Below are announcements for Spring 2013 events to be held by Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. For more information about any of these events, contact Donavan Ramon (donavanramon@gmail.com).

 

1) CRITICAL CARIBBEAN STUDIES, THEORY AND THE DISCIPLINES BROWN BAG SERIES:

THE CALENDAR FOR THE SPRING 2013 BROWN BAG SERIES is as follows (unless otherwise noted, all Brown Bag events are at noon in the CCS seminar room in Corwin B, Douglass campus):
February 20: Strategic Meeting of CCS Affiliates @ noon
February 27: Visit @ noon with H. Adlai Murdoch, author of CREOLIZING THE METROPOLE: MIGRANT CARIBBEAN IDENTITIES IN LITERATURE AND FILM (Indiana UP, 2012) — (in conjunction with his lecture at 4:30, 2/27, organized by Nelson Maldonado Torres and the Critical Caribbean Studies, Theory and the Disciplines Cluster);
March 13: Talk @ noon entitled “Archipelagic Colonial Spaces: The Spread of Disciplinary Institutions in Puerto Rico and the US Insular Territories,” by Lanny Thompson, author of IMPERIAL ARCHIPELAGO: REPRESENTATION AND THE RULE IN THE INSULAR TERRITORIES UNDER US DOMINION AFTER 1898 (U of Hawaii Press, 2010) — (in conjunction with his lecture at 4:30, 3/13, in the Pane Room, Alexander Library, organized by Yolanda Martinez San Miguel and the Archipelagic Studies and Creolization Cluster);
March 27: Talk @ noon entitled “Notes Toward Decolonizing ‘Gender’: Conversations in Methodology” by Xhercis Mendez (Binghamton, PhD student) — organized by Yolanda;
April 17: Discussion @ noon of paper titled, “Archipelagic Diaspora, Geographical Form, and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” by ” Brian Russell Roberts, author of ARTISTIC AMBASSADORS: LITERARY AND INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF THE NEW NEGRO ERA (U of Virginia Press, 2013) — (in conjunction with his classroom visit and discussion of “Archipelagic American Studies” at 4:30, 4/15, organized by Michelle Stephens and the Archipelagic Studies and Creolization Cluster);
April 24: Talk @ noon by Jean Beauchamp (University of Paris 8, PhD student, Political Philosophy) — organized by Donavan Ramon and the Graduate Affiliates Group;

 

2) CCS LECTURES:

In addition to the lectures by H. Adlai Murdoch (2/27), Lanny Thompson (3/13) and Brian Russell Roberts (4/ 15):

Monday, February 11th, 6:15 pm, Murray Hall 207, College Campus: Yarimar Bonilla and the Caribbean Colonialities Cluster are trying to bring self-described multi-media historian Vincent Brown, author of THE REAPER’S GARDEN: DEATH AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (Harvard UP, 2010), to give a lecture on his use of GSI and other mapping technologies for his work in the archives tracking Caribbean rebellions and his work in the digital world more broadly.

 

3) CCS ONE DAY CONFERENCE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CARIBBEAN SOUND

Friday, April 26th: Carter Mathes and the Caribbean Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics Cluster, with the help and co–sponsorship of Carlos Fernandez and CLAC, are organizing an intellectual gathering that brings together Caribbean Studies scholars working in the fields of music and sound studies to present their scholarship and engage in a day of conversations regarding the aesthetics and politics of sonic culture, music, and performance within and emanating from the Caribbean archipelago.

 

4) CO-SPONSORED CONFERENCES:

Also put on your calendars these spring conferences on Caribbean material that CCS is helping to sponsor:

i) March 7-9: Writing Through the Visual/ Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean (organized by Renée Larrier (CCS member) & Ousseina Alidou at the Center for African Studies);

ii) March 28-29: Curating Guantanamo (organized by Andy Urban, American Studies).

iii) April 12: Re-visiting Images and identities: Thirty years of Puerto Rican Literature (organized @ Rutgers University–Newark by Yolanda Martinez San Miguel and