Am 18.06. ist die kubanische Autorin Zoé Valdés am Romanischen Seminar der Leibniz Universität Hannover zu Gast. Valdés liest aus ihrem Roman La mujer que llora, für den sie im März dieses Jahres den spanischen Literaturpreis Premio Azorín erhalten hat.
Ort: Romanisches Seminar, Königsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hannover, Raum 306
Zeit: 18.06.2013, 12.00-14.00 Uhr
Nähere Informationen unter: http://www.romanistik.phil.uni-hannover.de
In collaboration with the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG) has launched the Caribbean Atlas. Dedicated to students at any degree, professionals and researchers it aims at providing a complete data base, maps and synthesis summarizing the main problematic related to the Caribbean region.
Check out the following Link: http://www.caribbean-atlas.com/
The report contains a summary of the SoCaRe Junior Workshop 2013 «Crossing Thresholds: Decoloniality and Gender in Caribbean Knowledge» by referring to the participants’ presentations and to results being brought up during the final discussion.
SARGASSO, a Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture published at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras invites submissions for an upcoming issue entitled “Global Cuba/Cuba Global: Worldly Perspectives from the 21st Century.” The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2013.
Description: The Sargasso team seeks interdisciplinary academic papers, short fiction, poetry, and visual art that (re)mediates, (re)formulates and/or (re)affirms Cuba’s varied interactions with and approaches to the world today.
How do explorations of twenty-first century Cuba in global relief allow us to rethink the island, the Caribbean region, and comparative area studies more broadly? In counterpoint to insular approaches, recent initiatives within and beyond the island seek to address Cuba’s historical, cultural, and political experiences through global perspective. At upcoming conferences, University of Havana’s Transatlantic Studies Group calls for re-elaborations of Cuba’s myriad transatlantic contacts and interactions; Miami’s Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University seeks comparative study of Cuba’s diaspora with other dispersed peoples from across the globe. These explorations offer parallel alternatives to reified discourses of political allegiance and physical territory as markers of Cuban identities, opening Cuba to trans- local, national, and regional discussion simultaneously. To both celebrate and further expand these interrelated interests, this volume of Sargasso will examine the ways twenty-first century Cuban culture, society, language and/or history may be read, (re)interpreted, and/or (re)examined through global interrelation. While the volume foregrounds twenty-first century issues and perspectives, comparative explorations with other historic time periods are welcome.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to: Cubanía redux; Cuba and the Arab Springs; Cuba and relief efforts in Haiti; Challenges to migration, movement, and relocation; Digital media/digital Cuba; Global modernity, capitalism, and homogenization; Economic a/symmetries of Cuba and China; New directions of sincretismo; Twenty-first century portability; Constructions of gender, desire, and sexuality; Linguistic affirmations and protests; Cuba, reggaeton and popular music; Environmentalism and food security; and Tourism and Travel.
Essays should be in English, Spanish, French, or Papiamentu, 10-20 pages, and double-spaced. Abstracts of 120 words or less should accompany essays. BandW photos, illustrations, and other graphics may be included. Book reviews of 1,000 words in length are also welcome. Essays and reviews must conform to Sargasso’s style guide. Submissions should be digital in Word or Rich Text Format. Electronic submissions and inquiries should be directed to: sargassocuba@gmail.com.
Sargasso is a peer-reviewed journal edited at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras for 30 years. The journal features work on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Caribbean and its multiple diaspora.
For more information, visit http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/pubs/sargasso.htm.
In Kooperation mit der Abteilung für iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte des Historischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln (IHILA) und der Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (ADHILAC) veranstaltet der KonaK Wien (Forschungs- und Kulturverein für Kontinentalamerika und die Karibik) im Sommer 2013 eine 24-tägige Exkursion zum Thema «Mexiko und Kuba – zwei Revolutionen im Vergleich».
Die Exkursion nach Mexiko und Kuba inkludiert Kurse an den ansässigen Universitäten (mit dt. Übersetzung) sowie Feldforschungen und findet in der Zeit vom 27. Juli bis zum 20. August 2013 statt.
Die Veranstaltung richtet sich insbesondere an Studierende der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie an Absolventen und sonstige Interessierte.
Workshop for Junior Scholars at the Latin American Institue at Freie Universität Berlin
February 15th, 2013, 9.00 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin, Room 201
Organized by Birte Timm and Claudia Rauhut
No where no betta dan yard?
Negotiating Jamaican Identities and Sexualities between Jamaica and the Diaspora
Date: Wednesday January 30, 2013
Start: 6.30 pm
Location: Heidelberg University, ehemaliger Senatsaal, 2. OG, Grabengasse 3-5 (Neue
Uni)
Jamaican popular culture and literature are key sites for the representation and dissemination of Jamaican cultural identity, being located at the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality. These identity concepts not only transmit a national self-confidence, which we find embodied in the international success of Jamaican athletes and artists, or expressed in the Jamaican proverb “we likkle but we tallawah”. They also need to be read as an empowerment of the young nation’s citizens, who were celebrating their 50th anniversary of independence from Great Britain in 2012, but who are still struggling with the disastrous consequences of colonialism and neoliberal capitalism. Colonial discourses, hegemonies and related power structures on the one hand, and, on the other, subversive popular cultural and literary practices are thus parts of Jamaican cultural identity.
Migration between Jamaica, North America and Great Britain, especially since the second half of the 20th century, has contributed to a seeming dissolution of traditional static concepts of the nation-state and national identity. Along with that constituent elements of Jamaican cultural identity are subject to ongoing transformation, which are now increasingly negotiated between the Caribbean home and the diaspora in North America.
In the workshop, film director Campbell X (London) and historian Rochelle Rowe (Berlin) will be discussing ideas on how collective identities have been constructed and reinforced since Jamaica’s state formation in 1962. Furthermore, they will explore how beauty contests, film and popular cultural practices have (at times) challenged existing power relations and established alternative concepts. Here, the discussion will focus on the de-/construction of the elite hegemony of the “creole multi-racial state”, which is based on, e.g., heteronormativity, racialized visions of femininity, and a nationalism that conforms to upper- and middle-class needs. Migration along with the related cultural, economic, and social exchange processes have not only destabilized these pillars, but also increased the autonomy of once marginalized groups such as the Black working class, women, homo-, bi-, inter-, and transsexuals.
Organization:
Wiebke Beushausen and Patrick Helberg (Junior Research Group «From the Caribbean to North America and Back: Processes of Transculturation in Literature, Popular Culture and the New Media»)
Contact: beushausen@uni-heidelberg.de, p.helber@uni-heidelberg.de
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 international level.
| Conference languages: | English, French, Spanish |
| Date: | 23.01 – 25.01.2013 |
| Vanue: | Leibniz Universität Hannover – Department of Romance Studies
Königsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hannover |
| Contact: | juniorresearch@caribbeanresearch.net |
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 the individual (no matter if a customer, consumer or merchant) what the laws prohibit…
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 the individual (no matter if a customer, consumer or merchant) what the laws prohibit. The objective is to examine both contemporary phenomena and phenomena which, although related to the early modern age, have generated long-term consequences in the history of the regions related to it. In fact, books such as Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s European commercial expansion in early modern Asia (Variorum, Aldershot-Brookfield 1996), Wim Klooster’s Illicit Riches (KITLV, Leiden 1998), Alan Karras’s Smuggling (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham 2010)and Linda Rupert’s Creolization and Contraband (University of Georgia Press, Athens 2012), that analyze ultra secular phenomena, demonstrated the existing continuity between economic and social, transnational and transcultural events. In these studies, the informal actor (the pirate, the smuggler, the drug trafficker) acquires an active role in socio-economic development of the colonial and post-colonial society to which it belongs, leaving a lasting impression on its evolution.
We will deal with commercial networks, around which economic and social phenomena are produced, such as smuggling, piracy or drug trafficking, in different shapes and sizes, in a region – the Caribbean – characterized by a deep interpenetration between informal and formal institutions, often complementary to each other.
Following the wake of contributions from the recent publications related to the economic and social history of the region, from Peter Coclanis’s The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia 2005) to Tom Farer’s Transnational crime in the Americas: an inter-American dialogue book (Routledge, New York 1999), this approach involves modern and contemporary historians in analyzing these phenomena, in order to examine the role of informality in different periods in which key economic and political institutions emerged and consolidated in this area.
The CFP is therefore addressed in particular to research that deal with:
– Creation of informal economic networks, and their impact on local societies;
– Smuggling, piracy and drug trafficking, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century: forms and structures;
– Informal actors in the region: origin and development;
– Informal networks as transcultural challenge or complementary mechanism to the systems and national monopoly.
– Informal groups’ role and socio-economic importance in the Central American-Caribbean basin communities, and in the areas connected to it through trade.
How to send an article
The authors interestedin this CFP can submit their article in Italian, English, French or Spanish (30.000-40.000 characters, including spaces, footnotes and bibliographies) at redazione.diacronie[at]hotmail.it. Please refer to http://www.studistorici.com/proposte-di-contributi/) at: for style and templates requirements. Please notify as soon as possible, by contacting the editors, of your intention to participate with an article. The deadline for the proposal abstract (1.500 characters) is 30th November 2012. Final submission must be sent by 15th February 2013.
Thank you in advance for your interest in the project!
Giovanni Venegoni
Università di Bologna
Université Paris-Sorbonne
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).