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CPA Panel at NeMLA

Boston in March 2024! CPA will be offering a panel at the Northeast MLA meeting. Interested in participating? Here is our Call for Papers.

Recent Work of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is sponsoring a panel at the 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association  (NeMLA) conference that will be held in Boston, March 7-10. We invite CPA members to submit an abstract (200-250 words) that show cases their work on shifting the geography of reason. This panel will highlight works emphasizing South-to-South dialogue, Caribbean thought and cultural productions, decolonial studies, ethical epistemology, and theory as praxis.

Paper Topics Might Include:

  • Literary Practices and Social Activism: Theory Produced from the Caribbean

  • Decolonial Epistemologies in the Caribbean

  • Creolization of and Beyond Language

  • Displacing English as the Lingua Franca of Intellectual Projects

  • Decolonization in/as Praxis

  • Shifting the Geography of Reason

  • Creolizing the Canon

  • Conditions of Freedom and Unfreedom

Instructions: Submit your abstract no later than September 15 via email at vcrisost@ur.rochester.edu

Each abstract submission must include the following:

  • title of no more than 80 characters

  • An abstract of 200 to 250 words

  • brief bio

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Antirracismo y descolonización en El Caribe: de las resistencias cotidianas a las propuestas epistémicas

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