The Centre for Caribbean Thought, UWI, Mona and Africana Studies, Brown University in association with the Department of Literatures in English, UWI, Mona will host a seminar called Caribbean Reasonings.  The seminar is the second in a series of annual events to honour outstanding Caribbean intellectuals and will be held from June 5 to 7, on the Mona Campus.  This year the honoured guest is outstanding Barbadian Novelist and Social Critic George Lamming, Visiting Scholar, Duke University.  The seminar is entitled – the Sovereignty of the Imagination: the Writings and Thought of George Lamming.  Lamming, among the giants of the post war generation of Caribbean writers has published some six novels – In the Castle of My Skin; The Emigrants; Of Age and Innocence; Season of Adventure; Water with Berries; and Natives of My Person.  The year 2003 also marks the fiftieth anniversary of In the Castle of My Skin, perhaps the quintessential novel about growing up in the late colonial Caribbean.  Some twenty outstanding Caribbean intellectuals and Lamming Scholars will be attending the seminar and presenting a variety of papers addressing the many dimensions of Lamming’s work.  Special guest speaker at the opening of the seminar will be world-renowned Kenyan Novelist Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.  He is famous for his many prize-winning novels associated with the struggle for national liberation and human rights in Africa including a Grain of Wheat, the River between, Petals of Blood and Matigari.   Wa Thiong’o is presently Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine and Director of its International Centre for Writing and Translation.  The public is invited, free of cost.  All enquiries may be directed to Adlyn Smith at the Department of Government, telephone 876-9