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The Department is pleased to welcome Debjani Ganguly from the Australian National University as the speaker for the last of its regular research seminars this term. The title for the talk is “What is the ‘World’ in World Literature?”

Seminar/Discussion of 'Hybrid Atlantics'

Hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies

HRC and CHM: Internal

An exclusive screening of the 1974 Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Awakenings’, exploring the remarkable experiences of a group of encephalitic patients who ‘slept’ from the 1920s until they were re-awakened with L-DOPA therapy by Oliver Sacks in 1969.

Professor Sacks will introduce the documentary and lead a post screening discussion.

Date: 13 March 2013
Location: Ramphal 1.04
Time: 3pm-5pm

HRC and CHM: Internal

An exclusive screening of the 1974 Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Awakenings’, exploring the remarkable experiences of a group of encephalitic patients who ‘slept’ from the 1920s until they were re-awakened with L-DOPA therapy by Oliver Sacks in 1969.

Professor Sacks will introduce the documentary and lead a post screening discussion.

Date: 13 March 2013
Location: Ramphal 1.04
Time: 3pm-5pm

Oonya Kempadoo, novelist and social development researcher, will be reading from her fiction and discussing her latest work on Caribbean environments.

Oonya has worked for most of her life in various Caribbean islands and currently lives in Grenada. Her first novel, Buxton Spice (1998), was long-listed for the UK Orange Prize; her second novel, Tide Running, won a Casa De Las Americas 2002 prize. She was named a “Great Talent for the 21st Century” by the Orange Prize judges and both books were nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards. Oonya has worked with UNICEF and UNAIDS as a consultant and researcher. Her next novel, All Decent Animals, will be published in spring 2013 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

This event is free and open to all. For further information contact Michael Niblett (m.niblett@warwick.ac.uk) or Chris Campbell (c.campbell.1@warwick.ac.uk)

Chair: Alice Brooke (Comparative American Studies)

Hosted by the Americas Seminar