Australian Association for Caribbean Studies

Join us! A Symposium on Caribbean Culture in Australia at Western Sydney Campus. Register here: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/writing-society/events/literary_events_and_conferences/callaloo_and_wattleseed

“Crossing paths” – AACS 2023

CFP due Friday September 16th, 2022

In many ways, the Caribbean sits at the epicentre of the world. Strangers meeting, cultures colliding, friends and enemies, spaces shared. Often friendly, sometimes violent, frequently curious, occasionally standoffish- the crossing of paths in the Caribbean has always had intriguing results. Interactions between strangers and people of different cultures has been a vital part of Caribbean life for many centuries, and is still prevalent today. From explosive clashes to pleasant encounters caused by travel, war, colonisation, and the Caribbean being simply one of the most transient places in the world, this theme will explore the causes, occurrences and consequences of paths being crossed in this unique space.

The Australian Association of Caribbean Studies would like to invite you to submit a 250-word abstract for our February 2023 conference, to be held at NUSpace in Newcastle, NSW. Caribbean scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit. This conference will be a mixture of face to face and online, with the Keynote being held on Zoom.

Please email your abstracts to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

Image: Les Sirenes, 1956 by Rigaud Benoit (Haitian, 1911 - 1986)

Australian Association for Caribbean Studies Conference 2021

“Violence and Meaning in the Caribbean”

Image: Untitled (Julius Caesar on Gold), 1981 by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Hosted by the University of Newcastle, NSW, in association with the Centre for the Study of Violence

4-6th February 2021

Offers of papers for the 2021 AACS Conference are due no later than 30 September 2020. Proposals should be 300 words in length, accompanied by a 200 word biography. Papers will be twenty minutes in duration. We also encourage proposals for panel discussions. Please send your submissions to [email protected].

For our 2021 conference, the AACS invites papers on the theme of Violence and Meaning in the Caribbean. As always offers from all areas of Caribbean Studies will be considered. Colleagues are welcome to submit abstracts outside of the theme. For 2021 the conference organisers encourage participants to think about how violence and meaning shape or have shaped our understanding of the Caribbean.

Violence is, and has always been, an inextricable aspect of Caribbean life, both in the past and the present. Indigenous conflict, the establishment of slavery, the colonisation of the Caribbean over several centuries and the often-bitter struggles for independence, in many ways built the islands and region that we know today. Violence remains a vital part of Caribbean folklore, music and art. It looms large in the past as much as it is all too real in the present. Given this, can we extricate meaning from violent events, peoples and spaces, both historically and in the present? How do the myriad Caribbean cultures, genders, ages and identities navigate shifting times and how is violence and its many meanings expressed?

We therefore invite proposals on the theme of Violence and Meaning in the Caribbean, including but not limited to, the topics mentioned above. The conference is interdisciplinary, so again we welcome proposals from diverse range of research backgrounds and interests.

A reminder that the Association's biennial conference 'Caribbean Meridians' is happening this week from Thursday to Saturday. We have a wonderful program with keynote talks by Michael Bucknor (University of the West Indies), Alexis Wright (Melbourne), Anna Cristina Pertierra (WSU) and Raphael Dalleo (Bucknell). Registration is still open!

Caribbean Meridians | Australian Association for Caribbean Studies We are encouraging presenters to think about the ‘meridians’ that connect the peoples, cultures, ecologies, and histories of the Caribbean with those of other places around the globe.

REMINDER: abstracts for the next Australian Association for Caribbean Studies conference are due at the end of the week. The conference will feature a collaboration between the novelists Patrick Chamoiseau and Alexis Wright. Michael Bucknor from the University of the West Indies and Anna Cristina Pertierra from Western Sydney University are also keynotes. The conference will be at Western Sydney University's lovely Female Orphan school from February 7-9, 2019.

Caribbean Meridians | Australian Association for Caribbean Studies We are encouraging presenters to think about the ‘meridians’ that connect the peoples, cultures, ecologies, and histories of the Caribbean with those of other places around the globe.

We are excited to announce that the distinguished Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau will be travelling to Sydney in February to collaborate with Alexis Wright at the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies 2019 conference.

Chamoiseau has been an important source of inspiration for Wright for many years and their collaboration offers an opportunity to think about the ways in which the worlds of Caribbean and indigenous Australian writing resonate and intersect with each other. They will be speaking publically together at a keynote roundtable of the conference Caribbean Meridians at Western Sydney University (February 7-9, 2019) as well as a public reading and discussion in the Sydney CBD (details TBA).

To register your interest in attending these sessions, please email aacsconf2019(at)gmail.com

http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/patrick-chamoiseau-and-alexis-wright-to-collaborate-in-sydney/

For further details about Caribbean Meridians, including the call for papers please visit: http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/caribbean-meridians

Patrick Chamoiseau and Alexis Wright to Collaborate in Sydney - Other Worlds We are excited to announce that the distinguished Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau will be travelling to Sydney in February to collaborate with Alexis Wright, one of our Other Worlds project members. Chamoiseau has been an important source of inspiration for Wright for many years and their colla...

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that the date, venue and theme for the next AACS conference have now been finalised. The conference will take place at Western Sydney University’s beautiful Female Orphan School at our Parramatta campus on February 7-9 next year. Please share widely and save the date!

The description of the conference theme and the CFP can be found on the conference website.
http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/caribbean-meridians/

So far, we’ve confirmed Michael Bucknor (UWI Mona) and the Alexis Wright (UMelb) as keynotes, with more to follow.

Caribbean Meridians | Australian Association for Caribbean Studies We are encouraging presenters to think about the ‘meridians’ that connect the peoples, cultures, ecologies, and histories of the Caribbean with those of other places around the globe.

From Mary J Arneaud,
"Good day, I am a graduate student from Trinidad who will be making a presentation on ethnic identity at the conference (more on my research interests here: http://sta-uwi.academia.edu/MaryArneaud). I'm wondering if there are one or two other attendees who would like to split the cost of accommodation by sharing one of the Liversidge Apartments on the ANU campus with me - there are two and three bedroom apartments. Please write back here or inbox me if you are interested. Thank you!"
Mary J Arneaud | The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago - Academia.edu
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