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
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
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.
afrolatin@ forum Presents
(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
Conference, 5-7 July 2012, Kingsville, Texas
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Susan Roberson [email protected]
Keynote Speaker: Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Columbia University
Continue reading Exploring the Global Caribbean through Literary and Theoretical Texts
SHIFTING THE GEOGRAPHY OF REASON VIII:
The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society
September 29-October 1, 2011
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
For a complete program go to http://caribphil.org/CPA_2011.html
Below are highlights from the program. Continue reading Caribbean Philosophical Association Conference
Tiphanie Yanique and Cristina Garcia will be participants in the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series this Fall.
Details:
Fiction From the Caribbean Reading
Wed, October 5 2011, 8:00pm
Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room – New Brunswick
The event is free and open to the public.
For more details and author bios, visit the Rutgers English website.
co-sponsored by the Slavery & Freedom Working Group Continue reading First Seminar Meeting
Welcome back to all Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar participants! And welcome to any newcomers for Fall 2011. We have a full schedule of events for the Fall. See the schedule below (also always available in by clicking “Schedule” at the top left of our site). Our first session will be on September 23, 2-4pm with Herman Bennett. More details and reading to come. Please visit the Center for the Humanities’ new website to (re)register for the seminar. We look forward you joining us for these generative conversations on the Caribbean:
Fall 2011
All Fall 2011 events will take place from 2-4pm at the CUNY Graduate Center (rooms TBA), unless otherwise noted. Copies of readings can be accessed on the blog or here (registration required – and very helpful in enabling funding).
***This event will take place at 7pm and is part of the City SEEDS Lecture Series on“Aesthetic and Cultural Expressions of African-Derived Religions”
sx salon, issue 6 (August 2011)
Introduction and Table of Contents
In June of this year, the Caribbean IRN, a “resource for people and organizations inside and outside the region whose work focuses on issues related to diverse genders and sexualities in the Caribbean,” held a multimedia event at Brooklyn College to launch the newly formed digital archive of the Jamaica Gay Freedom Movement. As the queer Caribbean receives more attention in the academic, political, and cultural arenas, those fighting homophobia might be tempted to promote themselves as pioneering progressives (similarly, those fighting homosexuality might view themselves as suddenly under siege). But there is a history of LGBT activism in the Caribbean, a slice of which this digital archive now makes widely available. The archive is hosted by the Digital Library of the Caribbean, itself a noteworthy innovation in archival work. sx salon 6 brings together essays on the process behind making the collection a reality and its potential for Pan-Caribbean queer communities. Continue reading sx salon 6: Locating Caribbean LGBT Histories
A New Book Talk Lecture Series
The aesthetics that emerge from the spiritual practices of “African-derived” religions will be the focal point of this fall’s Book Talk Lecture Series. The series will emphasize how such religions—also known as “creolized” religions, “New World African” religions, or “syncretic” religions—have informed and continue to inform aesthetic practices in the Americas, marking especially the urban aesthetics of cultural spaces that have developed along the Hemispheric Atlantic, from communities in New York and New Orleans to cultural spaces in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Brazil. This series of talks is possible thanks to major funding from the City College of New York at the City University of New York (CCNY, CUNY), notably the City SEEDS Award, with additional support from the Offices of the President and Provost and President Lisa Staiano-Coico.
“We hope these events will spark a dialogue that engages various epistemologies: the disciplinary systems of theory in the arts, the humanities and the social sciences of the university, as well as such intellectual and embodied systems of knowledge such as Santería, Vodou, Candomblé, and Palo Monte,”
Continue reading Aesthetic and Cultural Expressions of African-Derived Religions
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2011 recipients of the association’s awards for philosophical literature and contributions to Caribbean thought.
The Nicolás Guillén Award for Philosophical Literature
Junot Díaz, “for his unsettling and imaginative portraits of contemporary life.”
Past recipients of this award include Wilson Harris, Ramabai Espinet, Edwidge Danticat, and Gabriel García Márquez.
The Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award Continue reading Caribbean Philosophical Association Awards
Caribbean Intransit Journal
Call For Papers for Issue 3
Deadline: 30 November 2011
Details from the CFP: Continue reading Arts for Social Change (CFP)
ARC Magazine announces the release of its third volume, which presents a collection of works by contemporary artists practicing in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Featured artists from Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Santo Domingo, Burkina Faso, and the Bahamas represent a variety of media, including photography, illustration, film, painting, graphic design, poetry, performance, installation and mixed media.
ARC frames its content in sections: SPOTLIGHT highlights emerging artists’ works; 24FPS presents an in-depth look of established and experimental filmmakers; THE GRADIENT offers a dissection of a larger body of specified work; ARTIST ON ARTIST reminisces and heralds the significance of influence and conversation; and COLLECTIONS showcases the portfolios of three artists.
Issue III brings together the work of Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan, whose work explores the realm of possibilities made viable by imagination and technology. Goldsmith scholar and artist Charles Campbell partners with Strachan to explore his idiosyncratic brand of humanism. Trinidadian filmmaker Yao Ramesar collapses time and space defining his aesthetic strategy Caribbeing, where he decodes a visual dialect in Her Second Coming, locating the Caribbean sun as central to the manifest image. First generation Martiniquan painter Elizabeth Colomba’s representations are an encounter of two tribes; through reconciliation she represents and refigures the black subject into the oeuvre of Western art, correcting and re-entering a lost identity.
Featured artist Lavar Munroe’s illustrations, drawings and digital paintings embrace and translate trauma and pain into surfaces that render complicated staging of colonization and mortality. Dr. Ja A. Jahannes, cultural critic, psychologist and composer, talks with Munroe about his methodology and the deeper powers of spirituality and magical realism. Performance artist Michelle Isava contemplates her space in relation to the internal and external; her honest and provoking attempt to understand her position in society is one of rawness, contempt and ambiguity. Her power shines through her resilience and discomfort. Marcel Pinas’ preservation of Surinamese culture is investigated by Melanie Archer, whose acute understanding of installation and site carries us through a delicate balance decoding Pinas’ mission of protect us; protect our knowledge and protect our culture.
ARC founders Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins will launch Issue 3 of ARC at the inaugural FRESH MILK event in Barbabos on Saturday August 13th 2011 from 5pm til 8pm. More information about the launch and FRESH MILK can be found here.
ARC Magazine is a quarterly, independent visual arts magazine made possible by the subscription and support of its readers. For more information, visit www.arcthemagazine.com
Call for Papers
Writing Slavery after Beloved
Literature, Historiography, Criticism
International Symposium
Université de Nantes – France
March 16-17, 2012
Organized in partnership with CAAR (Collegium for African American Research), this Symposium aims at confronting and stimulating European research first and foremost in the field of African American Studies but also in Postcolonial Studies, particularly in the context of fiction and historiography written in and about the Caribbean, Canada, South Africa, or the Indian Ocean. In these areas, fiction related to slavery has found a new lease of life in the past twenty years. What are the conditions that have led to the so far unarchived (hi)stories of slavery and indentureship being pushed into existence? And what are the modalities of such an emergence?
See full CFP here: CFP New Writing on Slavery
