By Nicole Burrowes
Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her current book project, Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana, explores the historical possibility of a struggle forged at the edge of empire in the midst of economic, political and environmental crises.
This week, on May 5 and May 6, 2022, “The Many Worlds of Mainland ‘British Latin America’” Symposium will be held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in New Jersey. Co-hosted by the Rutgers British Studies Center and Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, this hybrid event will bring together scholars who work on the region and reckon with the British presence and legacy in the mainland Caribbean and Latin America. Gauitra Bahadur, author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, and currently Assistant Professor and Journalism Program Coordinator in the Faculty of Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers University will give the keynote address entitled “Tales of the Sea,” on Thursday, and Alissa Trotz, Professor of Caribbean Studies and Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto and editor of The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings by Andaiye, will offer closing comments to the gathering on Friday. In addition to hearing from these daughters of Guyana, there will be much of interest for a Guyanese and regional audience.
