Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies
Join us on February 12 th at 4:00 PM EST (ZOOM) for another session of our New Books in Caribbean Studies series! We will discuss recent publications from our very own faculty affiliates, Kaysha Corinealdi , Elena Lahr-Vivaz , and Imani Owens . Click here for the Zoom registration link
Join us for our inaugural RAICCS Theories and Methods Salon on Thursday, December 11 th at 1pm . Lunch will be provided, and we plan to use the opportunity to connect those of us working in Critical Caribbean Studies here at RU and in the surrounding area. The salons will focus on different topics related to the Caribbean research questions and methods central to the work of affiliates. Our first session will focus on Caribbean decolonial ecologies, climate change, and catastrophe. For our December session, we will read a co-authored work by steering committee member, Dr. Kevon Rhiney (Kevon will
This talk approaches Jamaica’s current conjuncture as a field of contradiction and tension in which democracy, security, and the economy are being recomposed. Within this formation, long-standing narratives of sovereignty, dependency, resistance, and violence appear in altered ways. Drawing on conjunctural analysis and the Caribbean tradition of conceptual tension, Lewis argues that attending to these contradictions generates a critical vocabulary for apprehending contemporary Jamaican social life, unsettling the interpretive frames that have long governed Caribbean studies and development discourse. Jovan Scott Lewis is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in
We are excited to share the next event in our New Books in Caribbean Studies Book Talk Series! On Tuesday April 1 st at 4:30 PM ( Academic Building West, Room 4052 ) we will be joined by Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, who will be discussing her new book Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crises. Dark Laboratory, embarks on a historical journey to chart the forces that have shaped these islands: the legacy of slavery, indentured labor, and the forced toil of Chinese and enslaved Black people who mined the islands’ bounty—including guano,
We are excited to announce our next event in the RAICCS NEW BOOKS IN CARIBBEAN STUDIES BOOK TALK SERIES! Join us on Tuesday, March 11th at 7:30 PM EST with Mónica Jiménez . Dr. Jiménez will discuss her new book Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico. Zoom Registration Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/7vECyQHNQLu8zNvjxmR_YA
This roundtable aims to explore the themes of memory, nature, and relationality. It seeks to understand how these themes are fundamental elements of creation in Patrick Chamoiseau's work. How do these themes, often perceived as commonplaces, find in Patrick Chamoiseau's aesthetics the development of a new perspective on relationality? Cette table ronde vise à explorer les thèmes de la mémoire, de la nature et de la relation. II s'agit de comprendre comment ces thèmes constituent des éléments primordiaux de la création chez Patrick Chamoiseau. En quoi ces thèmes, souvent employés comme des lieux communs, trouventils dans l'esthétique de Patrick Chamoiseau
Join the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS) on Thursday, October 31st at 4pm for an “Update on the Situation in Haiti,” with speakers Dr. Leslie Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States , and Nixon Boumba , a Haitian social and environmental activist. We will discuss the historical roots of the current crisis, the role of the United States, what grassroots communities are experiencing, and what Haitian activists are calling for with respect to justice, peace, democracy and sovereignty. Update on the Situation in Haiti*
Join us on October 18th (1-3 PM) for a book talk with Dr. Rivke Jaffe. Dr. Jaffe is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Connecting geography, anthropology, and cultural studies, her research focuses primarily on the spatialization and materialization of power, difference and inequality within cities. She has conducted extensive research on urban crime and policing in Kingston, Jamaica. She will be discussing her new book The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica. This book talk is a part of the RAICCS New Books in Caribbean Studies Book Talk Series!
Join us on October 3rd from 4:00 - 5:30 PM for a lively conversation with Dr. Jonathan Connolly (History, UIC) who will be speaking about his new book, Worthy of Freedom: Indentureship and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation, with Seth Koven and Julie Stephens, introduction by History PhD Candidate Kiran Baldeo. RAICCS is a co-sponsor of this event.
Juanita De Barros is a Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University and the director of the Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice. She is the former president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She did her PhD at York University and was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the Department of Afro-American and African studies at the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of two book series: “Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies” (Cambridge University Press) and “Confronting Atrocity: Human Rights and Restorative Justice” (McGill-Queens University Press). Her research concentrates on the
Join us for Dominican-US Migration Stories: A Reading and Celebration with Claudio Mir and Zaida Corniel, Moderated by Camilla Stevens, on Friday April 12 th at 4pm in the West Academic Building (Room 5190). Reception to follow! Free book giveaways at event! RSVP : https://forms.gle/jKzhynByTFyAL81s9 Please see flyer below for more information.
Join us for our Graduate Student Lunch and Information Session on Friday April 12 th at 12:00 PM in the West Academic Building (Room 5190). This informal gathering (with a yummy lunch) is a great opportunity to learn more about how RAICCS can support graduate student research with grants, workshops and more! It is also a great opportunity for faculty and graduate students from across disciplines to meet! We hope you can join us! https://forms.gle/QYSmzVcQYdxxcLWf7 Please the flyer below for more information.
The French department invites you to a lunchtime talk by Dr. Jaime Shearn Coan, titled “Trying to Hear Assotto Saint’s New Love Song, Thirty Years Later" Details: Date: April 10th Time: 12:30pm Location: Academic Building, 4190 Assotto Saint (1957-1994), poet, publisher, editor, cultural activist, staged his multidisciplinary theater work New Love Song in New York City in 1989, bringing together a group of Black gay men on stage to represent disparate and shared experiences of Black and gay life in the midst of the mounting AIDS epidemic. Offering stories, dancing, rituals, and chants derived from African-diasporic religious practices and belief
Rutgers British Studies Center presents a workshop and dinner with Professor Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto): “ Extractive Violence & Transnational Geographies of Memory in Guyana : Colonial Histories, Contemporary Resonances” Details : Date : April 3rd, 2024 Time : 5:00PM - 7:00PM Location : Academic Building, Room 6051 Please RSVP for pre-circulated paper.
Join us for " Listening for Diaspora: Chinese Music and Theatre in the Americas, " on March 28th, April 23 rd and April 25th. Join us for the Year of Languages - Languages of the Arts series of conversations on the interdisciplinary potential of thinking through languages, area studies, and the performing arts together. Rutgers faculty from Mason Gross School of Performing Arts and the School of Arts and Sciences will dialogue with guest speakers over three informal sessions and you are invited to join us and add to the discussion! Each session requires registration: March 28th, 4:30 PM (EST)
PANEL/CONCERT: AFRO DOMINICAN MUSIC: RACIALIZING THE CARIBBEAN February 16, 2024 | Panel 6:30 PM | Concert 8:00 PM New Brunswick Performing Arts Center 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08901 RSVP at GetInvolved! Imperial nation states often racialize the Caribbean as only Black, which in turn flattens the racial diversity and racialization processes that happen within the Caribbean. While most of the Caribbean may be Black, this limited imperial lens obfuscates the racial diversity and racial knowledges from the Caribbean about how Blackness is read, moves, and is embodied transnationally across cultural, visual, and musical productions. For example, while the
