“Balms to the aching souls”: Caribbean migrant house parties as emotional refuge in postwar Britain, Dr Ryan Tristram-Walmsley
ESRC DTP Postdoctoral Fellow, History
12 October 2023, 1 to 3 pm, Keir Hardie 216
Using the concept of anthropologist William Reddy's "emotional refuge", this paper will track the evolution of "blues parties" – social occasions held in the homes of Caribbean migrants resident in England during the postwar period. In particular, it will focus on the social and emotional contexts which these spaces were constructed in response to, and employ a narrative which traces the changing affective atmospheres within them. Showing how these were dynamic and plastic spaces of feeling which responded to the changing circumstances and issues which prevailed within the Caribbean community in Britain in a given historical moment – for example, codes of masculinity and women's demands for inclusion – it also reveals how affective experiences within them were modified as a result of these transformations, and how cultural forms, in the shape of new musical genres, came to reflect them.
“Balms to the aching souls”: Caribbean migrant house parties as emotional refuge in postwar Britain, Dr Ryan Tristram-Walmsley
Cymrawd Ôl-ddoethurol Canolfan Hyfforddiant Doethurol yr ESRC, Hanes
12 Hydref 2023, 1 i 3pm, Keir Hardie Ystafell 216
Gan ddefnyddio cysyniad "emotional refuge" yr anthropolegydd William Reddy, bydd y papur hwn yn olrhain datblygiad y "blues parties" - digwyddiadau cymdeithasol a gynhaliwyd yng nghartrefi ymfudwyr o'r Caribî yn Lloegr ar ôl y rhyfel. Yn benodol, bydd yn canolbwyntio ar y cyd-destunau cymdeithasol ac emosiynol y crëwyd y mannau hyn mewn ymateb iddynt ac yn llunio naratif sy'n olrhain yr amgylcheddau affeithiol newidiol ynddynt. Gan ddangos sut roedd y rhain yn fannau deinamig a phlastig o deimladau a oedd yn ymateb i'r amgylchiadau a'r materion newidiol a gafwyd yn y gymuned Garibïaidd ym Mhrydain mewn eiliad hanesyddol - er enghraifft, codau gwrywdod a galwadau menywod am gael eu cynnwys - mae hefyd yn datgelu sut roedd profiadau affeithiol ynddynt yn cael eu haddasu o ganlyniad i'r trawsnewidiadau hyn, a sut daeth ffurfiau diwylliannol, ar ffurf genres cerddorol newydd, i'w hadlewyrchu nhw.
GENCAS postgraduate reading group
10am 13 October 2023 – zoom
We invite you to join the next meeeng of the gender reading group for postgraduate students, run by Ella Harford of Swansea University and Elizabeth Baca of the Curen University Gender Research Network.
GENCAS grŵp darllen i fyfyrwyr ôl-raddedig
10 13 Hydref 2023 - zoom Hoffem ni eich gwahodd i grŵp darllen i fyfyrwyr ôl-raddedig, a gynhelir gan Ella Harford o Brifysgol Abertawe ac Elizabeth Baca o Rwydwaith Ymchwil i Rywedd Prifysgol Curen. Contact Ella Harford 953291@Swansea.ac.uk for details
Gender from the Gower to the Government: humanities and policy, inaugural symposium
2-3pm 10 November 2023 - zoom
GENCAS presents its inaugural ‘policy and humaniees’ symposium. This brings the humaniees into conversaeon with policy makers on an area of pressing social importance and pioneering research. We are delighted that this year we will be hoseng Carolyn Harris MP, Dr Jill Kirby (University of Sussex) and Dr Veronika Schuchter (University of Oxford) for a discussion that brings together policy, historical and literary perspeceves of the menopause.
Gender from the Gower to Government: humanities and policy, Symposiwm Agoriadol
2-3, 10 Tachwedd 2023 - zoom
Mae GENCAS yn cyflwyno ei symposiwm agoriadol ar ‘bolisi a’r dyniaethau’. Mae hyn yn cynnwys y dyniaethau yn y sgwrs â llunwyr polisi ar faes o bwysigrwydd cymdeithasol ac ymchwil arloesol. Rydym yn hynod falch y byddwn eleni’n croesawu Carolyn Harris, AS, Dr Jill Kirby (Prifysgol Sussex) a Dr Veronika Schuchter (Prifysgol Rhydychen) am drafodaeth a fydd yn dod â sapwyneau am bolisi, sapwyneau hanesyddol a llenyddol am y menopos ynghyd.
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