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This new lecture series will feature five distinguished speakers to explore a range of thought-provoking topics spanning Caribbean narratives, environmental justice and history and the connections between colonialism and ecology.
In this first event, Alison Donnell, Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol, will present a seminar based on her upcoming book Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean. She will focus on the life and work of Barbara Althea Jones, a Trinidadian poet and physicist at McGill, author of Among the Potatoes.
Particularly relevant for undergraduate and graduate students, (and mandatory for students enrolled in GEOG 418 (Postcolonial Geographies) the seminar will encourage reflection on the Caribbean diaspora within Montreal’s localized context, as well as the broader postcolonial dynamics shaping the community today.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Alison Donnell is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of Humanities at the University of Bristol. She has been published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture, recovery research of women authors, and Caribbean literary archives.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region’s rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers – such as WG Ogilvie and Claude Thompson – whose lives and work have slipped out of view while heralding others – Edwina Melville and Monica Skeete, for example – whose work has never been properly recognised. Offering a fascinating insight into the worlds of these ‘lost’ writers, this A-Z also provides future researchers with a comprehensive bibliography of their forgotten works.
🗓: March 5, 2025 | 1:15 – 3:15 PM
📍: Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
📖 A reading will be circulated in advance of the seminar.
This event is supported by the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, the Speculative Life Research Cluster, the Department of English at Concordia University, the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, and the CISSC.
