2012 - 13 Events
Seminar Series
鈥淏ageye at the Wheel鈥� by Colin Grant
17th May 2012
Colin Grant is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is the author of Negro with a Hat, a biography of Marcus Garvey; I&I: the Natural Mystics, a group biography of the original Wailers, Marley, Tosh and Livingston, which has been hailed as one of the best music books of 2011. 鈥淏ageye at the Wheel鈥� is his latest book – A compassionate but unsentimental tale rich in comic observation, of growing up in a provincial town of immigrants – Irish, Asian and Caribbean – rubbing along amicably and sometimes not so amicably with their English hosts, before the rise of the EDL.
For more information, including links to book reviews, please see Colin鈥檚 website at
Autumn Term
18 October - Perry Gauci (Oxford University) presented a paper on 鈥楢n Empire of Liberty: the Spanish Town Affair 1754-8鈥�. This seminar was jointly hosted with the 18th Century Centre.
25 October - Lawrence Scott was in conversation and reading from his new novel, Light Falling on Bamboo.
30 October - .
22 November - . This event was jointly hosted with Hispanic Studies.
4 December - talked about his latest book, They Gave the Crowd Plenty Fun: West Indian Cricket and its Relationship with the British-resident Caribbean Diaspora.
Spring Term
5 February - Mike Niblett (YPPCS Postdoctoral Fellow) presented a paper on 鈥極il on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics鈥�.
5 March - Selwyn Cudjoe (Wellesley College) presented a paper on 鈥業gnorant Negroes, Tyrannical Masters: William H. Burnley and the Caribbean
Slave Experience鈥�.
Summer Term
30 April - Cassandra Pybus (Sydney/KCL) visited the Centre, where she met with staff and students.
22 April-4 May - .
3 May - a one-day symposium, 'Islands Unchained: Commodity Frontiers, Food Regimes, and Archipelic Aesthetics', on Caribbean literature and the environment was organised by and .
7 May - Angel Quintero Rivera (University of Puerto Rico R铆o Piedras) presnted a paper on 'Afro Latin American Cultural Studies and Music, Bringing together Social Sciences and Humanities'. This event was jointly hosted with Hispanic Studies.
3-5 May - Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference.