2016-17

Term 1

Tuesday 25th October, 5.15pm, Room R0.03/04, Ramphal building, Annual Walter Rodney Lecture,

Professor Shalini Puri (University of Pittsburgh)

‘Memory-work and the Grenada Revolution: A love letter from the humanities’

Drinks reception to follow

Tuesday 22nd November, 5.15pm, Room R3.41, Ramphal building

Dr Karen Wilkes (Birmingham City University)

‘The visual culture of the Caribbean wedding in the (post)colonial, neoliberal economy’

Term 2

Thursday 26th January , 5pm, H3.03, Humanities Building

The Ends of Elegy: Slavery and Death in the Atlantic World

Dr Andrea Haslanger

(University of Sussex)

Joint seminar organised by the Eighteenth Century Centre and the Early Modern Forum

Tuesday 31st January, 5.15pm, Room H1.03, Humanities building

Dr Alice Samson (University of Leicester)

‘The origins of Caribbean creole religions: Early colonial dynamics on Mona Island’

Wednesday 1st February, 5pm, Room S0.11, Social Sciences building

Dr Shirley Anne Tate (Leeds University)

‘The Problematics of Caribbean Whiteness’

This is a joint seminar with the Department of Sociology

Tuesday 21st February, 5.15pm, Room OC0.05, The Oculus building

Marc Wadsworth, ‘Divided by Race, United in War and Peace’

Term 3

Wednesday 10th May, Dr Julia Prest, (St Andrews). This is a joint seminar with the Department of French. Further details TBC.