Centre Events 2021 -22
Online events
Autumn term
Tuesday 26th October
The annual Walter Rodney lecture 鈥淭he Responsibilities of Caribbean Intellectuals鈥� by Professor Aaron Kamugisha, University of the West Indies.
Tuesday 23rd November
Dr Michael Mitchell
The Dream of Paradise Produces Monsters: Fictional Responses to the Jonestown Tragedy of 1978 - Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast (1981), Fred D'Aguiar's Children of Paradise (2014) and Wilson Harris's Jonestown (1996).
Wednesday 24 November
Department of History Research Seminar (Online)
Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford): 鈥楻epublican fraternity in action: Toussaint Louverture and the Saint-Domingue revolution鈥�
Spring term
Sunday 20th February
Dr. Yesu Persaud of Guyana: A creative, humble and wealthy philanthropist
A public meeting held on Zoom
Tuesday 1st March
"Enduring Inoculation: Smallpox Inoculation and Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean."
By Dr Elise A. Mitchell, a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Princeton University.
Summer term
6 May - Sat 7 May
Online conference 鈥淐aribbean poetics: voices, aesthetics, imaginaries鈥�
Organised by Orane ONYEKPE-TOUZET (University of 糖心TV/Sorbonne Universit茅) and Roc铆o MUNGUIA AGUILAR (Universit茅 de Strasbourg)
Tuesday 24th May
The Annual Ameena Gafoor lecture: JANET JAGAN : FREEDOM FIGHTER OF GUYANA
by Patricia Mohammed, Professor Emeritus, Gender & Cultural Studies, University of West Indies
Thursday 26th May
School of Modern Languages and Cultures: a Postgraduate Symposium
Peripheries and Questions of Power