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In response to the call for papers for CARISCC’s forthcoming international conference on Caribbean In/Securities and Creativity, we are pleased to announce that the following six papers will be presented next Wednesday (13th June) at the University of Amsterdam: (1) “Dancehall as a matrix of resistance to living realities of street dancers in Jamaica” – presented by Cyrielle Tamby, Visiting Scholar – PhD Programme at the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California Berkeley, USA (2) “Careful creations: negotiating filming and collaboration in Haiti” – presented by Dr Kasia Mika, Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Caribbean Studies at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands (3) “On a Walking Tour of Trench Town: Sensing Violence in Downtown Kingston, Jamaica” – presented by Alana Osbourne, PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (4) “Saving Face: In Search of the Masculine Subject in George Castera’s Le Retour à l’arbre” – presented by Dr Ara Chi Jung, (PhD, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA), Independent Scholar, Florence, Italy (5) “A Critical Exploration of the Women of Marlon James’ A History of Seven Killings and Jennifer Rahim’s Curfew Chronicles” – presented by Zakiya McKenzie, PhD Candidate, University of Exeter, UK (6) “Intimate Labour as Cross-Border Survival: Narratives of Mobility among Haitian Domestic Workers in the Dominican Republic” – presented by Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, PhD Candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada A ‘live’ pre-conference discussion about the six abstracts will take place online via the CARISCC blog this Wednesday, 6th June 2018, 1-3pm (GMT). Please join us online for this event using the following link: https://cariscc.wordpress.com/4th-pgr-conference-abstracts-amsterdam/ Feel free to comment on the abstracts by posting constructive reviews, reflections on the featured themes, and any questions using the reply boxes at the end of each entry. We will also be using #CARISCC on Twitter throughout the online discussion, and contributors are most welcome to continue posting and tweeting additional feedback right through to the date of the conference. Members of the CARISCC Research Network will reply to all comments posted online during (or prior to) the live discussion, between 1-3pm (GMT) on Wednesday 6th June 2018. Thank you. Dr Carol Ann Dixon CARISCC Network Facilitator University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> CARISCC Blog: https://cariscc.wordpress.com/ (Please note that my office hours are Mondays, Tuesdays and (a.m.) Wednesdays) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1