UAA 46th Annual Conference in San Diego, California

The Urban Affairs Association, the international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, and public service professionals, will be hosting its 46th Annual Conference in San Diego, California, and will have a Special Track on Urban Issues in South & Central America and the Caribbean.

Obituary Seymour Menton (1927-2014)

Please find attached an Obituary of Seymour Menton, Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Latin American Literature at UC Irvine, who passed away in March 2014, written by Kathleen Gyssels.

Seymour Menton_De la neue sachlickeit au mr menton mort en mars 2014.pdf

Juniorresearch Workshop 22-24 January 2015

«Cultures of Resistance? Theories and Practices of Transgression in the Caribbean and its Diasporas»
Location: January 22-24, 2015 at Bielefeld University/Germany
Organizers:  Junior Research Team of the Society for Caribbean Research (Socare)
Conference Languages: English, French and Spanish
Contact:  juniorresearch@caribbeanresearch.net

Membership Fee

Dear Socare Members,

Following the unanimous decision of the last General Assembly on 1 November 2013, we would like to inform you that the new membership fees as per 2014 are

Regular membership fee:        30 Euro

Student membership fee:        15 Euro

Should you have questions regarding these fees, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Your Socare Board

Junior Research Workshop

Socare’s biannual Junior Research Workshops provide an opportunity for doctoral and postdoctoral candidates in Caribbean Studies and related fields to present their projects and to engage in interdisciplinary discussions with and receive feedback from both junior and experienced scholars. Their aim is to further the cooperation and networking of researchers within Caribbean Studies both regionally and internationally.

Each workshop is organized by a different group of Socare junior researchers at a German university in cooperation with the Socare board. For more information about the junior research team and statements of interest, please contact juniorreseach@caribbeanresearch.net

Call for Papers

Locating Guyane: a two-day, interdisciplinary conference at the University of London Institute in Paris, 10-11 July 2014

French Guiana (Guyane française), overseas department of France in equatorial South America and ‘ultraperipheral region’ of the EU, consists of a land area equivalent to that of a European country, though boasts a population that would barely people a European city. The region seems to typify the “faultline between the large and the little” which Richard Price has attributed to Martinique, yet it remains on the margins of Antilles-dominated discourses of postcolonial/creole identities. This conference aims to explore the conceptual situation of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict between the local and the global. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere; to France and its colonial history, for example, or to African and other diasporas, or as a ‘margin’ of Europe?

Contributions are invited, in either English or French, from literary and cultural studies, sociology, history, archaeology, anthropology, visual studies, musicology, environmental and development studies, history of science and medicine, politics, linguistics, geography, and other relevant disciplines. Postgraduate students are warmly encouraged to submit abstracts.   A limited number of bursaries will be available to support postgraduate attendance; if you would like to apply for one of these, please indicate this on your proposal.   We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers and for other relevant contributions such as films and performances. Please send abstracts of between 200 and 300 words by 28th February 2014 to locatingguyane@gmail.com.

Becas de viaje Díaz-Ayala 2014

The Diaz-Ayala Library Travel Grant provides funding for scholars to travel to FIU to conduct research using the Diaz-Ayala Music collection housed in FIU Special Collections.
The deadline for submittal is March 1st.

Publikation: Singler, Christoph. GÉNESIS DE LA PINTURA. LA OBRA PARISINA DE GUIDO LLINÁS, Valencia: Aduana Vieja, 2013, 282 páginas

Christoph Singler hat die erste künstlerische Biographie des kubanischen Malers und Druckgrafikers Guido Llinás verfasst, die 2013 bei Aduana Vieja in Valencia erschienen ist. Llinás (Kuba, 1923 – Frankreich, 2005) ist vor allem als Gründungsmitglied von Los Once, einer kubanischen Avantgardegruppe aus den 1950ern. Die Monographie über sein Werk im Exil (das in den 1960ern beginnt) rekonstruiert die Entstehung seiner Pintura Negra und lotet ihre wichtigsten Dimensionen aus: die Anerkennung von Schwarz als Farbe ebenso wie die Referenzen an die historische Gewalt und die Erinnerung an den afrikanischen Kontinent. Die schwarze Malerei Guido Llinás’ ist aber auch eine Reflexion über die Stabilität und die Lesbarkeit der Zeichen, die Fragilität des Bildes und die vielfältigen Schichten der Erinnerung. Es handelt sich um eine diasporische, in der Tat transatlantische, Kunst, die afrikanische Einflüsse mit dem Expressionismus in allen seinen Spielarten verbindet: vom Grafitti und dem französischen Neuen Realismus bis hin zu Jean-Michel Basquiat. Der Text geht den vielfältigen Dimensionen eines karibischen Künstlerdaseins in der Diaspora nach.

Vollversammlung

Vollversammlung der Socare

Am 01. November 2013 findet die Vollversammlung der Gesellschaft für Karibikforschung am Romanischen Seminar der Leibniz Universität Hannover statt. Der Vorstand freut sich darauf, möglichst viele Mitglieder und Interessierte zu treffen. Die Vollversammlung soll genutzt werden, um uns über den Stand der Karibikforschung auszutauschen und Aktivitäten zu bündeln.

Ort: Romanisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Raum 306

Zeit: 1. November. 2013, Beginn 11.00 Uhr

Report on the SoCaRe Junior Research Conference «Crossing Thresholds»

The reports are now available in German, English and French.