Institute for Gender and Development Studies

Semester 2  [Jan – May 2026]

IGDS Lunchtime Seminar 
The Asian Caribbean:
Unpacking Histories at Home and in Diaspora 
with Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Editor 
Joined by Nikoli Attai | Tarika Sankar | Sandrine Soukaï
Hosted by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein

Thursday 14 May, 2026  |  12:00 Noon
REGISTER ON ZOOM:
https://uwi.zoom.us/meeting/register/CgaIRN-URUaIPKkBN1vvhA#/registration

The Asian presence has long been felt in the Greater Caribbean – the result of colonial powers which necessitated labor on Caribbean plantations against the backdrop of empire and burgeoning capitalist structures, and later migrations as "free" migrants compelled by emigration schemes and economic opportunity. Therefore, to speak of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora is to also speak of these histories alongside other interconnected histories.

Discussing her edited volume, The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora. Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations (Bloomsbury 2026), Aleah Ranjitsingh highlights what it means to think about the Asian in the Caribbean and in the diaspora, and why these underrepresented histories are intrinsic to the region’s formations and multi-ethnic relations. She positions the volume as critical in the ways it broadens and expands notions of diaspora – an inherently feminist epistemology – and is joined by Nikoli Attai, Tarika Sankar and Sandrine Soukaï to discuss their chapters, their interdisciplinary approaches and the significance for the study of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora.
PART OF THE SERIES ON POST-INDENTURE FEMINISMS

A Teach-In with visiting Professor Emerita Richa Nagar. Agitating Regimes of Development and Expertise 
 Through Feminist Collaborative Praxis.
Tuesday 12 May, 2026 | 5:00—7:00 pm. UWI, IGDS,
59 Gordon Street, St. Augustine (New home). Hybrid, in-person at Gordon Street or online on Zoom.
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Call for Instagram Reels from the Student Community. On the theme Healthy Sexual Relations
For Sexual Assault Awareness Month
and the UWI Campus’ Sexual Harassment Campaign
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Sexual Assault Survivors Stand in collaboration with the IGDS
Panel Discussion in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2026 

25 Years Stronger: Justice, Healing and Prevention
A National Conversation on Sexual Violence
Thursday 9 April, 2026   |  2:00 to 4:00 PM
IGDS Conference Room and On-line on Zoom
EVENT REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/ijqPNqj19YP5nwVY7

Short Course
Critical Race Theory, Decolonization, and Same-Gender Loving with Dr. Wesley Crichlow, PhD
Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 March 2026. Online on Zoom
The IGDS in collaboration with visiting scholar Professor Wesley Crichlow, presents a dynamic short course exploring Critical Race Theory, decolonization, and same-gender loving perspectives. Grounded in a Black LGBTQ transdisciplinary approach, this course engages Critical Race Theory Intersectionality (CRTI), decolonial thought, epistemic justice, and socio-legal analysis to examine and challenge systems of heterocisnormativity, transmisogyny, patriarchy, ableism, and structural inequality. Participants will join an interactive learning space where theory meets lived realities, fostering critical dialogue on Black freedom, justice, and transformative social change.

Call for Submissions
Post-Indenture Feminisms: Mapping Consciousness,Challenge, and Change
Eds. Gabrielle Hosein and Lisa Outar

How has the history of Indian indentureship shaped feminist organizing across the world? Has it led to distinctive experiences, strategies, and challenges in sites of indenture as well as informed cross-ethnic, international, transoceanic, and diasporic feminist movements? Can post-indenture feminisms shed light on the legacies of indenture in contemporary praxes of solidarity?

Submissions can be in the form of scholarship, non-scholarly reflective essays, interviews, short fiction, poems, photography and painting, and photo essays. We welcome scholarly essays and interviews of 7000 words (including references); fiction, nonfiction, photo essays and creative reflections of 2000 to 5000 words; and submissions of poetry which include 2 to 3 poems.

Submission Deadlines and Symposium Dates:

• Submission of Abstracts deadline extended: June 30, 2026
• May 30, 2026: Abstracts due
• October 30, 2026: Full Essays Submitted
• November 19 – 20, 2026: Post-Indenture Feminisms Symposium (Online)
• February 2027: Submission of Full Manuscript
  Download the PDF - Call for Submissions

For more information, please email both
Gabrielle Hosein: gabrielle.hosein@sta.uwi.ed and Lisa Outar: leoutar@gmail.com