This symposium will gather scholars and artists discussing the figure of José Antonio Aponte and the art exhibit on view at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center from 23 February to 4 May, Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom.
Symposium:
Friday, 23 February
9:00am–5:00pm
King Juan Carlos I Center
New York University
53 Washington Sq S
New York, NY
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP online here
Book Launch: Katia D. Ulysse presents Mouths Don’t Speak
In conversation with Ibi Zoboi
Thursday, 11 January
7:30 PM
Greenlight Bookstore in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
632 Flatbush Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Event details:
Greenlight Bookstore and Haiti Cultural Exchange Host Book Launch for Pushcart Prize Nominee Continue reading
The Jamaican 1970s: A Symposium
Thursday, 28 September – Friday, 29 September 2017
The Graduate Center, CUNY and Columbia University
Livestream links: Thursday; Friday
Program
Thursday, 28 September
The Skylight Room, Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
1:00-1:30pm: Opening remarks: Don Robotham
1:30-2:15pm: Opening remarks: Donette Francis
2:30-4:30pm: The Popular
Rachel Mordecai, On Reading Jamaica Inc., Seriously: Sensational(ist) Seventies Literature
Eddie Chambers, Jamaica’s influence on the making of Black Britain
5:00-6:00pm: Monuments
Petrina Dacres, Sculpture, Architectural Modernism and Memory in 1970s Jamaica
6:00pm: CUNY reception
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Friday, 29 September:
The Heyman Center, Columbia University
74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027
10:00-12:00pm: Sustaining Social Movements
Kimberly Robinson-Walcott, “Black Man Time Now!” Race, Class, and Culture in 1970s Jamaica
Rupert Lewis, The Jamaican Left: Dogmas, Theories, and Politics, 1974-1980
1:30-3:30pm: Autobiographical Reflections
Honor Ford Smith, Performance, Decolonization and Life Stories: Sistren Theatre Collective and the Search for Radical Alternatives in the Present
Brian Meeks, Reading the Seventies in a Different Stylie: Dub Poetry and the Urgency of Message
4:00-6:00pm: General Conversation
Don Robotham and David Scott
A collaboration between the University of Miami, the CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and the Small Axe Project.
Image adapted from flyer.
Challenging Land-Locked Cultural Geographies: The Relational Turn in Island Studies and the Barbados Landship
Jonathan Pugh
Professor of Geography at Newcastle University
Thursday, 21 September 21 2017
12:00–1:20pm
Tillett Hall 230
Livingston Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Continue reading
Brooklyn Book Festival
11-17 September 2017
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
Below are a list of Caribbean-related events and panels before and during the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, 17 September. The list may be incomplete. Events are listed in chronological order.
All events free unless otherwise noted.
The Humanities and Technology Camp in the Caribbean (THATCamp Caribe)
3 October 2017
10 am – 4 pm
Alma Jordan Memorial Library
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
The third THATCamp Caribe will take place at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, in partnership with The 36th Annual West Indian Literature Conference. Continue reading
The Work of Paule Marshall Today
A Special issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Volume 14, Issue 1 (2017)
The Work of Paule Marshall Today
Kelly Baker Josephs
“You have permission to do this” : John Keene Reflects on Paule Marshall’s Influence
John Keene
Ghosts in the Posthuman Machine: Prostheses and Performance in The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
Justin Haynes
Paule Marshall Reimagining Caliban and Prospero in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
Shirley D. Toland-Dix
“Threads thin to the point of invisibility, yet strong as ropes” : Afrofuturistic Diaspora in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow
Janelle Rodriques
The Profane Ear: Regimes of Aural Discipline in Paule Marshall’sThe Fisher King
Petal Samuel
“Her Special Music”: Wild Women and Jazz in Paule Marshall’sThe Fisher King
Patricia G. Lespinasse
Water, Roads, and Mapping Diaspora Through Biomythography
Lia T. Bascomb
“How You Mean?” Speech, Resistance, and the Contemporary Relevance of Paule Marshall
Jason T. Hendrickson
9-12 November 2017
Organized by University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in collaboration with the Institute of Jamaica
CFP deadlines: 250-word abstracts and short bio due 1 August 2017; presentation papers due 1 October 2017 imaginekingston2017@gmail.com
The restoration of old, historic, depressed or derelict quarters of cities is a common feature of social, economic, aesthetic and environmental development strategies around the world.
Restoration and regeneration are often used as the basis to catalyse and to chart pathways for economic growth and renewal, to pioneer new sectors of social and economic endeavours, and to cultivate pride and civic feeling in a people’s existential journey. The scholarship and expertise in this area are growing globally and providing governments/policy makers, investors/entrepreneurs, citizens and various publics with knowledge, advice, training/agential capacity, building facilities and skills for urban renewal, regeneration and a multiplicity of possibilities, including imagining and realizing new exciting urban spatial creations alongside the iconising of spaces. Continue reading
The Caribbean Memory Project and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture present “Everyday Archive: Caribbean Edition,” a day devoted to archiving the Caribbean.
1 April 2017
2pm-4pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, New York 10037
From event description:
Do you have archival materials related to and/or from the Caribbean in your personal collection? Bring them into the Schomburg for this fun-filled workshop with The Caribbean Memory Project! Dawn Cumberbatch and Kevin A. Browne will be with us for a day filled of storytelling, document scanning, and archival collection organizing!
RSVP via eventbrite here.
Image from eventbrite announcement.
Commemorating 1917: A Discussion of Citizenship and Freedom in Caribbean Literature
Call for submissions to a special section in sx salon: a small axe literary platform
CFP deadlines: Proposals due 1 June 2017 and full articles due 31 August 2017.
Call for Papers
The Digital Black Atlantic anthology
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors
CFP Deadline: 500-Word Abstracts due by 1 April 2017
Part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series
A book series from the University of Minnesota Press
Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Series Editors
Call for papers
Maroons and the African Diaspora: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Conference
22-25 June 2017
Asafu Yard, Charles Town
Portland, Jamaica
CFP deadline: 1 March 2017
The Charles Town International Maroon Conference seeks papers and performances from scholars, artists, and activists interested in examining Maroon traditions in a contemporary global context. This year’s conference theme explores connections between Maroons or marronage and the African Diaspora around the world, emphasizing the productivity and persistence of indigenous knowledge, its origin, transformation, and its potential to sustain future generations. Presentations from all fields and genres are welcome, including history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, geography, education, literature, film, and the arts. Participants will work closely with each other and the Maroons of Charles Town to explore the relevance of indigenous knowledge to contemporary life. Continue reading
Summer School
Caribbean Literature and Globalisation
University of Konstanz, 02-05 August 2017
Applications due: 28 February 2017
Call for Applications
Since the initial phase of accelerated globalisation, the Caribbean has been affected by the clash of Amerindian, European and African cultures. Added to these later on were Asian and North American cultures, making the Caribbean a unique place in the study of hybridisation, creolisation and transculturation processes that have arisen since the end of the 20th and beginning of 21st centuries. Countries in the Caribbean, and their respective societies, are at the heart of complex transnational networks that tie together a multitude of inter- and extra-Caribbean spaces within a constant circulation of people, cultural artefacts and knowledge. This flux has intensified with the radical changes that have come about in the fields of technology, economics, politics, and languages. The expansion of the world wide and digital revolution have once again highlighted how the Caribbean is interwoven with other parts of the world, creating at the same time new possibilities of connection between the Caribbean and its other diasporas. Our summer school will attempt to analyse effect of globalisation processes on the current field of Caribbean literature. Continue reading
The Caribbean Digital III
2 December 2016
Maison Française | Columbia University
Additional pre-conference workshop on Thursday, 1 December, 4-6PM at the Studio@Butler for an information session and workshop devoted to multimedia mapping project In the Same Boats: Toward an Intellectual Cartography of the Afro-Atlantic.
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