"Problem-Spaces: the Work of David Scott," 3rd Workshop on Caribbean Theory, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, November 26, 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 (U of Minnesota P, 1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (Princeton UP, 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)
• 3rd Workshop on Caribbean Theory devoted to his work, Wednesday, November 26, 2-5 pm (Dean’s Meeting Room)

For further information, visit: http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/SpecialEvents/DScott.htm.