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Dr. Brinsley Samaroo, "East Indians in the Caribbean: The Reconstruction of the Culture" Date & Time: Thursday, March 8, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Location: Amphitheatre Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108) of Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) Building, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Institute of Caribbean Studies, of the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras NOTE: English translation follows. El Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, de la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), invita a la comunidad universitaria y al público en general a la conferencia "East Indians in the Caribbean: The Reconstruction of the Culture" por el Dr. Brinsley Samaroo, Profesor de Historia, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine; Investigador, University of Trinidad and Tobago. El Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine, Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, comentará la ponencia via SKYPE. La presentación tendrá lugar el jueves, 8 de marzo, de 1:00 a 3:00 p.m., en el Anfiteatro Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108) del Edificio Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UPR-RP. *Esta presentación será transmitida en línea EN VIVO en la siguiente dirección:** **http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71*<http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71> **** *Se agradecerá el envío de comentarios y sugerencias sobre la transmisión a: **iec.ics@upr.edu* <iec.ics@upr.edu>**** *El Instituto de Estudios del Caribe en* FACEBOOK<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Instituto-de-Estudios-del-Caribe-UPR/146169468754542?ref=sgm> **** ________________________________________**** **** The Institute of Caribbean Studies, of the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture "East Indians in the Caribbean: The Reconstruction of the Culture" by Dr. Brinsley Samaroo, Professor of History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine; Research Fellow, University of Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine, College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix will comment the lecture via SKYPE. The activity will be held on Thursday, March 8, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Amphitheatre Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108) of Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) Building, Faculty of the Social Sciences, UPR-RP. *This lecture will be broadcast LIVE online through the following website: * *http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71* <http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71>*** * *Comments and suggestions on this presentation will be very welcome at: ** iec.ics@upr.edu* <iec.ics@upr.edu>**** *The Institute of Caribbean Studies in* FACEBOOK<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Instituto-de-Estudios-del-Caribe-UPR/146169468754542?ref=sgm> **** During the period 1838-1917 some 500,000 Indians were indentured to work on plantations in the British, French and Dutch Caribbean, forming part of the larger contingent of 1.5 million dispatched to other locations (Mauritius, Fiji, South Africa and the Seychelle Islands). Those in the Caribbean were cut off by the long distance from India, a situation exacerbated by time as India receded further and further away. What therefore happened was a re-construction wrought by the traumatic voyage across three oceans, the vagaries of the plantation system, freedom from 1920 and interaction with those who had preceded these girmityas (agreement signers), namely indigenous Amerindians, former African slaves, Chinese and European labourers and rulers. In this milieu there was the retention of fragments from the old civilization, syncretic creations out of the meeting of two worlds and distinctively Indo-Caribbean cultural and political formations. The lecture traces the labour situation in the Caribbean which necessitated the introduction of Indians, the push factors in Greater India, the conditions of indentureship and the evolution of an Indian identity in the Caribbean. Does the term Indian creole have any salience in this new milieu?**** Autorizado por la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones CEE-SA-12-3046**** -- Humberto García-Muñiz, Ph.D. Director Instituto de Estudios del Caribe Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras PO Box 23345 San Juan, PR 00931 tel. 764-0000, x-4212, 787-763-2943 fax 787-764-3099 emails: hgarciamuniz@gmail.com,hgarcia@prw.net
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