The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2011 conference—Shifting the Geography of Reason VIII: The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society—will take place September 29 to October 1, 2011, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. [For full description see previous post Shifting the Geography of Reason VIII: The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society.]
The CPA is highlighting the theme of “The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society” in response to the multiple challenges facing the university—particularly areas such as ethnic, women and gender studies, and the humanities more generally, and the crisis of public education today.
Among the special activities during the conference, there will be a tribute to Édouard Glissant and a commemoration of the 50 years since Frantz Fanon’s passing in a panel co-organized with Mireille Fanon-Mendes France and the Frantz Fanon Foundation. The association will also feature a documentary film on the Young Lords, Pa’lante, siempre
pa’lante, by Iris Morales, an activist, documentary filmmaker, and former member of the Young Lords.
Junot Díaz will be receiving the Nicolás Guillén Prize, Susan Buck-Morss and Marilyn Nissim-Sabat will receive the Frantz Fanon Prize, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Molefi Kete Asante will receive the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award.
More information can be found at http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org/
