Mike Niblett and Chris Campbell.
7 May - Angel Quintero Rivera (University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras) presnted a paper on 'Afro Latin American Cultural Studies and Music, Bringing together Social Sciences and Humanities'. This event was jointly hosted with Hispanic Studies.
3-5 May - Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference.
Previous Years
Leah Gordon "Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti”
Colin Grant - I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer