The 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
University of Lancaster, UK
Thursday 1st - Saturday 3rd July, 2004
The Society seeks one-page abstracts, accompanied by a one-page CV, by January 10th 2004 for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglo-Caribbean, and Caribbean disaporas. Papers can address the following themes, but we also welcome abstracts for papers, or full panel proposals, that fall outside the list of topics below. Authors of papers selected for the conference will be invited to give 20 minute presentations of their papers and offered the opportunity to publish their full papers on the society's web site.
2004 marks the 200th anniversary of Haitian independence. We particularly welcome papers that reflect on the relevance of this anniversary to their subject.
PROVISIONAL PANELS
200 Years of Haitian Independence
Teaching Caribbean Pasts and Presents: A Roundtable
Caribbean Thought and Theory
Caribbean Sexualities
Memory, Heritage, and Public History
The Caribbean and Revolution
Sustainable Development, Appropriate Technologies, Informal
Economies
The North-West of England and the Caribbean
Caribbean Cities in and beyond the region
Class Formation and Class Relations
Visualizing the Caribbean: Film, Performance and the Visual Arts
Religion and Spirituality
From Emancipation to Freedom?
Narcotics and their Social Impact
The Society will provide a limited number of bursaries to postgraduate presenters, which will contribute to registration and accommodation costs, but not travel costs. Postgraduate presenters should indicate that they are seeking a bursary when they submit their abstracts. Arts researchers/ practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Travel Bursary, the deadline for which is 1 December 2003.
Please send abstracts to, or seek further general information from, the Chair of the SCS, Mimi Sheller. For more information on the Bridget Jones Travel Bursary, contact Leon Wainwright.
Dr Mimi Sheller
Dept. of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 47F
m.sheller@lancaster.ac.uk
Leon Wainwright
History of Art
School of Cultural and Community Studies
University of Sussex
Essex House, Falmer
Brighton BN1 9RH
L.R.Wainwright@sussex.ac.uk
For more information on the SCS see
http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/carib.htm
Diana Paton
Lecturer in History
School of Historical Studies
Armstrong Building
University of Newcastle
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
Phone: (44) 191 222 5038
Fax: (44) 191 222 6484
diana.paton@ncl.ac.uk