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The newest issue of Small Axe (sx64) is now available!!
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A new episode of the JUST THREE podcast is here! In episode 6 of the JUST THREE podcast host, Catherine LaSota talks with writer, podcaster, and anthropology graduate student Alyssa A.L. James, who works as the graduate coordinator for the Black Atlantic Ecologies working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference. In this conversation, Alyssa talks about her research, the podcast she co-hosts with fellow Ph.D. student in Anthropology Brendane A. Tyne, and the fact that none of us are free until all of us are free. Alyssa A.L. James is a third-year anthropology Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is a 2020 SSHRC Doctoral Fellow whose research centers the commodification of the colonial past and the contemporary revival of coffee production in Martinique. She is an editorial assistant for Small Axe Journal, and co-host of the Black feminist anthropology podcast, Zora's Daughters Podcast #ColumbiaUniversity #CSSD #ImaginingJustice
Check out the episode here:
http://ow.ly/wNBJ50DwLB1
For the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is seeking an internationally recognised and authoritative humanities and social sciences scholar specialising in Southeast Asian and/ or Caribbean Studies who takes a wide-ranging approach to science and scholarship and who has an extensive network within and outside the scientific community, a keen eye for diversity and inclusiveness in the broadest sense, and excellent management capabilities.
Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News
Friday Nov 20th
1-3pm EST
To register for the event:
https://forms.gle/BU6aLvYBFkik3UJE9
The Jamaica Gaily News (JGN) was the publication of the first gay activist organization in the anglophone Caribbean, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM) in Jamaica. Join us as we celebrate the launch of the JGN archive at the Digital Library of the Caribbean. We will hear from the following panelists as they share their reflections on this moment in Jamaica’s history.
PANELISTS
Vidyaratha Kisson – Coordinator, Caribbean International Resource Network
Larry Chang – Co-Founder of GFM and JGN Editor
Donna Smith – GFM member and JGN columnist
Glen McDaniel – GFM member and JGN columnist
Jennifer Ffrench-Parker – Jamaican journalist
MODERATOR
Matthew Chin, Assistant Professor Women, Gender & S*xuality, University of Virginia
To view the collection:
https://dloc.com/icirngfm
For more information, please contact Matthew Chin at
[email protected]
Sponsors: Department of Women Gender & S*xuality and Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia
Small Axe 62
July 2020 is now available!
Small Axe 62 features essays by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Danielle Roper and Traci-Ann Wint, Fredrik Thomasson, and Simona Bertacco. Our special section, "States of Crisis: Disaster, Recovery, and Possibility in the Caribbean," is guest-edited by Ryan Cecil Jobson and features essays by Greg Beckett, Leniqueca A. Welcome, Sarah E. Vaughn, Adriana Garriga-López, Natasha Lightfoot, and Yarimar Bonilla. Cover artist René Peña doubles as our visual essayist with his work "Hacia adentro." The issue closes with a book discussion of Peter James Hudson's Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean by Charisse Burden-Stelly, Brenda Gayle Plummer and Peter James Hudson.
