Wednesday 11 January 2012

Conference: Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts

Conference: Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts


Friday 10 February 2012
Institute for the Study of the Americas, Room 349, 3rd Floor, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU

Entrance to the conference is free but please RSVP to olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Programme:

10.00 Welcome

10.15 Opening Address
H.E. Anthony Johnson, Jamaican High Commissioner in London

11.00 Break

11.15 Panel One
Andrew Okola: Jamaican Politics Today
Steven Wilson: Jamaica and Caribbean Integration: Did One from Ten leave Nought?

12.15 Panel Two
Amanda Sives: Reconstructing Citizenship: From Empire to Nation to Diaspora Karen Hunte: The Britain that Jamaica made

13.15 Lunch

14.00 Panel Three
Jean Besson: Maroons, Free Villagers and ‘Squatters’ in the Development of Independent Jamaica David Howard: Informality, security and neighbourhood development in downtown Kingston David Dodman: Caribbean environments in the post-colonial era: resources, risk(s) and responses

15.30 Break

16.00 Keynote Address
Professor Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

17.00 Close and drinks

Funded by the Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean

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