CALL FOR PAPERS
REFLECTIONS, RELEVANCE AND CONTINUITY:
CARIBBEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OF BLACK POWER
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago. The movement has been praised and criticized but its global impact or ramifications have never been properly analyzed.
The event will be commemorated with an international academic conference to be held at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, (West Indies) during Saturday 18th September to Sunday 19th September 2010. This is an opportunity to re-examine the development and establish Black Power’s proper regional and global context.
The academic conference is being organized by the Department of History at St. Augustine. Co-sponsored by the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (both at St. Augustine campus) and from the Emancipation Support Committee, History Society (at UWI), National Joint Action Committee, the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union the Public Services Association.
Proposals for panels or individual presentations are invited on any of the following topics:
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Pan-Africanism and Garveyism: Elements of Black Power?
Origins of Black Power in T+T, Canada and U.S: University of the West Indies, Sir George Williams University
Influence of Black Power leaders
Black Power and its influence on Black Studies
Black Power in Tobago
Black Power in Trinidad
The impact regionally and extra-regionally
Gender and Black Power
Black Power in Literary works
Ethnic minorities: Non-Blacks within the Black Power movement
Impact on culture, trade unions, economy, religion, consciousness,
Black Power and the Caribbean economy
Black Power after 1970
Persons interested in presenting a paper can send an abstract (not more than 500 words), a 2 page curriculum vitae and relevant contact information (before 30March 2010) to:
Jerome Teelucksingh
Department of History
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
e-mail: jtluxing@yahoo.com
jerome.teelucksingh@sta.uwi.edu
Fax: 1-868-662- 9684
Selected presenters will be informed by 20 April 2010. Presenters will be expected to source funds for airfare and accommodation.
Full papers are due by 15 August 2010.
Registration costs – Overseas participants US $70
Students – US $20