Visit by Professor David Scott
NOVEMBER 25-27, 2008

Professor David Scott, a Jamaican by birth, is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University where he specializes in the study of Caribbean and South Asian culture and Postcolonial thought more broadly.  The editor of Small Axe , he has published several seminal works of Caribbean thought, including Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil (University of Minnesota Press, 1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (Princeton, 1999) and, more recently, Conscripts of Modernity: the Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Duke UP, 2004). 

Schedule:

• Public lecture entitled “Norms of Self-Determination”,
  Tuesday, November 25, from 8 pm (Room ALT)
  
  
• The 3rd Workshop on Caribbean Theory devoted to his work,
  Wednesday, November 26, 2-5 pm (Dean’s Meeting Room)
  
• Meeting with Students
  Thursday, November 27, 10.30 to 12.00 noon (Room A27)
  

For further Information on David Scott, visit:

• http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/scott/faculty.html
• http://www.phillwebb.net/regions/caribbean/Scott/Scott.htm

For further information, please contact Dr Richard Clarke <richard.clarke (at) cavehill.uwi.edu>