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.
H-Caribbean Podcast: In conversation with Dr. Holger Henke (Independent scholar) on the book New Political Culture in the Caribbean, co-edited by Fred Reno (Universite des Antilles) and published by the University of the West Indies Press.
Interested in doing a podcast? Maybe you have completed research, a book and/or film etc., feel free to get in touch email us.
Recent Content
- CFP Session M.17. Legal Pluralism in European and Colonial Cities, 1600–1940 - EAUH, Helsinki, 2016
- Keywords: colonial cities, European cities, justice, legal pluralism
Legal pluralism is usually understood in correlation with colonization and the imposition of a European judicial system over the existent, indigenous legal system. The definition of legal pluralism is however more complex and has been described recently
*apologies for cross-posting*
The Hakluyt Society is pleased to announce the programme of Maritime Trade, Travel, and Cultural Encounter in the 18th and 19th Centuries, an international conference held at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Abolition (WISE) in Hull on 13-14 November 2015. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. Please find the full programme below.
To register for the conference, please click here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-trade-travel-and-cultural-encounter-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-tickets-18689517851?aff=efbevent
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The organizing committee for the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) invites graduate students to submit proposals for its sixteenth annual conference. This year’s theme is the economic dimension in international and global history. The conference will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday March 10 & Friday March 11, 2016.
Financial, economic and political-economy issues have played a fundamental role in world development and continue to do so. They involve multiple agents besides the nation state; they prompt refined policy
EMERGING SCHOLARS WORKSHOP:
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RACIAL AND STATE VIOLENCE IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
A workshop for junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students
sponsored by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Keynote Address by Dr. Kidada Williams, Wayne State University
April 1-2, 2016: The Pennsylvania State University (University Park Campus)
Recent events across the country, from Ferguson to South Carolina and more, have called into question the triumphalist narrative of American history and encouraged deeper reflection on the persistence of racial