A Conversation with Thomas Glave

Tue Nov 1, 2:00pm– 3:30pm
Room 8301

Thomas Glave has graciously agreed to meet with the Caribbean Epistemology Seminar participants for a more intimate discussion before he gives the Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture which will follow at 6:00pm.  We will discuss Glave’s essay “Whose Caribbean? An Allegory, in Part” from Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Caribbean and one of his short stories, “Out There” from The Torturer’s Wife. The discussion will be led by Rosamond King, Department of English, Brooklyn College/CUNY. Continue reading A Conversation with Thomas Glave

Comments on Herman Bennett’s “Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age”

by Greg Livingston Childs, History, New York University

As recently as fifteen years ago, historical interest among US scholars regarding the importance of Haiti to the aptly named “Age of Revolutions” was still minimal.   Aside from several important edited volumes and monographs, there was very little interest in discerning the impact of the Haitian Revolution on conspiracies, rebellions, and revolts by persons of African descent in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.   In our current intellectual and political moment, however, new works on Haiti have appeared in rapid succession across a range of disciplines.  The tide has changed greatly, and where it might have seemed out of place some years ago to link black politics in Anglophone, Hispanic, or Lusophone America with the revolutions of Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe, today it seems to be a given that part of our methodological approach should entail an inquiry regarding what enslaved and free blacks knew about rebellion in Saint Domingue and how they responded to it. Continue reading Comments on Herman Bennett’s “Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age”

Third Seminar Meeting: Yarimar Bonilla

Our third Seminar meeting will be held on Friday, October 21, 2:00pm– 4:00pm in Room 9206 at the CUNY Graduate Center. We will be discussing:

“Syndicalism as Marronage: French Caribbean Epistemologies of Labor and Resistance” by Yarimar Bonilla. Please read the pre-circulated paper (available here until the end of October and for the full year to registered seminar participants at The Center for the Humanities’ website.)

Our discussant for this paper will be Herman Bennett, Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center. Continue reading Third Seminar Meeting: Yarimar Bonilla

Second Seminar Meeting: Deborah Thomas

Our second Seminar meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 18, 2:00pm– 4:00pm in Room 5109 at the CUNY Graduate Center. We will be discussing:

“Caribbean Studies, Archive-Building, and the Problem of Violence” by Deborah Thomas. Please read the pre-circulated paper (available here until the end of October and for the full year to registered seminar participants at The Center for the Humanities’ website.)

Our discussant for this paper will be Jennifer L. Morgan, Department of History and Social Cultural Analysis, NYU. Continue reading Second Seminar Meeting: Deborah Thomas

Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (screening)

Friday, October 14th
Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens
screening and Q&A with co-director and co-producer, Deborah Thomas

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BAD FRIDAY focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians. It chronicles the history of violence in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community, and shows how people use their recollections of past traumas to imagine new possibilities for the future.
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12-2pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave
Room 5414

Lunch will be served.

cosponsored by the Doctoral Students’ Council, IRADAC, CLACLS, and the Graduate Center’s PhD Program in Anthropology

Freedom and Abolition in Latin America

Thu Oct 20, 2011
4:00pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
CUNY Graduate Center

With panelists: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Celso Castilho, Jason McGraw, Emily Kay Berquist

What are the particularities of abolitionism in Latin America and what are its connections with contemporary anti-slavery movements in the British and French Atlantic worlds? These two panels will focus on the trajectory of anti-slavery in Latin America, examining early struggles for freedom, the emergence, transformation, and impact of anti-slavery ideas, and the complex reality of slavery’s persistence in the Spanish Caribbean and Brazil until the late nineteenth century. Continue reading Freedom and Abolition in Latin America

New Directions in the Study of Emancipation

Beyond Freedom:
New Directions in the Study of Emancipation

Gilder Lehrman Center’s 13th Annual International Conference
November 11-12, 2011

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Is the burgeoning field of emancipation still defined by the problem of freedom? If so, then how has the concept of freedom been altered by new work in the field, and are these redefinitions cumulative or even compatible? If not, then what new frameworks are emerging to augment or replace the central framework of freedom? This conference seeks to bring together exciting new work in emancipation to inspire debate, discussion, and productive disagreement over the central role that the concept of freedom has played in shaping the field over the last quarter century. By placing United States emancipation in conversation with work in other emancipations, this conference aims to provoke scholars to test the problems of freedom, the potential for the field to move beyond freedom, and the enduring utility of freedom.

Conference participants include: Elizabeth Alexander, Vincent Brown, Sandra Gunning and Eric Foner. For more information and a full list of conference participants, please visit the conference website.

 

Caribbean Literature at the CEA

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English
studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for
our 43rd annual conference.
The Association welcomes individual and panel presentation proposals that address
Caribbean literatures in general, including-but not limited to-the following
possible themes: Continue reading Caribbean Literature at the CEA

Two events at CLACS

Two events this week at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at NYU:

Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Paradox of Radical Refusal, Charles Hale
Monday, September 26th, 2011

and

Book launch of “Creole Religions of the Caribbean”
Margarite Fernández Olmos, Joseph Murphy, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Thursday, September 29th, 2011

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disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas

Middlesex County College Studio Theatre Gallery, September 27 – November 8, 2011

(Opening Reception September 27, 5-7pm)

Exhibition curated by Tatiana Flores (Assistant Professor, Departments of Art History and Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University), with the support of Michelle Stephens (Associate Professor, Departments of English and Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies)

Artists in the Exhibition:

    Continue reading disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas

    Boundaries, by Elizabeth Nunez

    Book Presentation: Boundaries by Elizabeth Nunez

    Tuesday, October 25, 2011
    6:30 p.m.
    Americas Society
    680 Park Avenue
    New York, NY
    Map of location

    Trinidadian-U.S. writer Elizabeth Nunez will present her seventh novel, Boundaries, a work that takes on the thorny subject of racial and immigrant tensions and the marginalization of writers of color. The program will also feature Professor Donette Francis (Binghamton University and Caribbean Epistemologies seminar participant).

    Nunez, a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY and also a Caribbean Epistemologies seminar participant, is the recipient of numerous literary prizes for her fiction, including an American Book Award and a Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers.

    Presented with support from Akashic Books, Hunter College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

    Download the event flyer here.

    ¡Aqui Estamos! AfroLatin@ Film Series

    afrolatin@ forum Presents

    ¡Aqui Estamos! AfroLatin@ Film Series

    (Lead in to the “Afro-Latin@s Now!” Conference)

    AFRO –CUBAN NIGHT
    Friday, October 7 – 7:00pm
    WNYC’s Jerome L Greene Space Charlton Street
    (Corner of Charlton and Varick), New York

    • Recordando el Mamoncillo
      Pam Sporn (2006,15 mins.)
    • Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
      Pam Sporn (2000,1 hr.)

    Continue reading ¡Aqui Estamos! AfroLatin@ Film Series