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
Continue reading VISIONARY APONTE: ART & BLACK FREEDOM (A SYMPOSIUM)
3:40pm – 5:15pm
27 February 2018
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Brooklyn College Library
7:30pm
8 March 2018
Greenlight Bookstore in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
632 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Krystal Sital, journalist and PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers finalist, presents her wrenching, eloquent debut memoir that reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family. Continue reading Krystal Sital presents “The Secrets We Kept“
Greenlight Bookstore is proud to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to host an all-ages event to launch Islandborn, the debut picture book from New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz!
Continue reading Book Launch: Junot Diaz Presents “Islandborn”
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 Katia D. Ulysse book launch: Mouths Don’t Speak
My Music, My Culture: The Caribbean Diaspora in Brooklyn takes audiences on a journey through the music of the Caribbean diaspora in Brooklyn, with a focus on the music of Trinidad and Tobago. A musical adaptation of and ode to her recently published ethnographic memoir, East of Flatbush, North of Love, artist-scholar Danielle Brown, Ph.D. teaches the audience about the history and culture of Trinidad and Tobago the same way that she was taught—through song. Accompanied by a 4-piece band, Brown interweaves the music of the U.S., Trinidad and Tobago, and the larger Caribbean region to tell an immigrant story—made more poignant by the times in which we are living—and reveal how the legacy of colonialism and imperialism continues to impact people of color today.
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In our evening keynote conversation and over the course of our day of multiform panel presentations, participants engage critically with the digital as praxis, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that evermore intensely reconfigure the social, historical, and geo-political contours of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Presenters consider the affordances and limitations of the digital with respect to a wide range of disciplines and methodologies. Discussions pick up themes addressed in our 2014 inaugural event and, subsequently, during our 2015 and 2016 events – many of which currently feature in our first and second issues of sx archipelagos, the peer-reviewed Small Axe Project publishing platform dedicated to Caribbean digital scholarship and scholarship of the Caribbean digital.
ROSAMOND S. KING is a creative and critical writer, performer, and artist. She is the author of the critical book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. She is an associate professor of English at CUNY Brooklyn College and a scholar of African and Caribbean
sexuality, literature, and performance.
Rosamond King, photo by Arnold Adler
King will be reading from her latest book, Rock | Salt | Stone. All readings are free and open to the public. Copies of Rock | Salt | Stone will be available for purchase at all of the readings, or at Small Press Distribution, Amazon, or your favorite neighborhood bookstore!
7pm – 9pm
14 November 2017
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY
Reading with Anne Lai, Celina Su, and Samantha Zighelboim.
Sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.
The Langston Hughes Festival has been in existence since 1978. Its mission is to celebrate and expand upon the literary legacy of the poet laureate of Harlem, James Langston Hughes . We award the Langston Hughes Medal to the most distinguished writers associated with the African diaspora. The medal is presented as the culmination of a day of salons, scholarly conferences and symposia in celebration of the legacy of Langston Hughes, as well as a creative performance in tribute to the honoree and an interview of and reading by the honoree. We also sponsor a Choral Speaking Festival for students grade K through 12.
Continue reading Langston Hughes Festival at The City College of New York
Marlon James is the author of three novels, including the 2015 Man Brooker Prize winning A Brief History of Seven Killings. Born in Jamaica, James lives and teaches in Minneapolis, where they established “Marlon James Day” to honor his literary success. The Guardian called his second book, The Book of Night Women, “easily one of the best Jamaican novels ever written.”
This event is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
To RSVP email spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or call 212-772-4007.
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This panel will analyze the relationship between emergent imperialisms in Canada and the dispossession and resettlement of the Black-Indigenous Garífuna peoples in Honduras.
The Garífuna is a matrifocal differentiated culture born in St. Vincent of the union of Arawak Amerindians and Africans who escaped slavery and reached the other side of the Atlantic as free people. Women are a central force in the fight to preserve the Garífuna ancestral territory, which OFRANEH leads since 1978. Continue reading Imperialism and Latin America: Land Grabbing of Garífuna Communities
Princeton’s department of Spanish and Portuguese presents Aisha Beliso-De Jesús (Anthropology, Harvard University) “The Iyanifa Debate: Cuban, African, and American Diasporic Heteronationalisms.”
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, American Studies, Department of Anthropology, African American Studies, and Latino Studies.
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This conference will examine the changing modes and meanings of time, temporality (or time’s passing) and futurity in Caribbean cultural production from the 15th century to the present. It will bring together a cross-disciplinary and inter-hemispheric group of scholars to explore the Caribbean as a crucial space of time-making, calibration and reinvention. The conference will also provide a platform to convene around the current emergency in the region, where the response to natural disasters entails a recourse to both colonial imaginaries and narratives and 21st century technocratic discourses of expertise and efficiency.
Continue reading Caribbean Cosmopolis: Timeports of Modernity
Continue reading Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico, a 21st Century Colony?
A discussion with:
Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University), Monxo Lopez (CUNY Hunter College), Tami Navarro (Barnard College), Frances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University), Michael Ralph (New York University), and Keisha I. Weil (Temple University)
Registration is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. Seating is first come, first seated.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race DEcolonization Series, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Institute of Latin America Studies Greater Caribbean Center.
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