University of Miami Hemispheric Caribbean Studies

09/25/2025

09/17/2025

For more details on this, and other workshops, go to: https://english.as.miami.edu/events/windianlitconf/index.html

03/31/2021

Ready for tomorrow? Hope that you can join us (if the time zone permits)….
Mañana!! Tomorrow- Wednesday March 31, 6-8 pm. Join us!
The CCA invites you to an event in celebration of the new book
Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking
edited by Michelle Stephens and Yolanda Martinez San-Miguel.
Wednesday, March 31st
6pm–8pm
Register via Zoom: https://go.rutgers.edu/yul9zpw5
For more information see flyer attached.
This event will introduce the work of the book and of its contributors, many of whom were fellows in the CCA seminar on Archipelagoes in 2015–16. Island networks interrogate mainstream continental frameworks that implicitly inform many fields of study. The book explores the contributions of archipelagic thinking for the study of geopolitics, history, and culture.
Participants:
Michelle Stephens, Rutgers
Yolanda Martinez San-Miguel, University of Miami
Brian Russell Roberts, Brigham Young University
Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers
Elena Lahr-Vivaz, Rutgers
Sarah DeMott, Harvard
Jessica Baker, University of Chicago
Haruki Eda, Rutgers

07/07/2020

On Monday, July 6, 2020, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that International Students in the United States whose schools have ruled for online-only classes in the Fall 2020 semester must leave the United States, or may face immigration consequences. This is counterproductive fo...

03/10/2020

An exhibition is being held to highlight the excellence of black female professors working in the UK.

02/13/2020

The playwright, fiction writer and essayist was recognized by PEN America for her four decades of merging "vital formal experimentation and considerations of race, gender, colonialism and African Diasporic identity."

02/05/2020

Ahhh....days like these, where the heart is at once filled with joy and bursting at its seams with joy, while simultaneously being utterly overwhelmed by the loss of one of the richest minds and voices of a generation, one deeply thoughtful and considered, steeped in history and always straining, leaning forward to remake the wor(l)d in our image/imagination. On the same day that I learned that Edwidge Danticat won the prestigious Vilcek Prize in Literature, I also learned of Kamau Brathwaite's passing. The close proximity of this joy and sadness reminds me (yet again) that joy and sorrow live in the same house, and are, even in the worst of time, always on speaking terms with one another. With this in mind, I will say this: rest well Kamau, rest with the knowledge the word, sound, power, is in VERY good hands. You have left us a legacy of wor(l)ds carefylly crafted that will keep our imagination and our spirits full well beyond all of our lifetimes. A mighty tree has fallen, yes, but the landscape is not not left barren, it is lush, vibrant and ever able to provide safe harbor for all of those who seek its protection.

Walk good Kamau and when you take your rest, do so comfortably, knowing that our wor(l)ds are still being remade in our imaginations now, and for generations to come. Ase.

11/14/2019

Folks, come out and see the film, join the discussion of this critically important reality. Issue is too light a term for what is taking place -- human trafficking is a new reality and the Caribbean region is deeply affected by this emerging crisis. If you can't make it to the film, please donate to the fund to aid in ongoing Hurricane Dorian relief efforts in The Bahamas.

This is a special fundraising screening of Kareem Mortimer's Cargo in aid on ongoing Hurricane Dorian relief efforts in The Bahamas. The filmmaker will be in attendance. Inspired by true events, CARGO follows Kevin’s struggle to make enough money to pay for his son's private school fees eventually...

11/05/2019

Come out, see a great film and support this fundraiser for rebuilding areas a the Bahamas destroyed by hurricane Dorian.

Inspired by true events, CARGO follows Kevin’s struggle to make enough money to pay for his son's expensive school eventually turning to transporting human “cargo” into the US in order to raise the cash. Late on his payments, to his son’s Ronald’s expensive school he becomes so desperate t...