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 THATCamp Trinidad
CFP Deadline: 20 November 2017
This text is the first sustained collection of critical essays engaging the totality of the work of Edwidge Danticat as a novelist and writer of short fiction, memoirist, essayist, filmmaker, activist, and public intellectual. This publication seeks abstracts that examine the ways in which Danticat’s work – inclusive of and beyond her fiction – offers critical commentary on sociopolitical constructions of black diasporic experiences, the function, space, and place of homes, and representation of nationalisms, teasing out the tensions inherent in the confluences of past and present. This collection of critical essays seeks to contribute to the growing body of existing literature on the work of the author. There is a particular interest in work which addresses her publications after 2010.
CFP Deadline: 5 May 2018
The first of its kind—indeed there are no other encyclopedias that cover this topic anywhere on the market—The Encyclopedia of Cuban Cinema is a timely pop cultural companion to the ever-growing field of critical film studies.
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 ‘Imagining Kingston’: A Conference on the Regeneration of a City
19th Annual IFE-ILE Afro-Cuban Dance Festival
Festival Date: 14-19th August, 2017
Conference Date: 17th August, 2017
Time: 9am-8pm
Place: History Miami Museum, 101 West Flagler St, Miami, FL
CFP Deadline: 31st May 2017
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The 36th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature
The University of the West Indies-St Augustine, Trinidad
Conference Date: 4-7th October 2017
CFP Deadline: 19th May 2017
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Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Caribbean and its Diaspora
The University of Mississippi Press
CFP Deadline: 1 June 2017
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Precarious Sovereignty in the Caribbean and its Diasporas
MLA 2018 CLCS Caribbean Forum
CFP Deadline: 15 March 2017
Title of session: Precarious Sovereignty in the Caribbean and its Diasporas
Topics such as migration, maritime and land-based border controls, geonarcotics, environmental disaster, (para)militarism, economic and electoral volatility. Literatures from different languages welcome. Email 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2017 to smnair@umich.edu
Captivity Narratives: Economic Dispossession and the Illusion of Freedom in the Caribbean
The Journal of Caribbean Literatures
CFP Deadline: 22 March 2017
Memory, Migration, and Decolonization in the Caribbean and Beyond, 1804 to the Present
Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of London
Conference Date: 23-24 May 2017
Place: Institute of Latin American Studies, Senate House, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
CFP Deadline: 17 March 2017
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
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MLA 2018: Caribbean Studies Panel
The following are three CFPs for panels at the 2018 Modern Language Association Conference to be held in New York City. Please contact the respective panel organizer with questions.
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
Digital Humanities Projects in Caribbean Studies
sx archipelagos
CFP Deadline: 6 March 2017
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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 Maroons and the African Diaspora
