The schedule for the XVII Socare International Congress is now online: http://caribbeanresearch.net/en/2020-conference/, together with the access links to the conference. Please note that in order to participate, you have to register in advance for each meeting. The main conference theme is education and the politics of education in the Caribbean. As it is a longstanding […]
Digital Conference Rethinking Postcolonial Europe: Moving Identities, Changing Subjectivities February 10-12, 2021 International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Full CfP: CfP_rethinkingEurope
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, The Caribbean in Translation – Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation (Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Vienna : Peter Lang, 2020). https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/69796 This book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation. Covering three of the largest linguistic areas of the region, the so-called English, French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the volume offers a comparative study […]
Due to the current developments resulting from the coronavirus, we have decided to postpone the SOCARE congress in Erlangen, originally scheduled for March 20-22, 2020, and the general assembly, scheduled for March 21. Considerations on various levels have informed this painful, but in our view necessary decisions. For instance, numerous participants have expressed serious concerns […]
“This collaborative open access project aims to collect and make works by and on Martinican author Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) widely accessible. The Library of Glissant Studies is a unique tool that draws on Alain Baudot’s 1993 Bibliographie annotée d’Édouard Glissant (Annotated Bibliography of Édouard Glissant) which contains more than 1300 references. LoGS is a multilingual database dedicated to making texts […]
The politics of education can be understood as official and unofficial practices guiding individual and social processes of educational and intellectual formation and as the discourses that legitimate these practices. They are the center of the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of societies and play a key role in the collective construction of identities and […]
July 01-03, 2020, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University International conference of the DFG-funded project, “(Re-) Thinking Home: 21st-Century Caribbean Diaspora Writing and Geopolitical Imaginaries in North America”, in collaboration with the Black Americas Network and the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) Coordinators: Wilfried Raussert & Miriam Brandel Various migration movements have led to […]
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Announcing the CRI’s Twelfth conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies on Feb. 14-16, 2019. Please see details below/attached. If interested in participating, submit your proposals for panels or papers by October 31, 2018. For more information visit our website (https://cri.fiu.edu) or write cri.fiu.conference@gmail.com. We hope you can join us!
The Guyanese author Wilson Harris passed away on March 8th, 2018 in Chelmsford, Essex. For an extended obituary see e.g. The Guardian or The New York Times.