Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies
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
DAY 1: Workshop WORKSHOP: Afro Dominican Music: Percussion Workshop with La Gran Mawon Wednesday, February 14 | 5:30-7:00 PM Livingston Coffee House (LSC) RSVP at GetInvolved! Join us for an Afro Dominican Music percussion workshop with Mitiko Mawon and members of the award-winning ensemble La Gran Mawon (The Big Maroon), an artist collective based in the Dominican Republic. Through their research and performance, the group explores Afro-Taino musical roots of the Caribbean Island of Kiskeya-Ayiti (comprised of Haiti and Dominican Republic) to recreate them in a respectful manner, while updating them with modern influences from hip-hop, reggae, rock, and ska.
Join us Thursday, January 25th, 2024 at 4:30pm for a talk by Lara Putnam- "Sexual Violence and Scholarly Silence: Questions from Early 20th Century Limón, Costa Rica" ONLINE ONLY See flyer below for more details.
EL MONTE: Narratives, Aesthetics, and Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean On the 70th anniversary of the publication of El Monte (1954) by Cuban author and ethnologist Lydia Cabrera, Rutgers University, Baruch College (CUNY), and the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, invite scholars, graduate students, and social and religious activists to discuss pressing issues around Afrodiasporic spirituality and ethnomedicinal technologies in the cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean. Often taken as a reference text for those initiated into Santeria and other spiritual traditions, El Monte has become not a book but a guiding concept or code to read
This is is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium on the future of immigration detention.
This event was born out of the collaboration between Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS) and the Fine Arts Program of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. The tour will be lead by the program director, María del Mar Caragol Rivera, and ICP’s art collection registrar, Laura Quiñones Navarro, who will display and discuss artifacts and sources illuminating Puerto Rico’s slaveholding, slavetrafficking, and anti-black past, as well as its connection to the rest of the Atlantic world. This event aims to showcase the richness, depth, and cultural importance of Afro-Puerto Rican Culture and History to highlight the importance of
