Good luck to all English students and teachers for tomorrow. English in all its guises - language literature, creative writing - is crucial to a prosperous, healthy society and economy. And in the UK we're lucky to have masses of fantastic English departments #EnglishCreates

INVITATION: The University of Guyana, Faculty of Education and Humanities, Department of History and Caribbean Studies invites you to a Symposium on the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the 1823 Demerara Revolt.

Hello hello! @leighanrenaud again with Day 4 of Erna Brodber week. Today, we are talking about Brodber’s most recent novel – perhaps my favourite – ‘Nothing’s Mat’. And we’ll probably stay with this book for a couple of days.

Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realised the light of their own freedom. Marcus Mosiah Garvey (17 Aug 1887 – 10 Jun 1940), National Hero, born 136 years ago today, in St. Ann’s Bay, #Jamaica.

Erna Brodber week continues here Journal of West Indian Literature. Today we offer a brief index of essays and reviews about Erna Brodber's work that have been published in JWIL over the years. Some of these are readings folks will be familiar with. Others we are hoping you will discover.

Leighan Renaud “The end linked with the beginning and was even the beginning”: Fractal Poetics in Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat JWIL Vol. 28, No. 2 (November 2020)

A brief Erna Brodber Reading List. Revisiting the archives of the JWIL!

Erna Brodber and Evelyn OCallaghan in conversation at the 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest (Bocas Lit Fest). youtube.com/watch?v=buIogb…

If you are keen to participate in a discussion of Erna Brodber's work (in real time), tune-in to the Off-the-Page Erna Brodber reading group! Meeting today, Sunday Aug 20 5pm (if you are in Jamaica)/ 6pm EDT. See details in the link below: facebook.com/events/s/readi…

A big thank you to Leighan Renaud (Leighan) who shared reflections on the life and work of Erna Brodber this last week. Please revisit and reflect on these tweets and her rich discussion of the complex ways in which Brodber writes Black epistemologies.

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I recommend this timely & important play, which is given historical & emotional depth as a result of meticulous research by the playwright Desirée Baptiste & bringing slavery history to life - a must-see for British audiences today David Olusoga

Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge for women scholars based in a university in the Caribbean or Latin America. Applications are invited for a Visiting Fellowship at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. newn.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

Antoinette Sandbach doesn't want the public to know her family are related to Samuel Sandbach and would like to censor the scholarly research into Sandbach Tinne by Malik Al Nazir. This desire for erasure is typical of wider British society and must be confronted/challenged.

What I learned about culture wars & how I responded. See link below: Museums Association museumsassociation.org/campaigns/deco…

104 years old today 💫. Clap yuhself, Louise Bennett-Coverley! Tings still no too bright inna Jamaica/ Bickle still no nuff/ Mi dear, mek we gwaan same way/ Caah we know seh dutty tough. #HappyBirthday #MissLou #WalkGood You are a true hero.🇯🇲

Join me, Prof Robert Beckford & Senegalese researcher Dr Ibrahima Seck for Winchester Cathedral Green Week walk to explore #Hampshire's slavery connections ahead of the publication of Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain. Last Friday of Sept winchester-cathedral.org.uk/event/winchest…

It is great to see so much interest in this reading group - we have already received so many emails! Do get in touch for the Zoom link if you would like to join.