Caribbean Studies RFG

27 Jan

Research Focus Group Talk: Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson

The Creative Critical Writing Initiative (housed in the English Department) welcomes Dr. Nalo Hopkinson for an upcoming talk, “Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson.” Nalo Hopkinson is an author, Professor of Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia, and the 2021...

15:21 /

16 Mar

Research Focus Group Film Screening: Does Your House Have Lions

"An archive of friendship – near, far and displaced." Filmed over six years, following Delhi-based poet, teacher and activist vqueeram and a group of friends living together in New Delhi, Does Your House Have Lions (48 min., 2021) invites us into a world of queer...

10:58 /

05 Jul

Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group

The Caribbean is the vortex of early capitalism, social identity, and cultural anxiety. It is the site of first colonial contact, conquests, institutions, and taxonomies. Therefore, we gather under the urgency of unpacking the spacetime ripple effects of this global capitalist accumulation, what it has...

16:05 / Research Focus Groups