CARIBBEAN RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: IDENTITY POLITICS, LABOUR, YOUTH

Schedule:

11.00 Welcome: Professor Charles Withers, University of Edinburgh

11.15 Dr David Lambert, Royal Holloway, University of London

Creating a National Hero: surrogacy, history and memory in post-colonial Barbados

12.15 Lunch in the Ogilvie Room

1.30 Dr Tracey Skelton, University of Loughborough

Caribbean children and young people: questions of citizenship, global processes and sustainable futures

2.30 Professor Linda Peake, York University

Sexing race and class: forming the Guyanese nation

3.00 Break

3.15 Professor Linda Peake, York University

Labour markets versus trafficking? Understanding women's employment in Guyana

3.45 Professor Don Robotham, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Neo-liberalism in a small space: the state, the black bourgeoisie and the reconfiguration of Jamaican society

4.45 Break

5.00 Discussant: Dr Par Kumaraswami, Heriot Watt University

6.00 Close and reception

There is no fee to attend the symposium, lunch and reception. An additional dinner will be arranged after the symposium ? if you would like to reserve a place, please e-mail Donna Wright (donna.wright@ed.ac.uk) by Monday 31st October.

For further details, please contact David Howard (david.howard@ed.ac.uk or tel: 0131 650 8164).