Crossing Thresholds: Decoloniality and Gender in Caribbean Knowledge The interdisciplinary research conference focuses, through a perspective of decolonial knowledge circulation and theorizing, on gender issues in the Caribbean region. Junior researchers should thus be given an opportunity to present their own research projects on gender-related issues, topics and trends in the Caribbean region, to meet and discuss at […]
What is the role of informal institutions in the evolution of the economic, political and social aspects of Caribbean basin? Diacronie will analyze the economic and social development of the area, focusing on the role played by informal actors, namely the ones moving between legality and illegality, that were able (or are able) to give […]
Call for Papers: Ethnicity, Race and Gender in the Caribbean Workshop for Junior Scholars at the Latin-American Institute Free University of Berlin, February 15th, 2013. The deadline for submissions is December 15th, 2012, please send in your proposal (max. 250 words) and a short bio note to Birte Timm (birte.timm@fu-berlin.de).
Online-Zeitschrift istmo „Rutas transterritoriales de las culturas caribeñas contemporáneas” Für die Nummer 25 (Januar-Juni 2013) der Online-Fachzeitschrift Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos ist ein Dossier zum Thema ”Rutas transterritoriales de las culturas caribeñas contemporáneas” geplant. In diesem Zusammenhang werden noch entsprechende englisch- und spanischsprachige Beiträge (Artikel, Aufsätze, Interviews) vor allem aus […]
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Congress of the CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES (CALACS) CANADA AND THE AMERICAS:TRAVELLING KNOWLEDGES-PEOPLES-SOLIDARITIES CARLETON UNIVERSITY, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA, May 03-05, 2013 Call: Ottowa, Canada, May 2013 – CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES (CALACS) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Congress of the CANADIAN ASSOCIATION […]
Jamaika feiert in diesem Jahr seine 50jährige Unabhängigkeit. Aus diesem Anlass organisiert die Deutsch-Jamaikanische Gesellschaft ein “Jamaica Film Festival” vom 26. – 28.Okt. 2012 in Frankfurt. Link zum Veranstalter
The 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians will be held in Ambergris Caye, Belize, from Sunday, May 12, to Friday, May 17, 2013.* Information about how to propose either an individual paper or a panel-along with the forms for each-is posted online at the ACH website ( http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org; look under “Annual Meeting”). […]
Caribbean Food Cultures: Representations and Performances of Eating, Drinking and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas 28th to 29th September 2012 at the University of Heidelberg, Germany http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/transculturality/food_cultures_final.png Confirmed Keynote Speakers are: Professor Rita de Maeseneer (Antwerp) “The Aesthetics of Hunger and the Special Period in Cuba” Professor Fabio Parasecoli (New York) “Representations of […]
ACH CALL FOR PAPERS The 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians will be held in Ambergris Caye, Belize, from Sunday, May 12, to Friday, May 17, 2013. All proposals are due to the ACH Secretary-Treasurer by October 1,2012. For further information, see in the membership-area (LINK) in francaise and espanol.
Prof. Dr. Frauke Gewecke (2.7.1943-13.7.2012) All too soon this past weekend Professor Frauke Gewecke, a founding member of SoCaRe, Emerita in Heidelberg and German pioneer of Caribbean Research, died. Frauke Gewecke`s death is a severe human and scientific loss and seems incomprehensible in the face of the inexhaustible energy with which she devoted herself to the […]