Events
Find out about past events and future events for this international, collaborative research project.
2023
(Post)colonial Intimacies and Domestic Noir: Cherie Jones’ How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- Date: 7 July
- Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference, De Montfort University, Leicester
- Speaker: Lucy Evans
Arts Activism to Address Gender-Based Violence: Youth Voices and Experiences from Trinidad and Tobago
- Date: 6 July
- Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference, De Montfort University, Leicester
- Speaker: Kelsi Delaney
Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa
- Date: 4 April (final performance)
- Venue: Bridgeport High School
- Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner
Youth workshop series in Trinidad delivered by ROOTS Foundation
- Dates: 10 sessions January-March
- Venue: San Juan North Secondary School
- Facilitators: Mtima Solwazi and the ROOTS Foundation team
2022
Arts Activism to Address Gender-Based Violence: Youth Voices and Experiences from Trinidad and Tobago
- Date: 3 December
- Venue: Going Places Conference, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
- Speaker: Kelsi Delaney
Workshops to develop and finalise play script, Stop Gender-Based Violence
- Dates: 16th and 17th November
- Venue: Green Island High School
- Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner
Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa
- Dates: 1st, 8th, 11th and 15th November
- Venue: Bridgeport High School
- Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner
'Another tragic woman in a story': Representing gender-based violence in Lorna Goodison's (2021)Mother Muse
- Date: 23 September
- Venue: Project panel, Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature and Performance Cultures [virtual]
- Speakers: Kelsi Delaney and Lucy Evans
Aesthetics of rape and the dismantling of dignity in Jamaica: A Caribbean cultural studies perspective
- Date: 23 September
- Venue: Project panel, Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature & Performance Cultures [virtual]
- Speaker: Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Protesting gender-based violence through theatre
- Date: 23 September
- Venue: Project panel, Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature & Performance Cultures [virtual]
- Speaker: Fabian Thomas
Project symposium: Social change and gender-based violence: Representations in Caribbean literature and performance cultures
- Dates: 22-23 September
- Venue: Online
- Organisers: Amilcar Sanatan and Kelsi Delaney
Advisory board meeting 2
- Date: 21 September
- Venue: Online
Creative writing masterclass delivered by Shivanee Ramlochan
- Date: 7 August
- Venue: online
- Facilitator: Shivanee Ramlochan
'Here are the stories underneath': Representing gender-based violence in Kei Miller's In Nearby Bushes (2019)
- Date: 7 July
- Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference [virtual]
- Speakers: Kelsi Delaney and Lucy Evans
Research visit to the British Library
- Dates: 5-7 June
- Venue: British Library, London
- Researcher: Kelsi Delaney
Arts activism to address GBV: Youth voices and experiences from Trinidad and Tobago
- Date: 31 May
- Venue: Project panel, 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference [virtual]
- Speakers: Kelsi Delaney and Gabrielle Hosein
Aesthetics of rape and the dismantling of dignity in Jamaica: A Caribbean cultural studies perspective
- Date: 31 May
- Venue: Project panel, 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference [virtual]
- Speaker: Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Santana, masculinities and the vocabularies of gender-based violence
- Date: 31 May
- Venue: Project panel, 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference [virtual]
- Speaker: Amilcar Sanatan
Youth workshop series in Trinidad delivered by ROOTS Foundation
- Dates: 4-18 April, 11-14 April
- Venue: Online
- Facilitators: Mtima Solwazi and the ROOTS Foundation team
Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa
- Dates: 15-16 March, 22-23 March, 29 March, 30 March
- Venue: Green Island High
- Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner
Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa
- Dates: 8-9 March, 11 March, 18-19 March, 26 March
- Venue: Haile Selassie High School
- Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and the Tribe Sankofa team
Project training workshop
- Date: 21 January
- Venue: Institute of Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St Augustine [virtual]
- Faciltiator: Gabrielle Hosein
Advisory board meeting 1
- Date: 12 January
- Venue: virtual
2021
Research trips to the National Poetry Library, London
- Dates: 29 October, 5 November, 25 November, 30 November
- Venue: National Poetry Library, London
- Researcher: Kelsi Delaney