Caribbean Voices: Post-Colonial Themes with Andrew Downes, Brian Meeks, Selwyn Ryan, Verene Shepherd, and Brenda Flanagan moderating
Saturday, Nov. 19, 12:30 p.m., Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Andrew Downes
Labour Markets in Small Developing States (Commonwealth Secretariat, $38.95), edited by Andrew Downes, explores the approaches to labor development by governments of smaller states across the world and considers the effectiveness of those strategies.
Brian Meeks
Brian Meeks is Professor of social and political change, Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies. He has published seven books and edited collections, including Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives; The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation (ed. with Norman Girvan); and his first novel, Paint the Town Red.
Selwyn Ryan
Selwyn Ryan has been a member of two Constitutional Commissions established by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, Deputy Chairman of the Caribbean Press Council and President of Caribbean Studies Association. He has also been the University Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, as well as the Director of the St. Augustine Branch of the Institute.
Verene Shepherd
Verene A. Shepherd, a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, is University Director and Regional Coordinator of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies and Professor of Social History at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies. She has published widely on Jamaican economic history. Shepherd sits on the Advisory/Editorial Board of several local and international journals including the Arts Journal, Caribbean Quarterly, Jamaica Journal, Slavery and Abolition.
Brenda Flanagan
Brenda Flanagan's story collection, In Praise of Island Women: & Other Crimes (Peepal Press, $15.95), celebrates women's capacity to endure life’s hardships with resilience, stoicism, and humor. Flanagan teaches creative writing and Caribbean and African American Literature at Davidson College, North Carolina. She is also the author of You Alone Are Dancing and Allah in the Islands.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
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