The Drum Intercultural Arts Centre, Birmingham, 1-3 July 2015
The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the themes outlined below.… read on ...
A7, Pathfoot Building,
University of Stirling, FK9 4LA
Programme
13:00-13:30 Registration and tea/coffee
13:30-14:20
Bill Marshall (Stirling)
Speaking and Dancing in Cayenne
14:20-15:10
Silvia Espelt Bombín (St Andrews)
Frontier Alliances and Rebellions: Indigenous people and Europeans in French Guiana and Brazil (Amapá state), 17th-18th Centuries
15:10-15:40 tea/coffee
15:40-16:30
Karen Salt (Aberdeen)
All Hail the Queen: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and the Power of Recognition in the 19th-Century Atlantic World
16:30-17:20
Vahni Capildeo (Cambridge) and Kei Miller (Royal Holloway)
Poetry reading and conversationSpeakers Bill Marshall is Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling.
On behalf of the Committee of the Society for Caribbean Studies, I would like to thank all delegates for their contributions to a successful conference.