Friday 21 May 2010

Regitration open - Society for Caribberan Studies Conference

34th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies



University of Southampton


Wednesday 7th July - Friday 9th July 2010
 
Registration is now open for the 2010 Society for Caribbean Studies conference, this year taking place in Southampton.
Panels include: Writing Windrush; Health and Social Policy; the Caribbean in the UK; Regional Integration; Post-War Politics and Development; Performance; Oral Histories; Education; Migration; Material Culture and Archaeology; Literature and Imagining Caribbean Identities. All in all, a wide range of topics and perspectives will be included, as well as the usual social events, included the famed Rum Punch Reception.
 
The Comonwealth Studies Librarian has convened and will be speaking as part of the following panel:
 
Libraries and Archives


Mandy Banton (Institute for Commonwealth Studies), ‘Records relating to the Caribbean in The National Archives of the United Kingdom’

David Clover (Institute for Commonwealth Studies), ‘The West India Committee Library – The Development, Management and Legacy of a Private Association Collection’

Elizabeth Cooper (British Library), ‘The Caribbean Digitisation Project at the British Library’

Kristy Warren (University of Warwick) ‘The Colonial Archive and the formation of a ‘national’ narrative in the British Oversees Territory of Bermuda’

A full programme and registration can be found at:http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/

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