An International Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: 1-4 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG
Date: 11-13 July 2016

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Winston James, University of California
Associate Professor Rhonda Williams, Case Western University

Conference aims:
American Networks: Radicals Under the Radar aims to challenge dominant narratives of artistic and political collaboration by investigating networks in the Americas which are often submerged ‘under the radar’ of conventional scholarship.… read on ...

in association with the Society for Caribbean Studies

Room A214, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
Friday, 20 May 2016

SCHEDULE
12:45 – 1:15pm Registration
1:15 – 1:30pm Welcome and introductions
1:30 – 2:45pm “The State of the Field: The Black Atlantic Paradigm Today” (Manuel Barcia Paz [Leeds] and Fionnghuala Sweeney [Newcastle])
2:45 – 3:15pm Break and coffee/tea
3:15 – 4:00pm “Sense of Place and Disasters: Urban Poor Adaptation to Climate Change in the Dominican Republic” (Holly Schofield [Manchester])
4:00 – 4:45pm “A Marginal Conflict: France and the Surinamese Interior War, 1986-1992” (Sarah Wood [York])
4:45 – 5:00pm Wrap-up

A reservation will be made at a reasonably priced local restaurant for those wishing to attend dinner after the seminar.… read on ...

The second session of the Caribbean Reading Group, which will be held at the University of Birmingham at 12-1pm on Friday 26th February. We have provisionally booked a seminar room at Westmere House (G15 on the campus map) but will confirm the venue nearer the time as it may have to change.… read on ...