The Institute of Caribbean Studies, of the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture “East Indians in the Caribbean: The Reconstruction of the Culture” by Dr. Brinsley Samaroo, Professor of History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine; Research Fellow, University of Trinidad and Tobago.  Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine, College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, will comment the lecture.  The activity will be held on Thuesday, March 8, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Amphitheatre Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108) of Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) Building, Faculty of the Social Sciences, UPR-RP.

This lecture will be broadcast LIVE online through the following website: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71

Comments and suggestions on this presentation will be very welcome at: iec.ics@upr.edu

Followed by Q & A with Deborah Thomas, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

DATE: March 16, 2012
PLACE: New College, University of Toronto, William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street
TIME: 6:30 p.m.

navigate to: http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/event/film-screening-bad-friday-rastafari-after-coral-gardens/

Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean

11-13 October 2012

In 2012 Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica will celebrate the 50^th Anniversary of their independence from Britain.  However, while 2012 marks these very auspicious occasions, it is also the 50^th anniversary of the collapse of the West Indies Federation.  Anniversaries encourage and even demand reflection and re-visitations of the expectations, opportunities lost and those well used, the failures and achievements as well as the considerations that attended these occasions.  For more than fifty years, novelists, poets, visual artists and other cultural workers have been actively involved in imagining, revising and challenging the project of independence and the future it promised for so many.  The 50^th Anniversary is an excellent opportunity to revisit the movement towards and attainment of independence; the arts movements that emerged out of these nationalist projects; the cultural institutions that gave expression to the changes taking place; the rise and collapse of the West Indian Federation and the implications of all of these developments for the Caribbean region in the new era of globalization. Moreover, this occasion provides an important critical crossroad for us to consider the extent to which dialogues about independence and Federation have preoccupied not only writers, but also artists working in a number of different mediums in the Caribbean region.  To this end, the University of Miami has proposed that the 31^st West Indian Literature Conference invites writers, cultural practitioners and scholars to submit papers that engage a wide range of critical perspectives on the various representations of both independence and the rise and fall of the West Indian Federation. 

Papers are invited that consider these and other themes and topics:

§  Cultural Performance and the Politics of Nation

§  Literary Nationalism in Trinidad and Jamaica

§  The Architecture of Independence

§  Narrative Intentions: Mapping the Landscapes of Independence

§  Bodies of (In)difference: Gender, Sexuality and Nationhood

§  Flexible Citizens, Rigid Borders: Migration and Diaspora

§  Pan-Caribbean discourses of regional integration

§  States of Independence – Puerto Rico and the US

§  Political Leadership: Past, Present and Future

§  Caribbean Women’s Literature: Configuring of a political voice/space.  

§  New artistic articulations and revisions of the (post)independence project

§  Rhythm-Nations: Music, Poetry and Performance

§  Pedagogies of Independence 

§  Colonization in Reverse: Caribbean and Britain

§  Comparative Contemplations: Decolonization in the French, Hispanic and Dutch Caribbean

§  Religion, Magic and Cultural Syncretism  

We welcome abstracts of 250-500 words in length. Abstracts should include name, academic affiliation and contact information, and should be sent to westindianliterature@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012. 

              SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
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  Dean -- School of Education
  State University of New York, New Paltz
  School of Education
  New Paltz, NY
  Date Posted: Dec. 22, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34748&o=287070&t=HU120201m-0e
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  Dean and Professor -- Faculty of Humanities
  University of Pretoria
  Faculty of Humanities
  Pretoria, Gauteng,    South Africa
  Date Posted: Dec. 14, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34489&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Chair -- Department of English
  Pace University
  Dyson College of Arts and Sciences -- Department of English
  New York, NY
  Date Posted: Nov. 11, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=33656&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Provost and Executive Vice President  -- Academic Affairs
  University of California
  Office of Academic Affairs
  Oakland, CA
  Date Posted: Nov. 9, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=33539&o=287070&t=HU120201m-0e
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  Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs
  Roger Williams University
  Office of Academic Affairs
  Bristol, RI
  Date Posted: Nov. 4, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=33405&o=287070&t=HU120201m-0e
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  Dean of College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  Lowell, MA
  Date Posted: Oct. 28, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=33213&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  University of Western Ontario
  Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  London, ON,    Canada
  Date Posted: Oct. 4, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=32491&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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                     ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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  NEW! - English for Special Purposes (ESP) Instructor
  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
  KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  Thuwal, Jeddah,    Saudi Arabia
  Date Posted: Jan. 5, 2012

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34895&o=287070&t=HU120201m-8e
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  Faculty Positions
  New York University Abu Dhabi
  Literature
  Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi,    United Arab Emirates
  Date Posted: Dec. 30, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34830&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Lecturers/Associate Professors
  Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  Department of Languages and Culture
  Suzhou, Jiangsu,    China
  Date Posted: Dec. 15, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34529&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  English Language Tutors
  Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  English Language Centre (ELC)
  Suzhou, Jiangsu,    China
  Date Posted: Dec. 15, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34527&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Full Professors, Assoc. Professors, Asst. Professors and ...
  Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  Humanities and Social Sciences Division
  Al Khobar, Eastern Province,    Saudi Arabia
  Date Posted: Dec. 9, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=34391&o=287070&t=HU120201m-2e
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  Associate Professor in Spanish
  University of Queensland
  Faculty of Arts
  Brisbane, Queensland,    Australia
  Date Posted: Oct. 31, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=33265&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Online Writing Tutors
  Smarthinking, Inc.
  Writing Department
  Washington, D.C.
  Date Posted: Oct. 28, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=33227&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Contemporary Literature
  Victoria University
  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Wellington,    New Zealand
  Date Posted: Oct. 12, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=32747&o=287070&t=HU120201m-6e
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  Academic Positions in Humanities
  Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
  Recruitment
  Ahmedabad, Gujarat,    India
  Date Posted: Sep. 20, 2011

  http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=32064&o=287070&t=HU120201m-7e
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The deadline for the Call for Papers for the 2012 Conference has passed.

Please navigate to "2012 Conference" link on acwws.org for conference updates and details.