27 September, University of York, Berrick Saul Building.
13:30-14:00 registration and coffee/tea
14:00-14:45 Dr Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds), ‘West African warfare in Bahia and Cuba in the first half of the 19th century’
14:45-15:30 Claire Irving (University of Newcastle), ‘Finding a Voice: West Indian Literary Magazines in the early 20th century’
15:30-16:00 Tea and coffee
16:00-16:45 David Jones (University of York), ‘ “The contemplation of human nature, under its various modifications”: Organic Constitutionalism and the Problem of Union in post-independence Spanish America’
16:45-17:30 Professor Patience Schell (University of Aberdeen), ‘Cultivating Natural History in Nineteenth-Century Chile’

Registration is free.… read on ...

Sepember 19, 2013 9:30 am – 7 pm

UCL – Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) proudly hosts this international conference, with keynotes by Professors Norman Girvan and Brian Meeks (both University of West Indies).

This conference seeks to address the urgent need for an expanded and updated analysis of the experience of Westminster in the Caribbean.… read on ...

Monday 16 September 2013

Mary Turner was a leading scholar of Caribbean slavery and its interface with wage labour and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies for many years. Previously she had been professor of history at Dalhousie University in Canada. In London she did much to widen and deepen the scope of the Caribbean Societies Seminar.… read on ...