{"id":600,"date":"2014-09-16T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/?p=600"},"modified":"2014-10-29T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:02:20","slug":"imagining-caribbean-future-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/imagining-caribbean-future-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RITA Group Seminar Series #4 2013 – 14:<\/h3>\n

Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The University of Birmingham, Friday 31st October, 2014Our fourth in a four-seminar\u00a0series,\u00a0funded by the\u00a0Institute\u00a0for Latin American Studies<\/a>\u00a0and with the generous support of the University of Birmingham is ‘Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces’.\u201c[W]e need imaginations that are sensitive to inner-city decay and the lungs of the globe orchestrated into forests and rivers and skies. We need to build afresh through the brokenness of our world\u2026.\u201d (Wilson Harris).\u00a0 This one-day symposium looks at the ways in which the Caribbean and the future are imagined together.\u00a0 How has the future of the Caribbean been imagined and how is it being re-imagined at a time of environmental change and global insecurity?\u00a0 How does the future look when we imagine it in and through the Caribbean \u2013 is the Caribbean a space to imagine the future differently?\u00a0\u00a0Race in the Americas (RITA) 2013-14 Regional Seminar Series #4:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces \u2013 Friday 31st\u00a0October, 2014 – University of Birmingham, Room 311, Geography Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PROGRAMME<\/p>\n

9:00am-9:30am: Arrivals and Registration<\/p>\n

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9:30am-10:15am: Welcoming Remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Patricia Noxolo<\/p>\n

Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham<\/p>\n

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10:15am-11:00am: Panel 1 \u2013 Future spaces of freedom<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Louise Hardwick,\u00a0University of Birmingham<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Youth dispossession, general strikes and alternative economies in the French Caribbean? From the film N\u00e8g maron (2005) to the \u201cManifesto for the \u2018products\u2019 of great necessity\u201d (2009)\u2019<\/p>\n

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11:00am – 11:15am: Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

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11:15am – 12:45pm: Panel 2 \u2013 Future Spaces of Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018”The dream of creating one people from two lands mixed together”: Hispaniola before and after the 1937 massacre\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Spatial Choreographies of the History of Slavery in Martinique and Guadeloupe: from the Courtroom to the Museum\u2019<\/p>\n

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12:45pm-1:45pm: Lunch<\/p>\n

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1:45pm \u2013 3:15pm: Panel 3 – Future Spaces of Sexuality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Thomas Glave, 2014 Leverhulme Visiting Professor (Hispanic Studies), University of Warwick<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Future Queer: Enough of the \u201cBitches\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Patricia Noxolo, University of Birmingham<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Future Caribbeans: Sun, sex and speculative fiction?<\/p>\n

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3:15pm-3:30pm – Break<\/p>\n

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3:30pm-5:00pm: Panel 4 \u2013 Future Environmental Spaces<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair, Vassar University, USA<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Cuba\u2019s Agonizing Seashore Resorts: Atelier Morales\u2019s Adrift Patrimony (The Baths) and the Future of the Caribbean\u2019s Shores\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr Angela Last,\u00a0University of Glasgow, UK<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Apostropher L\u2019Apocalypse: Caribbean geopoetics and the Anthropocene\u2019<\/p>\n

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5.00pm\u20135:15pm: Closing Remarks and Thanks<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Race in the Americas (RITA) group<\/p>\n

For further information, see https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/raceintheamericas.com\/race-in-the-americas\/home\/rita-events-and-projects\/the-impact-of-race-on-music<\/a>, or contact Dr Pat Noxolo – p.e.p.noxolo@bham.ac.uk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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