CSA Annual Conference 2016
41ST CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Caribbean Global Movements: People, Ideas, Culture, Arts and Economic Sustainability
41 CONFERENCIA ANUAL DE LA ASOCIACION DE ESTUDIOS DEL CARIBE
Movimientos Globales Del Caribe: Gente, Ideas, Cultura, Artes y Sustenibilidad Economica
41 CONFÉRENCE ANNUELLE DE L’ASSOCIATION DES ETUDES CARIBÉENNES
Mouvements Globaux Caribéens: Peuples, Idées, Culture, Arts et Sustainabilité Économique
JUNE 5-11, 2016/JUNIO 5 AL 11, 2016
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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The Caribbean has always been the site of global interactions and transactions. Movements from one place to the other across diverse geographic locations and spaces (from island to island, the circum-Caribbean and from the region to continental locations) have played an important role in the dissemination of ideas and sharing of cultural practices from the indigenous people’s pre-Columbian experience to the contemporary Caribbean. Haitian scholar Michel Rolph Trouillot has argued in Global Transformations, that the Caribbean has long been global with its “massive flow of goods, peoples, information, and capital across huge areas of the earth’s surface in ways that make the parts dependent on the whole” (2003: 47). This conference will establish a cross-disciplinary and trans-lingual encounter that will reinforce the intellectual integration of various linguistic and spatial locations of the Caribbean. It will be also an occasion to have much needed conversation about the vital contributions of Haiti to the region and the world, particularly in terms of history of resistance, knowledge production, and the arts.
The theme of the 2016 conference – Caribbean Global Movements: People, Ideas, Culture, Arts and Economic Sustainability – proposes a focus on the various movements that identify the Caribbean as located firmly in the global currents, while also repositioning questions of knowledge and sustainability. It also offers a space to think through the centrality of Haiti in these movements and how we can envision and plan future movements. It is expected that the conference will give the opportunity to showcase the history, wealth and diversity of Haitian scholarship (institutional and independent), which has contributed to unconventional and needed responses to issues facing the country and the larger Caribbean. Overall, this conference will examine how Caribbean global movements operate, as people, ideas, and cultural arts from the Caribbean continue to have transnational impact.
We are inviting scholarly papers, workshops, and roundtable proposals from individuals spanning the broadest disciplinary and methodological range whose work focuses upon the Caribbean and its Diaspora.
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- Conference Program – Online Version
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- Information About Haiti