Caribbean Studies Forum: Cultural Syncretism in the Caribbean

Date : 4th March 2018 to 4th March 2018

Place : Belize, Belmopan

Website :http://www.www.www

Contact Person:Seodial Frank Deena

Description:

The 2018 Caribbean Studies Forum will be hosted by the central campus of the University of Belize in Belmopan, Belize from March 4th - 11th, in a unique institutional collaboration between East Carolina University and the University of Belize. Among the international forum’s objectives are expanding awareness of Caribbean cultures, providing a platform for interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies research projects, connecting a diverse body of academics (North-South and South-South), and promoting the field of interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies in general. The theme of this international 2018 Caribbean Studies Forum is “Cultural Syncretism in the Caribbean.” We hope to encourage enthusiastic scholarly reflection on what Antonio Benítez-Rojo in The Repeating Island famously describes as the Caribbean’s “sociocultural fluidity,” “ethnological and linguistic clamor,” “historiographic turbulence,” its creolisation, supersyncretism, and heterogeneity. The conference takes a multi- and inter-disciplinary approach to the field and is open to institutionally-affiliated academics, independent researchers, research students, and the learned public.

Caribbean Studies Forum: Cultural Syncretism in the Caribbean will be held in Belmopan,Belize on date 2018-03-04

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 20th February 2018

Keynote Speakers :

Venue :University of Belize - Belmopan Campus, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize

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