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one-day conference to mark the seventieth anniversary of the publication
of C.L.R. James’s classic history of the Haitian Revolution
Selma James, International co-odinator
GWS, speaking at 10am
Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1
Saturday 2 February 2008, 10am - 4.30pm
£10 / £5 low
waged/unwaged/student
Organised by the
London Socialist Historians Group
To
register, please send your email address and phone number to London
Socialist Historians Group, 3 Lavenham Court, London, SW15 2RF
with a cheque made payable to 'London Socialist Historians Group'.
For
more information, etc, please contact:
secretary@londonsocialisthistorians.org
www.londonsocialisthistorians.org
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Provisional Programme
9.30 – Registration
10.00-11.15
Welcome and Keynote addresses:
Chair: Christian Hogsbjerg, London Socialist Historians Group.
Selma
James,
writer and activist.
Bill
Schwarz,
editor of West Indian intellectuals in Britain.
11.30-12.30 PANEL
ONE: C.L.R. JAMES
Paget
Henry,
“The Black Jacobins and C.L.R. James’s Theory of State Capitalism”
Aldon Lynn
Nielson,
“‘The Wings of Atlanta’: C.L.R. James and Black Jacobins at the
Institute of the Black World”
11.30-12.30 PANEL
TWO: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
Olukoya
Ogen,
“The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1805: A Yoruba Cultural Legacy”
Jennifer
Brittan,
“Patrimony in Translation: The Rerouting of Haitian
History in the Circum-Caribbean”
12.30-1.30
Lunch
1.30-2.30
PANEL THREE: REPRESENTING TOUSSAINT
Gregory
Pierrot,
“‘Our Hero’: The literarization of Toussaint Louverture
in British
representations”
Charles
Forsdick
and Rachel Douglas, “Rewriting the Revolutionary: C.L.R. James’s
representations of Toussaint Louverture”
1.30-2.30 PANEL FOUR:
RETHINKING THE BLACK JACOBINS
Nick
Nesbitt,
“On the Concept of Black Jacobinism: James and the Struggle for Hegemony
in St. Domingue”
Matthew
Quest,
“On ‘Both Sides’ of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy
and National Liberation in C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins”
2.45-4.00
Closing Plenary:
Chair:
David Renton, author of C.L.R. James: Cricket’s Philosopher King.
Darcus
Howe,
columnist and activist.
Marika
Sherwood,
author of After Abolition; Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807.
Weyman
Bennett,
Joint Secretary of Unite Against Fascism.
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