Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
In association with the Society for Caribbean Studies
Friday 6 March, 2015
Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation
University of Hull
Oriel Chambers
27 High Street
Hull HU1 1NE
Programme
12.30-13:30 Arrival and lunch
13:30-14:20 Natalie Zacek (Manchester), ‘Holding the Whip-Hand: Gender, Slavery, and the Pornography of Pain in Jamaica and New Orleans’
14:20-15:10 Jenny Wilson (Leeds), ‘The Return of Liberated Africans from Cuba and Brazil to Africa, 1830-1870’
15:10-15:40 tea and coffee break
15:40-16:30 Wendy Asquith (Liverpool), ‘Estime’s Extravaganza: Haiti’s “Little World Fair” of 1949-50’
16:30-17:20 Jim Walvin (York), ‘Slavery in Small Things’
For details about WISE, including directions and contact details, see http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/wise.aspx
Registration is free, but compulsory. To register your attendance, please email Beki Bloomfield: R.bloomfield@hull.ac.uk
A reservation will be made at a reasonably priced local restaurant for those wishing to attend dinner after the seminar. Please contact R.bloomfield@hull.ac.uk for booking, and with any other enquiries, including dietary requirements.