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2025 CSA Conference

2025 CSA Conference Call for Papers/Abstracts/Presentations

49th Annual Conference, Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)

Theme: Reparations: Resistance, Resilience, Reproduction, and Rehabilitation

St. Martin | June 1st to 7th, 2025

Submission Deadline: 31st December 2024 (midnight, EST)

In 2024, the Caribbean Studies Association marked 50 years in existence as a professional organization devoted to promotion of Caribbean studies using multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives. Over those 50 years, the Caribbean has undergone considerable transformation, with many of the former British colonies having recently achieved their political independence and other territories still colonized by the British, Dutch, French, and USA, albeit under different names and constellations. After the people of St. Kitts and Nevis regained their independence in 1983, the drive for independence seemed to have slowed down.

Committed to the process of national and international reconciliation, the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) created a 10-point Plan in 2014 to seek reparatory justice for the descendants of Chattel Slavery and Native Genocide in the Caribbean, despite the objection by European states. Ten years later, the CRC Plan is being used as an inspiration for other reparations movements around the world. In its tenth anniversary, the Plan is being revised, incorporating colonialism as an area to attend to going forward. The CSA2025 conference seeks to examine how the underdevelopment of the Caribbean can be fully repaired while colonial rule and other forms of neocolonialism persist in the Caribbean. Furthermore, the conference aims to inspire Caribbean studies professionals to participate actively in the healing and repair process.

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