CLACS – Caribbean Studies Seminars Autumn 2025

 

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)

CFP LIVE – 11th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Postgraduate Conference

We are delighted to announce that Call for Papers for the 11th annual Society for Caribbean Studies Postgraduate Conference is now live!

The Society for Caribbean Studies’ Postgraduate Network invites submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words for research papers or posters on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch, and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas, for its annual postgraduate conference.… read on ...

British Library Doctoral Open Days

The British Library offer an annual programme of Doctoral Open Days to current and prospective research students and other researchers. These are designed for those new to their collections and offer introduction to the practicalities of using the Library and help in navigating its physical and online collections. The series begins with a webinar to introduce attendees to the British Library, show them how to access collections and share details of other researcher development opportunities, including the PhD Placement Scheme and fellowship opportunities.
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