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Building Bridges in Caribbean Scholarship: Reflections on the SCS Conference 2025 – Andel Andrew

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(The Caribbean Student Bursary Andel received to attend the annual SCS Conference was funded by the Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio. Additional support for the British Library Fellowship was funded by the Eccles Institute)

I am humbled, happy, and deeply grateful to have been awarded a bursary as one of the postgraduate students to attend the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) Conference held in July 2025.… read on ...

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Festival of Black History – 6 September 2025

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Festival of Black History

Don’t just learn history, experience it. Make it.

Join us on Saturday 6th September 2025 at Goldsmiths, University of London for an unmissable Festival of Black History, a one-day celebration of history making in the Black community by academics, history and heritage experts, activists, artists and performers.

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CLACS – Caribbean Studies Seminars Autumn 2025

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The Autumn programme for the CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminars is now live!

23 September 2025
The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s (Andrew Williams, University of the West Indies, Mona)

21 October 2025
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity (Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development)

25 November 2025
“The Youth Ambassadors of our Country”: Little League Baseball and Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao (Jan Bant, Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Curaçao)

9 December 2025
Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean (Catie Peters, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture)