FEBRUARY 2012

NEWS

ACADEMIC:

1. UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

2. CALLS FOR PAPERS

3. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

OCCUPATIONAL

CULTURAL/SOCIAL

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Special issue of Pambazuka News 561 - 50 years on: Frantz Fanon Lives
Pambazuka is the authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa.

This week featuring: 50 years on: Frantz Fanon Lives

What would Fanon make of ‘the myriad socio-economic and political problems facing Africans and people of African descent today,’ asks Ama Biney, on the 50th anniversary of his death.

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New Book Announcements:

CPA Frantz Fanon Award Recipient of 2005, Alejandro J. De Oto for his book, Politica del Sujeto Colonial, has just recently published his new book, Tiempos de homenajes, tiempos descoloniales.

Description (in Spanish): Fanon es una de las estaciones más importantes del pensamiento descolonial y de su apuesta teórico política. Cada trabajo intenta pensarlo desde distintas facetas, acompañando el vaivén de su escritura, evocan la heterogeneidad del corpus fanoniano acuñado en las urgencias morales y políticas de mediados del siglo XX. Encontraremos una introducción de Alejandro De Oto y un prólogo de Walter Mignolo más dos partes: una primera llamada “Situaciones”, con las contribuciones de Al. De Oto, María E. Borsani y María M. Quintana y una segunda, llamada “Influencias”, con las de Zulma Palermo e Inés F. Mouján. En la primera parte se reúnen los trabajos que proponen situaciones de lectura de la obra de Fanon. Un escenario todavía vibrante no sólo aquí sino en distintas arenas intelectuales y políticas. La segunda se concentra en las relaciones entre la escritura de Fanon y otros registros críticos. Un recorrido por el viejo mundo de las influencias, pero en el sentido de los traslapamientos, los corrimientos sutiles y, a veces, los usos conceptuales abiertos y potentes. 

ISBN: 978 987 1074 97 6
Páginas: 184
Formato: 255 x 155
Año de edición: 2012

To order or for more information, please visit: http://www.edicionesdelsigno.com.ar/ficha.php?id=161

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The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. By Walter Mignolo

Description: During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twentieth century and the dictates of neoliberalism. This cycle of coloniality is coming to an end. Two main forces are challenging Western leadership in the early twenty-first century. One of these, “dewesternization,” is an irreversible shift to the East in struggles over knowledge, economics, and politics. The second force is “decoloniality.” Mignolo explains that decoloniality requires delinking from the colonial matrix of power underlying Western modernity to imagine and build global futures in which human beings and the natural world are no longer exploited in the relentless quest for wealth accumulation.

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ACADEMIC

1. UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

a) Dr. WEB Du Bois Honorary Emeritus Professorship Conference Celebration

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2. CALLS FOR PAPERS

a) CPA 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS

2012 ANNUAL MEETING
July 19-21, 2012

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, ST. AUGUSTINE
TRINIDAD

Shifting the Geography of Reason IX: Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-, Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans.

For its ninth annual meeting, the CPA now invites the submission of papers and panels that will engage various aspects of this question of regional race/ethnic change or stability as a result of major tremors and aftershocks in the capitalist world economy. Are race/ethnic identities changing in our region at this time? Is it getting any easier for Native-, Euro-, Afro-, and Indo-Caribbeans to enter each other’s identity spaces? Are we getting better at understanding each other’s religious and philosophical traditions? Is it getting easier for us to enter each other’s discursive spaces? Are the patterns and paces of race/ethnic changes the same or different in the Spanish-, English-, French-, and Dutch-speaking parts of the region? What of the mixed identities of these different linguistic groups: the Mestizo, the Dougla, and the Mulatto? Has the rise of China, Brazil and India in this global economy affected the race ethnic codes by which Indo-Caribbeans and Chinese Caribbeans and Brazilians have been defined? Have these shifts in global positions had any impact on their relations with Afro-Caribbeans and Euro-Caribbeans? Has the crisis reinforced old patterns between these groups or has had no impact at all? It is issues of this type, which link race/ethnic identities and shifts in the global political economy, that we would like to make our broad organizing theme for 2012.

In addition to proposals that verse on the specific topic this year, we encourage papers and panels on areas such as:

Decolonization theory/decolonial thought
Critical race theory and philosophy
Africana philosophy & critical theory
Feminist philosophy and queer studies
Border Studies and Border Thinking
Critical race theory
Critical African, Asian, and Latin American thought
Maroon practice and thinking
Caribbean migrations
Ecology and the environment
Indo-Caribbean philosophy & literature
Indigeneity, mestizaje, and creolité
Philosophy and literature in the Antilles & the Diaspora
Psychoanalysis and deconstruction
Law and Human Rights
Religion in the Caribbean and the Diaspora
Performance studies
Social and political philosophies

Send submissions for panels, roundtables, discussions, and abstracts of individual presentations by March 31st, 2012 by email to caribphil@gmail.com. Abstracts should include: 1) name, position, institutional and department affiliation (if any), and highest university degree obtained, 2) title of proposed paper, panel, roundtable, or discussion, 3) up to one page description of the problem(s) addressed and identification of the sources used per participant. Panel presentations must include a description of the panel as well as title and abstracts of individual presentations and the basic biographical information (as listed above) of each presenter. The maximum of presenters per panel is four, in addition to a moderator. The fourth panelist could be a presenter or a commentator. We will review proposals in English, French, and Spanish and will create panels for presentations in those three languages. Panelists are responsible for providing translation if they wish their presentations to be translated. They also need to consider the time for translations as they prepare their panels.

We will consider submissions of two to three interconnected panels on key issues that relate to the main theme of the conference. These panels will take place at different days and times throughout the conference to be determined by the organizing committee. We also encourage panels that seek to establish dialogues among scholars, and artists, professionals, activists, and community leaders who are in dialogue with intellectual and scholarly work.

All presenters will be asked to pay conference fees and membership to the association as well. The membership and the registration forms will be posted on this website soon.

Membership and registration are non-refundable.

For more information, click PDF FILE here, or visit http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org/CPA_2012.html

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b) California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race (goes to NYC)

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3. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Cornelius Golightly Fellowship

The Program on Philosophy After Apartheid (PPAA) invites applications for the Cornelius Golightly Fellowship. Undergraduate students of Black African descent studying philosophy at a university in Africa, Latin America, or the Caribbean are eligible to apply. The fellowship will fully fund all costs—including travel to the USA, accommodations, and a small stipend—related to the successful applicant's participation in the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) from July 31 to August 7, 2011. Interested students should apply directly to PIKSI by *April 30, 2011, and indicate their desire to be considered for the Golightly Fellowship on the PIKSI student application form. (PIKSI applications are due by *April 15; however, the deadline for Golightly Fellowship applications is extended to April 30.)

Potential applicants who lack reliable access to the Internet may call or have an adviser e-mail or call Barb Edwards at the Rock Ethics Institute (814-863-0344) to request an application by post or by fax. You may also fax your request to 814-863-4837. Please indicate clearly your return fax information.

PIKSI is a project helmed by the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, in collaboration with the American Philosophical Association, Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, the Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholars Fund, and the Rock Ethics Institute. The project aims to encourage undergraduate students from under-represented groups to consider future study in the field of philosophy.

Cornelius Golightly was the first Black member of the philosophy faculty at a major, predominantly white U.S. institution of higher education. He joined the faculty of Olivet College in 1942, after a study by the Rosenwald Fund found only two blacks among the tenured faculty, in all fields, at all predominantly white U.S. colleges and universities. Professor Golightly went on to have a distinguished career, and to serve as a mentor and inspiration for succeeding generations of African American philosophers.

The Program on Philosophy After Apartheid aims to identify the challenges and opportunities of academic philosophy in post-apartheid settings, and to enhance the philosophical community's capacity to face these challenges and seize these opportunities.

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OCCUPATIONAL

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CULTURAL/SOCIAL

Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award

The Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University is looking for nominations for their 2012-2013 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award.  Academic books published in 2010 or 2011 are eligible. Please click here for more information and the nomination form.

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