YoSoyElOtro [IAmTheOther] together with Grupo Koré de Estudios de Género [Kóre Gender Studies Group] and Carlos III University of Madrid extend a call for papers for the Congreso Internacional sobre el Caribe: El mito de la mujer caribeña [1st International Congress about the Caribbean: The Myth of the Caribbean Woman]. The conference will be held November 16-19, 2009, at Casa de América and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 126 Ortega y Gasset, Getafe (Madrid), Spain.
The organizers invite you to reflect about the “myth of the Caribbean woman,” in order to open a space for academic, artistic, and socio-cultural exchange through the meeting of researchers, specialists, artists, and others interested in Gender and Caribbean Studies. This congress is designed to examine–beyond the limits of the Hispanic Caribbean (continental and insular) and reaching out to the rest of the Antilles— the poetics of historic, literary, artistic, and affective relationships between the European space and the sea that borders this part of America. The main purpose is to explore, from the “space” of the Caribbean woman in-the-world, “not how she is, but how she wants (or is wanted) to be performed or represented.”
Lorna Goodison (Jamaica/United States) and Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe/France) are two of the featured writers confirmed for this activity.
The deadline for this call for papers is July 15, 2009.
For full description, call for papers, suggested topics, workshops, and information on the new “Caribeando” and “CuentaCaribe” projects, see http://www.yosoyelotro.org/
Also see the YoSoyElOtro blog at http://yosoyelotro-asociacion.blogspot.com/
Art work (used for YoSoyElOtro logo) by Teresa López, http://www.teresalopez.org/
