This conference takes place from Monday 27 June until Wednesday 29 June 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London and is hosted by the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies.

The conference aims to challenge the limited visibility of Caribbean and Diaspora Studies in many higher education institutions and to interrogate the ways in which the precarious presence/ absence of indigenised black thought, currently being highlighted primarily through protest within, for example, higher education culture in countries like the UK, might be transformed.… read on ...

The 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies was held at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Newcastle University on 6-8 July 2016.

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In association with the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS), and the Leverhulme-funded network ‘Caribbean In/securities and Creativity’ (CIC)
The Postgraduate Caribbean Network invite you to
A Postgraduate Conference on Caribbean Insecurities and Creativity. 
It will take place on 23 May 2016, in LC-UG09, at the University of Birmingham, UK

Programme

9.00 Coffee and arrivals

9.30 Welcome by Laetitia Saint-Loubert (University of Warwick; SCS Postgraduate representative) and Pat Noxolo (University of Birmingham; SCS Chair and CARISCC Principal Investigator)

9.45 Keynote panel

Kevon Rhiney, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus: Vulnerability, resilience and livelihood in/securities to global change in Jamaica’s agriculture sector

Ron Cummings, Brock University: Colonial Encounters and Maroon In/Securities: Caribbean Literary Narratives

11.00 Break

11.15 Panel: In/secure livelihoods

Rachel-Ann Charles, Birmingham City University: Examining creative solutions to employment insecurities in Trinidad and Tobago through the use of ‘community media projects’

Sarah Peck, University of Sheffield: ‘We have to be creative’: NGO financing in insecure times

Mya Owen, University of St Andrews: Terrorism: a ‘creative’ solution to social insecurity?… read on ...