David Scott will be the speaker in the “Humanity,” International Law, and Third World Sovereignty Seminar on Friday, November 12th. Details below: Continue reading David Scott, Friday Nov 12
Second Seminar Meeting
The second session for Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar will be on Friday, Oct 29th, 2-4pm in Room 8301 at the Graduate Center.
The readings for this meeting are (links to readings will be removed after 10/29):
Reading 1: “Chapter 3” from David Scott’s Conscripts of Modernity
Reading 2: “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” by Derek Walcott
Also suggested: The “Appendix” to C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins and “Lectures on the Black Jacobins” by C.L.R. James.
Lunch will be served.
Save the Date: Nov 23, Tuesday, 2-4PM, Room 7314: speaker Richard Turits, Professor of History at University of Michigan and author of Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime and Modernity in Dominican History
First Seminar Session
Judging by the turnout for our introductory Seminar session (and by the scholars who could not make the first meeting but registered for the Seminar), there is quite a lot of interest in Caribbean Studies at CUNY and surrounding institutions. There is a demand for this type of intellectual space from faculty and graduate students across various disciplines.
After some discussion, we chose the following readings for our next meetings:
- “Conscripts of Modernity” David Scott (Chapter 3 in Conscripts of Modernity [Duke UP, 2004])
- “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” Derek Walcott (The Nobel Lecture)
Registered Seminar participants may download the readings from the Center for Humanities’ website. We look forward to a stimulating discussion of these texts on October 29, from 2-4p in room 8301 at the Graduate Center.
Still in set-up mode
Hello. Thanks for visiting, but I’m still setting up. Please do come back in the near future to see what’s happening with the “Caribbean Epistemologies” seminar described below.
Seminar meets several times a semester, primarily on Fridays; for a detailed schedule of meeting times and guests, please visit the CUNY Center for the Humanities website (which may also still be in set-up mode for the Fall)