MIAMI, Fla. (Aug.
27, 2002) -- Three experts in the field of women and politics
in the Caribbean will lead a panel discussion at Florida International
University as part of the African-New World Studies Department’s
fourth-annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture set for Fri.,
Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m. at FIU-University Park’s Wertheim
Performing Arts Center.
Participants will be:
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Cynthia Pratt
Deputy Prime Minister
Minister of National Security, Bahamas |
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Mia Mottley
Attorney General
Minister of Home Affairs, Barbados |
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Beverley Anderson-Manley
Former First Lady of Jamaica
Authority in gender issues and communications
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The forum, titled Women,
Politics and the Caribbean, will be moderated by Colin
Palmer, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, who
is currently writing a biography of Williams. The panel discussion
is free and open to the public.
Carole Boyce Davies, director of FIU’s African-New World
Studies program, said she sees the event as a complement to the
three prior lectures. “We are fortunate that this lecture
will feature several Caribbean women of prominence who will have
an opportunity to present their ideas and solutions to today’s
problems,” said Boyce Davies. “We feel this lecture
promises to be one of the most intellectually stimulating to date.”
The memorial lecture, which was inaugurated by American historian
John Hope Franklin, is named after Trinidad and Tobago’s
first prime minister and internationally renowned scholar, Eric
Williams. Williams is best known for writing Capitalism and Slavery,
published in 1944. “The Williams
Thesis” was cited in the New York Times Book Review (1997)
as continuing to be on “the cutting edge of slave trade
research in academic circles.”
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Eric Williams Memorial Collection
(University of the West Indies), which was dedicated in 1998 by
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The collection has been
named to UNESCO’s prestigious Memory of the World Register.
For more information call Rosa Henriquez, 305-919-5521 or Erica
Williams Connell, 305-271-7246.
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