The History Forum

The Department of History and Philosophy, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus is pleased to present the next History Forum on Friday, April 9, 2021 at 4pm. Professor Alan Cobley will present a paper entitled, “The ‘Vuka Africa’ Store: African Shopkeepers in South Africa Under Segregation and Apartheid, 1900-63” via Zoom Meeting. Please register in advance for this meeting: http://bit.ly/HFCobley . 

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the UWI/ OAS Caribbean Heritage Network (CHN) Caribbean Conversations in Conservation series is pleased to announce that it will move forward with a virtual/ online programme starting Thursday, April 15, 2021. We are organising monthly sessions that will take the Caribbean Conversation about Conservation Online! The original programme of this multi-disciplinary, practical conference was postponed in March 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Conference organisers were hoping to deliver a face-to-face conference over the course of 2020 but that was not possible due to the changing nature of the pandemic. However, we are pleased to bring you a series of online engagements based on the original conference programme with some new featured sessions. The CHN is committed to bringing together heritage professionals from across the Caribbean region to discuss the challenges and opportunities in heritage conservation. We are pleased to welc...

The Department of History and Philosophy at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus is pleased to present The UWI History Cross-Campus Seminar and History Forum on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 1pm (Jamaica)/ 2pm (Barbados/ Trinidad). Dr. Rodney Worrell will present a paper entitled, "State Repression in Barbados: The Barrow Government versus the Black Powerites, 1968-70". To register in advance for this seminar go to: http://bit.ly/HFWorrell .

 

Join us for the second seminar in the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Series The World in a Historic House: Global Connections and Collections . Prof. Louis Nelson at the University of Virginia is convening the seminar entitled "Slavery and its Legacies at Historic Sites: Memory, Repair and Descendant Engagement" on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 11am EST (Barbados)/ 3pm GMT. Please click on the link to register: https://www.history.ac.uk/.../slavery-and-its-legacies ... . See you there! The last session was an excellent start -- great participation and discussion!