Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 6:30 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
A discussion with panelists:
Erica James, Assistant Professor, History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University
Marc Latamie, Artist
Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator, Museum of Arts and Design
Gabriela Rangel, Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator, Americas Society (Moderator) Continue reading Caribbean Art and the African Diaspora
Situating Césaire: Pragmatics of Freedom and the Proleptic Politics of Radical Literalism
by Gary Wilder (Associate Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center)
Friday, April 27th, 3:30 PM
13-19 University Place, Room 222 Continue reading Situating Césaire
The new Issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, entitled “New Work in Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies,” has been published and is now accessible online. This special issue features reviews of a wide range of criticism, poetry performances and visual art exhibitions in Caribbean studies. The issue is available here.
From the introduction by Raphael Dalleo:
Reviewing is a vital scholarly activity. Academic fields are conversations in which participants speak to one another and to their predecessors. Scholarly writing builds on its predecessors and engages in dialogue with its peers, but the publication process for academic work can be so slow that new ideas often take years to elicit responses and debate. Reviews of scholarly work are therefore particularly important as one of the first responses to a new contribution. We are especially happy to offer this issue of Anthurium and to dedicate it to reviews of recently published scholarship in Caribbean literary and cultural studies in order to help facilitate the conversations necessary for a vibrant field. Continue reading New Issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Sunday, April 22, 11a-6p
York College, Jamaica, NY
For more information, visit the Haitian Book Center on Facebook.
The Institute of Caribbean Studies, of the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture “Gade nan mizè-am tonbe: Las prácticas del Vodou en Haití ante la crisis ambiental” by Dr. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair; Director of Environmental Studies and Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, and Professor, Program of African Studies, Vassar College. Jean Ourdy Pierre, Ph.D. Candidate, Hispanic Studies Graduate Program, College of Humanities, UPR-RP, will comment the lecture. The activity will be held on Thursday, April 12, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Amphitheatre Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108) of Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) Building, Faculty of the Social Sciences, UPR-RP.
This lecture will be broadcast LIVE online through the following website: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71
Comments and suggestions on this presentation will be very welcome at: iec.ics@upr.edu
Abstract (No translation to English available):
“Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe” es una canción religiosa dedicada al lwa (o espíritu) Bwa Nan Bwa (Árbol en el Bosque) en la cual los creyentes imploran a sus dioses que observen la miseria en la que se encuentran. Con esta súplica como punto de partida, este estudio explora el impacto de la crisis ambiental haitiana—especialmente la aguda deforestación y la pérdida de los sagrados mapous—sobre las prácticas del Vodou. La discusión incluye un análisis de las formas en las que el terremoto de enero del 2010 ha exacerbado este impacto, sobre todo en las prácticas y creencias vinculadas a la muerte.
Ode to the downpressor: A psychological portrait of racism, classism, denial and possibilities for social transformation in (post) colonial Jamaica
A talk by Deanne Bell, College of New Rochelle
Wednesday, March 28, 6 p.m.
African American Resource Center (3B-04)
York College/CUNY Continue reading Ode to the Downpressor
On Tuesday, March 27, author Elizabeth Nunez will read from her new novel, Boundaries as part of the Provost Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series at York College. Author of eight novels, Dr. Nunez is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice (see review here).
Event Details:
March 27, 2012
Noon to 2:00 PM
Faculty Dining Room AC-2D01
Professor Fabiola Salek (Department of Foreign Languages, Humanities & ESL) will introduce Dr. Nunez and there will be a book signing following the reading. Refreshments will be served.
April 12-15, 2012
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Douglass Campus
TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA II: Bodies, Commodities, Cultures and Regimes of Mobility
Conference Theme:
Continue reading Transnational Hispaniola II Conference
Event at the Graduate Center:
“Paulette and Virginie in the Indian Ocean: Rethinking the Known and the Uncertain”
a talk by Françoise Lionnet
April 2, 2012, 5pm
Rooms 9204-9205
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Comparative literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her teaching and research interests include: Comparative and Francophone literatures, postcolonial studies, African and African-American studies, autobiography, and race and gender studies. More on Professor Lionnet’s work and publications may be found here.
The event is organized by the French Department.
***Extended Deadline: April 5, 2012***
The 31st Annual Meeting of the West Indian Literature Conference will be hosted by the University of Miami, Coral Gables from October 11-13, 2011. The selected theme continues in the tradition of making critical interventions in debates in the Caribbean and the diaspora. The theme for the conference will be:
Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later:
Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean
Please see the call for papers below. Continue reading West Indian Literature Conference, Miami, 2012 – Update
I received the announcement below a bit late (just today) but if you’re interested and free tomorrow there will be a live broadcast of the event.
Details:
“Discovering an Unpublished Eric Williams’ Manuscript: ‘The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man’”
Dr. Brinsley Samaroo, Professor of History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Wednesday, March 7
10am to 12pm Continue reading Discovering an Unpublished Eric Williams’ Manuscript
Open House for Colleges and Universities
Saturday, March 3, 2012
1:00pm – 3:00pm, El Café
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem invite college and university faculty to join us for a light brunch and talk with curators about the upcoming exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, opening June 12, 2012. The day will include time to share your suggestions for incorporating the Caribbean exhibition, publication and programs into coursework, and how the museums can support your access to resources.
RSVP by February 29, 2012 at the El Museo del Barrio website Continue reading Caribbean Brunch and Open House
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU (CLACS)
Research Colloquium Series – Spring 2012
From the CLACS website:
Each semester, CLACS hosts a Research Colloquium series which combines a graduate level course with a speaker series. The course is co-taught by faculty of distinct disciplines, bringing together different academic fields of study. The event series invites top scholars from around the world to present current research to the NYU community as well as the general public. These cutting-edge themed colloquium series and conferences are the result of faculty working groups.
The title for the Spring 2012 Colloquium series is “Latin American Independence in the Age of Revolution.” This Distinguished Speaker series offers fresh new perspectives on Latin American independence — the subject of bicentennial commemorations around the region. Leading scholars from Latin America, the U.S., and Europe will tackle crucial questions such as: Was there an Enlightenment culture in the region? Were the causes of independence internal to Latin America or rather derived from the political crisis on the Iberian peninsula? Did nationalism produce or stem from the wars with colonial powers? What roles did subaltern actors play in the revolutions? Were the revolutions “democratic”? What was the role of slavery and anti-slavery?
Some dates have already passed, but the ones remaining at the time of this posting are listed below. Caribbean Epistemologies participant Marcela Echeverri will present on April 9th. Continue reading Latin American Independence in the Age of Revolution
Mar 19, 2012, 6:30pm
Room C201/202
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
Telling Histories
Gary Wilder , Laurent Dubois, Greg Grandin
While Haiti’s complex and “cursed” past was often used by journalists to explain its recent and tragic upheaval, these historical retellings frequently did more to malign and undermine the promising cultural and political forces the country was founded on than to illuminate them. How might historians and other academics responsibly and effectively contribute to a global public discourse? Join two distinguished historians – Laurent Dubois the author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History and Greg Grandin, the author of, among many other prize-winning books, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism – for a discussion with anthropologist Gary Wilder(The Graduate Center, CUNY) about the challenges of writing critical histories of nations and empires in the current political climate. This a public program connected to “Caribbean Epistemologies” and “Law, Justice and Global Political Futures.” For further information on these and other Seminars in the Humanities, see http://centerforthehumanities.org/seminars.
Co-sponsored by the Mellon Committee for the Study of Globalization and Social Change
ARC Magazine’s 2012 internship program is now open and seeking to appoint candidates, preferably university students and recent graduates who have a vested interest in Visual Art, Art History, Media & Cultural Studies and Journalism. While at ARC, interns will have the opportunity to: Gain invaluable experience at an emerging cultural publication• Research and interview various artists from across the region and diaspora • Develop an informed writing practice by blogging and creating specified content • Database Development • Web content management and development. Continue reading ARC Magazine’s 2012 internship program
