CAAR News Archive
Find a number of articles and announcements which are older than three months below.
Angela Davis Speaks at Occupy Philly
Click here to watch Angela Davis speak at Occupy Philly.[more]
Transition Magazine 50th Birthday
"Born in Africa and bred in the Diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race. Since its founding in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid ...[more]
New Review: The Image of the Black in Western Art
"A publishing endeavor that deserved praise for its sheer ambitiousness in advance. Now that the first volumes of the series are available, the project proves a landmark in art history indeed. It will be an essential holding...[more]
The Corporate King Memorial and The Burial of a Movement
Dr. King and the liberation movement he represents will again suffer a brutal blow this week when all are permanently entombed under the violent euphemism of “memorial.” The dedication of this $120 million stone...[more]
CFP: Atlantic Geographies
A 4-day institute for advanced graduate students and recent PhDs May 14-17, 2012 The Elena Díaz-Versón Amos Conference Room of the Cuban Heritage Collection and the 3rd-Floor Conference Room, Richter Library,...[more]
CAAR on French Radio: Noirs Américains sous la présidence Obama - Arts & Spectacles - France Culture
Que deviennent-ils, à l’heure de la première présidence afro-américaine de l’histoire ? Evolution sociale, familiale, émergence de nouvelles élites, courants artistiques, marginalisations accrues, immigrations d’Afrique et...[more]
New FORECAAST anthology: Western Fictions, Black Realities
This anthology, edited by long-standing board members Isabel Soto Garcia and Violet Johnson, interrogates two salient concepts in studying the black experience. Ushered in with the age of New World encounters, modernity emerged...[more]
Behind the Riots in Urban England
Sociologists living and working in the areas affected by rioting in August 2011 examine the causes and consequences of the unrest.Click here for the series of articles in The Guardian.[more]
My Time in Hackney: Making Sense of the Riots in Urban England
In an attempt to make sense of the rioting that swept through London and urban England last week, Dr Patricia Daley, a lecturer at Oxford University, remembers her teenagehood as a native Jamaican in Hackney, one of London's...[more]
CAAR Member Dagmar Schultz receives Prize
On June 23, 2011, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schultz received this year’s Margherita-von- Brentano-Prize from the Free University of Berlin. In honor and in memory of Margherita von Brentano, professor of philosophy and first female vice...[more]
Report 2nd Workshop Young Scholars Network Black Diaspora and Germany: Gendering the Black Diaspora
In theories of Black Diaspora – e.g., Paul Gilroy’s ‘Black Atlantic’ or Edouard Glissant’s ‘creolization’ – gender often remains a neglected category. This is why the Young Scholars Network ‘Black Diaspora and Germany’ – funded...[more]
Year of the boomerang? Frantz Fanon and the Arab uprisings
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas argues in Open Democracy that the uprisings that have erupted across north Africa and the Middle East in recent...[more]
Freedom Riders mark 50 years
USA Today (6th of May 2011) reminds its readers in a noteworthy manner of the freedom rides, now 50 years ago: "She was a senior at Tennessee A&I State University when the first Freedom Ride — planned to fight for the...[more]
Us Theater Premiere: Desdemona
Cal Performances brings you the U.S. premiere of an extraordinary theatrical collaboration! In response to Peter Sellars's 2009 Othello, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, singer/songwriter Rokia Traoré, and Peter...[more]
Festival African and African Diasporic Literatures in Bayreuth
From May 24th to 26th 2011 Bayreuth will host the first “BIGSAS Festival of African and African Diasporic Literatures” under the theme “African Conceptualisations of Europe”. The festival, which is open to the interested...[more]