15187: City Life in Port-au-Prince History (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Karen F. Davis <kdavis@marygrove.edu>

For the list (note-it says "Caribbean" and "Barbados," but clearly they are
interested in papers on all Caribbean cities, including P-a-P.

Karen F. Dimanche Davis
Associate Professor and Head, Humanities Department
Marygrove College
Detroit, Michigan 48221
Phone: 313-927-1352
Fax: 313-927-2345
E-mail: kdavis@marygrove.edu


Text & Testimony Collective Conference
CITY LIFE IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY: CELEBRATING BRIDGETOWN
DECEMBER 11-13, 2003
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Text and Testimony Collective, in association with the Department of
History, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, the Principal's Office, UWI, Cave Hill
Campus, the Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI, Mona,and the Harriet Tubman
Resource Center on the African Diaspora, Department of History, York
University, invites papers from scholars working on any aspect of Caribbean
urban history for a 2-day Conference to be held at the Cave Hill Campus of
the University of the West Indies from December 11-13, 2003. The conference
will commemorate the 375th anniversary of the city of Bridgetown in Barbados
as well as mark the 40th anniversary of the Cave Hill Campus of the
University of the West Indies. In keeping with one of the objectives of the
Text and Testimony collective - to recover the first hand experiences of
enslaved (or otherwise bonded)and working class people - papers are
specially invited on the "voices" of enslaved/bonded and working class
people in urban spaces throughout the Caribbean region. Both individual
papers and complete panels will be considered.
The following are the panel themes:
Bridgetown/Emergence of Caribbean towns
Rural/urban relations (migration, economic relations, urban industries)
Urban slave society (free coloureds, slave life in the city)
Voices of the urban people
Culture in the city
Urban working class popular movements and protests
Gender and city life
Health and city life

The Conference will open on the evening of December 11th and papers will be
presented on December 12th and 13th.
Participants should observe the following schedule:
* End April 2003: Indication of interest in presenting a paper to Prof.
Verene A.
Shepherd, Co-ordinator, Text and Testimony Collective & Conference
co-organizer:
verenalber@yahoo.com AND Dr. Marcia Burrowes, Conference Co-organizer,
Department of
History, Cave Hill Campus mburrowes@uwichill.edu.bb
* End June 2003: submission of one page abstracts electronically to Prof.
Verene Shepherd verenalber@yahoo.com AND Dr. Marcia Burrowes. Participants
will be notified about the acceptance/non-acceptance of their abstracts by
end July 2003.
* End October 2003: Submission of 15 page paper (12 point font, double
spaced, endnotes) to Dr. Marcia Burrowes, Department of History, UWI, Cave
Hill Campus,
Barbados mburrowes@uwichill.edu.bb
For further information, contact any member of the organizing team:
* Prof. Hilary Beckles, Principal, Cave Hill Campus, UWI & Member of the
Steering
Committee, TTC: hbeckles@uwichill.edu.bb
* Dr. Marcia Burrowes, Dept. of History, UWI, Cave Hill
mburrowes@uwichill.edu.bb
* Prof. Paul Lovejoy, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre, York University &
Member of the Steering Committee, TTC: plovejoy@yorku.ca
* Prof. John Mayo, Head, Dept. of History, Cave Hill Campus, UWI
mayo@uwichill.edu.bb
* Prof. Verene A. Shepherd, Coordinator, Text and Testimony Collective:
verenalber@yahoo.com
* Prof. David Trotman, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre, York University &
Member of the Steering Committee, TTC dtrotman@yorku.ca


Text & Testimony Collective Conference
CITY LIFE IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY: CELEBRATING BRIDGETOWN
DECEMBER 11-13, 2003
http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/conferences/barbados/index.htm
Paul E. Lovejoy FRSC
Distinguished Research Professor
Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
Director, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

Also: Research Professor, University of Hull (UK)
www.yorku.ca/nhp