{"id":1759,"date":"2020-11-06T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T10:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2020-11-06T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T10:40:33","slug":"sugar-sugar-the-taste-of-colonialism-poetry-vs-colonialism-workshop-being-human-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/sugar-sugar-the-taste-of-colonialism-poetry-vs-colonialism-workshop-being-human-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar, Sugar: The Taste of Colonialism. Poetry vs Colonialism Workshop (Being Human 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"has-user-generated-content\" data-automation=\"about-this-event-sc\">\n<div class=\"structured-content-rich-text structured-content__module l-align-left l-mar-vert-6 l-sm-mar-vert-4 text-body-medium\">\n<p>It may taste delicious and sweet but how sweet is the history of sugar? Learn about the interlinked histories of slavery, sugar plantations, processing, export and consumption from academic Dr Malcolm Cocks, Dulwich College and the University of the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll consider the taste of sugar in its different states and see what raw sugar cane plants and sugar beet looks like. Appreciate the art of spun sugar and sugar sculptures. Meet Jamaican British poet Keith Jarrett and work with him to produce responses to the sickly taste of colonialism and dark futures of sugar.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the series \u2018Poetry Versus Colonialism\u2019 which is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Being Human Festival 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may taste delicious and sweet but how sweet is the history of sugar? Learn about the interlinked histories of slavery, sugar plantations, processing, export and consumption from academic Dr Malcolm Cocks, Dulwich College and the University of the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>Book your place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/sugar-sugar-the-taste-of-colonialism-tickets-117736925313\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the series \u2018Poetry Versus Colonialism\u2019 which is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/beinghumanfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Being Human Festival 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}