A Mouth is Always Muzzled | Book Signing & Talk with Natalie Hopkinson

6:00pm – 8:00pm
22 May 2018
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
120 East 125th Street
New York, NY 10035
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In the spirit of John Berger and Bell Hooks, former Washington Post journalist and current Howard University professor Natalie Hopkinson meditates on art as protest and the role of beauty in politically perilous times in A MOUTH IS ALWAYS MUZZLED: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance. Ms. Hopkinson will be in conversation with curator, scholar, and professor Grace Ali about her newly released book. Books will be available for purchase.

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The Caribbean Digital V

6th to 7th December 2018
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

CFP Deadline: 15 June 2018

Conference website: caribbeandigitalnyc.net

Beginning in 2014, The Caribbean Digital has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that evermore intensely reconfigure the social and geo-political contours of the Caribbean and its diasporas. We are thrilled, in the fifth iteration of this gathering, to site these conversations in the physical space of the region via our collaboration with Dr. Kevin Adonis Browne and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

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37th Annual West Indian Literature Conference *Deadline Extended

3rd to 6th October 2018
Miami, Florida

CFP Deadline: 1 June 2018

This year’s conference recognizes the vast routes/roots that link the Caribbean to the hemisphere and the globe. As many writers and literary scholars have noted, the immense bodies of water that appear to isolate belie the currents that intimately connect, and at times, destroy shelter, lands, and peoples. Deploying Arjun Appadurai’s concept of “scapes” that work to enable the exchange of ideas and information, we hope to engage a breadth of issues relevant to Caribbeanists in the region and its diasporas. Throughout the conference our aim will be to explore the intersections between disciplinary approaches to problems that are borne out of the shifting tides of globalization and cultural expression.

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Postdoctoral Scholar in Black Studies

Application Deadline: 15 June 2018

The Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California Santa Barbara seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on research related to Black Studies, African diaspora, Haitian studies, social movements, engaged scholarship, or urban studies. 25% of the fellowship is devoted to developing the Center’s programs and mentoring undergraduate research. The fellowship will provide salary based on the candidate’s qualifications. Research and travel allowance, and health insurance will be provided. 12-month position to begin August 2018, with possibility of 2nd year, upon evaluation. The Center is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research and service.

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‘Seamed by its own bitter juice’: Voice, Visibility, Literacies – Diasporic Dialogues’ Conference

19th to 20th June 2018
London, UK

CFP Deadline: 20 April 2018

The Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (CCDS), in collaboration with the Eccles Centre at the British Library, is hosting its third ‘Diasporic Dialogues’ conference on 19th – 20th June, 2018. The conference will be held at the Knowledge Centre, British Library, London, UK. The deadline for panel and paper proposals is 20 April 2018.

Confirmed Keynote: Professor Robert F. Reid-Pharr, City University of New York

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The Past is NOT Our Future: A new documentary film about Walter Rodney’s university years in Jamaica

6:00pm – 8:00pm
25 April 2018
Wolff Conference Room – Room D1103
Albert and Vera List Academic Center, The New School

The Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs (SGIPA) presents a public screening of ‘The Past is NOT Our Future’, a new documentary film about Walter Rodney’s university years in Jamaica.

View the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ytr_oRB3c

Director Matthew Smith will be present. Matthew Smith is Chair of the Department of History & Archaeology, the University of West Indies, Mona Campus and the author of ‘Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation’ (2014), and ‘Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957’ (2009).

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Frontiers of Debt in the Caribbean and Afro-America Conference

5:00pm – 5:30pm
19th to 20th April 2018
Columbia University

Frontiers of Debt in the Caribbean and Afro-America brings together scholars, journalists, activists, and artists from across these two regions in order to interrogate their contemporary re-emergence as sites of new forms of capital extraction and opposition to debt regimes. The two-day event is comprised of an art exhibit and a conference.

The art exhibit, entitled Puerto Rico Under Water: Five Artist Perspectives on Debt will be housed in the Gallery at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (420 Hamilton Hall) and will open with a reception at 5pm on April 19.

The conference itself will take place between 10am and 5:30pm on April 20 at the Columbia University Law School (Jerome Green Building, Room 102).

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2018 Henry L. Gates Jr. Annual Lecture

5:00pm
26 April 2018
Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University

David Scott is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Columbia University. His work is concerned with the reconceptualization of the way we think the story of the colonial past for the postcolonial present. He is the author of Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014) and Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017). Professor Scott is currently working on a biography of Stuart Hall, as well as a study of slavery, evil, and repair. He is editor of Small Axe, a journal of criticism, and director of the Small Axe Project, which is involved in a number of special initiatives around visual, translation, literary, and historiographical issues.

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Opening Reception of “Isla imaginaria”

6:00pm – 9:00pm
19 April 2018
Pfizer Building
630 Flushing Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11206

From April 19 – May 4, 2018, MA Curatorial Practice is pleased to present Isla Imaginaria, an exhibition curated by Natalia Viera Salgado, and featuring works by Sofía Gallisá, Lionel Cruet, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Christopher Gregory, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Erika P. Rodríguez, and Edra Soto.

To schedule an appointment to view the exhibition, please contact Natalia Viera Salgado at [email protected].

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Book Launch: The English Translation of Frantz Fanon’s “Alienation and Freedom”

5:30pm
16 April 2018
19 Washington Square North, Events Space
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You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of the English translation of Franz Fanon’s Alienation and Freedom, edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert JC Young, translated by Steven Corcoran and published by Bloomsbury Press. The first collection of new writings by Frantz Fanon to be published in over 50 years, the book contains two previously unpublished plays, the bulk of Fanon’s psychiatric writings including his editorials for his hospital journal, additional political writings, letters and a complete annotated bibliography of Fanon’s library.

Join the editors for a panel discussion on the significance of this new work by Fanon with Emily Apter (NYU), Ato Quayson (NYU), Bruce Robbins (Columbia University)and Toral Gajarawala (NYU).

Refreshments witll be served. Hosted by Bloomsbury Press and NYU Abu Dhabi.

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(En)gendering the Atlantic World Conference

11:30am – 6:00pm
20th to 21st April 2018
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
Registration: $10 online or by check

The faculty and students of the Atlantic World Workshop at New York University are delighted to announce our upcoming conference, “(En)gendering the Atlantic World.” Over the last five decades, historians have demonstrated that focusing on gender enables a deeper understanding of the diversity of human experience, ideologies, and epistemologies that shaped the Atlantic World. This conference builds on that work, considering both ideologies and human experience in using gender as a central framework for investigating the intertwined histories of the peoples and polities of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. How did ideologies of gender mold, refine, and/or challenge other structures of power in the Atlantic? What does centering gender provide us with that is otherwise lost, erased, or silenced? What new methodologies and approaches are made available by reading existing archives through the lens of gender?

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Afro-Latinx Futures Series

The Afro-Latinx Futures series is committed to publishing scholarly monographs and edited collections that center Blackness and Afrolatinidad from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. Taking a hemispheric approach, we seek work that foregrounds the lives and contributions of Afro-Latinx peoples across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diasporic U.S. and Canada. We welcome projects that introduce new historical figures and archival findings, focus on understudied regions and communities, establish innovative interdisciplinary frameworks, and challenge conventional canonical formations.


Belkis Ayón, “Sin título (Sikán con chivo)” 1993, collograph; Cuba.

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Opening Reception of ‘By the Rivers of Babylon’ by Jacqueline Bishop

6:00pm – 9:00pm
30 March 2018
SRO Gallery
1144 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY 11216

From March 30 – April 22, 2018, SRO GALLERY is pleased to present “By the Rivers of Babylon,” an exhibition of paintings by the artist and writer Jacqueline Bishop with selections from three separate but overlapping series: “Dudus”; “Landscapes: Jamaica,” and “Babylon & Zion.”

In these three bodies of work, Bishop navigates to find meaning in the conflicted experiences of her birth-land, Jamaica. Bishop states: “As someone who has lived longer outside of my birthplace of Jamaica than I have lived on the island, I am acutely aware of what it means to be simultaneously an insider and an outsider.”

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Art and Literature in Contemporary Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas

1:00pm – 8:00pm
15 March 2018
Room C198 – Center for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center

This conference explores the production of literature and the visual arts by contemporary artists and writers in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and their diasporas. This event explores collaboration and intermingling within the current production of literature and the visual arts in both countries and in the diaspora. It will contribute to an essential, growing intellectual discourse about Hispañola and its diaspora in the United States.

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