CFP for a special issue of Radical History Review #123

Abstract Deadline: 1 February 2014

Abstracts (300 words)  to be submitted electronically as an attachment to [email protected] with “Issue 123 submission” in the subject line.

Full paper deadline: 1 July 2014
From the CFP:

This special issue will contemplate empire as a global process involving sexualized subjects and objects. Contributions from across several disciplines will reconsider the history of sex and (or in) empire, critically engaging scholars’ recounting of those pasts in recent decades. From steam ships to steam rooms and sweat lodges to sweat shops, processes of pleasures and desire shaped the regulation and classification of bodies. On beaches, in boardrooms, from temples to taverns, sexual practices have always shaped imperial power relations. And in the many places and relationships where colonialism still shapes economics (slavery, debt peonage, underemployment, and their legacies), sex and sexuality remain a driving—if sometimes compounding or hidden—force in power relations. Continue reading Sexing Empire

Kevin Browne, author of Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean, seeks chapter proposals for an anthology project on Caribbean rhetoric currently titled: Islands in the Mainstream: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caribbean Rhetoric

Deadlines: 30 Nov 2013 for proposals; 31 August 2014 for full papers.

Call for Papers

Proposals are sought from scholars, teachers, practitioners, and researchers in rhetoric, communication, literature, Caribbean studies, indigenous studies, diaspora studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and the visual and performing arts for contributions that explore aspects of Caribbean rhetorical expression from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, original essays are sought that will contribute to and fortify emerging work in the study of Caribbean rhetoric by envisioning the scope and dimension of what such work might entail. Such essays will engage, challenge, and move beyond the traditional perimeter of rhetorical analysis, encompassing the epistemic, pedagogical, and public work that occurs in a broad range of Caribbean texts: oral/aural, visual, scribal, tactile, digital, environmental, supernatural, etc.. Essays about the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean are strongly encouraged, though authors are asked to submit their proposals (and their essays, if accepted) in English, except in the case of specialized terms, phrases, and concepts (annotated accordingly).

The first of its kind to specifically consider the rhetoric of Caribbean cultural production from interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection will provide scholars, teachers, and students with innovative approaches for discussing the range of motives, histories, and social realities that necessitate inquiry and inclusion in rhetorical studies. Similarly, it will contribute to Caribbean studies and other disciplines represented in the volume by providing a dynamic set of robust rhetorical theories for reading Caribbean culture. In addition to defining theoretical parameters for reading Caribbean rhetoric and exploring areas of practice for further research, contributors will be encouraged to consider the pedagogical implications of their ideas. This can include developing curricula (introductory, intermediate, or advanced courses in rhetorical education among undergraduate writing majors, or courses that respond to particular writing-intensive programs, writing centers, or Writing Across the Curriculum), community literacy/publishing initiatives (ongoing or envisioned), or research studies (archival, ethnographic, qualitative, quantitative, etc.) on projects that engage students on matters of Caribbean import. Essays that are collaboratively authored by faculty and students and/or faculty and professionals are particularly welcome.

While the following list is not exhaustive, possible chapters may fall within these broad categories: Continue reading Islands in the Mainstream – CFP

46th Annual Association of Caribbean Historians Conference,
Martinique, 2014
11 May – 16 May 2014

CFP Deadline: 1 October 2013

Call for Papers and Advance Information

The Executive Committee is pleased to receive paper and panel applications for next year’s conference. Members suggested a number of themes at this year’s Annual General Meeting in Belize. While papers on these ideas are encouraged, please note that applicants are welcome to submit proposals about other subjects or ideas.

Suggested themes include:

• World War I in the Caribbean
• Digital Resources, Online History and Archeology
• Gender and Women’s Studies Continue reading Association of Caribbean Historians Conference 2014

CFP deadlines: abstracts due 30 September; accepted papers due 30 May.

Dr. Lynda Mannik (see bio below) is seeking original chapters for a collection tentatively titled, Migration by Boat: theories, politics, and memories, which will explore ocean travel undertaken by refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants as a space and place where cultures intersect, and national boundaries and identities are reshaped, both in painful and creative ways. Migration by boat can symbolically be aligned with notions of deterritorialization that often support fears, yet also allow for renegotiations of identity, memory and feelings. Contributions from a multidisciplinary cohort are welcome. Authors are encouraged to submit provocative original writing (conceptual, empirical or theoretical) that emphasizes how migration by boat is remembered and represented; effects individual and social or cultural identity; and challenges or reinforces cultural or social structures.  Continue reading Migration by Boat: theories, politics, and memories

The Meaning of Blackness / Significance of Being Black

University of Costa Rica
San Pedro, Costa Rica
3-6 February 2014

Keynote addresses by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sir Hilary Beckles, Toyin Falola, and Paul E. Lovejoy

CFP deadline: Not noted. Please contact Paul Lovejoy <[email protected]> for more information.

Proposals for papers will only be considered if they fit within one of the themes. Proposals must be accompanied by an abstract and short c.v. Continue reading The Meaning of Blackness / Significance of Being Black

Aimé Césaire/La Négritude: Poetics, Africana History/Identities, and Political Thoughts
October 16-17, 2013
Howard University (Washington, DC)

CFP deadline: Proposals due electronically by 30 September 2013

On 16-17 October 2013, Howard University will host an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the centenary of the birth of Aimé Césaire, one of the founders of the movement of Négritude. The organizers invite individual papers or group proposals from the various disciplines that contribute to Césaire’s paradigm shifts in black poetics, black aesthetics, and political thoughts/theories, as well as from individuals and groups engaged in artistic, political, and intellectual work outside the academy, including writers, artists, and community activists.

Suggested topics for proposals include:

• Africa in Césaire
• Césaire and African and African Diaspora Writers Continue reading Aimé Césaire/La Négritude

“A Splice of Space and Time”: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamau Brathwaite
Critical Caribbean Symposium 2013
College of The Bahamas, Nassau Bahamas
November 22-23

CFP Deadline: Abstracts due 4 October 2013. Submit electronically to [email protected]

“A Splice of Space and Time”: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamau Brathwaite

Since the early 1950s, Kamau Brathwaite has been one of the leading producers of Caribbean cultural and intellectual discourses. Not just an award winning poet, the richness of Brathwaite’s verse is paralleled only by the depth of his scholarly essays in literary criticism, cultural theory, and history. With groundbreaking works including Four Plays for Primary Schools (1964), Rights of Passage (1967), Black + Blues (1976), Roots (1993), The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820 (1971), and History of the Voice (1986), Braithwaite’s place as a major contemporary poet, philosopher and original literary voice of the Caribbean has been well-established. Continue reading Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamau Brathwaite

New York History: A Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, invites submissions for an issue devoted to race and New York in the twentieth century.

Submission deadline: 15 November 2013. Submissions to be submitted electronically to [email protected]

All papers based on the general topic of race and New York in the twentieth century will be considered. Especially welcome are essays examining understudied histories of race and New York, articles complicating the black/white dichotomy, studies on race outside of New York City, emerging and exciting historiographies, including whiteness studies, black power studies, and civil rights activism before Brown, as well as histories shedding light on pressing social issues in our time, such as immigration, mass incarceration, institutional racism, affirmative action, to name a few. Essays analyzing shifts in conceptions and applications of race and racism are also desirable. Continue reading Race and New York in the twentieth century

National Council for Black Studies
38th Annual Conference

March 5-8, 2014
Miami, FL

CFP deadline: 11 January 2014. Submissions accepted electronically here.

NCBS is accepting abstracts for individual paper, poster, panel, session, roundtable discussion, workshop, town hall meeting that explore the Black experience locally, nationally, and/or globally from a variety of perspectives. Of particular interest are presentations that comparatively explore these experiences, as well as those that examine the discipline of Africana/Black Studies using multi-layered frameworks and methodologies. Papers that incorporate various combinations of race/nationality, class, gender, and sexuality, through the lens of but not limited to Afrocentric, cross and multicultural, diasporic, feminist, post-colonial, post-modernist or transnational interpretative schemes are welcomed. Send a 150-400 word abstract for a panel (one for the panel subject and one for each panelist), and/or individual paper and poster presentations. For roundtable discussions submit a 500 word abstract that explores the discussion topic.

Audio-visual needs (e.g. powerpoint, monitors, TV, etc…)–presenters have to contract equipment from their institution or the hotel –NCBS will not be responsible for supplying presenters with equipment.

Submissions due by 11 January 2014

All conference presenters must pre-register for the conference.

Information taken from NCBS website. Please see the full CFP for more details and contact information.

 

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) has been awarded a grant from the Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund to develop a mobile augmented reality project called “Mi Querido Barrio” or “My Beloved Barrio.”

“Mi Querido Barrio” is an exhibition with both physical and virtual components, mapping an historic and cultural tour of El Barrio to foster greater awareness of the cultural history of the area’s (NYC) long-standing residents. The works of intergenerational artists in both traditional media and augmented reality will explore the concept of home/community in a global reality.

The physical exhibition will document the lives of 5 families with a generational history of living in El Barrio. The virtual exhibition will place virtual computer graphic artworks and environments throughout the neighborhood of Spanish Harlem as a means to reflect upon El Barrio’s past, present and future in cultural memory, history, fantasy, and reality.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
No deadline for submission stated. Full CFP available here.

The CCCADI will be identifying four artists to participate in a workshop to learn the new technology of augmented reality and use these new skills to create site-specific virtual artworks and environments landmarking the history and culture of East Harlem/El Barrio. Continue reading Mi Querido Barrio: An Augmented Reality Art Project

Language Speaks Us: Language(s) and Identity
The College English Association—Caribbean Chapter Conference
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
14-15 March 2014

CFP deadline: abstracts (100-200 words) due by 30 September 2013 to [email protected]

The College English Association—Caribbean Chapter welcomes proposals for presentations in English (20-minute papers) for their 2014 conference, which will be held at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, on 14-15 March 2014. This event will be an opportunity to discuss the ways in which texts are conceived, nurtured and produced, and received by the public, in both historical and contemporary contexts. “Text” is to be interpreted broadly and comprises literature, nonfiction, essays, advertisements, maps, music, film, poetry, tweets, visual and performing arts, facebook posts, SMS and IMs, and many other tracts. Conference papers will be considered for publication in a volume of essays.

Possible topics, among others: Continue reading Language Speaks Us

The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies is seeking book reviewers for two issues scheduled to be published in 2014.  The journal covers topics on imperialism, neo-imperialism, postcolonialism, transnationalism, and globalization from gendered perspectives.

Interested reviewers may suggest freshly published books or may contact the journal for book assignments. Reviews would be due by December 2013.

Please contact the book review editor directly with questions or review queries:

Nandita Ghosh
[email protected]
Associate Professor of English
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ 07940

The 46th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH)
Fort-de-France and Schœlcher in Martinique
11 May – 16 May, 2014

CFP Deadline: Proposals due by 1 October 2013.

The ACH Executive Committee is accepting paper and panel applications for The 46th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians.  Members suggested a number of themes at this year’s Annual General Meeting in Belize.  While papers on these ideas are encouraged, please note that applicants are welcome to submit proposals about other subjects or ideas.

Suggested themes include: Continue reading Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference

Multiple Textualities: Imagining the Caribbean Nation
College of the Bahamas
10-12 October 2013

Deadline EXTENDED: 50-100 word abstracts due by 4 August 2013. 

From the Call for Papers:

Charles V. Carnegie in his multimodal text, Postcolonialism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands, argues that “nationalism both presumes and demands a fundamental sameness, whether through a common pledge of loyalty to a set of civic principles or through supposedly shared primordial characteristics such as language or ethnicity.” His text urges Caribbeanists to question the inflexibility of nationalist dialogues that construct West Indian identities. This and other recent critiques of nationalist discourse draw attention to the limitations of nationalism in conceiving and constructing individual and communal West Indian experiences. Continue reading West Indian literature Conference 2013 – deadline extended

CULTURE/IDENTITY/POLITICS: ÉLOGE DE LA CRÉOLITÉ, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON
International Conference, 21-23 October 2014
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
Florida State University

CFP in both English then French below. Deadline for proposals is 1 March 2014.

Confirmed Speakers: Dominique Chancé (University of Bordeaux), Françoise Lionnet (UCLA), H. Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), Richard Price (College of William and Mary), Sally Price (College of William and Mary) 

Since its publication in 1989, Éloge de la créolité has had decidedly mixed fortunes: generally received with enthusiasm on its first appearance, it rapidly became very controversial and has subsequently been widely critiqued to the extent that one wonders whether it retains any capacity at all to illuminate the cultures of Caribbean and Creole societies.

To mark the 25th anniversary of its publication, this conference poses that very question, and foresees three broad areas of discussion: first, the fortunes of the Éloge itself and the subsequent work of its authors; second, the ways in which the Éloge has been received by and influenced other “Creole” authors and cultures; third, other theorizations of Caribbean identity and culture that have developed over the past 25 years.  Continue reading Éloge de la créolité, Twenty-five Years On