Heidelberg: Interdisciplinary Conference

Heidelberg: The interdisciplinary conference
12 – 14 April 2012
“’Wid mi riddim, wid mi rime’: Cultural Flows in Caribbean and South Asian Diasporic Poetry and Performance”

Further information, in the menbership-area.

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The interdisciplinary conference ’Wid mi riddim, wid mi rime’: Cultural Flows in Caribbean and South Asian Diasporic Poetry and Performance” seeks to explore the significance pertaining to cultural flows in contemporary British and North American poetry written by authors of Caribbean or South-Asian origins. It is the first to approach these issues from a comparatist perspective, which promises important new insights. For this purpose, the narrow definition of ‘poetry’ will be broadened to include related aesthetic forms like dub poetry, performance or popular music. The 18 conference papers in the panels Musical and Poetic Forms, Performance and Diaspora, Negotiating Gender, Heritage and Cultural Memory, Form, Poetics and the Canon will focus on three guiding questions: How do postcolonial lyrical forms of the Caribbean and South-Asian diaspora(s) relate to national canons? To what extent do these forms share overarching features of cultural exchange? In what ways do they embrace hybridity in terms of language, images and genre, and which functions does this hybridity fulfil? In this context, the conscious selection of junior and senior researchers from different disciplines, cultures and countries is designed to overcome the limitations of national academic discourses and Eurocentric, neo-colonialist views on Caribbean and South Asian cultural expressions. A public round table discussion and a poetry reading by South Asian British poet Daljit Nagra will make the topic accessible to a wider audience from both inside and outside academia.

Organized by Dr. Anne Brüske (Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg), Dr. Caroline Lusin (English Department, Heidelberg)

Main Location: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, Hauptstraße 242, 69117 Heidelberg

Newsletter April 2012

Dear Socare-Members,

We hope you had a successful winter semester!
With the following newsletter, we would like to inform you about some upcoming SoCaRe- activities, such as the CSA conference or youth-workshop; but also to remind you to the annual membership fee.

1.    CSA-meeting at Guadeloupe

Our SoCaRe-panel on the CSA-meeting from may 28th  – june 1st  in Le Gosier/ Guadeloupe has been accepted. We have invited colleagues from the social-sciences to submit together a twin panel, making it possible to discuss aspects of « Cultural Negotiations of Belonging » very broadly.
To our double panel:
PART 1: INTERCONNECTIONS & DIASPORAS
PART 2: ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY

In this way, we hope to make the work of SoCaRe more public.

  1. Workshop for young researchers
    The next SoCaRe junior workshop will be held in the first quarter of 2013 in Hanover. Roughly defined subject as it is here go to the following:
    « EXPLORING CARIBBEAN DECOLONIALITY THROUGH THE CONTEMPLATION OF GENDER AND FAMILY »
    The Workshop approaches paradigms and discourses of decoloniality by focussing on cultural, social and political constellations of gender and family within the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese speaking Caribbean. Literary and artistic articulations are considered as well as empiric focuses on sociopolitical processes and cultural performances.
  2. (Outstanding) membership-fees
    Further more, we would like to remind all members with (outstanding) membership-fees,   especially because April 1st is the annual payment day for 2012.
    We further would like to remind all members to pending fees from 2011 and check if necessary.
  3. Homepage Innovations
    On our website <http://www.caribbeanresearch.net/de> will be soon some innovation available. In particular, the menu Worldwide Caribbean Studies is being complemented. A look at this upgrade is worth it.


With best Regards,
Your Executive Board
Anja Bandau, Martha Zapata Galindo, Martina Urioste-Buschman

Oxford: Annual Conference of SoCaRe

GB: Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies 2012

Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th July 2012 +++ University of Oxford
For further information, see in the Internal Blog. (Link)

UK: Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies 2012
Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th July 2012
Rewley House and Kellogg College
University of Oxford

Further information and registration access: http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/conference/nextConference.htm

For further queries please contact the Conference Coordinator, Lorna Burns, at societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com.

University of the West Indies: Journal of the Department of Behavioural Sciences

The new online, peer reviewed Journal of the Department of Behavioural
Sciences (JDBS)  from the University of The West Indies, St Augustine
Campus, Trinidad and Tobago is pleased to announce the launch of its
first issue.
The theme of this inaugural issue is « Debating Multiculturalism » and can
be accessed here: http://journals.sta.uwi.edu/jbs/index.asp

ACH 44th Annual Conference

The 44th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians will be held in Willemstad, Curaçao from Sunday, May 13 to Friday, May 18, 2012. Registration will open on Sunday afternoon and sessions begin Monday morning.
Link to the Homepage

ANN: African Diaspora Archaelology Newsletter

The December 2011 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

Or see further information, in the Info-Blog (Link here)

Link:

The December 2011 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

In December’s newsletter, we feature: articles by Christopher N.
Matthews, Wendy Wilson Fall, Courtney Ng, Beth Pruitt, Kathryn Deeley
and Mark Leone; news reports and announcements; and a book review by
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola. A table of contents is set out below.

Please contact our editorial team of Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Kelley
Deetz, Christopher Barton, and John McCarthy if you have essays,
analysis papers, book reviews, project reports, announcements, or news
updates that you’d like to contribute to the African Diaspora
Archaeology Network (ADAN) and Newsletter. This Newsletter is
published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.

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** Articles, Essays, and Reports **

Editors’ Corner — Dialogues Across the Diasporas: Intersectional
Discourse and the ADAN

Introduction to an Extract from War of the Pews: A Personal Account of
the St. Augustine Church in New Orleans, by Rev. Jerome G. LeDoux,
S.V.D., by Christopher N. Matthews

Crocodiles from Katsina to Madagascar, by Wendy Wilson Fall

New Windows on the Past: An Analysis of Glass Artifacts from New
Philadelphia, by Courtney Ng

New Outlets for Old Foundations: Archaeology in Annapolis and
Web-based Outreach, by Beth Pruitt, Kathryn Deeley and Mark Leone

** News and Announcements **

Rio’s Cemetery of « New Blacks » Sheds Light on Horrors of Slave Trade,
by Tom Phillips

End of Archaeological Surveys Hides History, Some Say, by Robert Behre

Archaeology Field Schools

Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, an Exceptional Scholar

New Books: The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of
Postemancipation Life; The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the
Politics of Purity; John Brown Still Lives! America’s Reckoning With
Violence, Equality, and Change; Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery,
and the Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War; Exhibiting
Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum; Funerals in
Africa: Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

** Call for Papers and Fellowships **

CFP: Dave the Potter, Dave Drake

Eurotast Fellowships

** Book Review **

Review of « West African Archaeology: New Developments, New
Perspectives, » by Abidemi Babatunde Babalola

LR: Building dialogues in the Americas

VIENNA, AUSTRIA, JULY 15 – 20, 2012

Call for Papers: http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers

More Information, see in the Info-Blog.

ICA 2012 Vienna !!!

Info-Blog:

« BUILDING DIALOGUES IN THE AMERICAS »
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, JULY 15 – 20, 2012

http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/home/

Symposion 14: Social and Cultural Anthropology / Antropología Social y Cultural / Antropologia social e cultural
Chair/ Responsable / Responsável: Elke Mader
WS 1648 – Between Grotesque and Gorgeous: Postcolonial Representations of the Black Body in the Americas
Convener: Davis- Sulikowski Ulrike Universität Wien
Co-Convener: Khittel, Stefan (Institut für Internationale Entwicklung)

The Black body in the Americas has been repressed, instrumentalized, and represented in innumerable ways since Africans have forcibly been brought to the shores of the Americas . Black bodies have been abhorred, marvelled, demonized, exoticized, and admired. The 19th century was marked by the independence of Haiti and the abolition of slavery, the 20th century lead to civil rights for African Americans, decolonization of most English colonies in the Caribbean, Black resistance movements and an ever increasing visibility of Black people in public spaces throughout the Americas . The 21st century has seen the first Black President of the United States . Despite obvious political progress during the postcolonial period, the representations of the Black body draw on ancient prejudices, colonial images, and contemporary fears. The gangster, the junkie, the prostitute are but a small sample. Nevertheless, ever more often positive associations are also represented: the athlete, the beauty queen, or – the president. Postcolonial approaches have engaged with yet other interpretations of the body – based on Bakhtin and Fanon the body has become a prominent focus of debates on resistance and representation. The pivotal function of ‘the gaze’, intrinsically linked to the infamous double of repulsion and desire, has received particular attention in contemporary research on the body as in the works of Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, bell hooks, Achille Mbembe and many others in their discourse on hegemonic strategies and counter-hegemonic struggles. In this panel we want to engage in a lively, interdisciplinary debate on historic and contemporary forms of representations of the Black body, be they based on empirical ethnographic and archival research, or cinematographic, musicological or in general visual analysis. We also welcome theoretical contributions to this topic.

Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Paris, July 2-6, 2012

CONGRÈS CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES,
PARIS 2-6 JUILLET 2012

Organisé par l‘Université Sorbonne Nouvelle et l’UNESCO

Appel à contributions

Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que le 9^ème congrès international /Crossroads in Cultural Studies/se déroulera à Paris, en France, du 2 au 6 juillet 2012, sous l?égide de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle et de l’UNESCO.

Paris constitue un carrefour historique entre les cultures et les peuples. La ville a notamment joué un rôle majeur dans le développement et la circulation des travaux essentiels à la formation de l’imaginaire postcolonial. Dans le prolongement de cette tradition de pensée critique et compréhensive, les organisateurs lancent un appel à contributions, afin de poursuivre l?exploration des multiples intersections entre culture, pouvoir et savoir, au sein des Cultural Studies.

Le colloque se déroulera notamment à l’UNESCO, qui à l’échelle internationale a toujours défendu la diversité culturelle et la différence. Ce congrès sera l’occasion pour les Cultural Studies de jeter un regard rétrospectif sur leurs propres évolutions, tout en initiant de nouvelles perspectives intellectuelles.

12 INTERVENANTS PRINCIPAUX, RECONNUS AU NIVEAU INTERNATIONAL ET VENUS DES CINQ CONTINENTS, prendront la parole lors des sessions d’ouverture et plénières au cours de la conférence. Parmi eux, Sarah Ahmed, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Jeremy Gilbert, Achille Mbembe, Walter Mignolo, Bobby Noble, Phaedra Pezzullo, Françoise Vergès. Avec la participation de Stuart Hall et Jacques Rancière (sous réserve).

DES THÉMATIQUES AU C’UR DE L’ACTUALITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE. Tous les sujets concernant les Cultural Studies, en particulier dans des domaines de recherche innovants, sont les bienvenus.

ENVOYEZ VOTRE PROPOSITION DÈS MAINTENANT VIA LES FORMULAIRES EN LIGNE  Les propositions sont attendues en anglais ; les communications des non anglophones pourront être assistées d’un facilitateur. Consultez les instructions et envoyez votre proposition de communication via les formulaires en ligne sur www.crossroads2012.org  avant le 30 septembre 2011.

SOUTIEN DE L’ACS POUR PARTICIPER AU CONGRÈS DE 2012. L’Association for Cultural Studies offre un petit nombre de bourses pour permettre à des participants en provenance de régions sous-représentées à l’ACS d’assister à la conférence, en couvrant les frais d’hébergement ou les frais d’inscription.

HÉBERGEMENT AGRÉABLE ET PRATIQUE, au c’ur de Paris et à proximité des lieux où se tiendra le congrès. Un hébergement bon marché sera également possible sur le site de la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

N’HÉSITEZ PAS À DIFFUSER CES INFORMATIONS à vos collègues et amis ! Nous espérons vous voir en 2012, à Paris !

Pr. Éric MAIGRET (Directeur du congrès) au nom des Comités Local et National

*/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris/*

Site Internet : http://www.crossroads2012.org
E-mail: crossroads2012@univ-paris3.fr

CfP: 44th Annual Conference

The 44th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians will be held in Willemstad, Curaçao, from Sunday, May 13, to Friday, May 18, 2012.

Further information about how to propose either an individual paper or a panel in the Member-ship-Area, via Link. (several languages).