HRC Events Calendar

Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies

Annual Walter Rodney Lecture:

Writer and scholar, Joan Anim-Addo is currently Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies at Goldsmiths

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

Tuesday 29^th October, 5.15pm

Joan Anim-Addo is a writer and scholar. Her publications include

histories, poetry, the libretto, Imoinda, and literary criticism. Currently Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies at Goldsmiths, she is the UK’s first Black Professor of Literature. She is a current Leverhulme Research Fellow. Her most recent publication is This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books (co-written). She is Editor of Blacklines, the magazine of Black British Writing, and editor in Chief of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing (forthcoming).