Caribbean: Crossroads of the World

El Museo’s Simposio

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
El Museo del Barrio, New York
October 2012

Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2012.

El Museo del Barrio seeks submissions for El Museo’s Simposio, organized in conjunction with the exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World.  The two-day symposium is conceived as an inter-disciplinary public program that enlists a range of fields including art history, history, ethnic studies, visual and performance studies, ethnomusicology, philosophy, religious studies, political science and economics. Continue reading Caribbean: Crossroads of the World

Fourth Seminar Meeting: Kaiama L. Glover

Our fourth Seminar meeting will be held on Friday, November 4, 2:00pm– 4:00pm in Room C415A at the CUNY Graduate Center. We will be discussing:

“The Audacity of the ‘I’: Narcissism, Community, and the Textual Feminine in Francophone Caribbean Prose Fiction” by Kaiama Glover. Please read the pre-circulated paper (available here until the end of November and for the full year to registered seminar participants at The Center for the Humanities’ website.)

Our discussant for this paper will be Christopher Ian Foster, Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Continue reading Fourth Seminar Meeting: Kaiama L. Glover

Afro-Latin@s Now!

Afro-Latin@s Now!
Strategies for Visibility and Action
A three-day international conference

Thursday, November 3rd, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Friday, November 4th, 8:30am – 6:00pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York

Saturday, November 5th, 12:00pm – 6:00pm
El Museo del Barrio

The Afro-Latin@ Forum is pleased to host “Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action,” a three-day international conference that will gather scholars, community leaders and artists to advance a dialogue on issues of importance to Black Latin@s in the United States as well as foster positive relations between Latin@s, African Americans and other peoples of color. Continue reading Afro-Latin@s Now!

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