The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st October 2006.

Papers selected for the conference must be submitted in both hard copy and electronic format no later than 15th April 2007.

The conference organizers are keen to encourage submissions from the widest possible range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. Joint submissions across disciplines and submissions from graduate students are welcome.

In making their submissions, prospective participants are asked to consider, but need not limit themselves to, the following sub-themes:

a. Language and Freedom

b. Independence and Political Freedom in the 21st century.

c. Education and Equality of Opportunity

d. Freeing the Imagination: The Arts

e. Thinking Freedom/Freedom Thinkers

f. Race and Representation

g. Gendered Identities

h. Ethnicity and Caribbean Identities

i. The Natural World

j. Postgraduate Panel

As it is our intention to publish selected papers, participants must submit only original unpublished material, and grant the conference convenors exclusive publication rights to their paper for a period of one year following the conference. Contributors who do not submit their papers by the April 15th 2007 deadline will not be considered for publication.