The Msgr. Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre (FRC) will present a lecture by Professor Claire Robertson of Ohio State University, as part of its contribution to the Nobel Laureate Festival 2018.

The lecture titled “Saint Lucia's Revolutionary History” takes place at the FRC headquarters at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29.

Professor Claire Robertson’s work covers specialties in African and Women’s History, with much interest in the Caribbean. Her affiliation with the Msgr. Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre greatly facilitated her research. She is strongly committed to the use of oral history to illuminate the history of ordinary people whose stories are often extraordinary but all too often ignored.

Prof. Claire Robertson's most recent book titled “Gwan Moun sé Wimed (Elders are Medicine)—Life Stories from Twentieth Century Saint Lucia,” is her rendering of the life stories of 57 elderly Saint Lucians from all over Saint Lucia, as related to her in the early 2000s.

She is Professor Emerita of History and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies from Ohio State University, also adjunct professor at Indiana University in the US. This work makes her eighth book—two of them have won book prizes. She has also published over 55 articles, many of which deal with slavery in Africa and the Americas, but also with African market women and systems, based on research in Ghana and Kenya. Two of her articles relate specifically to Saint Lucia: “Racism, the Military, and Abolitionism in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Caribbean,” Jl. of Military History 77, 2 (April, 2013): 433-61, and "Claiming Freedom: Abolition and Identity in Saint Lucian History," Jl. of Caribbean History 34, 1-2 (2001): 89-129.

The general public is invited to attend the lecture.

Attached is the program of activities for the 2018 Nobel Laureate Festival.