The “congress” format aims at international specialists in Caribbean studies from a variety of disciplines.  The “symposium” format is especially attractive for early career researchers in order to present and discuss their “research in progress” in an interdisciplinary context.

2025 – XV. Congress: “Women in the Caribbean: Fragmentations – Crossroads – Interconnections”, 16-18/10/2025, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Berlin [Website]

2024 – VIII. Symposium: “(Im)materiality, new archives and the Caribbean”, 21-22/03/2024 Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies [Website]

2023 – XIV. Congress: “Competing Memories: The Politics of Remembering Enslavement, Emancipation and Indentureship in the Caribbean”, 29-31/03/2023, Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies [Website]

2022 – VII. Symposium: “Whose Voice? Power, Knowledge, and Positionality in Caribbean Studies”, 20/10/ – 22/10/2022 Las Villas/Linz, online-conference [Website]

2021 – VI. Symposium: “Methods and Theories in Caribbean Studies: Digital Interdisciplinary socare Junior Conference 2021”, 28/10 – 30/10/2021 Tübingen/Saarbrücken, online-conference [Website]

2021 – XIII. Congress: “Between mobilities and demarcations of boundaries: Education and the politics of education in the Caribbean”, 05/03 – 13/03/2021 Erlangen, online-conference [Website]

2019 – V. Symposium: “Exzentrik und Exzess in karibischen Textualitäten, Ästhetiken und Ökonomien”, 19/07-20/07/2019 Saarbrücken [Report, Agenda]

2018 – XII. Congress: “Rethinking Europe from the Caribbean: Entanglements and Legacies”, 12/04-15/04/2018 Freiburg. [Website]

2017 – IV. Symposium: „Governance and Rights: Law, Religion and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature and Culture“, 23/11 – 25/11/2017 Salzburg. [Report, Agenda]

2015 – XI. Congress: “Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean. Relaciones y desconexiones – Relations and Disconnections – Relations et Déconnexions“, 14/10 – 17/10/2015 Hannover. [Report, Agenda]

2015 – III. Symposium: “Cultures of Resistance? Theories and Practices of Transgression in the Caribbean and its Diasporas”, 22/01 – 24/01/2015, Bielefeld. [Report, Agenda]

2013 – II. Symposium: “Crossing Thresholds. Decoloniality and Gender in Caribbean Knowledge”, 23/01 – 25/01/2013, Hannover. [Report, Agenda]

2011 – I. Symposium: “Performing Emotions in the Caribbean. Kulturproduktionen der Karibik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert“, 24/06 – 25/06/2011, Berlin. [Agenda]

2007 – X. Congress (in in cooperation with The Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee): “Discourses of Resistance“. 05/12 – 09/12/2007, Half Moon, Montego Bay, Accompong.

2005 – IX. Congress: “GLOBAL FIRE. Music, Literature, Arts and Philosophy out of the Caribbean“. 01/12 – 05/12/2005, Vienna.

2004 – Congress (in cooperation with Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin): “Haïti 1804-2004“. 04/07 – 06/07/2004, Berlin.

2003 – VIII. Congress: “Injustice & Insubordination. The Caribbean Writer as the ‘Warrior of the Imaginary’“. 24/09 – 26/09/2003, Antwerp.

2001 – VII. Congress: “Caribbean Critical Cultures – Cultural Critics“. 04/07 – 07/07/2001, Vienna.

1999 – VI. Congress: “Alte Welt, Neue Welt – Kulturkontakt und Kreolisierung“. 04/05 – 07/05/1999, Berlin.

1996 – V. Congress (in cooperation with Gustav-Stresemann-Institut Bonn): “Change in Caribbean Societies. Moments and Momentum“. 20/03 – 24/03/1996, Bonn.

1993 – IV. Congress: “History and Histories of the Caribbean“. 08/12 – 11/12/1993, Berlin. [Agenda]

1992 – III. Congress: “Born out of Resistance (Maroon Cultures)“. 25/03 – 28/03/1992, Utrecht.

1990 – II. Congress: “Ay Bobo. Afrokaribische Kulturen. Von kultureller Kreativität, Identität und Widerstand“. 20/06 – 23/06/1990, Vienna.

1988 – I. Congress: “Alternative Kulturen in der Karibik“. 16/06 – 18/06/1988, Berlin.