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

The Festival of Black History is THIS Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Tickets are free but booking is essential! billetto.co.uk/e/festival-o...

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...

Looking forward to seeing you on the #Heiresses Book Tour at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social @bookhaus.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social @crer-scotland.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.socialThe Georgian House, Edinburgh and more!

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

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

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...

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

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

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-...

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

What an incredible few days at our 48th Annual Conference with such wonderful old and new friends and wonderful research #SCS2025

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

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.

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...

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

📣 The Society for Caribbean Studies is excited to introduce Christian Gurdin, a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, who will be presenting at the 48th Annual Society for Caribbean Studies Conference this July! He will be taking over our /social media accounts to talk about his research.

Interested in the #Indigenous #Caribbean and how is it represented in museums and (not) in education? Join our discussions and hands-on activities on 23-24 June in Liverpool! Register here: shorturl.at/LXKED (23rd June) & shorturl.at/m1Qvi (24th) ‪@liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

📢 The Society for Caribbean Studies is proud to introduce Caribbean Student Bursary recipient Andel Andrew. 📍Presentation: Public and Digital Diplomacy in Regional Organizations: The Case of CARICOM. #CARICOM #DigitalDiplomacy #SCS2025 #PublicDiplomacy #ScholarInFocus #CaribbeanVoices

Our conference programme is now LIVE: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ITSS 🌊 had a wonderful experience at the 56th Annual Conference of The Association of Caribbean Historians in Trinidad🍃

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

Our conference programme is now LIVE: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...

I’m so looking forward to the conversation! A big thank you to @drmishaewen.bsky.social for the invite, and if you’re in London on 25th June please come along! 🗃️

Interesting role for a Historian or Arts/Humanities scholar to join at a senior level in the research team; overlapping specialities required: Early Modern, history of enslavement, country house history, plant humanities.

Looking forward to this very much @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

📣 * NEWS * I’m pleased to share that I’ve joined the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) as Editorial Assistant 📚 I’m excited to support the journal alongside my postdoctoral research and to contribute to its important work in Caribbean studies. Interested in publishing your work with us? 💪 See:

With @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social coming to Bristol in just a few weeks to discuss themes of repair, it's great to read this reflection on the curating of the Colston statue

Less than a month to go 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Professor Verene A. Shepherd will be the keynote speaker at our 48th Annual Conference, 2-4 July! Artwork by Renée Landell

Less than a month to go 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Professor Verene A. Shepherd will be the keynote speaker at our 48th Annual Conference, 2-4 July! Artwork by Renée Landell

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

How can a Jamaican fashion archive challenge colonial histories of the Carribean, and what resistances does it reveal? Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?' www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-histor...

There's still time to register for the 48th annual Society for Caribbean Studies UK conference community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/

The @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social 10th postgrad conference wrapped today and it was everything. We enjoyed the most powerful keynote conversation, and got to hear incredible PG research from a range of disciplines, with delegates from all over the world. I love it here.

Please share this advert for a fully funded 3-year PhD student ship. It’s a fantastic opportunity to look at the performance and reception of Western Classical music in the Caribbean in the C19th.

It has been absolutely wonderful first day of the 10th SCS Postgraduate Conference and we can't wait for the keynote conversation with Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi & Ryan Cecil Jobson

Speaking tomorrow at the next @ilcs.bsky.social Caribbean Seminar. ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The Changing Philosophy of Education in 20th Century Jamaica. 🔗 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib... @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

Registration for the 48th Annual SCS Conference is now open! 🥳 This year the conference will be held at the University of Bristol 2-4 July 2025. For more info, and to register, please see: community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/ We can't wait to see you there!

Our fantastic CLACS Seminar 'Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture' w/ Prof David Lambert, co-Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, is now available online! @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JGJ...

We are delighted to announce that registration for the 10th SCS Postgraduate Conference is now open. This will be an online conference on 10th-11th April 2025. Please find the registration form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline for general registration is Monday 24th March 2025.

Please do get in touch if you haven't heard from us - and please do check your junk folders!

If you submitted an abstract for the @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social annual conference but haven’t heard from us, please send the society an email! There have been a couple issues with the submission form

There's still time to sign up for our CLACS seminar 'Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture' - w/ Prof David Lambert, co-Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies. @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/carib...

One of our biggest preservation projects to date: partnering with Aruba on Collecion Aruba, which provides free access to historical materials and cultural treasures—available on archive.org. More projects like this are possible with your support: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

Sexualities: patería/makoumé/kambrada/friend & family Keywords in Caribbean Studies Jacqueline Couti Krystal Ghisyawan @julianisenia.bsky.social @larrylafountain.bsky.social Moderated by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Perez-Rosario Friday, 7 March, 12:00pm RSVP: tinyurl.com/sxsexuality

Deadline day is today!

Our annual conference takes place in July each year. The CFP has just been extended and we'd love to see lots of faces in Bristol. You now have until JANUARY 20 2025 to get abstracts submitted! The full CFP can be found here: community-languages.org.uk/scs/conferen...

We're on Bluesky! If you research the Caribbean, its people and diasporas, we'd love to connect with you. Whatever the discipline, career stage, geographical location. The princely sum of £15 covers our annual membership fee. Join us via our website bit.ly/3E02kA7