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interested and informed audience who are willing to discuss the arguments offered. We have retained most of our former participants despite shifting the Seminar’s longstanding Friday time slot, from 3 p.m. to 2 p.m., so that attendance should no longer clash for colleagues who keep a Friday Sabbath. Last year our speakers included a faculty member from the Cayman Islands University, and we also had regular attendance from colleagues at Cave Hill and St. Augustine. There is room to widen participation to include Historians at the Northern Caribbean University and the Teachers’ Colleges. I hope that running this seminar, where Dr. Peters undertook increasing amounts of the work, may yet form a useful recruiting tool, alerting faculty advisors from the region’s undergraduate programs in History and in Archaeology to the presence and vitality the Department of History & Archae- ology offers as a graduate program for the region. Our broader outreach has come from the former Talking History Saturday morning radio show that Professor Verene Shepherd kindly handed over to the Depart- ment. Renamed ‘History for Tomorrow’, the program is an invaluable resource and offers opportunities for colleagues to discuss their own work and well as offer historically-informed insights onto current events. It is also a useful resource for radio-journalism students in the History & Journalism program.
This year the Department’s outreach extended to offering the 38 th Annual Goveia Lecture as an in-person lecture by a non-Jamaican-based researcher. This used to be lavishly funded by the University Administration – whose spending is now channeled in different ways. The Department is told to conjure-up sponsors, which would probably have been considerably easier to start doing twenty or thirty years ago. The up-hill challenge will have to be attended. We did receive useful plugs on some of the island’s radio shows over the preceding weekend and attendees told me that that was how they heard of the event. This year we were able to recruit
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