CAAR News Archive
Find a number of articles and announcements which are older than three months below.
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]
Slavery As Comedy? Watch Trailer For French Farce “Case Départ”
From the blog of Shadow and Act - On Cinema of the African Diaspora:"I just came across a trailer for this French time travel flick titled Case Départ, which I believe translates as Return To The Start (or Beginning). I...[more]
CFP: "African Liberation and Black Power: The Challenges of Diasporic Encounters Across Time, Space and Imagination"
You are invited to participate in the sixth biennial conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), to be held November 3-6, 2011. Conference Theme: AFRICAN LIBERATION AND BLACK POWER:...[more]
New Title: French Caribbeans in Africa - Diasporic Connections and Colonial Administration, 1880-1939
This book of VERONIQUE HÉLÉNON is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By...[more]
Haiti Before and After Aristide's Return: Joyous Victory in a Bitter Time
On April 4th, Haiti’s electoral council announced that, according to preliminary results, Michel Martelly had been selected Haiti’s new president. A kompa singer and long-time proponent of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Martelly...[more]
Tristes Tropiques, Sad Polemics
In 1931, the Surrealists declared, “We will not go to the Colonial Exhibition,” boycotting the imperialist show at Vincennes. Eighty-one years later, almost day for day, we declared: “We will not go to the Jardin...[more]
Announcement: 2nd Young Scholars Network "Black Diaspora and Germany" Workshop: "Gendering the Black Diaspora"
The members of the organising team cordially invite you to the workshop “Gendering the Black Diaspora”. We are delighted to have with us as keynote speakers: Dr. Gloria Wekker, Professor at the Institute for Media and Culture...[more]
New Book from Cherise Smith: Enacting Others - Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith
The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex...[more]
Job: Assistant Professor Art History with Specialty in African/African American Art (Saint Louis University)
Saint Louis University, a Catholic Jesuit institution dedicated to student learning, research, healthcare, and service, seeks applicants for a joint, tenure-track, Assistant Professor Position in Art History and African American...[more]
EMMA's Conference(s): Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, “Race”
Under the auspices of EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines des Mondes Anglophones, Montpellier, France) and gathering the leading scholars in the field, this series of four conferences will identify and assess the different...[more]
First Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society
The Black German Cultural Society, Inc. (BGCS), is excited to announce its 1st Annual Convention to be held from August 19 to 21, 2011, at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC.With the theme of “Strengthening...[more]
New: The Cambridge History of African American Literature
The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of...[more]
Symposium: "Testify, Witness and Act: Black Women’s Resistance"
This day-long symposium features Bowdoin faculty from Gender and Women’s Studies and Africana Studies in addition to four invited scholars: Aisha Finch (UCLA), Jessica Millward (UC Irvine), Salamishah Tillet...[more]
New FORECAAST Book "Blackness and Disability" Published Posthumously
The 21st book in the FORECAAST series, Blackness and Disabilities: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, is out! With the generous support of Mrs. Bell, Steven Taylor, Marcelle Haddix, and CAAR president Sabine...[more]
Statement by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UCT on the so-called "closing down of CAS" and merging of academic departments
There has been some public speculation over the past week about proposals for departmental reorganisation in the Faculty of Humanities at UCT, and the so-called "closing down" of the CentreforAfrican Studies (CAS)....[more]