Upcoming Events
Welcoming Philosophies of Indigenous Peoples of North America
Welcoming Philosophies of Indigenous Peoples of North America | Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - 2:30pm EDT | Speakers: Getty Lustila, Susana Kolb Cadwell, Daniel Cooper, Judith Jaxootsú Ramos | Oxford Public Philosophy and Oxford Philosophy Society | More information here: https://fb.me/e/bGDvuXrSJ
CPA Panel at NeMLA
Boston in March 2024! CPA will be offering a panel at the Northeast MLA meeting. Interested in participating? Here is our Call for Papers.
Recent Work of the Caribbean Philosophical Association
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is sponsoring a panel at the 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference that will be held in Boston, March 7-10. We invite CPA members to submit an abstract (200-250 words) that show cases their work on shifting the geography of reason. This panel will highlight works emphasizing South-to-South dialogue, Caribbean thought and cultural productions, decolonial studies, ethical epistemology, and theory as praxis.
Paper Topics Might Include:
Literary Practices and Social Activism: Theory Produced from the Caribbean
Decolonial Epistemologies in the Caribbean
Creolization of and Beyond Language
Displacing English as the Lingua Franca of Intellectual Projects
Decolonization in/as Praxis
Shifting the Geography of Reason
Creolizing the Canon
Conditions of Freedom and Unfreedom
Instructions: Submit your abstract no later than September 15 via email at vcrisost@ur.rochester.edu
Each abstract submission must include the following:
A title of no more than 80 characters
An abstract of 200 to 250 words
A brief bio
Antirracismo y descolonización en El Caribe: de las resistencias cotidianas a las propuestas epistémicas
El Caribe, puerta de entrada del proceso colonizador en América que impuso una clasificacíon étnico-racial a sus poblaciones, constituye igualmente un espacio en el que las resistencias y las diatribas no han cesado de escucharse contra el concepto raza. Si, por un lado, fue en el Caribe donde la desaparición de la población indígena antillana, la trata negrera, la esclavitud de población de origen africano, el sistema de plantación, las disputas imperiales por el control de las islas afianzaron el criterio clasificatorio de raza y, con ello, procesos de racialización que aún hoy en día permean los discursos sobre la identidad, la alteridad, la nación y la cultura de sus sociedades, por otro, fue al interior y en relación con la geografía antillana donde se registraron verdaderos hitos en la lucha anticolonialista y antirracista del mundo.
Envia tu propuesta a coloquioantirracismo2023@gmail.com.
Fecha límite de recepción de propuestas: 16 de junio.
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I Make Myself Known: Photography, Resistance, and the Wearers of the Yellow Star
Dr. Julin Everett examines portraiture as a language of resistance while also noting the fixed location of photographic practices within larger structures of power and knowledge. In her readings of studio portraits of Jews wearing the yellow star during the Second World War, Dr. Everett considers how identity formation can result in an authentic subject position for which the “I,” though its existence remains dependent on the presence of others, can firstly command the terms of its own coming into being and secondly, create a permanent reflection of the self. She reads a selection of these portraits for the manner in which they enter into the realm of language by relocating and then disturbing the yellow star as a signifier.
Registration: https://forms.gle/doK285DzaN4Q7hgQ8
Afrique et socio-éthiques
Afrique et socio-éthiques
Featuring presentations by Auguste Nsonsissa (Université Marien Ngouabi), Emmanuelle Nguema Minko (École Normale Supérieure de Libreville), Pamphile Biyoghé (École Normale Supérieure de Libreville) and Charles Zacharie Bowao (Université Marien Ngouabi); moderated by Emmanuel Banywesize Mukambilwa (Université de Lubumbashi).
Date: February 11, 2021
Time: 12h00 (EST), 18h00 (GMT+1), 19h00 (GMT+2)
Afrique et souveraineté épistémique : Trajectoire et état des lieux
Afrique et souveraineté épistémique : Trajectoire et état des lieux
Featuring presentations by Louis Mpala Mbabula (Université de Lubumbashi), Élisabeth Oyane Megnier (Université Omar Bongo), Emmanuel Banywesize Mukambilwa (Université de Lubumbashi), and Georges Zongo (Université Joseph-Ki-Zerbo); moderated by Ulrich Metende (Université Yaoundé 1).
Date: November 19, 2021
Time: 12h00 (EST), 18h00 (GMT+1), 19h00 (GMT+2)
October 2021 Book Friday
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature, authored by Anne Margaret Castro.
Featuring commentary by Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers University), Bernabe Mendoza (Rutgers University),and Anwar Uhuru (Monmouth University); with remarks by the book’s the author.
Date: October 29, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
September 2021 Book Friday
Filosofía del cimarronaje by Pedro Lebrón Ortiz.
Featuring commentary by Mayra Santos Febres (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo (Dartmouth College), and Marta Moreno Vega (Corredor Afro/Creative Justice Initiative); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: September 24, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
August 2021 Book Friday
The Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery by Julius Scott (University of Michigan).
Featuring commentary by Toussaint Losier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Derefe Chevannes (University of Memphis), and Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: August 27, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
July 2021 Book Friday
A Philosophy of Antifascism by Devin Zane Shaw (Douglass College).
Featuring commentary by Storm Heter (East Stroudsburg University), LaRose T. Parris (Lehman College, CUNY), and Thomas Meagher (Southwestern University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: July 30, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
June 2021 Book Friday
NÓS - Uma Antologia de Literatura Indígena, authored and edited by Edson Krenak, Rosi Waikhon, Cristino Wapichana, and Mauricio Negro.
Hosted by Rosemere Ferreira da Silva (Universidade do Estado da Bahia/UNEB) and featuring commentary by Luiza Helena Oliveira da Silva (Universidade Federal do Tocantins), and translation by Pauline Batista (University of Connecticut).
Date: June 25, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
CPA Virtual Conference
“Black Lives Matter: Black American Resistance Through Thought”
Virtual Conference
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May 2021 Book Friday
Teorizando desde los pequeños lugares, coordinadores del libro, Roberto Almanza Hernández, Programa de Antropologia de la Universidad del Magdalena and Victor Hugo Pacheco Chávez, Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos-UNAM. Comentaristas: Dr. José G. Gandarilla (CEIICH-UNAM), Dra. María Antonia Antonacci (Pontifica Universidad Católica de San Pablo), Mtra. Rebeca Gaytán (Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos-UNAM). Moderadora: Rosario Torres-Guevara (BMCC, CUNY).
Date: May 28, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
April 2021 Book Friday
Creolizing the Nation by Kris F. Sealey.
Featuring commentary by Corey McCall (Cornell Prison Education Project), Ashleigh Morales (University of Memphis), and Renee T. White (Provost, Wheaton College); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: April 30, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
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March 2021 Book Friday
Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices, edited and introduced by Devyn Spence Benson.
Featuring commentary by Karina Alma (translator, University of California, Los Angeles), Tanya Saunders (University of Florida), and Agustín Lao-Montes (University of Massachussets, Amherst); with remarks by the book’s editor.
Date: March 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
Link to event recording.
February 2021 Book Friday
Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization by James G. Cantres.
Featuring commentary by Gabriella Beckles-Raymond (SOAS, University of London), Kojo Koram (Birkbeck, University of London), and Michele Mitchell (New York University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: February 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
Link to event recording.
January 2021 Book Friday
A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia by Juan Alejandro Chindoy Chindoy.
Featuring commentary by Josué López (University of Pittsburgh), Darian Spearman (University of Connecticut), and Kenneth Stikkers (Southern Illinois University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: January 29, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
Link to event recording.