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The Caribbean: Aesthetics, Ecology, Politics

A conference at the University of Warwick, 23^rd-25^th September, 2011

Keynote speakers include: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Oonya Kempadoo, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Janette Bulkan

Contact: <eapconference@gmail.com>

Influential Political and Cultural Periodicals Now Online

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com) is working with libraries, archives and publishers to ensure preservation and provide access to influential political and cultural periodicals via a new dLOC project, the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library. Several scholars have compiled summaries and links for a few of the nearly 150 titles already available online at <www.dloc.com/cndl>

dLOC will provide open access to regional newspaper digitization projects including literary journals, traditional newspapers, government gazettes, and other works in newsprint. This initiative builds upon dLOC's work in the Caribbean and the University of Florida's historical Caribbean newspaper preservation program.

Link to the Influential Political and Cultural Periodicals Summaries: <http://www.dlco.com/AA00000037/00001>.

If you have any questions or suggestions for new titles, please contact the project coordinator at <dloc@fiu.edu>.

Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries and private collections. For more information go to www.dloc.com<http://www.dloc.com/>.

"Shifting the Geography of Reason VIII - The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society"

8^th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA)

September 29 to October 1, 2011

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Contact: <caribphil2010@gmail.com>

Website: <http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org>

2012 Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACS) Call for Papers

Southern Historical Association Meeting

Mobile, Alabama

November 1-4, 2012

Deadline: October 1, 2011

The LatinAmerican and Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Southern Historical Association welcomes individual paper and panel proposals for the 2012 SHA meeting in Mobile, Alabama, November 1-4, 2012. LACS accepts papers and panels on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including the fields of the borderlands and the Atlantic World. Panels and papers that highlight the connections between people, cultures, and regions are especially welcome.

All panelists are required to be members of LACS. For information about membership, please visit the website at: http://www.tnstate.edu//lacs/ or contact Matt Childs of the University of South Carolina at childsmd@mailbox.sc.edu. For more information about the Southern Historical Association, visit the website: <http://www.uga.edu/~sha/>.

Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2011.

Conference "Emerging Sexualities and Race: Responses to Sexuality in Jamaica and the English Speaking Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora"

University of Warwick

October 21-22

Contact: Perry Stanislas <pstanislas@dmu.ac.uk>

New Cuban Film Releases

From: <globaledufilms@gmail.com>

"Ticket to Paradise" Inspired by the book AIDS: Confessions to a Doctor in which Dr. Jorge Pérez (director of the inpatient HIV Center in Cuba) wrote about testimonies of patients afflicted by AIDS.

"El Medico Documentary" El Medico, a young Cuban doctor and rapper, is trying to get a better life for his family. While a European music producer, wants fame and fortune.

"Afinidades" Directed by Jorge Perugorría and Vladimir Cruz, who made their acting debut in the acclaimed "Strawberry and Chocolate", "Afinidades" features characters who take refuge in sex. But the result is fleeting and has unpredictable consequences.

"Personal Belongings" Follow a group of friends desperately trying to leave Cuba. While some choose to leave on a flimsy raft to Florida, others like Ernesto try their luck by visiting foreigns embassies in Havana.

"I Dream to Change the World: Literature and Social Transformation"

30^th Annual West Indian Literature Conference

October 13-15, 2011

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Contacts: <Geraldine.Skeete@sta.uwi.edu> or <Giselle.Rampaul@sta.uwi.edu>

"Stability, Instability and Progress in the Caribbean (16-20^th Centuries)"

1^st Congress of the Caribbean Economic History Association (AHEC)

Santa Marta, Colombia

November 3-5

AHEC & Magdalena University

Website: <http://ahecaribe.wordpress.com>

Contact: <ahecaribe@gmail...