Dear all,
Please see the CfP information below.
Goldsmiths, University of London, Centre for Caribbean & Diaspora Studies (CCDS) Conference, 27-8 June, 2016
Caribbean and Diasporic Dialogues in the University
The conference aims to challenge the limited visibility of Caribbean and Diaspora Studies in many higher education institutions and to interrogate the ways in which the precarious presence/ absence of indigenised black thought, currently being highlighted primarily through protest within, for example, higher education culture in countries like the UK, might be transformed. The theme of the conference - 'Caribbean and Diasporic Dialogues in the University' - seeks to foster and develop multi- and interdisciplinary conversations exploring critical, theoretical, historical and creative questions in a number of related fields that together contribute to Caribbean and Diaspora Studies.
We are especially interested to move beyond the construct of area studies 'out there' and to heighten the transglobal, transnational and postcolonial present with which Caribbean and diasporic research and arts practices are already richly conversant. We aim to engage a wide audience of scholars and practitioners researching these areas from within a range of disciplinary fields and contexts.
To present a paper: please send a proposed title and abstract (of no more than 300 words) with a short CV to the conference organizing committee at
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Abstracts from postgraduates and early career researchers are very welcome.
Deadline for Abstracts and Panel Proposals:
Proposal/ Submission Deadline: 7 March 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 23 March 2016
Submission Types
* Individual papers: These are academic papers (to be grouped into panel sessions: each paper not to exceed 20 minutes).
* Project presentations: These are 10-minute presentations of research/development projects of potential impact on cultural/ pedagogical practice and the academy. (To be part of a plenary panel).
* Panel Proposals: These must include a description of the panel as well as 4 individual papers (maximum).
Suggested topics (your suggestions are welcome) include the following:
- Poetics/ creolisation poetics globally and the transnational
- Centralising Caribbean & Diaspora Studies in the Humanities
- Routes to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary debate
- Diasporic Arts practitioners - from practice to archive
- Race/ Space and the gendered subject
- Sexualities/ Creating spaces for difference
- University - Practice and Future
- Indigenised black writing in Europe/ white university
- Interrogating and theorizing diaspora
- The university translating educational activism across space/ diaspora.
- The poetics and politics of Caribbean visual arts
- Transnational Performances of Caribbean/ Diasporic identities
- The Caribbean & the Mediterranean - a comparative/ intercultural approach
- Creative practitioners - including hybrid presentations.
Diana Josan, MA
Postgraduate Researcher
Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
www.gold.ac.uk/caribbean<http://www.gold.ac.uk/caribbean>
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