CLACS Spring 2023 Book Launches | Brian Meeks, Erica Durante, and Patsy Lewis
March 2, 2023
Introducing the CLACS Spring 2023 Book Launches
After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope - Brian Meeks
Thursday, March 23, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Hybrid event - Joukowsky Forum and Zoom (Register here)
In this multidisciplinary event, Brian Meeks will launch his book, "After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope" with a panel of experts from Brown University and Smith College. Following the book launch, there will be a book signing and an additional conversation, "Thinking About Caribbean Futures," with experts from Brown University and Smith College.
Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People - Erica Durante
Monday, April 17, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Hybrid event - Joukosky Forum and Zoom (Register here)
Now that air travel has finally resumed at its usual pace after the pandemic disruption and that we embrace our condition of passengers and "Cloud People" again, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies is pleased to present the launch of Professor Erica Durante’s book, Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Join us for a discussion with Aníbal González, Professor of Spanish at Yale University; Felipe Martínez Pinzón, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, and Christopher Schaberg, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University, New Orleans.
Caribbean Integration: Uncertainty in a Time of Global Fragmentation - Patsy Lewis
Tuesday, April 25, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Hybrid event - Joukosky Forum and Zoom (Register here)
As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) approaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, the contributors to Caribbean Integration: Uncertainty in Time of Global Fragmentation critically reflect on the evolution of the regional movement, analyzing the challenges of maintaining relevance in a post-Brexit era of regional integration, while also highlighting opportunities for its reinvigoration. This collection offers diverse perspectives from scholars within the region and beyond on the political, social, economic, cultural, and environmental dimensions of regional integration. The contributors consider the role and influence of youth, language, reparatory justice, election reform, gender-based violence, migration, trade, and climate change on the deepening and longevity of CARICOM institutions. Their analyses signal new prospects for emerging from a crisis of regionalism and moving towards sustainability.