Nassau, Bahamas - St Lucian Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott is scheduled to give the
Anatol Rodgers Memorial Lecture (ARML) in Nassau, Bahamas, on
Thursday,
November 12 at 7pm.
“Art, Politics and Caribbean Culture: An Evening
with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott,” which is free and open to the
public, will take place at the College of the Bahamas’ Performing Arts
Centre on Poinciana Drive. The evening ends with a book signing.
“It is truly an honor for the College to have Nobel Laureate Derek
Walcott as our special guest for this year’s Anatol Rodgers Memorial
Lecture Series,” said Chair of the School of English Studies, Dr.
Marjorie Brooks-Jones. “One of the most prolific writers of our time,
Walcott represents the very best of Caribbean artistry, intellectual
achievement and culture. His visit to the College is a once in a
lifetime opportunity not to be missed.”
The ARML was established four years ago by the College’s School of
English Studies to provide opportunities for students, faculty, staff
and the public to hear from the region’s most talented and well-known
writers. In 2005 Haitian American scholar and author Joanne Hyppolite
gave the first presentation. Guyanese poet Fred D’Aguiar, Jamaican
Scholar Dr. Carolyn Cooper and Ghanaian writer and Emmy Award winner
Kwame Dawes spoke each subsequent year. Both D’Aguiar and Dawes held
writing workshops for students and writers in addition to giving
lectures. The series honors the late educator Anatol Rodgers, the first
female and third Bahamian principal of the Government High School.
Rodgers was an English teacher with a passion for the subject who
touched the lives of generations of some of the country’s outstanding
citizens. Her family’s support of the series enables the College to
host internationally renowned scholars and writers each year.
Dr. Brooks-Jones expressed the School’s pleasure with the growth of
the series, the offshoot of outreach efforts that began as early as
1979 when the College hosted Jamaican writer John Hearne. “I’ve always
been struck by the desire, the wish of people, to listen to and to
participate in conversation with scholars and artists, and that’s
really a service that we try to provide,” said Brooks-Jones. On Friday,
November 13, The Construction Seminar Group hosts Walcott at the
Bahamas Culinary & Hospitality Management Lecture Theatre. There he
will give the keynote address on the issue of “The Impact of Foreign
Direct Investment on the Development of the Caribbean.” The
registration fee is $100.
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