Caribbean Studies Seminars 2026 @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social 27 Jan Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott shorturl.at/iWnlI 24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration, & Remaking of Postwar England shorturl.at/YvyM6 24 Mar Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands shorturl.at/3o1CZ

🎉 Today I defended my dissertation and passed with summa cum laude. The title is "Dependent Lives In and Beyond Archives: Enslaved People in Sephardic Jewish Households in Early Modern Bridgetown, Barbados (1654-1800)." The abstract is below, and I hope to publish it soon.

Via UWI Press: "We are pleased to announce our forthcoming publication, Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities, by Verene A. Shepherd and Dalea Bean (eds.)." Stay tuned for publication updates from www.uwipress.com

Many of you may be interested in this. guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...

Our final CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the year “Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean” takes place on 9 Dec w/ Dr Catie Peters @oieahc.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social / @deannalyncook.bsky.social / @ilcs.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Message From ACH President Carla Pestana Dear ACH members, As you know, Jamaica was hit by Hurricane Melissa on 28 October. Preparations for hosting the conference proceed apace, and we hope that you will continue with your plans to attend. /1

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

If You Missed It The First Time (February 2025): Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem - By Aimé Césaire | Polity | More information can be found here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Looking to after next week's holiday, we've a public talk on designing a digital archive of Caribbean speculative storytelling cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15359711; workshop for coders on LLMs to classify texts cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15249593; 3 textile makerspace workshops & an origami workshop:

New addition to the Iberian Colonial Repostory: A (partial) inventory of Papeles de Cuba from the AGI. Published in Cuba in 1978! Check it out! And if you have any archival sources to share with others from old research projects, please reach out to me!

“Heal a Population Still Reeling from . . . Enslavement and Violence”: The Legacy of Dr. Louis Mars | Websder Corneille + Evan Auguste | SX Salon | Read it here: rb.gy/5fl5ie

Really pleased that this article, a collaboration between many of the members of CoCAH (www.cocah.net) is now available from @peercomjournal.bsky.social 🎉 We propose practical ways to improve #Caribbean #archaeology in the 21st century: peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

I want to watch a six-part series on the Haitian Revolution 😕

Check out @deepthimurali.bsky.social's recent appearance on the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Digital Projects Coffeehouse where she presented "Connecting Threads: Indian Madras and Afro-Caribbean Consumers" youtu.be/whi8KY3Vwdg?...

We are sorry to learn of the death of Doris L. Garraway, author of "The Libertine Colony" and a contributor to the journal Small Axe. buff.ly/ttM0p1g

In the Small Axe 77 issue, our Keywords in Caribbean Studies section is devoted to the concept Heritage, with essays by Alyssa James, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Khadene Harris, and Nadia Mosquera Muriel Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/48txdj6r

New (October 2025): The Maternal Contract: A Subaltern Response to Extreme Violence in the Americas - By Elva F. Orozco Mendoza | Oxford University Press | More information can be found here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

“In response to escalating US military activity in the Caribbean, the Assembly of Caribbean People has called for reaffirming the region as a 'Zone of Peace.'"

Commemorating and critiquing the author’s nearly three-month stint living with and being possessed by the Trinidad and Tobago Memorial Quilt, this essay demonstrates a way not only to write about a Caribbean AIDS quilt, but to approach quilting as methodology. Read it @ Duke tinyurl.com/2jmmkb64

Delighted that our #LASA2026 roundtable to collaboratively explore the future of Haitian and Dominican Studies, building on discussions raised w/ colleagues at the Global Dominican conference hosted by @uolondon.bsky.social in 2018. Looking forward to reconnecting w/ LASA Haiti-DR colleagues too.

Only 2 weeks left to see "Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People"! Explore identity through art. Plan your visit before Nov 22! → https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/tools/diasporic-collage/

Our next CLACS Caribbean Seminar will be hosted by the fantastic Renée Landell & @deannalyncook.bsky.social The Youth Ambassadors of our Country: Little League Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao w/Jan Bant @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free! buff.ly/rccy0qL

La Cuneta Calibana PR | '''Jalowín' O la necesidad de una metafísica calibana'' | Este es un podcast caribeño donde dialogamos sobre temas relacionados a la estética, la cultura, y lo socio-político en Puerto Rico, el Caribe, y el Mundo.

Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Do apply - it's a wonderful opportunity, and the team is great. Up to 3,000 pounds for three weeks of research at the British Library. "Our themes for this round centre on maps, popular music, the age of revolutions or the novel in the Americas, but all topics will be considered."

Panse nou se avèk zanmi nou ak kòlèg nou nan #Jamaica, #Haiti ak #Cuba pandan Siklòn #Melissa ap apwoche. Tanpri, rete an sekirite tout moun. (I generated this translation with google translate; please inform me of any errors. --RAG)

Nuestros pensamientos están con nuestros amigos y colegas de #Jamaica, #Haití y #Cuba ante la llegada del huracán #Melissa. Por favor, manténganse a salvo todos. Onze gedachten gaan uit naar onze vrienden en collega's in #Jamaica, #Haïti en #Cuba nu orkaan #Melissa nadert. Blijf allemaal veilig.

Our thoughts are with our friend and colleagues in #Jamaica, #Haiti, and #Cuba as Hurricane #Melissa approaches. Please stay safe everyone. Nos pensées vont à nos amis et collègues en #Jamaïque, en #Haïti et en #Cuba alors que l'ouragan #Melissa approche. Prenez soin de vous.

This hands-on archiving workshop designed for diasporic community members, and any archive beginners will introduce them to the basics of organizing and preserving personal and collective histories.  https://ow.ly/H05v50XfBc1

Decolonial Constitutionalism - Ronnie Yearwood | October 22, 2025 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (British Time) | Hosted by the Decolonising the Law Discussion Group, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford | Register here for the online and in-person lecture: lnkd.in/eY82fFJU

NOUVELLE DATE LIMITE! 31 OCTOBRE 2025! #skystorians #caraïbe

DEADLINE EXTENDED! PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSALS BY 31 OCTOBER 2025! #skystorians #caribbean #history

Nueva fecha límite! 31 de Octubre 2025. #skystorians #caribe

Congratulations to our very own Vanessa Pérez-Rosario on her new book on Julia de Burgos! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-boo...

Pendant earring and just a few curls peaking out of the checkered headwrap. Detail from one of the many images of the #eighteenthcentury #caribbean made by Agostino Brunias and circulated by many others.

Forthcoming (April 2026): The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia...

‼️The latest dLOC newsletter is out! Check it out in English, French, and Spanish! English: www.canva.com/design/DAGqq... Français: www.canva.com/design/DAGyZ... Español: www.canva.com/design/DAGyP...

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #histodons #caribbean https://associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeting/

Una Semana Más!

One more week! #skystorians

Encore une semaine! #caraïbes #histoire #skystorians

New publication! 🚨 My article looks at how, during the 1916 US occupation, Dominican education administrators negotiated US expectations by drawing on the expertise of their Latin American counterparts. First 50 copies are free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZSMJ...

Small book, big map! As part of his research on Huguenot-Indigenous American interactions, Maddock Fellow Dr Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social is looking at translations of Alexander Exquemelin's book on pirates. Apparently the pirates of the Caribbean used to hang out around Tortuga in Haiti

Small Axe: a caribbean journal of criticism publishes work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 77 is now online, view the full TOC: buff.ly/ARwiPeV @smallaxeproject.bsky.social

The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.

Great opportunity to get supportive feedback! librarycompany.org/academic-pro...

Thursday 2nd October, 6.30pm: The Georgian House, Edinburgh, in conversation with Lisa Williams, founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association and Black History Walking Tours Edinburgh: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...