Events
2022
Project Outputs and Impact Retreat
Date: 2-6 May 2022
Venue: Birmingham / Georgetown / virtual
Ground Turning Workshop II: University of Leicester, University of Guyana and Guyana Prison Service
Date: 24 February 2022
Venue: Herdmanston Lodge, Georgetown / virtual
Speakers: Research Team and Frontline Personnel
Advisory Board 3
Date: 26 January 2022
Venue: Online
Past events
Browse some of our past events below.
2021
Guyana’s Prison System: Can History Make a Difference?
Date: 18 November 2021
Venue: Being Human Festival, workshop
Speakers: Kellie Moss, with Clare Anderson, Emma Battell Lowman, Mellissa Ifill and Kristy Warren
Incarceration and Mental Health: From Colonial Origins to Contemporary Challenges in Guyana’s Jails Sector
Date: 10 November 2021
Venue: Centre for Society and Mental Health, Kings College London, seminar (virtual).
Speakers: Martin Halliwell, with Estherine Adams, Clare Anderson, Tammy Ayres, Mellissa Ifill, Emma Battell Lowman, Queenela Cameron, Kellie Moss and Deborah Toner
Ground Turning Workshop I: University of Leicester, University of Guyana and Guyana Prison Service
Date: 28 October 2021
Venue: Virtual
Speakers: Research Team and Frontline Personnel
MNS Disorders in Guyana's Prisons, 1825 to the present day
Date: 23 September 2021
Venue: Copalc Colonização penitenciária na América Latina seminar (virtual).
Speakers: Clare Anderson and Kristy Warren, with Estherine Adams, Tammy Ayres, Shammane Josephine Jackson, Emma Battell Lowman, Queenela Cameron and Kellie Moss
Managing COVID-19 in Guyana's Prison Service
Date: 11 July 2021
Venue: Big Problems, Small States: A Sociology of COVID-19’, Caribbean Sociological Association e-conference.
Speakers: Clare Anderson, Mellissa Ifill, Remi Anderson and Shammane Josephine Jackson
The Two Deaths of John Klass (History: Uprising and Liberties)
Date: 8 July 2021
Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies.
Speakers: Estherine Adams
Managing COVID-19 in Guyana's jails
Date: 23 June 2021
Venue: Working with partners in LMIC to address real world challenges: successes and challenges’, University of Leicester virtual seminar.
Speakers: Clare Anderson and Mellissa Ifill
Can history make a difference? The colonial origins of present-day challenges in Guyana's jails sector
Date: 31 May 2021/ 8 July 2021
Venue: Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) annual conference, Georgetown, Guyana/ British Society of Criminology annual conference.
Speakers: Estherine Adams, Clare Anderson, Shammane Joseph Jackson, Kellie Moss and Deborah Toner
Incarnation, Social Control and Mental Health in Post-1966 Guyana
Date: 31 May 2021 - 8 July 2021
Venue: Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) annual conference, Georgetown, Guyana
Speakers: Martin Halliwell, Tammy Ayres, Queenela Cameron, Dylan Kerrigan and Kristy Warren
Resisting Carceral Confinement in Guyana: Legacies of a Colonial State
Date: 28 May 2021
Venue: Global Carceral States: violence, transgressions and methodologies of imprisonment conference, UCSB/ Birzeit University
Speakers: Kellie Moss and Kirsty Warren
Policy Briefing with David Lammy MP
Date: 29 January 2021
Venue: Zoom
2020
The Experience of Imprisonment in the Caribbean: A Presentation of The Regional Comparative Report of Surveys of Individuals Deprived of Liberty, Caribbean (2016–2019)
Date: 11 December 2020
Venue: virtual
Speaker: Mellissa Ifill (panel discussion)
Prison Commissions and the Criminal Justice System: Empire and its Legacies in British Guiana/ Guyana
Date: 2 December 2020
Venue: DMU History/ Decolonising DMU seminar
Speaker: Clare Anderson
Advisory Board 2
Date: 26 November 2020
Venue: Online
Thinking About Silences: Recordkeeping and the Management of Prisons in Guyana
Date: 30 October 2020
Venue: New History Lab, University of Leicester
Speakers: Dylan Kerrigan and Kristy Warren,
Plagues and Pandemics Through The Lens of History
Date: 3 July 2020
Venue: Shaping the Future workshop, British Academy
Speaker: Martin Halliwell,
Qualitative insights on Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Guyana's Prisons Today
Date: 23 January 2020
Venue: School of Criminology, University of Leicester
Speaker: Dylan Kerrigan
2019
"Prison is not the Marriott:" Ensuring the Human Rights of Prisoners within Guyana's Jails
Date: 18 December 2019
Venue: International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Florida
Speaker: Mellissa Ifill
British High Commissioner to Guyana, 'From Northern Ireland to Guyana: Diplomacy in the Modern Age'
Date: 9 December 2019
Venue: Innovation Hub, 128 Regent Road, University of Leicester
Speaker: H.E. Greg Quinn,
Mental health, Neurological and Substance Abuse Disorders in Guyana’s Jails, 1825 to the present day
Date: 8 November 2019
Venue: New History Lab, University of Leicester
Speaker: Kellie Moss
Project Trip to The National Archives
Date: 2 October 2019
Venue: The National Archives, Kew
Project Away Day
Date: 28 August 2019
Venue: College Court, University of Leicester
GCRF Training Fellowship Programme
Date: 22-30 July 2019
Venue: University of Leicester/ The National Archives
Project Away Day
Date: 10 July 2019
Venue: College Court, University of Leicester
'MNS Disorders in Jails in British Guiana'
Date: 8 July 2019
Venue: 'Slavery and its Afterlives: Blackness, Representation, Social Justice, Vision', Conference, National Maritime Museum/ Goldsmiths (University of London)
Speakers: Estherine Adams and Kristy Warren
'MNS disorders in Guyana’s jails, 1825 to the present day: Some initial insights'
Date: 8 July 2019
Venue: 'Slavery and its Afterlives: Blackness, Representation, Social Justice, Vision', Conference, National Maritime Museum/ Goldsmiths (University of London)
Speaker: Dylan Kerrigan
Visiting Speaker, Vikram Tamboli (ILAS, University of London)
Date: 9 May 2019
Venue: 7-9 Salisbury Road, University of Leicester
Mental Health Roundtable
Date: 30 April 2019
Venue: 7-9 Salisbury Road, University of Leicester
Advisory Board 1
Date: 29 April 2019
Venue: Innovation Hub, 128 Regent Road, University of Leicester
Public Lecture: ‘The Southern Flood: American Public Health in a State of Emergency’
Date: 2 April 2019
Venue: National Library of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana
Speaker: Prof. Martin Halliwell,
Inaugural Stakeholder Workshop
Date: 1 April 2019
Venue: Regency Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana