Category: Announcements

Sidney Mintz Lecture at NYU

Distinguished Professor Sidney W. Mintz will be giving a guest lecture, “Quijote and Caliban: A Different Look at Creolization,” on Monday, APRIL 4th at 5:00pm at New York University’s King Juan Carlos Center Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South (sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Colloquium Speaker Series, New York University). For more information, please visit www.clacs.as.nyu.edu.

Simon Gikandi Lecture at Baruch, CUNY

Addison Gayle Lecture Series Presents Dr. Simon Gikandi

Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University, will speak on “The Black Aesthetic in the Age of Globalization” at a ceremony commemorating the 17th Annual Addison Gayle Memorial Lecture Series at Baruch College, CUNY.

March 31, 12:30 – 2 PM
151 E. 25th St. (bet. Lex & 3rd Aves)
Newman Conference Center 7th floor
(646) 312-3935
Free & open to the public

For more information, click here.

Haiti: One Day, One Destiny (screening)

Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Assistant Professor of English, Medgar Evers College will be hosting a free screening of Michele Stephenson’s film “Haiti: One Day, One Destiny” on:

Wednesday, March 30, 6pm
Medgar Evers College
EOJ Auditorium (new science building on Bedford and Crown).

Haiti: One Day, One Destiny follows filmmaker Michele Stephenson as she travels to the island six weeks after the devastating earthquake and tells the story of the tragedy from the Haitian perspective—the day‐to‐day struggle of recovery, Haitian reflections on the profound loss they are coming to grips with, and the role culture plays in rebuilding. Stephenson will be on hand for Q & A after the film.

 

 

Longlist announced for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

The longlist for the newly initiated OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean literature was announced early this morning.  The books cover three categories and represent six countries.

Poetry
Elegguas, by Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) — Wesleyan
A Light Song of Light, by Kei Miller (Jamaica) — Carcanet
White Egrets, by Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) — Faber

Continue reading Longlist announced for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Report on Haiti’s homeless camps and cholera

From Mark Schuller, seminar participant and York College/CUNY Faculty

 

This study is a fol­low up to the report, “Unsta­ble Foun­da­tions,” results of six weeks of research dur­ing the sum­mer of 2010, which argued that despite the bil­lions in aid pledged to Haiti, most of Haiti’s esti­mated 1.5 mil­lion IDPs lived in sub­stan­dard con­di­tions. For exam­ple, seven months fol­low­ing the earth­quake, 40.5 per­cent of IDP camps did not have access to water, and 30.3 per­cent did not have toi­lets of any kind. This lack of san­i­ta­tion ser­vices became the prime breed­ing grounds for ill­nesses just like cholera, which struck Haiti with great force. As of the end of the year, there were an esti­mated 170,000 cases of the ill­ness and 3600 deaths.

The report can be found here.

Island’s Edge: Readings, Music, Photos, and Dance Celebrating Jamaican Street Culture

From the Housing Works website:

Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 7:00 PM

Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 :: 212-334-3324

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Join writer Anicée Gaddis, journalist Knox Robinson and poet Marcel Anthony Logan for an evening of perspectives and creative musings on Jamaican culture today. Photographer Alessandro Simonetti will make a special introduction of his new book Small Kings and
host a slide show of his work. Small Kings documents Passa Passa, a legendary street party in Jamaica, just months before the conflicts in downtown Kingston during May, 2010, shut down the party and made Tivoli Gardens headline news around the world. Entertainment will be provided by the Blackgold dancers with a special guest deejay.

Edouard Glissant (1928-2011)

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Martinican writer, thinker, poet, Edouard Glissant, died Thursday in Paris.

Glissant was a faculty member at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique, on Sept. 21, 1928, Glissant was among the generation of French Caribbean poets who came to prominence in the 1950s and included the late Aime Cesaire.

Glissant published more than 20 books, including collections of poetry and critical analyses.

For more information in English, see this Repeating Islands post.

For the French announcement, see this Libération post.

CSA Annual Conference, 2011

Caribbean Studies Association
36th Annual Conference
May 30 – June 3, 2011
World Trade Center, Curaçao

The theme for the 36th annual CSA conference is “Building a New House: Towards New Caribbean Futures in an Age of Uncertainty.”  Holger Henke, this year’s CSA president, has provided us with the Conceptual Statement for the conference. I have pasted the statement below and attached the PDF version here: CSA conceptual statement. Continue reading CSA Annual Conference, 2011