Graduate Seminars

2025

• 25-11-24 Arianne Richardson, "Carnival as Cultural Policy": Exploring Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship in The Bahamas (2013-2019)

• 2025-09-12 Adrian Green, "Mix-Up Science:  Bajan Martial, Theory, Philosophy, Arts and Praxis" 

• 2025-07-30 Bianca Mona,  “Space and the Creative Imagination” 

• 2025-07-30 Adrian Green, “The Spoken Word as a Martial Art of Self-Cultivation and Intellectual Marronage” 

• 2025-07-29 Zakiya Doyle, "Growing up in slavery" - Labour and the lives of enslaved youth in Barbados 1780-1834. 

• 2025-07-29 Shernell Clarke, “Tensions in Worship Music Preferences in Pentecostal Churches in Barbados".

• 2025-07-28 John Kojo Denanjoh, "DIGITALIZING PUBLIC BROADCASTING IN GHANA": Understanding the Necessity of Digitalization and the Factors Influencing the Implementation Process.  

• 2025-07-25 Ireka Jelani, “The Healing Powers of Bush Medicine" 

• 2025-07-25 Reyda Gay,  “'Watching Pictures': A Brief History of Film and Cinema in Barbados, 1890s–1950s

• 2024-12-08 Felipe Neir Torres,  “Cimarronaje in Global Cities: Afro-Cuban Dance in Exile” 

• 2024-12-06 Courtney Anderson,  “Performance as Embodied Archive"

• 2024-12-01 Adrian Green, “Hard Ears: Cultural Studies as Academic Marronage”

• 2024-11-23 Adrian Green, "Research as Marronage and the Hard Question of Africana Consciousness."   

• 2024-11-23 Denise Springer, "Finding Utopia Through Socia Media" 

• 2024-11-09 Michelle Springer, "When the Spirit Move Muh" - Storymaking and Spirituality as Sites of Inquiry Among Black Women in Barbados

• 2024-07-30 Zakiya Doyle,  "Hot Peas and Butter": An analysis of the sociocultural lives of enslaved Barbadian youth: 1780-1834

2022

• ​2022-05-30 Dorothea Smartt, "Telling to Live: Black British Lesbian Poets & Their Poetry in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century"

2021

• 2021-03-26 Michelle Cox, "Finding What Is There": An exploration of my creatve journey towards academic writing".

Upgrade Seminars 

• 2021-06-22 Alfred Taylor, "White Church/Black Church: Space, Power and Identities in the Religious Practice of the Anglican Church in Barbados, and                         the shaping of a Post-Emancipation Society"​

• 2021-05-17  Felipe N Torres, "Urban Maroonage: Afro-Cuban Dances in Exile

• 2021-04-29  Adrian Green, "The Education of Feeling: Performative Research as Self and World Cultivation"

• 2021-04-19  Arianne Richardson, "Toward Cultural Empowerment? A Case Study of Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship in The Bahamas"

• 2021-04-15 Denise Springer, "Finding Utopia Through Social Media: Barbados Is Not Real"

Virtual Graduate Symposium: 07 May 2021

• John Denanyoh, "Digitization and Public Service Broadcasting: A Case Study of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation"

• Reyda Gay, "Watching "Pictures": Cinema, Identity and Space in Pre-Independent Barbadian Society"

• Ireka Jelani, "Use of Plants and Natural Herbs in Afro-Caribbean Cultural and Spiritual Healing Practices"

• Bianca Mona, "Black Woman as "Goddess" In Caribbean Visual Art 2000-2020."