{"id":1308,"date":"2017-05-13T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2017-06-07T15:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:38:28","slug":"bridget-jones-award-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/bridget-jones-award-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Jones Award 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1309\" src=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaa-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaa-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaa.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Recipient of Bridget Jones Travel Award Jean Philippe Moiseau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recipient of the 2017 Bridget Jones Travel Award is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moiseau-art.com\/welcome\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Philippe Moiseau<\/a> from the Dominican Republic. He will be coming to the 41st Annual Conference for the Society for Caribbean Studies at the University of Essex to make his presentation on &#8220;<em>Grann Brijit: Unmasking Haitian Vodou<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Moiseau \u201c<em>could certain episodes in Haiti\u2019s history have given rise to clich\u00e9s surrounding Vodou? Persecuted in Haiti, Vodouisants saw vodou banned, faced anti-superstition campaigns and were forced to convert to Christianity. Vodou has been distorted in the mass media and portrayed as evil<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His presentation aims to interrogate these commonplaces, by depicting an alternative take on Vodou and underscoring its continued relevance for Haiti today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Audley Chambers,<\/em> Chair Bridget Jones Award Committee<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1311\" src=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/73.jpg 650w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/73-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipient of Bridget Jones Travel Award Jean Philippe Moiseau The recipient of the 2017 Bridget Jones Travel Award is Jean<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/bridget-jones-award-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bridget Jones Award 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}