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...

Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...

Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct: Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social shorturl.at/BLplw

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 #caribbean #histodons Call for papers! […]

Veinte días!

Vingt jours!

Twenty days left to apply!

Today! Our first CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26! “The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s” with Andrew Williams, University of the West Indies (Mona) @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'. In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/the-barbados...

New (August 2025): Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change – Patricia Northover, Richard L. Bernal, Hamid A. Ghany and Natalie Dietrich Jones | University of the West Indies Press | More information can be found here: www.uwipress.com/978976640982...

Join us on 23 September for the start of our CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26 @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s w/ Andrew Williams (University of the West Indies, Mona) shorturl.at/euVXU

Next week, the Society is in Aberdeen to meet with historians and RHS members for the next in its visits programme for 2025. The visit includes a public lecture, on Weds 17 Sept, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social given by our guest speaker, Prof Matthew J. Smith: bit.ly/3IjbMVj. All welcome to attend 1/2

50th Annual Conference: uMkhonto weSizwe (Tip of the Spear): Black Studies as Uncompromising Liberation | National Council for Black Studies | Baltimore, MD | March 11-14, 2026 | Submission Deadline: December 22, 2025 | For more information, visit here: convention2.allacademic.com/one/ncbs/ncb...

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 #caribbean Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

Le comité exécutif de l’ACH sont heureux de vous annoncer que la 57e conférence annuelle se tiendra du 24 au 28 mai 2026 à l’Université des West Indies en Jamaïque. #caraïbes #histoire #skystorians Appel a contributions: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/fr/reunion-a...