CAAR News
Friends and members of CAAR will be informed on a regular basis about the upcoming conferences, symposia, research projects, new academic monographs or works of fiction via the listserver and via the news section of the current website.
Find a number of our most recent articles and announcements on the current website.
09.03.2010
Haiti: “Disaster Capitalism on Steroids”
“Two months after the devastating earthquake, the situation in Haiti is downright criminal,” says Robert Roth. According to the spokesperson of the activist network Haiti Action Committee, major western players such as the US are...[more]
09.03.2010
Student Activism UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley saw the most powerful expression of student activism last Monday, when more than 200 African American students staged a "Blackout" right in Sather Gate (the most central part place on campus). Some of...[more]
09.03.2010
New Book: "Léopold Sédar Senghor et Walt Whitman Pour l’idéal humaniste universel" (Abou Bakr Moreau)
Description from the back of the book: "Poètes de la décolonisation de leurs pays, Léopold Sédar Senghor et Walt Whitman, que de prime abord rien ne rapproche, sont motivés par l’ambition d’une Civilisation de l’Universel....[more]
09.03.2010
New Perspectives on the Amistad (Address on March 22, Lincoln Center)
Dr. Michael Zeuske of the University of Cologne will speak on his new findings in Cuban and Spanish archives on the Amistad and its captain, Ramón Ferrer, and what they tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Cuba and the...[more]
07.03.2010
The Public Archive on Mis-, Under-, or Poorly represented Countries
With Samira Sheikh, my colleague in the History Department down here at Vanderbilt, I’ve created a website, the Public Archive: http://thepublicarchive.com We are hoping that for now, the Public Archive will serve as a...[more]
03.03.2010
CFP: “UNITY IN DIVERSITY: EFFECTS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT” (Minsk State Linguistics University, May 13-15, 2010)
The conference will address the issue of similarities and differences, integrative and disintegrative forces, links and conflicts, interdependencies and interrelations within and between larger entities and communities and...[more]
03.03.2010
Three appointments in University Georgia English Department
The University of Georgia English Department will be making up to three tenure-track appointments before the end of May in three fields: American Literature before 1900, Renaissance/Early Modern Studies, and Postcolonial Writing...[more]