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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

It will be packed with practical tips to help you record history, plus talks, film screenings, thought-provoking panel discussions and workshops. The festival culminates with a powerful theatre performance, ‘Anatomy of a Black Rebellion’ a new award-winning play.

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

Marking 100 years since Malcolm X’s birth, this festival at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will be a moment of celebration, reflection, and joy: a chance to honour Black history while shaping its future.

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

It's often a great test run if you want to present at the main conference and is a great opportunity to meet other postgrad researchers. It is also a FREE conference for members of the SCS.

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

This is always an amazing conference and we really encourage postgraduates in various academic disciplines and stages of their degree, whose research concerns any aspect of Caribbean Studies, to apply.

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

The postgraduate conference will be held at @cardiffuni.bsky.social 16-17 April 2026. Abstract deadline is 24 October 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

And we finished on a fantastic high with our Bridget Jones Award presentation from La Vaughn Belle www.lavaughnbelle.com

La Vaughn Belle stands at the lecturn giving her presentation

A slide displaying La Vaughn's sculpture "Sovereign" is displayed on the screen, depicting a woman emerging out of broken glass, her hands outstretched as if shooting an arrow. La Vaughn Belle stands at the lectern

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

And what a dream to welcome Prof Verene Shepherd as the Pat Noxolo Keynote

Prof Pat Noxolo seated next to Prof Verene Shepherd who is dedicating her biography of Lucille Mathurin Mair

Professor Verene Shepherd at a lectern delivering her keynote lecture

Professor Verene Shepherd seated smiling next to Prof Gad Heuman

Table of delegates smiling at the camera seated ready for dinner

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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

Indo-Caribbeans in or formerly in the UK are invited to participate by emailing indocaribbeanwindrush@gmail.com or via Instagram @indocaribbeanwindrushstories Meena will be at the conference this week so do approach her with any questions!

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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

🗓️ Panel Presentation: Christian will present on the Class and Conflict panel on Thursday, July 3rd (15:30-17:00) Stay tuned this week to learn more about his work on revolution, masculinism, and Caribbean radical history!

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

Christian traces these tendencies back to earlier formations in the period, like the Abeng Group (Jamaica) and the New Beginning Movement (Trinidad), offering a regional genealogy of the gendered dynamics that contributed to the impairment of Long Seventies radicalism.

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

The paper argues that a masculinist political rationality, rooted in the patriarchal political culture of the 1970s, helped to shape both the ideological rigidity and fratricidal method of conflict resolution in parties like the New Jewel Movement (Grenada) and Workers’ Party of Jamaica.

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

💡 Insight on the Presentation: The paper explores the masculinist underpinnings of Caribbean Marxism-Leninism in the Anglo-Caribbean Left during the Long Seventies.

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

🎤 Presentation Title: “Boy, men used to beat you with dogma!”: Masculinism, Caribbean Marxism-Leninism and the (Un)making of the Anglo-Caribbean Left, 1968–1983.

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

He is currently in Kingston, Jamaica, interviewing former members of the Abeng Group & WPJ, as well as researching a new chapter on anticolonial journals and periodicals produced by Abeng and WLL/WPJ (among other formations).

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

seeks to reflect on this period with respect to our present conjuncture. Christian’s specific interests orient around Caribbean Marxisms; Caribbean Black Power; anticolonial intellectual histories; political cultures; racial capitalism and plantation economies…

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

His research looks specifically at Guyana, Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. His thesis not only reconstructs the historical problem-space of the Long Seventies, shedding light on the lesser-known political dimensions of the era, but it also [cnt’d]

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