For many years, Curaçao’s Peter Jordens has been compiling and distributing every two months via e-mail a very helpful list of upcoming scholarly conferences relevant to the Caribbean. Beginning with this post, he is making the list available through Repeating Islands. We are delighted to be working with Peter on this project. We are posting the full list here and also adding a pdf file to the post for download. We will also be posting information on the individual conferences as it becomes available (Including reminders as deadlines for submissions approach), followed by periodic compilations of the information as pdf files. We are very happy to work on a joint project that will enhance our “Call for Papers” features.
Caribbean conferences 2011 July to March 2012
Our heartfelt thanks to Peter for this initiative.
July 2011 – March 2012
June 27-July 1, 2011
Kingston, Jamaica
15th Conference on Catholic Theology in the Caribbean Today: “Perspectives in Caribbean Theology – 17 Years Later”
Contact Msgr. Patrick Anthony at pabacito@yahoo.com or Bernadette Salandy at bernsie@tstt.net.tt
June 29 – July 1, 2011
Liverpool, England, UK
35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies Society for Caribbean Studies & University of Southampton (UK)
Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
Contact david.howard@conted.ox.ac.uk or societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
June 30 – July 2, 2011
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
14th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association (CTLPA): “Bringing More to Student Learning and Professional Development in Higher Education”
CTLPA
Website http://www.myctlpa.org
Contact ctlpahq@gmail.com
July 3-9, 2011
Santiago, Cuba
31st Annual Caribbean Festival “Feast of Fire”, dedicated to Trinidad & Tobago; International Symposium “The Caribbean that Unites Us”
La Casa del Caribe (Cuba) & the Cuban Ministry of Culture
Website http://www.casadelcaribe.cult.cu and http://www.cultstgo.cult.cu
Contact Kenia Dorta at kdorta@casadelcaribe.cult.cu or caribe@cultstgo.cult.cu
July 3-9, 2011
St Michael, Barbados
47th Meeting & Conference of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS): “Assuring Caribbean Food Security in Context of Climate Change”
CFCS and Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Barbados
Website http://www.cfcs2011barbados.org
Contact chair47cfcssc@minagriculture.gov.bb
July 4-8, 2011
La Habana, Cuba
8th International Conference on the Environment and Development: “For the Respect and Rights of Our Earth”
The Environmental Agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
Website http://www.cubambiente.com
Contact Isabel Torna Falco at convencion@ama.cu
July 7-9, 2011
Cave Hill, Barbados
10th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators: “The Paradigm Shift in Higher Education: A Call for Action”
ACHEA
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/achea
Contact achea@sta.uwi.edu or sydneyarthur1@yahoo.com
July 11-15, 2011
Fort-de-France, Martinique
10th Biennial Conference of Caribbean and International Social Work Educators: “Building Bridges towards Caribbean Integration and Social Development”
Association of Caribbean Social Work Educators (ACSWE) & URASS/IFMES
Website www.congresacswe-urassifmes.com
Contact Emilie Marie at emarie.urassifmes@orange.fr or Letnie Rock at letnie.rock@cavehill.uwi.edu
July 24-28, 2011
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
10th International Seminar “Estudiar el Caribe, Imaginar el Caribe”
University of Cartagena (Colombia)
Website http://www.scribd.com/doc/44591415/Convocatoria-X-SIEC-2011
Contact Alfonso Múnera Cavadía at alfonsomunera55@hotmail.com
July 25-26, 2011
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
International Conference: “The Spanish Caribbean: Toward a Field of its Own”
‘Reflecting on the Spanish Caribbean’ Working Group of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (New York, USA) & the Instituto Global de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales (Dominican Republic)
Contact Ramona Hernandez at rhernandez@ccny.cuny.edu, María Elizabeth Rodríguez at m.rodriguez@iglobal.edu.do, or Francisco Scarano at fscarano@wisc.edu
July 25-30, 2011
Fort-de-France, Martinique
24th (50th Anniversary) Congress of Caribbean Archaeology: “25 years of Caribbean Archaeology”
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA), Departmental Museum of Pre-Columbian Archaeology and Prehistory, University of the Antilles and Guyane & Association Ouacabou, Martinique
Website http://www.aiac-congres-2011.org
Contact Benoit Berard at chair@aiac-congres-2011.org or david_hayes_stx@yahoo.com
August 2-6, 2011
Accra, Ghana
2011 Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics: “Traces of Contact”
Univ. of Ghana, Giessen Univ. (Germany), New York Univ. (USA) & Univ. of Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
Website http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/faculties/f05/engl/ling/spcl, http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/spcl/Conferences.html
Contact Magnus Huber at spcl-accra@anglistik.uni-giessen.de
August 4-6, 2011
Miami, Florida, USA
20th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
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, annual.conference@ascecuba.org or jperezlopez@cox.net
August 8-13, 2011
WWW
Online Conference: “Open For Learning: Using Technology to Move Forward”
Caribbean Educators Network (CEN)
Website http://www.caribbeaneducatorsnetwork.com
Contact mail@caribbeaneducatorsnetwork.com
August 30 – September 1, 2011
San Juan, Puerto Rico
29th Inter-American Conference of Accounting
Council of Certified Public Accountants of Puerto Rico
Website http://www.cicpr2011.com
Contact cicpr2011@colegiocpa.com or cisec@colegiocpa.com
September 8-9, 2011
Madrid, Spain
International Seminar: “Los caminos del progreso en el Caribe hispano contemporáneo: economía, ciencia y cultura”
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
Contact Consuelo Naranjo Orovio at chelo.naranjo@cchs.csic.es
September 23-25, 2011
Coventry, England, UK
International Conference: “The Caribbean: Aesthetics, Ecology, Politics”
Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick
Website http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/conference
Contact Michael Niblett at eapconference@gmail.com or M.Niblett@warwick.ac.uk
September 23-26, 2011
Oxford, England, UK
International Conference: “New Perspectives on the Life and Work of Eric Williams”
St. Catherine’s College at Oxford Univ., W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard Univ. & Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives & Museum at UWI-St Augustine
Website http://www.mainlib.uwi.tt/divisions/wi/collsp/ericwilliams/ericwilliams.htm
Contact farrellewmc@gmail.com or ewmc@ewmc-tt.org
September 29 – October 1, 2011
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
8th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA): “Shifting the Geography of Reason VIII – The University, Public Education, and Transformation of Society”
CPA
Website http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org
Contact caribphil2@gmail.com or nmt@berkeley.edu
October 6-8, 2011
Nassau, Bahamas
Conference of the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO): “Bringing the Law Closer to the People”
CAJO
Website http://thecajo.org
Contact info@thecajo.org
October 12-14, 2011
Runaway Bay, Jamaica
International Conference on “Engendering Growth: Sustainable Development in Business, Hospitality and Tourism Management”
College of Business and Management, Univ. of Technology, Jamaica & Dept. of Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Management, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Website http://www.utech.edu.jm/FOBM_Conf
Contact Shaniel A. Bernard at sabernard@utech.edu.jm or bus&mgnt.conference@utech.edu.jm
October 13-14, 2011
Leiden, the Netherlands
International Conference: “Contested Mobility: People, Commodities and Policies across Latin America and the Caribbean”
Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), Dept. of Latin American Studies/Institute of History at Univ. Leiden, Amsterdam Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), Institute of Development Policy and Management at Antwerp University
Website http://www.nalacs.nl
Contact nalacsconference@cedla.nl
October 13-15, 2011
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
30th Annual West Indian Literature Conference: “I Dream to Change the World: Literature and Social Transformation”
UWI-St Augustine
Contact Geraldine.Skeete@sta.uwi.edu or Giselle.Rampaul@sta.uwi.edu
October 21-22, 2011
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3rd Biennial (des)articulaciones Conference: “(In)visible Cosmovisions: Dialogues in Afro and Indigenous Latin America and the Caribbean”
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, University of Pittsburgh
Website http://www.hispanic.pitt.edu/graduate/conference.php
Contact des.articulaciones@gmail.com
October 27-29, 2011
Montego Bay, Jamaica
CariBizTech 2011: Caribbean SME Business Technology Exposition and Conference: “Game Changers Impacting SME Businesses and Brands”
Website http://caribbeannewmediaconferenceandexposition.wordpress.com
Contact Aldo Antonio at amkcommunications@gmail.com
October 28-29, 2011
Stanford, California, USA
International Conference: “The Black Atlantic: Colonial and Contemporary Exchanges”
Stanford Forum for African Studies
Website http://stanfordfas.wordpress.com/conference
Contact stanfordfas@gmail.com
November 3-5, 2011
Santa Marta, Colombia
1st Congress of the Caribbean Economic History Association (AHEC): “Stability, Instability and Progress in the Caribbean (16-20th centuries)”
AHEC & Magdalena University
Website http://ahecaribe.wordpress.com
Contact ahecaribe@gmail.com
November 3-5, 2011
St George’s, Grenada
14th Annual Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference: “The Islands in Between” Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Eastern Caribbean”
University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), UWI-Cave Hill, Univ. of Guyana
Website http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/islandsinbetween.htm
Contact Reinhard Sander or Mervyn C. Alleyne at islandsconference@gmail.com
November 3-5, 2011
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Interdisciplinary Conference “Comparative Caribbeans”
Comparative Literature Department, Emory University
Contact comparativecaribbeans@gmail.com
November 9-11, 2011
St George’s, Grenada
21st Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Tertiary Institutions: “Austerity Measures and Higher Education: Programs, Policies, Practices and Student Services”
ACTI, Cave Hill, Barbados
Website http://www.acticarib.org/events.php
Contact Samantha Rodrigues at snrodrigues_acti@yahoo.com
November 10-12, 2011
Kingston, Jamaica
23rd Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association: “Haiti at the Intersection of the Caribbean: Tracing the Past, Mapping the Future”
Haitian Studies Association & UWI-Mona
Website http://www.haitianstudies.umb.edu
Contact Matthew Smith at hsa@umb.edu
November 15-18, 2011
Nassau, Bahamas
2011 Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology: “Psychological Science and Well-Being: Building Bridges for Tomorrow”
Bahamas Psychological Association (BPA), International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) & International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology (IACCP)
Website http://www.caribbeanpsychology.org
Contact ishtargovia@gmail.com or info@crcp2011.org
November 16-19, 2011
Paramaribo, Suriname
38th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks
CAIB
Website http://www.caibinc.info
Contact CAIB@candw.lc
November 18-21, 2011
Nassau, Bahamas
2011 Caribbean HIV Conference: “Strengthening Evidence to Achieve Sustainable Action”
Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas & University of Puerto Rico
Website https://www.2011caribbeanhivconference.org
Contact jones.madeira@gmail.com
December 8-9, 2011
La Habana, Cuba
5th International Conference “Whither Caribbean Integration?”
Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de la Habana, Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Sociales y Económicas (CRIES) & Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Contact Milagros Martínez at milagros50@rect.uh.cu, Omar Everleny Pérez at everleny@uh.cu, or carmita@rect.uh.cu, or tanialuis@cubarte.cult.cu
January 13-15, 2012
Montego Bay, Jamaica
International Conference: “Dying to be Beautiful? Body Image, Eating Behaviours and Health in the Caribbean”
Psychology Unit of the Dept. of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, UWI-Mona
Contact dying.to.be.beautiful.symposium@gmail.com
March 7-9, 2012
Curaçao
2nd International Conference on Governance for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
UNESCO Chair for Caribbean SIDS, Univ. of Curaçao
Website http://www.sidsgg.com
Contact sidsgg@una.an
March 15-16, 2012
San Juan, Puerto Rico
8th Quest for Global Competitiveness Conference: “The Changing Face of Global Competitiveness: Academia Making the Connection”
School of Business Administration, Univ. of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
Website http://quest.uprrp.edu
Contact Yvonne Huertas at questconference@uprrp.edu
March 22-24, 2012
San Juan, Puerto Rico
3rd International Conference on Negritude / Afro-Latin American Studies
Negritud (Journal of Afro-Latin American Studies)
Website http://www.afrocubaweb.com/negritud.htm
Contact negritudconference@yahoo.com
March 23-25, 2012
Augusta, Georgia, USA
3rd Caribbean Arts and Culture Symposium: “The Politics and Positioning of Caribbean Arts and Culture”
Division of the Humanities, Paine College
Website http://www.caribbeansymposium.com
Contact Akilah Emily Williams at ewilliams@paine.edu
Further ahead
May 2012 [exact dates are pending]
Curaçao
44th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians
ACH
Website http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org
Contact achsecretary@gmail.com or Rose Mary Allen at allen_rm@onenet.an
May 29 – June 1, 2012
Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Islands of the World XII Conference 2012: “Globalisation: Islands Adapting to Change”
International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) & H. Lavity Stoutt Community College
Website http://www.hlscc.edu.vg/islandsxii
Contact Dana Lewis-Ambrose at dlewis@hlscc.edu.vg or islandsxiicall@hlscc.edu.vg
August 20-25, 2012
Mona, Jamaica
Regional Conference: “Fifty-Fifty: Surveying the Past to Inform the Future”
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES)
Website http://salises.mona.uwi.edu/fifty-fifty/Fifty_Fifty_Launch.htm
Contact arlene.supersad@uwimona.edu.jm
October 24-28, 2012
Albany, New York, USA
20th Anniversary Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA):
“Boricuas and Other Border-Crossers: Of Diasporas and Latinidades”
PRSA
Website http://www.puertoricanstudies.org
Contact Luis.Figueroa@trincoll.edu
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