CAAR News Archive
Find a number of articles and announcements which are older than three months below.
Earthquake in haiti
such pain, sadness, outrage. caar mourns the loss of lives, pasts and futures. for the moment, we refer you to the "yele project", founded by haitian born musician wiclef jean: www.yele.org. a friend from...[more]
Postcolonial Studies: directions for use - Uses of Postcolonial Studies’ Interrogations and Concepts in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (3 & 4 June, 2010, Lyon)
The French exception regarding the Postcolonial Studies has been diagnosed a long time ago: despite the increasing attention paid to the postcolonial theories, a reflex suspicion remains. Is it because of its political...[more]
CFP: "Vanishing Borders? Cultures in the Age of Globalism"
Osmania University Hyderabad (04.03.2010-06.03.2010, Hyderabad, India)[more]
Program of SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference at Shaw University online
The program for the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC next April, 2010, is online now. Registration for the conference is only $50. through January 31; after that date the fee is...[more]
Bibliographically Accessible: The hidden collection of Africana posters at the Herskovits Library
Northwestern has been awarded a Council of Library and Information Resources Grant to catalog the hidden collection of Africana posters at the Herskovits Library. This project will unveil two of the most...[more]
Summer Institute: Decolonizing Knowledge and Power - Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons (July 8-22)
The Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues (Barcelona, Spain) is offering a two-week summer institute (TAUGHT IN ENGLISH) open to advanced undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, junior...[more]
"Civil Rights in the Age of Obama": 10th annual Civil Rights Conference University of Tennessee (February 25th)
This year's conference is themed "Civil Rights in the Age of Obama," and will feature discussions and presentations of Civil Rights in Health Care and Education, Local Struggles for Civil Rights, the role of white...[more]
Diggin in: recent developments on Congo conflict minerals
According to David Sullivan and Noel Atama, "Congo’s mineral wealth continues to play a central role in the country’s conflict dynamics. Despite the upsurge in displacement and atrocities during 2009, multinational companies...[more]
Blacktrospective: The Best and Worst Films of 2009
According to Black News, the very best African-American film fare was released early 2009, including Notorious, Medicine for Melancholy and Not Easily Broken all of which arrived in theaters last January. Check out Black...[more]
CFP: Being Black and Becoming European: Un/Settled Migration and Hidden Histories
African and Black Diaspora. An International Journal (Routledge) - 15.03.2010, Chicago[more]
“France Noire/Black France” Film Festival
La Présence Noire en France/The Black Presence in France (May 21- 23, 2010)[more]
Symposium: "Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907-61" (15th April - 17th April, 2010)
In the context provided by Paul Gilroy's configuration of the black Atlantic as a counterculture to modernity, this symposium is the first in a series seeking to re-examine the Atlantic as a locale for the emergence of...[more]
Workshop: "Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia’s Place in Early America"
On behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), we invite you to apply to “Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia’s Place in Early America,” a Landmarks in American History and Culture Workshop for...[more]
New Novel by Mukoma wa Ngugi
About Nairobi Heat (Penguin, SA 2009): When a beautiful blonde girl is found murdered on the porch of an African university professor in Maple Bluff, Madison, Wisconsin, hard-working African American detective Ishmael...[more]
NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers
Social Movements in Modern America: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism.[more]