An exciting new collection on dancehall!

Great opportunity for ECRs in Latin American/Caribbean Studies!

Having seen dance students enthusiastically performing 'filmi' moves in Guyana, this looks super interesting! @MariaKaladeen Indo-CaribbeanUK Ameena Gafoor Institute

The recording of the virtual book launch for 'Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to remember, dancing to forget' is now on YouTube! Performance and Memory WG MSA Palgrave Macmillan

Today at 6.30pm BST celena monteiro and I will be talking in the online Tiny @PoP_MOVES Salon about our new collaborative project working with French Caribbean and Guyanese popular dance communities in London. Further info here👇 facebook.com/events/1636328…

Here's a good way to limber up for the PoP Moves conference on popular dance and digital sociality in November!

Great to see memory studies scholars Emily Keightley and Julia Giese engaging with 'Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to remember, dancing to forget' (2021), as well as dance scholars 林俊杰, Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA and Prof. Ann R David in their new article. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

The government’s withdrawal of Windrush funding over social media posts confirms that the grants were only ever a Home Office PR exercise, concerned with optics rather than helping those affected by the scandal.

Calling all Global Majority postgraduate and doctoral students in dance and performance: please join us at this amazing summer school! Bursaries available for international and non-London-based students.

Great to read this article on the ‘Windrush dance revolution’ by my colleague, collaborator and friend, ‘H’ Patten. #populardanceisknowledge

I'm helping to organise this 3-day online summer school for IRIE! dance theatre on the use of archives in research and creative practice. It's hosted by Dr 'Funmi Adewole Elliott with contributions from Ofelia Omoyele Balogun. Join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/reggae-ina-y…

And I wonder which courses the government will consider to have low employability and therefore to be ‘low value’ after they have (a) defined value in purely economic not cultural terms, and (b) chronically under-funded the arts?

Alex Renton quietly rightly puts the Sandbach and Gladstone stories in the wider context of Britain’s ongoing erasure of it’s role in, and responsibility for, transatlantic slavery. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is an amazing new resource for academics using anti-colonial research methodologies. Thank you A/Prof. Caroline Lenette (she/her) #CeasefireNOW!!

#TheCaribbeanPeople is a multimedia oral history project that aims to archive the ways that knowledge about the #Caribbean is preserved, democratized and shared. Register now - shorturl.at/acik4 #Dominica 🇩🇲

This is a really beautiful resource for dancer-parents and those who work with them.

Hi everyone, having left my last academic post in autumn I’m currently looking for an honorary affiliation and/or part-time research admin/asst work. Have a lot of experience in HE and research (as CV and publications tabs on my website - link in bio - show). Reposts appreciated.

I’m so looking forward to reading this! Congratulations @OnekaLaBennett!