Activity – CLCS Caribbean

Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation w/ Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Kwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
Raj Chetty started the topic MLA 2024 Convention CFP – CLCS Caribbean in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 6 months ago

Colegas, colleagues this is our short description for our MLA Forum panel for 2024, and it follows our interest in describing contemporary shifts in states and “nation” formations in the Caribbean. Please send us your abstracts! STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS–just send them our way before March 31

EVOLUTIONS IN CARIBBEAN STATE FORMATION-Caribbean…[Read more]
Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

Black Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]
Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago

This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

Thanks,

Elena Machado Sáez

Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum
Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

You are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)
Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

Dear Colleagues,

Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!

548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]
Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
Dear MLA members,

Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
- <…
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
Nathan H. Dize deposited French #MeToo?: Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Writing in English Translation in the group CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

Originally founded by Tarana Burke in 2006, the “Me Too Movement” seeks to help survivors of sexual violence, particularly women of color, “to help find pathways to healing” (“metoomvmt.org/about/). Then, in the fall of 2017, the #MeToo hashtag reverberated throughout the Internet, on the front pages of newspapers, and in the public square as…[Read more]
Nathan H. Dize deposited A Phenomenology of Gede: Thinking with the Dead in Haiti in the group CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

In the Haitian religious tradition of Vodou, Gede is the lwa, or spirit, concerned with the
beginning of life and the passage into the afterlife, death and regeneration. Gede is often
regarded as the spirit of the people in Haiti because he has a direct connection to every living
being, everyone may call on Gede for protection. Gede’s appeal a…[Read more]
Nathan H. Dize deposited The Archive as Method: Virtual and Material Archives of the French Atlantic in the group CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

In the last two decades since the publication of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Caribbean historical studies has undergone an ‘archival turn.’ Indeed, archives and formal institutions of knowledge have always been and continue to be an integral part of historical work, but Trouillot’s work has cal…[Read more]
Nathan H. Dize deposited Le Devoir de Mémoire dans la Littérature d’Expression Francophone in the group CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

« La mémoire est un droit » écrit Christiane Taubira dans sa contribution au débat ‘La Mémoire de l’esclavage et ses dérives’ en 2006 pour la revue philosophique Cités. Étant donné que la mémoire est un droit, qu’est-ce que l’on entend par mémoire ? La mémoire de qui et de quoi ? Pourquoi faut-il s’en souvenir ? Quel est le but de la mémoire ? P…[Read more]
Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago

If you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html

In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an ana…[Read more]
Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago

Deadline extended to 3/31!
Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!

Cheers,

Elena

MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
- Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
- Send 150-word abstract and C…
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago

Extra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 – Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago

648 – Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, LLC Puerto Rican, and CLCS Caribbean

Saturday, 11 January 2020

7:15 PM – 8:30 PM

Sheraton -…[Read more]
Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 – Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago

2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:

Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom

Saturday, January 11th, 2020

10:15 am to 11:30 am

Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3

Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University

Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching Wynter through…[Read more]
Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago

2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:

The Caribbean 1970s

Friday, January 10th, 2020

8:30 am to 9:45 am

Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4

Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University

“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the Grenadian Revolution…[Read more]
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