See below the announcement of a symposium which will take place next May. Offers of papers (title and short synopsis) should be sent to Peter Hulme [phulme@essex.ac.uk] by 15 January 2011. Please feel free to circulate the announcement.
PAINTING THE CARIBBEAN
A symposium at the University of Essex, 6-7 May 2011
Sponsored by American Tropics, UECLAA, and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For centuries the Caribbean has both attracted and produced artists who have represented the lineaments of its landscapes and cultures. Agostino Brunias, Paul Gauguin, Winslow Homer, Chris Ofili, and Peter Doig are among many who have visited and painted. Others born in the region, such as Camille Pissarro and Frank Bowling have remained haunted by their childhood memories. Yet others have returned again and again to paint the places and spaces of their islands: Isaac Belisario, Wifredo Lam, Michel-Jean Cazabon, Aubrey Williams, Gesner Armand, Pétion Savain, John Dunkley … And the tradition remains vibrant, as for example in the map-based works of Rafael Ferrer, José Bedia, and Ibrahim Miranda.
Derek Walcott, the St Lucian nobel laureate, has always been a keen painter of his island and an astute interpreter in his poetry of other painters. St Lucian painters such as Dunstan St Omer and Llewellyn Xavier are among the most distinguished in the region. So, in association with his time at Essex as Professor of Poetry, the AHRC-funded American Tropics project, along with the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is organising a two-day symposium called Painting the Caribbean. In keeping with the place-based approach of the American Tropics project, this symposium will focus on how the places of the Caribbean have been represented—its landscapes, its cities, its light, its sea.
Featured speakers will include distinguished Caribbeanists and art historians Lisa Paravisini (Vassar) and Judith Bettelheim (SFSU).
Monday, 20 December 2010
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Opening hours - Xmas period 20th Dec - 3rd Jan
Monday 20 December to Thursday 23 December: The Library will operate vacation hours
Monday 20/12/10 - Thursday 23/12/10: The Library will open at 9.00am and close at 6.00pm. Last entry into the Library will be at 5.45pm.
The Library will be closed over the Christmas holidays, from Friday 24 December to Monday 3 January, inclusive.
The Library will reopen at 9.00am on Tuesday 4th January 2011.
Monday 20/12/10 - Thursday 23/12/10: The Library will open at 9.00am and close at 6.00pm. Last entry into the Library will be at 5.45pm.
The Library will be closed over the Christmas holidays, from Friday 24 December to Monday 3 January, inclusive.
The Library will reopen at 9.00am on Tuesday 4th January 2011.
Archive of Rwandan genocide
Last week the Guardian reported on the Genocide Archive of Rwanda. The archive will be located atthe Kigali Genocide Memorial and has gathered 1,500 recordings and over 20,000 documents and photographs relating to the 1994 massacres. Material has come from a range of sources including Rwandan media outlets and museums, court reports, foreign institutions and from survivors.
A digital archive is being developed, initially to be made available onsite and then online. The project has been dweveloped by the Aegis Trust and the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide in Kigali, with assistance from the University of Tecas Libraries.
A digital archive is being developed, initially to be made available onsite and then online. The project has been dweveloped by the Aegis Trust and the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide in Kigali, with assistance from the University of Tecas Libraries.
Friday, 10 December 2010
Fighting for Britain : African soldiers in the Second World War
Recently I attended a seminar hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, where David Killingray discussed his recent book Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War.
David Killingray's book has been reviewed favourably and presents a history of African's at war and the African contribution to the war effort, between 1939 and 1947, looking at questions including recruitment, experiences of war, discipline and indiscipline, the retuirn home and demobilisation, and the social impact of service. The book is concerned with presenting 'history from below' and sources include oral evidence, written accounts, soliders letter, newlspapers and official sources.
I was pleased to note that one source used were letters included in the Commonwealth Studies Archives, including in the Michael Crowder papers (ICS123), and collated as part of Michael Crowder's research on the Bechuanaland Protectorate the Second World War, carried out as part of his study for the biography of Tshekedi Khama.
David Killingray's book has been reviewed favourably and presents a history of African's at war and the African contribution to the war effort, between 1939 and 1947, looking at questions including recruitment, experiences of war, discipline and indiscipline, the retuirn home and demobilisation, and the social impact of service. The book is concerned with presenting 'history from below' and sources include oral evidence, written accounts, soliders letter, newlspapers and official sources.
I was pleased to note that one source used were letters included in the Commonwealth Studies Archives, including in the Michael Crowder papers (ICS123), and collated as part of Michael Crowder's research on the Bechuanaland Protectorate the Second World War, carried out as part of his study for the biography of Tshekedi Khama.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Travelling Librarian: Schomburg Centre for Black Cultural Studies
The final stop on my visit was to the Schomburg Centre for Black Cultural Studies, a New York Public Library Research Library, which collects, preserves and makes available material on peoples of African descent. For over 80 years the Center has been an important focus for collecting within the United States, and its collections include materials from Africa and the Caribbean.
Some particular archive collections of interest include collections relating to US organisations opposing the South African apartheid system, and archives of the American West Indian Ladies Aid Society, the Bermuda Benevolent Association, the British Virgin Islands Benevolent Association, George Padmore letters, Claude McKay letters and manuscripts, and a collection of letters written by C.L.R. James to his former wife and political associate, Constance Webb.
Some particular archive collections of interest include collections relating to US organisations opposing the South African apartheid system, and archives of the American West Indian Ladies Aid Society, the Bermuda Benevolent Association, the British Virgin Islands Benevolent Association, George Padmore letters, Claude McKay letters and manuscripts, and a collection of letters written by C.L.R. James to his former wife and political associate, Constance Webb.
Thursday, 25 November 2010
CFP: 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
International Slavery Museum
Albert Dock
Liverpool
Wednesday 29th June - Friday 1st July 2011
The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of short abstracts of 250 to 400 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean, and on Caribbean diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the themes outlined below. We also welcome abstracts for papers that fall outside this list of topics, and we particularly welcome proposals for complete panels, which should consist of three papers.
Those selected for the conference will be invited to give a 20-minute presentation and will be offered the opportunity to publish their work as part of the Society's online series of papers.
Abstracts should be submitted along with a short CV by 7th January, 2011. Proposals received after the deadline may not be considered.
PROVISIONAL PANELS
International Slavery Museum
Albert Dock
Liverpool
Wednesday 29th June - Friday 1st July 2011
The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of short abstracts of 250 to 400 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean, and on Caribbean diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the themes outlined below. We also welcome abstracts for papers that fall outside this list of topics, and we particularly welcome proposals for complete panels, which should consist of three papers.
Those selected for the conference will be invited to give a 20-minute presentation and will be offered the opportunity to publish their work as part of the Society's online series of papers.
Abstracts should be submitted along with a short CV by 7th January, 2011. Proposals received after the deadline may not be considered.
PROVISIONAL PANELS
- Liverpool and the Caribbean
- The Fall of the Plantation Complex
- Museums and Caribbean Histories
- Slavery, Commemoration, and Representation
- Ports and Cities
- Health, Social Policy, and Disability
- Environment and Natural Disasters
- The Challenges of Democracy
- Childhood and Education
- Theatre, Dance, and Performance
- Food and Material Culture
- Colonial Governance and Decolonisation
The Society will provide a limited number of Postgraduate Bursaries for presenters to assist with registration and accommodation costs. Postgraduate researchers should indicate that they are seeking a bursary when submitting their abstract, but please note that travel costs cannot be funded.
Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Award, the deadline for which is also 7th January, 2011. For more information on the Bridget Jones Award, contact Kate Quinn at kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk, or visit our website: http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/
For further queries, or alternative methods of abstract submission, contact Lorna Burns at societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com, or by mail at The Department of English Literature, 5 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ.
CFP: Extended deadline - Peace and (In)security: Canada's Promise, Canada's Problem - British Association for Canadian Studies
PEACE AND (IN)SECURITY: CANADA'S PROMISE, CANADA'S PROBLEM?
BACS 36th Annual Conference
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
4–6 April 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE!
The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that their 36th annual conference will take place on 4–6 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham. Founded in 1900, the ‘Redbrick’ university is located within the United Kingdom’s second largest and most diverse city.
Reflecting one of the explicit priorities of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Government of Canada), the conference aims to interrogate the historical legacies, contemporary realities and cultural myths of the ‘peaceable kingdom'. What constitutes peace in the context of economic instability and political insecurity? Which discourses, images and texts circulate in a time of environmental crisis and social anxiety? How do the actions, events and conflicts of the Canadian past inflect the policies, politics and imaginings of future security?
The British Association for Canadian Studies invites paper proposals related to notions of peace and (in)security pertaining across, within and beyond the field of Canadian Studies. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, are invited from any single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective. Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative panel proposals, including those from postgraduate students, are welcome.
Paper proposals will be especially appreciated in the following areas:
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
BACS 36th Annual Conference
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
4–6 April 2011
The British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) is pleased to announce that their 36th annual conference will take place on 4–6 April 2011 at the University of Birmingham. Founded in 1900, the ‘Redbrick’ university is located within the United Kingdom’s second largest and most diverse city.
- identities and insecurities
- surveillance and security: histories, institutions, discourses, practices
- cultures of dissent: texts, policies, movements, communities
- internal or external threats, conflicts, and instabilities
- histories, visions and narratives of peace
- geographies, representations and economies of (in)security
Jodie Robson, BACS Administrator
Email: canstuds@gmail.com
Email abstract(s) of 200–300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one side of A4) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 10 December 2010. Submissions will be acknowledged by email. Postgraduate students are especially welcome to submit a proposal and there will be a concessionary conference fee for students. BACS regrets that it is unable to assist participants with travel and accommodation costs
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