Call for Papers
Australian Association for Caribbean Studies
International Biennial Conference
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
16-18th February, 2011
The ninth biennial conference of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies (AACS) will be held in Newcastle, 16-18th February 2011. The theme for the conference is:
Caribbean Narratives of Race, Place and Migration
*Paper proposals that do not fit the conference theme are welcome*
Proposals for papers of approx. 200 words should be sent to Dr Karina Smith at karina.smith@vu.edu.au to arrive no later than October 31st, 2010.
For further information regarding the conference, including registration, accommodation and travel arrangements, please visit the AACS’s website:
http://sites.google.com/site/austassoccaribstudies/
or contact Dr Rhona Hammond (rhona.hammond@gmail.com) or Dr Karina Smith (karina.smith@vu.edu.au)
Postcolonialism, Economies, Crises: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2nd Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association
University of Birmingham
7 & 8 July 2011
At a time when the current global financial crisis is prompting profound reassessments of economic models, practices and transnational relationships, how can postcolonial studies inform our understanding of relations between local cultures and global capital? This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the relationships between postcolonialism and economic structures, historicising crisis as well as engaging with contemporary concerns. How might we situate present economic relations within longer (post)colonial histories of capitalism, deprivation, debt and dependency? How do moments of crisis interrelate with ongoing economic struggles outside the west? To what extent are economic relations a central feature of postcolonial cultural representation? What are the relationships between economic crisis and the content, marketing and consumption of postcolonial artistic and cultural productions?
Keynote Speakers:
Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Brouillette, Suman Gupta
We welcome proposals from academics working in disciplines including Cultural Studies, Economics, Film, Geography, History, Literature, International Development, Politics and related fields. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
Topics for papers or panels may include, but are not limited to:
Responses to the current global economic crisis from postcolonial writers, critics and theorists Alternative financial and economic models (e.g. shariah-compliant banking)
Recessions, depressions and crashes: economic crisis points in (post)colonial histories, texts and cultures
Situating economics: postcolonial marketplaces and exchanges
The textual representation of postcolonial economic relations
Contesting regimes of value and worth across postcolonial cultures
Postcolonialism and economic migrancy
Development economics in the postcolony: poverty, debt, aid and relief Neoliberalism and global finance (the World Bank, IMF, etc)
The economics of environmental crisis
‘Economy’ as metaphor for social, interpersonal and psychoanalytic process
The postcolonial studies industry: marketing and commoditising the postcolonial intellectual Economies and the academy: funding postcolonial research in the current HE climate
Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send a 300-word abstract and a biographical sketch of no more than 150 words to Clare Barker and Dave Gunning at psaconference2011@gmail.com by 30 November 2010.
Proposals for panels (3 speakers) and roundtable discussions are also welcome: please include a 200 word rationale for the panel/roundtable and a brief summary of each paper/contributor.
Conferences and Events
September 2010
Crime Across Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Leeds, UK, 9-10 September 2010
Keynote Speakers: Dr David Platten (University of Leeds) and Dr
Stephen Morton (University of Southampton). Reading by Courttia Newland
In his essay, Decline of the English Murder, George Orwell claims that the old domestic poisoning dramas of pre-war England were products of a stable society, made to be consumed within middle-class sitting rooms on a Sunday afternoon. This conference seeks to examine how discourses of crime and criminality are produced in a global context that extends well beyond the cloisters of Orwell's English middle class. Such discourses are generated across the disciplinary spectrum legal studies, the visual arts, the humanities, the social sciences, geography, environmental studies and even the hard sciences suggesting that, in an age of terrorism, cyber scams, corporate corruption, drug wars, cross-cultural conflict and engineered ecological and biological threats, crime is itself becoming increasingly fractured and difficult to define. We intend to investigate how representations of crime not only reflect upon but actively engage in processes of cross-cultural exchange. We ask how writers and cultural practitioners from around the world have appropriated and reconfigured the form and aesthetics of crime fiction, often moving beyond the detective novel in order to experiment with a variety of media including short fiction, poetry, film, photography, music, graphic novels and pulp magazines. The conference also opens a space for debates regarding the ethics of representing crime. To what extent do representations of crime exacerbate crises and moral panics surrounding cross-cultural encounter in the twenty-first century? How do pivotal events of the twenty-first century, for example, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the war on terror, challenge and redefine conceptions of criminality? Has the language of crime itself altered or expanded in response to new forms of cross-cultural, transnational, or global crisis?
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/crimeacrosscultures.htm
Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North
Leeds Metropolitan University, Friday 10th September 2010, 12.30 pm 17.00 pm
Room Number: RB 408, The Rose Bowl
City Campus, Portland Crescent
Programme
12:30 – 1.00 Registration and Welcome
1.00 – 2.45 Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Metropolitan University & Jenny Zobel, York St John University
'Lorsque je Vais dans mon Village (When I return to my Village): Zobel's Visions of Home and Exile'.
Sarah Lawson Welsh, York St John University
‘Feeding, Feasting, Fasting: The Role of Food in Caribbean Literature'.
2.45 – 3.15 Coffee
3.15 – 4.00 John McLeod, University of Leeds
'English Somewheres: Caryl Phillips's North'.
4.00-5.00 Menelik Shabazz, Director/Screenwriter (Burning an Illusion, 1981, Time and Judgment, 1988)
Screening of BBC documentary CATCH A FIRE (1995) which tells the story of Paul Bogle and the Morant Bay rebellion (1865) followed by a discussion of its legacy.
Registration is free.
United Kingdom - Belize Association presents the13th Annual Conference Research in Belize
Friday 24th September, 2010, 12 noon – 5 pm
Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, University of Oxford
The annual meeting of the UK Belize Association will be held in Oxford on Friday 24th September, 2010, from noon to 5pm.
An afternoon of research presentations, followed by an informal gathering in the evening. Accommodation is available for those who wish to stay overnight. The venue will be Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square - a buffet lunch, refreshments and afternoon coffee/tea will be offered, with a small charge to cover costs.
Full details of the programme will be made available shortly, including registration and optional accommodation details.
** If you would like to present your research on Belize at this meeting, please contact David Howard (email: david.howard@kellogg.ox.ac.uk ) by 1st August, 2010 at the latest, with your name, affiliation and a provisional title for your presentation **
ALL WELCOME
September 18-19, 2010
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
International Conference: “Reflections, Relevance and Continuity: Caribbean and Global Perspectives of Black Power”
Department of History, UWI-St Augustine, SALISES & CENLAC
Contact jerome.teelucksingh@sta.uwi.edu
September 27-29, 2010
Oxford, England, UK
International Conference: “Caribbean Globalizations: Histories, Cultures and Genres, 1493 to the Present Day”
Oriel College (Univ. of Oxford) & Maison Française d’Oxford (UK)
Contact Eva Sansavior at caribbeanglobalizations@googlemail.com or eva.sansavior@oriel.ox.ac.uk
October 2010
October 7-9, 2010
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2nd Conference on Caribbean Studies: “Looking to the Caribbean: Film and Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,Marquette Univ., Department of World Languages, Univ. of North Florida & Caribe: Revista de Cultura y Literatura
Website http://www.marquette.edu/fola/documents/Flyerfor2ndInternationalCaribbeanStudies.pdf
Contact armando.gonzalez-perez@marquette.edu, j.febles.58143@unf.edu or jean-pierre.lafouge@marquette.edu
October 14-15, 2010
Cave Hill, Barbados
International Colloquium: “Antillanité, Créolité, World Literature”
Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/SpecialEvents/LLL/ACLWorldColloque.html
Contact kahiudi.mabana@cavehill.uwi.edu or isabelle.constant@cavehill.uwi.edu
October 17-20, 2010
Saint Michael, Barbados
2nd Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development International Conference on Higher Education
“The Global Education Meltdown: Solutions for Sustainability”
Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, Barbados
Contact conference2010@hedu.edu.bb
October 21-23, 2010
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
9th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA)
“Cuerpos vigilados y castigados: Resistance and Empowerment in the Body Rican”
PRSA
Website http://www.puertorican-studies.org
Contact the PRSA Secretariat at prsa@cornell.edu
November 2010
November 4-6, 2010
Georgetown, Guyana
13th Annual Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference
“The Islands in Between” Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Eastern Caribbean”
University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), UWI-Cave Hill, Univ. of Guyana
Website http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/islandsinbetween.htm
Contact Reinhard Sander or Mervyn C. Alleyne at islandsconference@gmail.com
November 9-12, 2010
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
42nd Annual Caribbean Monetary Studies Conference
Caribbean Centre for Money & Finance (UWI) & Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago
Website http://www.ccmfuwi.org
Contact CCMF@sta.uwi.edu, Kathleen.Charles@sta.uwi.edu or ahenry@central-bank.org.tt
November 9-12, 2010
Castries, St Lucia
37th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks (CAIB)
“Repositioning the Region: The Role of the Financial Services Industry”
CAIB
Website http://www.caibinc.info
Contact CAIB@candw.lc
November 10-17, 2010
Martinique
International Symposium: “The Role of Storytelling and Orality in the Imaginary, Literary Aesthetics and the Arts”
GRECFAC (Groupe de recherche, d’études, de communication, de formation et d’animation de la Caraïbe), Martinique
Contact contact@grecfac.com, Chali.jean-georges@wanadoo.fr, sjvauclin@hotmail.fr or mvete@bowdoin.edu
November 11-13, 2010
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
22nd Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association
“Haiti, History, Healing: Facing the Challenges of Reconstruction”
Haitian Studies Association
Website http://www.haitianstudies.umb.edu
Contact Guerda Nicolas at hsa@umb.edu
November 12-14, 2010
St John’s, Antigua
17th General Meeting and Conference of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS)
“Climate Change: Implications for Caribbean Health, Agriculture, Ecology, Industries and Building Codes”
CAS
Website http://www.caswi.org
Contact trevor.alleyne@gmail.com
November 17-19, 2010
Tortola, British Virgin Islands
20th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Tertiary Institutions (ACTI): “Developing the Whole Person for a Productive and Prosperous Caribbean Region”
ACTI, Cave Hill, Barbados
Website http://www.acticarib.org/events.html
Contact snrodrigues_acti@yahoo.com
Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Afterlives of Empire, 19-20 November 2010
Institut Français, London, UK
Annual Conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial StudiesDeadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2010-04-21
Contact: Conference Secretary, Georgina Collins (sfpsconference@googlemail.com)
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the independence of 17 African countries, most of them former colonies of the French Empire. A number of conferences already announced for this year in the UK and elsewhere will attempt to provide a critical overview of this wave of independences, working from a range of perspectives across the social sciences. This conference will adopt a complementary approach, focusing its analysis on the utopian and dystopian representations (literary, political, historical, cultural) to which the process of decolonisation gave rise. We thus invite proposals for papers that seek to explore the complex relationship between utopian and dystopian images of decolonisation in the former French and Belgian colonies.
It is now a critical commonplace that the expectation in the run up to, and euphoria in the immediate aftermath of, independence gave way to a sense of profound disillusionment by the late 1960s. For example, if the 1966 Festival mondial des arts nègres in Dakar posited independence as nothing less than the cultural, social and political renaissance of the entire continent, then Ahmadou Kourouma’s novel Les Soleils des indépendances, first published in 1968, imagined post-colonial Africa as a nightmarish world of poverty, despair and the oppressive one-party state. However, the neat chronology of 1968 as the turning point separating utopian and dystopian visions of independence does not withstand sustained scrutiny: e.g. already in 1961, Fanon’s Damnés de la terre was warning of the danger of independence being derailed by a corrupt elite; that same year, Patrice Lumumba, the democratically elected leader of the Congo, was executed by the Belgian security forces with the collusion of the CIA; in 1962, René Dumont gave his stark warning that L’Afrique noire est mal partie; and throughout the 1960s, the writer/filmmaker Ousmane Sembene denounced a transfer of power that was singularly failing to transform the lives of the African masses.
Although the 50th anniversary celebrations in 2010 relate to sub-Saharan Africa, we would also welcome proposals for papers dealing with other contexts such as North Africa and Indo-china, and equally the post-departmentalised DOM-ROMs, whose afterlives of empire are particularly complex. Also, we would be keen to receive proposals from scholars working on France’s ancien régime empire: how was the loss of Canada, and India imagined? What dreams for the future sustained the French-speaking populations or was their imaginary marked solely by a postcolonial melancholy? How and when did Haitian dreams of a black Republic give way to often dystopian images of a seemingly endless spiral of oppression and exploitation? As global inequalities seem to become ever more entrenched, is it still possible or desirable to create utopian representations of independence?
November 22-24, 2010
Castries, St Lucia
8th WASD Conference “Towards Epistemic Sovereignty: (Re)-thinking Development in a Changing Global Political Economy”
World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD), Government of St Lucia, UWI-St Augustine & UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://www.worldsustainable.org/index.php/theme
Contact gale.rigobert@sta.uwi.edu or wasd2010@sta.uwi.edu
December 2010
December 6-8, 2010
La Habana, Cuba
4th International Conference: “The Caribbean of the XXIst Century”
Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de la Habana & CRIES
Contact Milagros Martínez at milagros50@rect.uh.cu or Omar Everleny Pérez at everleny@uh.cu
March 2011
March 21-23, 2011
Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean
1st International Conference on Governance for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
UNESCO Chair ‘Caribbean SIDS’ & Univ. of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA)
Website http://sidsgg.webs.com
Contact sidsgg@una.an or m.goede@una.an
March 31 - April 2, 2011
New York, New York, USA
International Symposium: “Cuba Futures: Past and Present”
Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, City Univ. of New York
Contact cubaproject@gc.cuny.ed