Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University
The Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University engages in interdisciplinary and transnational research, teaching, and dialogue on the culture and politics of contemporary postcolonial and neo–liberal racial and gender formations and the historical legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Created in the fall of 2004, the IRGG organizes colloquia, conferences, film screenings, and hosts visiting artists and scholars.
What is Caribbean Studies: Prisms, Paradigms and Practices
An International Symposium
Registration:
We will implement a form of registration because our space is very limited. When registering please indicate whether you will attend one or both sessions of the symposium. Please email us at the following address to register: whatiscaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
Sponsors:
Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund (Macmillan Center); the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant; Whitney Humanities Center; African American Studies; the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization; and Small Axe Journal.
Co-Convenors:
Hazel V. Carby
Professor, Departments of African American Studies and American Studies
Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization
Yale University
Kamari M. Clarke
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director of the Yale Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis
Yale University
David Scott
Professor, Deparment of Anthropology
Editor of Small Axe & Director of Small Axe Project
Columbia University
Symposium Background & Mission:
'What is Caribbean Studies' is a two-day symposium that builds upon a preliminary international workshop held at Yale in Fall 2009 entitled “New Directions in Caribbean Studies.” Co-sponsored by Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization, Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis, and African American Studies, this workshop set the agenda for the articulation of a number of key questions that are central to this symposium. The mission of ‘What is Caribbean Studies: Prisms, Paradigms, and Practices’ is to serve as a critical forum for participants to exchange ideas about the significance of Caribbean Studies in our transnational world and to ask what constitutes the ‘Caribbean’ in Caribbean Studies? To what extent do the divergent locations, subjectivities, and traumas captured by the term Caribbean actually render a fixed notion of the Caribbean impossible? What is gained or missed by applying concepts such as empire,transnationalism, globalization, and neoliberalism to the locations historically imagined as the Caribbean? In answering these questions our focus will be on the national and transnational networks and linkages that have come to constitute the Caribbean beyond its geography and its political and subject formations.
Speakers:
Speakers will include artists and scholars such as David Scott (Columbia University), Marlon James (Macalaster College), Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London), Jorge Giovanetti (University of Puerto Rico), among others. Faculty from Yale University such as Caryl Phillips, Jafari Allen, Terri Francis, among others will serve as respondents.
Date, Location & Time:
Whitney Humanities Center, Rm. 208
Friday, April 1: 9am to 5:30
Saturday, April 2: 9am to 4pm
Registration:
We will implement a form of registration because our space is very limited. When registering please indicate whether you will attend one or both sessions of the symposium. Please email us at the following address to register: whatiscaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
Symposium Program
What is Caribbean Studies (PDF version for download)
For more information please email:
whatiscaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
