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IRAAS Fall 2014 Conference Call For Proposals

“Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality? Religion and the Burdens of Black Sexual Politics”

Columbia University
Institute for Research in African-American Studies
23-24 October, 2014

CFP deadline: 15 April, 2014. Please submit a detailed abstract of your paper or panel to [email protected]

On October 23-24, 2014, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University will convene Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality? Religion and the Burdens of Black Sexual Politics, a two day critical dialogue among scholars and practitioners on two topics that have often remained marginal within the broader discourses of African-American Studies: religion and sex. The conference will take place in New York City; on the campus of Columbia University and with partnering community organizations. Continue reading IRAAS Fall 2014 Conference Call For Proposals

Afro-Latin@ Shorts-Film Program

Afro-Latin@ Shorts- Film Program

Event Date : Friday, 28 February 2014 – 6:30pm-8:30pm

Location : CUNY Graduate Center (Room 9204)

365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016

The AfroLatin@ Forum will screen a series of short films representing various perspectives on Afro-Descendants across Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean. These films span a variety of themes and topics but are united in highlighting and celebrating aspects of Afro-Latin@ history, culture(s), and tradition(s). Additionally, many of the films are focused on the most important social and political justice issues affecting Afro-Latin@s today.

This event is part of the programming for our upcoming Afro-Latin@s Now! Race Counts conference.

Films to be screened: Continue reading Afro-Latin@ Shorts-Film Program

A Conversation between Therapy and Vodou

Event Date: Monday, 10 March at 6:30 p.m.

Location: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.
Rooms 9204/9205

The City College’s MA in the Study of the Americas and the PhD Program in French at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York presents:

Possession and Inspiration – Between the Psyche and the Spirits: A Conversation between Therapy and Vodou, with Gina Athena Ulysse and Craig E. Stephenson, moderated by Jerry W. Carlson.

What does it mean to inherit spiritual responsibility? What does ‘possession’ really mean, and how does it translate itself into French theory, for example, by De Certeau or Foucault? What are the correspondences between embodied practices and therapy? This conversation looks at the notion of ‘possession’ as it appears both in the Haitian Vodou context and that of European psychoanalytic theory. Although they may seem unrelated, through the originally intimate disciplinary relationship between anthropology and psychoanalysis, it is not really such a great leap to put an anthropologist and psychoanalyst in conversation. Continue reading A Conversation between Therapy and Vodou

Dark and Dangerous Fiction

Dark and Dangerous Fiction: A Reading and Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
5:00pm (***rescheduled from 6pm)

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
The New School
Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street (formerly known as Tishman)
New York, NY

The New School presents a reading and conversation with Edwidge Danticat.

Danticat is an award winning, Haitian born author who has published many celebrated novels, short stories and essays, some of which include Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); Krik Krak (1996), The Farming of Bones (2003), Brother I’m Dying (2007), and Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010). She will be reading from her latest works: the novel, Claire of the Sea Light (2013), and the collection, Haiti Noir 2 (2014). After her reading, Ms. Danticat will be joined in conversation by Rose Rejouis of Eugene Lang College.

This event is co-sponsored by Gender Studies at the New School, The School of Writing, and Women of the African Diaspora Reading Series.

*This is a free event, no reservations required.*

For more information please visit: the event announcement here.

Above adapted from email announcement.

Latin@ Cultural Studies at CUNY: Past, Present, & Future

Latin@ Cultural Studies at CUNY: Past, Present, & Future
25 April 2014
LaGuardia-CUNY
31-10 Thomson Ave. Long Island City, Queens

CFP Deadline: Proposals due 27 February 2014

This one-day conference endeavors to ignite a productive, interdisciplinary conversation among CUNY’s established and emerging scholars who are working in any field related to Latina/o (Latin@) Cultural Studies. Hosted by LaGuardia Community College-CUNY in Queens–home to one of the fastest growing and diverse Latina/o populations in the country–this conference aims to provide a space for scholars, students and community members to engage the broad range of Latina/o artistic and cultural production in New York City and across the Americas.

This landmark event will also feature a reading by writer Ernesto Quiñonez, CUNY alumnus and nationally recognized fiction writer, and remarks on the state of Latina/o Cultural Studies at CUNY by Suzanne Oboler, Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College. CUNY alumnus and playwright/director Carlos Serrano will be presenting a performance during the complimentary lunch for registered attendees provided by LaGuardia-CUNY.

For proposal formats and submission information visit the Latin@ Cultural Studies at CUNY website. CUNY faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and community members are encouraged to submit individual or group proposals.

*Free for CUNY faculty, students and community members*

The International Public Health Journal CFP

CFP deadline: Full papers due electronically by 1 May 2014

The International Public Health Journal (IPHJ) invites original contributions to a special issue on the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission among adolescents in the English speaking Caribbean. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the region is second to sub-Saharan African and the risk of HIV/AIDS has not yet peaked. Although there is an increasing trend in HIV/AIDS within the region, barriers such as lack of sexual and reproductive health information, stigma and discrimination towards gender and sexual minorities, family violence, child abuse, and small-scale economies are factors known and unknown to contribute to HIV/AIDS transmission in the Caribbean. Such factors present special complexities in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS on small island management from a multi-system perspective. The purpose of this special issue is to open a discussion on issues and threats of HIV/AIDS transmission in the English speaking Caribbean. The results from this issue will facilitate stakeholder discussion and decision-making enabling them to concentrate on sustainability, continuity and economies of scale of the programs aimed at mitigating the HIV/AIDS risk.

Moko Magazine 2014 submissions

Moko is currently seeking submissions for its next two issues. Issue two will be published in March; another issue will follow in July. Moko accepts submissions of fiction, poetry, criticism, and visual art that reflects a Caribbean heritage or experience. Issue one, published in November, featured a diverse collection of works by artists and writers from around the Caribbean region and its diaspora.

Moko accepts submissions of all varieties of unpublished creative work from artists from, or working in, the Caribbean. The journal is currently seeking more fiction and criticism (reviews, essays, and interviews) especially.

All submissions should include a brief biography along with your contact information emailed to [email protected].

Please see the Moko submission guidelines for more details.

Adapted from email announcement. Please visit the Moko website for more information.

Author: Jonelle Isaac