Event
Caribbean Conferences 2009
Event Date(s): 08/01/2009 - 31/12/2009
January 8-9, 2009
Mona, Jamaica
Conference on Local Governance and Intergovernmental Relations
SALISES and the Department of Government, UWI-Mona
Contact Dacia Leslie or Nyan Whittingham at lgovernanceconf09@gmail.com
January 8-10, 2009
St Ann's, Trinidad & Tobago
Conference on Urban Planning in the Southern Caribbean
"Critical Issues in Caribbean Urban Planning"
ACP/EU EduLink Project (UWI, U. of Guyana, U. of Suriname, U. of Amsterdam)
Website http://www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=612
Contact Asad Mohammed at asad.mohammed@sta.uwi.tt or Petal Joseph at
January 26-30, 2009
La Habana, Cuba
11th International Congress of Pedagogy
"Pedagogy 2009: Encounter for the Unity of Educators"
Ministry of Education of Cuba
Website http://www.pedagogia2009.rimed.cu
Contact C. Victoria Arencibia Sosa at vicky@dct.rimed.cu or
February 5-7, 2009
Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Conference: "Finding the Law: Micro States and Small Jurisdictions ...
Freedoms and Challenges of Working in a Small Jurisdiction"
Faculty of Law, University of the Netherlands Antilles
Website http://www.una.an
Contact Viola Heutger at viola.heutger@una.an
February 11-13, 2009
Brisbane, Australia
8th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies
AACS and Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Website http://www.cpe.qut.edu.au/conferences/2009/aacs/index.html
Contact Anne Hickling-Hudson a.hudson@qut.edu.au or Brian Hudson at
March 2-6, 2009
La Habana, Cuba
11th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and
Development Problems
Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba (ANEC) &
Asociación de Economistas de América Latina y del Caribe (AEALC)
Website http://www.eleconomista.cubaweb.cu and
http://www.globalizacion.cubaweb.cu
Contact María Isabel Córdova at misabel@anec.co.cu or anecnac@anec.co.cu
March 5-6, 2009
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
6th Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Program in Louisiana &
Caribbean Studies at LSU
"Louisiana and the Hispanic Circum-Caribbean in the Era of Globalization"
Louisiana State University (USA)
Website http://www.lsu.edu/lacsp
Contact Christian Fernández at cferna2@lsu.edu
March 11-14, 2009
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
42nd Annual SCOLAS Conference
"One World, Many Worlds: Composing the Americas"
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (USA)
Website http://www.baylor.edu/scolas
Contact scolas@umhb.edu
March 25-27, 2009
Cave Hill, Barbados
10th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social &
Economic Studies (SALISES)
"Navigating Risks and Building Resilience in Small States"
SALISES & UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/salises/conferences/callforpapers.htm
Contact salises@uwichill.edu.bb
April 17-19, 2009
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
3rd International Congress on Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean
"El Bolero en la Cultura Caribeña y su Proyección Universal"
Centro León, the Institute of Caribbean Studies (INEC) and the
Ministry of Culture
Website www.centroleon.org.do/congreso
Contact Darío Tejeda at inec97@yahoo.es or mic@centroleon.org.do
April 25, 2009
Warwick, England, UK
Conference on the Caribbean and its Diasporas
"Memory/Postmemory, Music & Identity: The Construction of a Diasporic
Black West Indian Experience"
Centre for Translation & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of
Warwick, Coventry, UK
Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
Contact Latasha Brown at LaTasha.Brown@warwick.ac.uk
May 7-9, 2009
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Conference: "The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba 1959-2009.
Understanding the Past, Considering the Future"
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Havana Univ., Boston Univ. &
Queen's Univ.
Website http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=node/138
Contact Catherine Krull at cuba09@queensu.ca
May 11-14, 2009
St François, Guadeloupe
41st Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH)
ACH and Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Campus de Fouillole
Website http://www.geocities.com/achbulletin
Contact Jacques Dumont at jacques.dumont@univ-ag.fr or Pedro Welch at
May 21, 2009
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
Cultural Studies Symposium
"The Child and the Caribbean Imagi/Nation"
Department of Liberal Arts, UWI-St Augustine
Contact Giselle.Rampaul@sta.uwi.edu, Jennifer.Rahim@sta.uwi.edu or
June 1-5, 2009
Kingston, Jamaica
34th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
"Centering the Caribbean in Caribbean Studies"
CSA
Website http://www.caribbean-studies.org
Contact Diana Thorburn at diana.thorburn@gmail.com
June 8-11, 2009
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
eLearn 2009 Conference
"Bridging the Gap through Innovative e-Learning Environments"
Instructional Development Unit, UWI-St Augustine
Website http://elearn2009.com
Contact Jessy Mitchell at elearn@sta.uwi.edu
June 22-25, 2009
Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago
12th Annual CTLPA Conference
"The Power to Imagine, the Courage to Act: New Directions in Caribbean
Higher Education Development"
Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association
Website www.ctlpa.org
Contact Chandar Gupta Supersad at Chandar.Supersad@sta.uwi.edu
June 22-26, 2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico
11th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering
American Association for Wind Engineering & Polytechnic University of
Puerto Rico
Website http://www.pupr.edu/11acwe
Contact Héctor J. Cruzado at hcruzado@pupr.edu or 11ACWE@gmail.com
June 23-25, 2009
Christ Church, Barbados
2009 Biennial Conference of the UWI Schools of Education
"Quality Education for All: Exploring Realities – Considering Options"
School of Education, UWI-Cave Hill
Website http://cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/education/Conferences/2009/index.htm
Contact Arthur G. Richardson at arthur.richardson@cavehill.uwi.edu
June 23-26, 2009
Mona, Jamaica
1st Caribbean Regional ITS Conference
"Innovation, Demand and Competitiveness in Telecommunications:
Implications for the Caribbean Region and Beyond"
International Telecommunications Society (ITS) and Mona School of
Business, UWI-Mona
Website http://www.mona.uwi.edu/msb/ITS%20Conference.asp
Contact msbsecretariat@uwimona.edu.jm
June …., 2009 [exact dates to be announced]
Bridgetown, Barbados
8th Conference on Sustainable Applications for Tropical Island States
Caribbean Solar Energy Society
Website: http://www.caribbeansolar.org/SATIS2009/index.htm
Contact James Husband at james@solardynamicsltd.com
July 1-3, 2009
Hull, England, UK
33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) & Wilberforce Institute for the
Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull (UK)
Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
Contact David Howard at david.howard@ed.ac.uk
July 2-3, 2009
La Habana, Cuba
International Conference: Thinking and Rethinking the Cuban Revolution
Part I: "Society and Culture"
University of Havana
Contact Antoni Kapcia at a.kapcia@nottingham.ac.uk
July 3-9, 2009
Santiago, Cuba
29th Annual Caribbean Festival "Feast of Fire"
Dedicated to Honduras and the Garífuna Culture
La Casa del Caribe & Cuban Ministry of Culture
Website http://www.cultstgo.cult.cu and http://www.casadelcaribe.cult.cu
Contact caribe@cultstgo.cult.cu or dirprov@cultstgo.cult.cu
July 4-7, 2009
Essex, England, UK
International Conference
"American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography"
University of Essex
Website http://www.essex.ac.uk/lifts/American_Tropics/conference/Conference.htm
Contact Lesley Wylie at lwylie@essex.ac.uk or Susan Forsyth at
July 19-26, 2009
La Habana, Cuba
23rd International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology
International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) & City
Historian's Office of Havana
Website http://museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk/IACA.WWW/iaca.htm
Contact Roger Arrazcaeta at eventos@viajessancristobal.cu or
August 12-15, 2009
Miami, Florida, USA
6th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA)
"Shifting the Geography of Reason VI"
CPA
Website http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/CPA.asp
Contact Lewis R. Gordon at caribphil@yahoo.com
September 7-8, 2009
Nottingham, UK
International Conference: Thinking and Rethinking the Cuban Revolution
Part II: "Politics, Ideology and Economics"
Department of Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham
Contact Antoni Kapcia at a.kapcia@nottingham.ac.uk
Compiled by: Peter Jordens, plancari@cura.net
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