(Mid)February – October 2010
February 17-20, 2010
Mona, Jamaica
Conference “International Reggae: Current and Future Trends in Popular Music”
Institute of Caribbean Studies, Reggae Studies Unit & Office of the Principal, UWI-Mona
Website http://www.mona.uwi.edu/conferences/2010/irc/index.php
Contact internationalreggae@gmail.com
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February 23 – March 2, 2010
Bridgetown, Barbados
5th Annual CaribbeanTales Film Festival and Symposium
CaribbeanTales, One Caribbean Media & the Shridath Ramphal Center of UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://bestofcaribbeantales.wordpress.com
Contact Frances-Anne Solomon at francesannesolomon@gmail.com or Keith Nurse at keithnurse@mac.com
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February 25-27, 2010
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
International Conference: “The Francophone Caribbean and North America”
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State Univ.
Website http://www.fsu.edu/~icffs/events.html
Contact icffs@mailer.fsu.edu
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March 1-5, 2010
La Habana, Cuba
12th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems
Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba (ANEC) & Asociación de Economistas de América Latina y del Caribe (AEALC)
Website http://www.eleconomista.cubaweb.cu and http://www.globalizacion.cubaweb.cu
Contact María Isabel Córdova at misabel@anec.co.cu or anecnac@anec.co.cu
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March 2-4, 2010
Camaguey, Cuba
5th International Workshop on Child Health
Camaguey Children’s Hospital, Department of Provincial Health, Camaguey (Cuba), International Institute for the Study of Cuba, London & University of Nottingham (UK)
Website http://www.cubastudies.org/consultancy/childhealth.cfm
Contact Nacyra Bonet Lopez at nbonet@finlay.cmw.sld.cu or Imti Choonara at imti.choonara@nottingham.ac.uk
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March 4-6, 2010
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
“Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture”
Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English, University of Miami (USA)
Website http://www.as.miami.edu/cls
Contact Michelle Ramlagan at cariblocationsconf@as.miami.edu
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March 11-12, 2010
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Caribbean Conference on Literature, Culture and Identity
University College of the Cayman Islands
Website http://www.ucciconference.ky
Contact Leigh Smellie at lsmellie@ucci.edu.ky or Mark Minott at mminott@ucci.edu.ky
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March 11-12, 2010
Mona, Jamaica
Biennial Literacy Conference
“Making Literacy Improvement a Reality for Adolescents and at Risk Youths”
School of Education, UWI-Mona
Contact Jossett Lewis Smikle at jlsmikle@hotmail.com
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March 12-13, 2010
Aberdeen, Scotland
Conference: “Haiti and the Politics of the Universal”
Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen
Website http://abdn.ac.uk/modern
Contact Nick Nesbitt n.nesbitt@abdn.ac.uk
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March 15-16, 2010
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
3rd Biennial Graduate Student Conference
“Caribbean without Borders: Interconnections and Extensions”
English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras
Contact cwbconference@gmail.com
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March 15-19, 2010
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2nd International Conference on Caribbean Studies: “The Many Caribbean’s and the Bicentennial of the Continental Spanish American Independence Movements”
University of Cartagena (Colombia)
Website http://www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang/Conference/iccs.htm
Contact Kevin Sedeño Guillén at kesedeno@areandina.edu.co
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March 18-20, 2010
San Juan, Puerto Rico
7th Quest for Global Competitiveness Conference
“Time for Change: Academia Making the Connection with the Global Corporate World”
School of Business Administration, Univ. of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
Website http://quest.uprrp.edu
Contact Yvonne Huertas at questconference@uprrp.edu
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March 19-20, 2010
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Annual Conference of the Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA)
“Boundaries and Bridges: English Studies in the Borderlands”
Caribbean Chapter of CEA
Blog http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc
Contact cea.cc.conference@gmail.com
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March 24-26, 2010
St Augustine, Trinidad &Tobago
11th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (SALISES)
“Turmoil and Turbulence in Small Developing States: Going Beyond Survival”
SALISES & UWI-St Augustine
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/salises
Contact Francine Alleyne at the.salises@sta.uwi.edu
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April 6-8, 2010
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
International Conference: “The One Hundred Years of the Mexican Revolution: New Perspectives & Reconfigurations”
Center for Latin America and the Caribbean of UWI-St Augustine, College of Science, Technology & Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, Centro de Investigaciones de América Latina y el Caribe de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México & Pan-African Studies Department of the University of Louisville (USA)
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=1088
Contact Armando Garcia at cenlac2003@yahoo.com or armando.garcia@sta.uwi.edu
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April 8-10, 2010
Glasgow, Scotland
Interdisciplinary Conference: “Caribbean Enlightenment”
University of Glasgow
Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/news/news.htm
Contact: Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com
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April 15-17, 2010
Liverpool, UK
Symposium: “Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907-1961”
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Liverpool
Website http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Afromodernism/index.htm
Contact Fionnghuala Sweeney at fsweeney@liv.ac.uk or Kate Marsh at clmarsh@liv.ac.uk
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April 20-24, 2010
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
12th International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writer and Scholars (ACWWS)
ACWWS & Louisiana State University
Website www.acwws.org
Contact caribbean@lsu.edu
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April 22-24, 2010
Turks & Caicos Islands
55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC)
CHRC
Website www.chrc-caribbean.org
Contact chrc@chrc-caribbean.org or chrc@trinidad.net
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April 29, 2010
Antwerp, Belgium
Seminar: “André et Simone Schwarz-Bart: Diasporas entretissées et écritures connectées”
Postcolonial Literatures Research Group and the Institute of Jewish Studies, Univ. of Antwerp
Website http://www.potomitan.info/colloques/schwarz-bart.php
Contact kathleen.gyssels@ua.ac.be
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April 29-May 1, 2010
Mona, Jamaica
29th Annual West Indian Literature Conference
“Caribbeanscapes: The Vistas of Caribbean Literature”
UWI-Mona
Contact liteng@uwimona.edu.jm or litsengmona@gmail.com
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May 10-14, 2010
Hastings, Barbados
42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH)
ACH and UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org
Contact Pedro Welch at pwelch@uwichill.edu.bb
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May 24-28, 2010
St Peter, Barbados
35th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
“Understanding the Everyday Occurrence of Violence in the Cultural Life of the Caribbean”
CSA
Website http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org
Contact Alissa Trotz at datrotz@gmail.com or Joy Cooblal at Joy.Cooblal-CSA@sta.uwi.edu
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June 3-5, 2010
Mona, Jamaica
7th Caribbean Reasonings Conference
“Freedom and Power in the Caribbean: The Work of Gordon K. Lewis”
Centre for Caribbean Thought (Jamaica), Institute of Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico), and the Africana Studies Department of Brown University (USA)
Website http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/cct
Contact Beverley Sutherland Lewis at: cct@uwimona.edu.jm
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June 3-6, 2010
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Transnational Hispaniola Conference: “Shared History, Shared Future: Converging Paths in the Haitian and Dominican Transborder Experience”
Instituto Filosófico Pedro Francisco Bonó del Centro Bonó (Dominican Republic)
Website http://repeatingislands.com/2010/01/27/call-for-papers-transnational-hispaniola
Contact April Mayes or Yolanda Martín at transnationalhispaniola@gmail.com, april.mayes@pomona.edu or ymartin@gc.cuny.edu
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June 6-12, 2010
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
40th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)
“Innovation and Informational Impact in the Caribbean: Evidence-based Practice of the Library Information and Professional”
ACURIL, INAFOCAM, PUCMM and ABUD
Website http://acuril.uprrp.edu
Contact acuril@gmail.com
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June 13-15, 2010
Montego Bay, Jamaica
30th Annual Caribbean Insurance Conference
“What Lies Ahead”
Insurance Association of the Caribbean (IAC), LIMRA & LOMA
Website http://www.iac-caribbean.com/conference
Contact conference@iac-caribbean.com
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July 5-7, 2010
Santiago, Cuba
30th Annual Caribbean Festival “Feast of Fire”
Dedicated to Curaçao and Pernambuco
La Casa del Caribe & the Cuban Ministry of Culture
Website http://www.casadelcaribe.cult.cu
Contact caribe@cultstgo.cult.cu or dirprov@cultstgo.cult.cu
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July 7-9, 2010
Southampton, England, UK
34th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
Society for Caribbean Studies & University of Southampton (UK)
Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
Contact Lorna Burns at societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
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July 15-18, 2010
Cave Hill, Barbados
3rd International Conference on Race, Sport and Ethnicity
“Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Modern Sport”
CLR James Centre, UWI-Cave Hill & Academy of International Sport, George Mason University, Virginia (USA)
Website http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/beyondboundaries
Contact Alan Cobley at alan.cobley@cavehill.uwi.edu or John Nauright at jnaurigh@gmu.edu
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July 29-31, 2010
Miami, Florida, USA
19th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
“Cuba at the Crossroads in the 21st Century”
ASCE, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies & University of Miami (USA)
Website: http://www.ascecuba.org
Contact Jorge Pérez López at asce@ascecuba.org or annual.conference@ascecuba.org
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August 9-13, 2010
Cave Hill, Barbados
18th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL)
“Caribbean Languages and Popular Culture”
SCL
Website http://www.scl-online.net/conference2010.html
Contact secretary@scl-online.net or scl_online@yahoo.com
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August 11-14, 2010
Cartagena, Colombia
7th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA)
“Shifting the Geography of Reason VII – Music, Rhythm and Movement”
CPA
Website http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org
Contact caribphil2010@gmail.com
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August 17-20, 2010
Mona, Jamaica
Inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference
“Negotiating the African Presence: Rastafari Livity and Scholarship”
Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI-Mona
Website http://ocs.mona.uwi.edu/ocs/index.php/rsc/inaugural
Contact rastafaristudies2010@yahoo.com
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October 14-15, 2010
Cave Hill, Barbados
International Colloquium “Antillanité, Créolité, World Literature”
Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/SpecialEvents/LLL/ACLWorldColloque.html
Contact Kahiudi Claver Mabana at kahiudi.mabana@cavehill.uwi.edu or Isabelle Constant at isabelle.constant@cavehill.uwi.edu
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October 21-23, 2010
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
9th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA)
“Cuerpos vigilados y castigados: Resistance and Empowerment in the Body Rican”
PRSA
Website http://www.puertorican-studies.org
Contact the PRSA Secretariat at prsa@cornell.edu
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Further ahead
November 26-18, 2010
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
8th WASD Conference “Towards Epistemic Sovereignty: (Re)-thinking Development in a Changing Global Political Economy”
World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) & Institute of International Relations, UWI-St Augustine
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=972 or http://www.worldsustainable.org
Contact Gale Rigobert at gale.rigobert@sta.uwi.edu or wasd2010@sta.uwi.edu
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December 6-8, 2010
La Habana, Cuba
4th International Conference “The Caribbean of the XXIst Century”
Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de la Habana & CRIES
Contact Milagros Martínez at milagros50@rect.uh.cu or Omar Everleny Pérez at everleny@uh.cu
Compiled by: Peter Jordens, plancari@cura.net
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