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    The Caribbean Commons

    20-21 February 2020
    Florida State University

    CFP Deadline: 30 September 2019 

    Keynote speakers:
    Yarimar Bonilla (Rutgers University), Laura Wagner (freelance anthropologist), and Mark Schuller (Northern […]

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    “Caribbean Literary Crossings, Critical Crossroads and Cross-Disciplinary Conversations”
    13-15th November 2019
    Bridgetown, Barbados

    CFP Deadline: 15 July 2019 

    From the recent treatment of the Wind […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    6:00pm – 9:00pm
    7 June 2019
    Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
    120 E 125th St, New York, NY 10035
    *RSVP, registration is free*

    Join us in celebration of  Willie Perdomo’s most re […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    3:00pm – 6:00pm
    1 June 2019
    Poets House
    10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
    Admission $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members.

    followed by
    Zong!: A Collective Reading with King, D […]

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    Film Screening and Q&A with director, Frances-Anne Solomon
    6:30pm 
    30 May 2019
    Walter Reade Theater
    165 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023
    Tickets available here
    AND
    4:15pm 
    2 June 2019
    Elinor Buni […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    The Department of Africana Studies, of CUNY Brooklyn College, is seeking an adjunct instructor to teach the following course in Fall 2019:

    AFST 3349 The Caribbeanization of North America (3 hours, 3 […]

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    sx salon
    Issue 30
    February 2019

    Issue 30 of sx salon is dedicated to David Chariandy’s second novel, Brother (2017). Brother has received many awards and accolades, such as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fict […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    CFP Deadline: 1 August 2019

    This Call For Papers is for an amazing Louise Bennett anthology that will be published end of 2019 to honor the 100th birthday of Jamaica’s folk icon. The anthology is seeking to […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    CFP Deadline: 1 August 2019

    Caribbean Quarterly is now accepting submissions for Enough!, an issue dedicated to addressing child sexual abuse (CSA) in Caribbean culture through an examination of reg […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    “HINTERLANDS : Journeys of the Imagination”
    17-20th October 2019
    University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus
    Georgetown, Guyana

    CFP Deadline: 20 June 2019 

    Image: “Palace of the Peacock – Homage to Wils […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    Book Launch and conversation with Tracy K. Smith
    7:30pm 
    4 June 2019
    Greenlight Bookstore in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
    632 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225

    Nicole Dennis-Benn, beloved and aw […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    Fall/Winter 2019 Issue
    Theme: “Life at a Crossroads”

    CFP Deadline:  19 July 2019

    Overview of the Journal:

    For the Fall 2019 issue of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters, we seek submissions of cre […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    Application Deadline: 16 September 2019

    The 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is accepting applications from U.S.-citizen academics and professionals through the deadline of September 16th, 2019. […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    CFP Deadline: 15 June 2019

    Label Me Latina/o is an online, refereed international e-journal that focuses on Latino Literary Production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The journal invites s […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    CFP Deadline: 15 June 2019

    The Editors of African and Black Diaspora announce a Call for Papers on Black Intellectuals and the Making of the Atlantic World for a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    6:30pm – 8:00pm
    12 April 2019
    CUNY Grad Center, Room C197

    Round-table panel:

    William Luis, Vanderbilt University
    Sophie Maríñez, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    Jill T. Richardson, The […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    Journal of West Indian Literature
    Volume 26, Issue 2
    November 2018

    The Journal of West Indian Literature presents a special issue dedicated to the novels of Marlon James. “From his first novel, John Cr […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    4-6 April 2019
    University of Pennsylvania 

    As we think about the long 1950s (1948-1962) in Jamaica, we think in terms of a series of displacements. The period begins with the sailing of the H.M.T. Emp […]

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    Review of applications will begin on 1 April 2019.
    The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) was founded to address the African presence in the Americas through […]

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    The Caribbean Commons

    4-5 April 2019
    Skylight Room
    CUNY Grad Center

    This symposium will mark the end of an academic year in which the Committee on Globalization and Social Change has engaged the issue of “Translation.” Taking a b […]

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