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2023-2024
Caribbean Series: Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica
Celia E. Naylor, (Bernard College, Columbia University), 25 January 2024
Caribbean Series: Black Crown
Paul Clammer (Author), 11 October 2023
2022-2023
The Environmental History of Slavery in the United States
Dr David Silkenat (University of Edinburgh), 12 October 2022
‘Arise! Ye Who Refuse to be Bond Slaves:’ Paul Robeson, ‘The Black King of Songs,’ and China
Professor Gao Yunxiang (Toronto Metropolitan University), 19 October 2022
Right-wing opposition to climate action in the US: the role of partisanship and cultural identity
Professor Jean-Daniel Collomb (Université Grenoble Alpes), 2 November 2022
How Sustainable Is American Farming and Can Indigenous Agroecology Solve Its Key Challenges?
Professor Joy Porter (Hull), 14 November 2022
The Structure of 'the American Century'
Professor Daniel Bessner (University of Washington), Professor Meg Black (MIT), Professor Monica Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 28 November 2022
Buying Votes and Political Influence in the Caribbean: Lessons for Democracy from Belize
Dr Dylan Vernon ( D-Gov Consulting Ltd, Belize), 7 December 2022
The International Political Economy of Chinese-Latin American Relations
Professor Carol Wise (University of Southern California), Professor Kevin Gallagher (Boston University), Professor Gustavo Oliveira (Clarke University), 11 January 2023
Anglo-American Defense and Intelligence Coperation in Outer Space
Dr Aaron Bateman (George Washington University), 12 January 2023
US Intelligence and its British-Canadian Partners in the Cold war and Beyond
Professor Ror Cormac (University of Nottingham), Dr Steve Hewitt (Birmingham University), Dr Dafydd Townley (Portsmouth University), 16 January 2023
Rethinking Indigenous Power in the Colonial Caribbean: A View from the Lesser Antilles
Professor Tessa Murphy (Syracuse University), 25 January 2023
The Kola Nut in the Atlantic World: Colonial Violence, Consumption Cultures and Diasporic Mobilities
Dr Shantel George (Glasgow), 1 March 2023
Political Crisis in Peru | Crisis Política en Perú
Various speakers, 13 March 2023
Sacrifice and Regeneration: Seventh-Day Adventism and Religious Transformation in the Andes
Dr Yael Mabat (Ben Gurion University, University of Tel Aviv, UCL Institute of the Americas), 19 April 2023
Women and Rastafari Politics, 1934-1960
Dr Daive Dunkley (University of Missouri), 26 April 2023
The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams University Occupation
Kirland Ayanna Bobb (Ministry of Education, St Vincent and the Grenadines), Dr Amanda Perry (Champlain College St Lambert, Montreal), Dr Ronald Cummings (McMaster University, Canada), 7 June 2023