Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies Seminars - Autumn 2010

University of Warwick

YESU PERSAUD CENTRE FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Seminars - Autumn 2010

Tuesday, 12th October 2010
Donald Barnard
"Metaphor and the Use of Puns in Derek Walcott's Omeros"
5.00pm
Venue: Humanities H0.44


Tuesday, 26th October 2010
Maya Jaggi (The Guardian)
“The British Media and the Caribbean”
5.00pm
Venue: Humanities H0.52
(reception following)


Tuesday 16th November 2010
In conjunction with the Early Modern Seminar Leslie Theibert (Yale) “Smugglers and Privateers: Competing Imperial Ideologies in Later Seventeenth Century Jamaica.”
5.00pm
Venue: Humanities H3.03


Tuesday, 23rd November 2010
Leah Gordon
"Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti”
(followed by book sale/signing)
5.00pm
Venue: Humanities H0.52

Tuesday 7th December 2010
In association with the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Leverhulme Foundation Laura Doyle (University of Masachusetts, Amherst) “Between Cores: Cultural Dialectics in a Wider Historical Frame”
5.00pm
Venue: Milburn House, Institute of Advanced Studies. Reception following

All Welcome

For further details please contact Kerry Drakeley at k.j.drakeley@warwick.ac.uk