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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct: Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social shorturl.at/BLplw

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Caribbean Studies Seminar

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Join us on 23 September for the start of our CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26 @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s w/ Andrew Williams (University of the West Indies, Mona) shorturl.at/euVXU

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

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Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Fascinating article by Nuala Zahedieh about the centrality of canoes in early colonial exploitation 🗃️https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf021/8231030

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Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*

Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We are thrilled to be supporting the Festival of Black History on Saturday 6th September 2025 at Goldsmiths, University of London. It is going to be an incredible event - Booking is FREE but essential

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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This is going to be great! Hope to see you at the Festival of #BlackHistory @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on Saturday 6th September. Book your FREE ticket here: billetto.co.uk/e/festival-o...

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

And... I am very happy to share that the digitised copies of the full run of The Cosmopolitan are now available on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (who made this all possible!): www.dloc.com/AA00114844/0... cc: @dlocaribbean.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are very excited to announce that the CFP for the 11th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Postgraduate Conference is now live! community-languages.org.uk/scs/society-...

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Call for Papers: 11TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES 2026 – Society for Caribbean Studies

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Fantastic line-up for our upcoming CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series @ilcs.bsky.social, School of Advanced Study, University of London starting Sept: shorturl.at/BQfAr Electricity & Electrification/ Education & Debt / Baseball / Afro-Asian Ecologies Supported by @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

What an incredible few days at our 48th Annual Conference with such wonderful old and new friends and wonderful research #SCS2025

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Screen showing various heritage sites in front of which are panellists for the RISE heritage roundtable.

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

An intellectually nourishing and thoroughly enjoyable day at the Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference, University of Bristol today. Lovely to catch up with colleagues in such a friendly and welcoming setting. @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Indo-Caribbean Windrush Oral History Project documents the stories of Indo-Caribbeans who migrated to the UK during or after the Windrush era (1948–1971), and their descendants. It highlights voices often overlooked in Windrush commemorations.

Info poster for Indo-Caribbean Windrush An Oral History project. Includes a photograph of indentured labourers in Trinidad on the left and the HMT Empire Windrush on the right

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Very excited to have received support from @dlocaribbean.bsky.social to build the teaching resource “Enslavement, Medicine, and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: A History in the Press” dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/news/oe...

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OER in Caribbean Studies: Stipend Recipients 2025 – Digital Library of the Caribbean

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

We're now days away from the Annual SCS conference and we cannot wait! Anyone who will be joining us please do tag us in your posts #SCS2025 #CaribbeanStudies

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📣 The Society for Caribbean Studies is excited to introduce Christian Gurdin, a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, who will be presenting at the 48th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Conference this July! He will be taking over our /social media accounts to talk about his research.

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Interested in the #Indigenous #Caribbean and how is it represented in museums and (not) in education? Join our discussions and hands-on activities on 23-24 June in Liverpool! Register here: shorturl.at/LXKED (23rd June) & shorturl.at/m1Qvi (24th) ‪@liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📢 The Society for Caribbean Studies is proud to introduce Caribbean Student Bursary recipient Andel Andrew. 📍Presentation: Public and Digital Diplomacy in Regional Organizations: The Case of CARICOM. #CARICOM #DigitalDiplomacy #SCS2025 #PublicDiplomacy #ScholarInFocus #CaribbeanVoices

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Our conference programme is now LIVE: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.

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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

ITSS 🌊 had a wonderful experience at the 56th Annual Conference of The Association of Caribbean Historians in Trinidad🍃

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Our conference programme is now LIVE: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I’m so looking forward to the conversation! A big thank you to @drmishaewen.bsky.social for the invite, and if you’re in London on 25th June please come along! 🗃️

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Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Interesting role for a Historian or Arts/Humanities scholar to join at a senior level in the research team; overlapping specialities required: Early Modern, history of enslavement, country house history, plant humanities.

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Looking forward to this very much @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

📣 * NEWS * I’m pleased to share that I’ve joined the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) as Editorial Assistant 📚 I’m excited to support the journal alongside my postdoctoral research and to contribute to its important work in Caribbean studies. Interested in publishing your work with us? 💪 See:

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Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

With @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social coming to Bristol in just a few weeks to discuss themes of repair, it's great to read this reflection on the curating of the Colston statue

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Less than a month to go 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Professor Verene A. Shepherd will be the keynote speaker at our 48th Annual Conference, 2-4 July! Artwork by Renée Landell

Conference poster, states "The Poetics, Praxis and Politics of Repair", with location and date and logos. Image features a Black woman in the foreground with rope and thread in her hands. Figure behind her has paint brush and palette.

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Less than a month to go 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Professor Verene A. Shepherd will be the keynote speaker at our 48th Annual Conference, 2-4 July! Artwork by Renée Landell

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 28/05/2025

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/05/2025

How can a Jamaican fashion archive challenge colonial histories of the Carribean, and what resistances does it reveal? Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?' www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-histor...

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Is there really fashion in Jamaica?

Elli Young explores how archiving Jamaican fashion history challenges colonial narratives of the Caribbean.

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Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

There's still time to register for the 48th annual Society for Caribbean Studies UK conference community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/

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2025 Annual Conference Registration – Society for Caribbean Studies

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