Dear colleagues,
The Society for Caribbean Research (SoCaRe) in co-operation with the
Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) and the BMBF-project ‘The
Americas as Space of Entanglements’ would like to invite you to the
Junior Research Conference on the topic “Cultures of Resistance?
Theories and Practices of Transgression in the Caribbean and its
Diasporas”, taking place 22-24 January 2015 at the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of Bielefeld University.
Practices of transgression are essential in understanding the
Caribbean and its diasporas in entangled areas such as the Americas,
Africa, Europe, and Asia. This is partly due to the region’s history
of colonization, (often enforced) migration, neo-colonial
inequalities, as well as the Caribbean’s specific geopolitical role.
The recent re-emergence of debates surrounding reparations is only one
example for the multiple layers of entanglement of these areas and
processes which continue to inform Caribbean practices of resistance.
While as a theme, resistance seems to be omnipresent in disciplines
such as politics, economics, history, anthropology, feminist and
gender studies, cultural studies, or fields focusing on aesthetics,
the concept frequently still remains under-theorized in application.
Through a variety of scheduled key-note talks and project
presentations we aim to examine existing practices and theories of
resistance in the context of the Caribbean and its diasporas.
Scholars and students from all disciplines are welcome to join us for
thought-provoking contributions and round-table discussions.
Keynote speakers are: Giselle Anatol (University of Kansas) and
Roberto Zurbano (Casa de las Américas, Cuba).
We kindly ask that you register for the SoCaRe Junior Research
Conference by December 15th, 2014 via
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Please note that there will be a conference fee of 10 Euros (to be
paid upon arrival) which covers lunch and coffee breaks.
The conference program will be made available soon at
www.caribbeanresearch.net and www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias.
We would appreciate it if you could widely circulate this invitation
within your
departments. We look forward to seeing many of you in January!
Kind regards, your conference team “Cultures of Resistance“
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Wiebke Beushausen
Transcultural Studies
University of Heidelberg
Marstallstr. 6
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality
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