Events 2019-20
Autumn Term
Wednesday 23 October
'Apocalypse now? Climate violence and sacrifice in and for the Caribbean'
Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins
(YPCCS and Global Sustainable Development, University of 糖心TV)
This David Nicholls Memorial Trust Annual Lecture was held at Regent鈥檚 Park College, Oxford.
Annual Walter Rodney lecture, October 2019
Dr Patricia Rodney, CEO of The Walter Rodney Foundation.
Living with a Legacy: My journey with Walter Rodney
Dr Rodney is CEO of The Walter Rodney Foundation (WRF) established by the Rodney Family in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr Rodney is also the CEO of Partners in Health, Education and Development (PHEAD), an international consultancy. She has worked in Ghana, Nigeria,Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa.
As a seasoned public health professional, her career spans the disciplines of health,adult education and literacy, social work and women, gender and development. Dr. Rodney is the author of The Caribbean State, Health Care and Women: An Analysis of Barbados and Grenada 1979-1983, Africa World Press, 1998 and has published
several academic articles. Dr. Rodney is currently an Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine.
Thursday 31st October
鈥楾he Austerities of Independence: Human Rights and National Development Planning in Jamaica, 1955-1962鈥�
Steven L.B. Jensen (The Danish Institute for Human Rights)
A joint event with Comparative American Studies
Thursday 21st November
Dr Claire Westall (University of York)
鈥楽tyle as Substance: C.L.R James, Earl Lovelace and Cricket鈥檚 Creative Freedom鈥�
Thursday 28 November
Dr Ed Holberton (University of Bristol),
'Law, Liberty and Lyric in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic: Martha Fowke Sansom鈥檚 Poetry in The Barbados Gazette鈥�
This presentation & discussion is a joint event with the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre
Spring Term
Tuesday 28 January
Dr Kristy Warren (University of Leicester),
鈥楾racing Commemorations of Colonial Settlement in Bermuda鈥�
Presentation by Zak Ov茅
18th February
Ov茅 is a British-Trinidadian visual artist whose work is showcased internationally in several museums in Europe and the USA. His sculpture 鈥楳oko Jumbie鈥� was the first Caribbean artwork to enter the permanent collection of the British Museum in 2015.