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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Frances Anne Solomon presides over the Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival this weekend at the TIFF Bell Lightbox where Jamaican filmmaker Storm Saulter’s Better Mus Come premiers in conjunction with an awards gala honouring Canadian broadcasting pioneer Denham Jolly and young filmmaker Ian Harnarine. Harnarine’s short, Doubles With Slight Pepper, was produced with the help of the Caribbean Tales Market Incubator Program and went on to win TIFF’s 2011 Award for Best Canadian Short Film, a prize worth $10,000.
 
This weekend’s events – the awards gala brunch and screening  at noon on Saturday followed by a public screening of Better Mus Come Sunday at 3:45 pm – marks the first time Caribbean Tales has partnered with TIFF and Solomon is happy to borrow some of the Lightbox’s prestige. The collaboration represents a win for TIFF, too, which is kicking off a Black History Month screening series entitled Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices in the African Diaspora.

EVENT INFORMATION, navigate to http://caribbeantales-events.com/

Dates:  February 4 2012 at 12pm - Brunch, Awards & Canadian Premiere of Better Mus Come hosted by TIFF Co-Director Cameron Bailey
Feb 4 2012, 1.30pm - Screening only - Canadian Premiere of BMC hosted by Cameron Bailey
Feb 5 2012, 3.45pm - Youth and Community Screening of Better Mus Come hosted by Cameron Bailey
 
Venue: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario
 
Tickets: CaribbeanTales-events.com

Media : Roger Dundas, 404 Media Group, 416.918.9095, info@404mg.com

The Call for Papers for the 2012 Conference has started.

This link Call for Papers has the details.

Now also in Dutch. Call for Papers (Dutch).