H-Caribbean is an H-Net network sponsored by the Association of Caribbean Historians. This network seeks to overcome the linguistic, political, and geographic fragmentation that has traditionally characterized the field and region; provide access to debates and discussions on Caribbean studies; act as a resource to academics teaching and researching in associated fields; and reinforce the growing awareness of the region as an important and rich area for further research and study.
Sept. 28-30 2018 @ UMass Amherst
Deadline: June 30, 2018
Conflict: a “competitive or opposing action of incompatibles,” also “the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in … fiction” (Merriam Webster);
CALL FOR PAPERS
Protests and pedagogy: The legacies of Caribbean student resistance and the Sir George Williams Affair, Montreal 1969.
Date: February 8-9, 2019.
Venue: Concordia University, Montreal
Abstract: 150 words
Culture has served as a “weapon of the struggle” during the Cold War. It played a central role in leftist literary circles, socialist realist poetry and muralism, as well as in the CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom, whose artist groups embraced Abstract Expressionism and modernist poetry.
