Our thanks to Peter Jordens for compiling this update on upcoming conferences for our readers. The abbreviated list is below. To download the full list, which covers the period ending in January 2015 and contains additional information about the conferences listed click here: Caribbean conferences 2014 April
Abbreviated list of scholarly conferences relevant to the Caribbean
Month of April 2014 only
April 4-6, 2014. Austin, Texas, USA
(Univ. of Texas) Annual Africa Conference: “African Diasporas: Old and New”
Website http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/2014africa-conference
April 4-6, 2014. Miami, Florida, USA
40th Annual FCSA (Florida Caribbean Students’ Association) Conference: “Empowering the Next Generation of Caribbean Leaders”
Website http://www.tropicalbeat.org
April 7-9, 2014. Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México
1st International Conference on Hispanic-American Literature: “Criticism, Poetics and Literary Theory”
Webpage http://www.letras.ugto.mx/component/content/article/36-publicidad/97-congreso; Weblog http://congresoliteraturahispanoamericana.blogspot.com
April 8-11, 2014. La Habana, Cuba
9th International Music and Poetry Festival and Colloquium dedicated to Nicolás Guillén: “By the Caribbean Sea”
Website http://www.afrocubaweb.com/fundacionguillen.htm
April 9-11, 2014. Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
19th AMEC (Mexican Association of Caribbean Studies) Conference: “Education and Culture in the Caribbean”
Website http://www.mora.edu.mx/amec
April 11-12, 2014. Kent, Ohio, USA
2nd Biannual Africa and the Global Atlantic World Conference: “Revisiting Black History, Identities, Sexualities, and Popular Culture”
Webpage http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/52144
April 11-12, 2014. New York, New York, USA
(Latin American History) Graduate Student Conference: “Questioning Spaces of Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean”
Website http://2014citizenshipconference.com
April 12-16, 2014. Santiago, Cuba
13th International Conference of African and Afro-American Culture
Website http://www.afrocubaweb.com/ortizafrican.htm
April 16-17, 2014. Mona, Jamaica
Inaugural Academic Conference on International Football: “Ideology, Culture, Politics and Everyday Life”
Webpage http://www.clgcaribbean.org/content/inaugural-academic-conference-international-football, Facebook page: acif2014
April 21-25, 2014. Varadero, Cuba
11th CubaSolar Workshop: “Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development: Renewable Energy Sources”
Website http://www.cubasolar.cu/Eventos/Cubasolar2014.htm or http://www.ecocubanetwork.net/cubasolar
April 23-25, 2014. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
15th Annual SALISES Conference: “Caribbean Development: Standing Still or Standing Tall? Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Challenges”
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/14/salises/index.asp
April 23-25, 2014. La Habana, Cuba
International Seminar: “Markers of Time in the Caribbean”
Webdocument http://www.reccma.es/pdfs/Convocatoria_Seminario_Internacional.pdf
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