“He made us proud to be who we were, and optimistic, as never before, about what we were going to be, or could be.” Arnold Rampersad, Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University.
Florida International University African & African Diaspora Studies in conjunction with The Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives & Museum at The University of the West Indies present the Nineteenth Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture. Speaker: Dr. Pedro Noguera Distinguished Professor of Education UCLA Graduate School of Education/Information Studies.
To a packed crowd of some 170 at the 17th FIU Eric Williams Lecture, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, ably made the case for Caribbean foresight, spanning some 43 years, vis a vis the recent controversial agreement between the United States and Cuba.
This year, the African & African Diaspora Studies Program's Distinguished Africana Scholars Lecture hosts the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, the Hon. Kenny Anthony. "Reparations and 21st Century Development: The Silence Is Broken and We Speak to the World" promises to address CARICOM'S recent political stance on slave trade reparations.
Rawle Gibbons of the University of the West Indies and Lord Relator - a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian of note - will be speaking about/performing: "One From Ten Leaves Nought, Ten to One is Murder: Eric Williams, the Mighty Sparrow and the Arithmetic of Caribbean Self-Definition.
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