Symposium on Tourism For Development: Illusion or Solution?

The European Union and Overseas Countries and Territories: The Search for a New Relationship

SALISES and
the Faculty of Social Sciences

present a seminar on

The European Union and Overseas Countries and Territories: The Search for a New Relationship

with Professor Paul Sutton

The seminar takes place at SALISES, Conference Room 1, on Wednesday, March 28, between 3.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m.

Prof. Sutton has written and consulted widely on the Caribbean region, including the non-independent territories.  He was Senior Professor in Caribbean Studies at the Caribbean Studies Centre of London Metropolitan University, until his recent retirement. He also taught at Hull University from 1973-2004. Prof. Sutton was a consultant to the West Indian Commission, The Caribbean Council of Europe, the European Centre for Development Policy Management and the Government of the Netherlands. He was also a founding member and former Chair of the UK-based Society of Caribbean Studies which promotes the academic study of the Caribbean. He was also a member of the Caribbean Advisory Group 1997-2001 appointed by the British government to advise on policy on the Caribbean.

This seminar is part of SALISES’ schedule of activities within its umbrella ‘Fifty-Fifty’ research project, which seeks to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of independence of the Commonwealth Caribbean, beginning with Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The project engages a wide range of academics and academic institutions in reflecting on the last 50 years of independence and projecting on the challenges and opportunities that may arise over the next fifty.

All are invited

Fifty years of Jamaican Independence: Developments and Impacts--Keynote Address by Professor Brian Meeks