New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 8 - 12 April 2009

Between the 8th and 11th of April, the National Association of Chicano/Chicana (Mexican-American) Studies will have their annual national academic conference in New Brunswick. This is the first time the Association brings its meeting of 500+ people to the Northeast! It is also the association’s fortieth anniversary. The Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, with the support of the SAS Dean’s office and other units, will be the local host for this conference.

For more information, please visit http://www.naccs.org/naccs/General_Info_EN.asp?SnID=941918868.

Korea, Japan, and the United States

International Student Conferences (ISC) is a non-profit organization which supports student-run educational and cultural exchange programs for university students from the United States, Japan, and Korea.  Currently ISC facilitates the Japan-America Student Conference (JASC), the oldest student-run cultural exchange between the US and Japan, beginning in 1934 and the Korea-America Student Conference (KASC), which launched in the summer of 2008.

Application materials for 2009 programs are now available online (http://www.iscdc.org).  For more information, please contact the ISC office via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

15 January to 15 February 2009
Cuban Art Space, 231 West 29th Street, #401 New York, NY 10001

On January 1, Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in Santiago de Cuba, where it all started 55 ½ years ago with the rebel attack on Fort Moncada. That anniversary reminds us of the longest running unresolved conflict between the United States and a neighbor.

What is it about this small island of not quite 12 million human beings that drives U.S. administrations crazy? And is there light at the end of the tunnel with the new president-elect? We at the Center for Cuban Studies hope so.

To commemorate the anniversary and this history of conflict between our two countries, the Center for Cuban Studies is dedicating its Cuban Art Space to a graphic presentation of these 50 years,  with photographs, posters, newspapers and magazines and books from our own extensive collection. Photographs by Raul Corrales, Alberto Korda, Liborio Noval, Roberto and Osvaldo Salas, Lee Lockwood, Constantino Arias and others will be shown alongside Cuba's great political posters and covers of Look, Life, Time and Newsweek; cartoons from Cuban and U.S. publications, screaming headlines from the  NY Post, the Daily News, The New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and other U.S. newspapers, covering the Bay of Pigs, the missile crisis, the Mariel boatlift, the battle over Elian, Fidel Castro's step back from power – and more.

The Cuban Revolution inspired apparently the best and the worst in both U.S. and Cuban journalists, artists, filmmakers and photographers. This exhibit will give just a taste of the millions of words and photographs, film and graphics that have accompanied the long march of the revolution. Hopefully, the exhibit will open the mind's eye to the absurdity of U.S. policy toward Cuba, and provide a few more nails in the coffin of that policy.

On January 23, also as part of the 50th commemoration, a 10-day festival of documentaries about Cuba, sponsored by the Center for Cuban Studies, will screen at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem (www.mayslesinstitute.org).

For further information, please contact:
Center for Cuban Studies
Phone: 212-242-0559
Hours: Tuesday - Friday (11:00 AM to 7:00 PM), Saturday (12:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
Web: www.cubanartspace.net

Yale University, 27-28 March 2009

Keynote Speakers:
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
Eunice Njeri Sahle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Yale Council on African Studies and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies invite submissions of papers by graduate students, advanced scholars and policy practitioners on the topic of "neo-imperialism" and its human impacts in post-independence Africa. Interested participants should send a one-page résumé and an abstract of approximately 300 words to Jason Warner at  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  by January 31, 2009.

University of Texas at Austin, 15-17 April 2010

Inspired by the upcoming bicentenary of Mexican independence, the symposium aims to generate dialogue among scholars from a variety of disciplines working on processes of independence, decolonization, and the reconfiguration of territorial and social borders that such processes generate. We encourage proposals that adopt an explicitly synoptic approach to the interactions between metropolitan powers and colonial/nationalist societies. We welcome proposals from scholars working on the following broad problem areas:

1. Global and local dynamics of "first wave" independence movements and decolonization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (e.g. United States, Haiti, Spanish America);
2. Nineteenth century decolonization (e.g. Ottoman successor states, Brazil, Cuba);
3. National liberation movements and decolonization in the twentieth century.

We are interested in bringing into dialogue a variety of approaches and themes which might include ethnic identities and anti-colonial movements, postcolonial state formation, and economic development of postcolonial states.

Interested scholars should submit an abstract of 200-500 words and a one-page CV to Professor Susan Deans-Smith, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by March 1, 2009. Participants will be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses.

For further information about the Institute for Historical Studies, its programs, and fellowships, please visit www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies .

Warsaw, Poland, 1 June to 31 July 2009

The summer internship program is organized by Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland includes 25-30 hours of internship per week, credited academic and internship seminars and Polish language course.

Application & Deadline
Graduate and Undergraduate students can apply. Civitas Summer Internship Program has a rolling admission and interested applicants are invited to submit their applications to the program anytime until March 16, 2009.  Application forms are available at http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/apply/HowtoApply.html

Contact
Inquiries about the program can be directed to Olena Tregub, Executive Director, Global Educational Leadership, via email, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or via telephone, 646 670 6089.

Dakar, Senegal, 6-27 July 2008

The sponsoring institutions are CODESRIA and the American Political Science Association. Language of the workshop will be in French, mostly, but some English will be used. For more information, please click here.

3-4 July 2008, Amsterdam
Ethnographies of Gender and Globalization

Call for panels and papers

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