Open Campus Conferences
Caribbean Conferences
August 2009 – April 2010
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
August 16-18, 2009
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
11th Annual Caribbean Commercial Law Conference
Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
Website www.commerciallawworkshop.com
Contact Gemma Lewis at gal@caribsurf.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
October 6-8, 2009
St Michael, Barbados
6th Annual CANQATE Conference
"Balancing Quality and Quantity: The Global Challenge for Tertiary Education"
Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education &
Barbados Accreditation Council
Website www.bac.gov.bb/canqate_2009/index.php or http://www.canqate.org
Contact the Secretariat at canqateconf2009@bac.gov.bb
October 14-16, 2009
La Habana, Cuba
1st Congress on Health and Disasters
Cuban Ministry of Health, Latin American Center for Disaster Medicine,
Havana Medical University and the National School of Public Health
Website http://www.sld.cu/sitios/desastres/temas.php?idv=24362
Contact María Cristina Reyes Fernández at cristy@clamed.sld.cu or
Llunisis Gómez Miranda at llunisis@clamed.sld.cu
October 15-16, 2009
Schoelcher, Martinique
3rd International Symposium of Caribbean Young Researchers
“Diasporas of the New World”
Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Campus de Schoelcher
Contact Lionel Davidas at lionel.davidas@martinique.univ-ag.fr or
Frédéric Lefrançois at frederic-lefrancois@wanadoo.fr or
flefranc@martinique.univ-ag.fr
October 15-17, 2009
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
2nd Symposium of Critical Practices in Caribbean Cultural Studies
“Rethinking the Mangrove”
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Website http://academic.uprm.edu/manglar
Contact mangroveuprm@gmail.com
October 17-18, 2009
Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
International Conference: “Quality of Psychiatric Care in the Caribbean”
Klinika Capriles and the Netherlands Antilles Foundation for Clinical
Higher Education (NASKHO)
Website http://www.naskho.org
Contact naskho@sehos.an
October 20-21, 2009
Mona, Jamaica
4th Caribbean Child Research Conference
UNICEF, SALISES, Caribbean Child Development Centre (CCDC) and others
Webpage http://www.unicef.org/jamaica/promoting_child_rights.html
Contact Kerry-Ann Lewis at kalewis@unicef.org
October 29-31, 2009
Mona, Jamaica
Conference: “Qualitative Research for Caribbean Development”
School of Education, UWI-Mona
Contact Anthia Muirhead at qic.soe@gmail.com or Carol Gentles at
carolgentles1@yahoo.com
November 2-3, 2009
Lisboa, Portugal
Conference: “Going Caribbean! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art”
Centre for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Literature, University of Lisboa
Website http://www.comparatistas.edu.pt/actividades/2007-2010/act-22---going-caribbean.html
Contact Caribbean@fl.ul.pt
November 5-7, 2009
Roseau, Dominica
12th Annual Eastern Caribbean Island Cultures Conference
“The Islands in Between: Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the
Eastern Caribbean”
University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), UWI-Cave Hill, UWI Open Campus Dominica
Website http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/islandsinbetween.htm
Contact Mervyn C. Alleyne, Elena Lawton or Dannabang Kuwabong at
islandsconference@gmail.com
November 10-13, 2009
Georgetown, Guyana
41st Annual Caribbean Monetary Studies Conference
“Building Financial Sector Resilience in the Caribbean”
Caribbean Centre for Money & Finance (UWI) & Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
Website http://www.ccmfuwi.org
Contact CCMF@sta.uwi.edu
November 10-15, 2009
St John’s, Antigua & Barbuda
36th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks (CAIB)
“Identifying and Leveraging Opportunities for Growth in a Global Recession”
CAIB
Website http://www.caibinc.info
Contact CAIB@candw.lc
November 12-14, 2009
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
21st Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association
“New Ecologies: Actualizing Global Contributions and Development in Haiti”
Haitian Studies Association
Website http://www.haitianstudies.umb.edu
Contact Guerda Nicolas at hsa@umb.edu
November 16-19, 2009
Madrid, Spain
International Congress: “The Myth of the Caribbean Woman”
YoSoyElOtro, Grupo Koré de Estudios de Género, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Website www.yosoyelotro.org
Contact Deborah Elías at deborahelias@yosoyelotro.org
November 19-20, 2009
Cave Hill, Barbados
5th Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium
“Conversations V: Theories of Knowledge”
Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies,
Cave Hill Campus
Website http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/Philosophy/ChiPS
Contact Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo at
frederick.ochieng-odhiambo@cavehill.uwi.edu
December 8-11, 2009
Bridgetown, Barbados
1st International Tourism Conference
“Beyond the Boundary: Creating New Epistemologies in Tourism”
Department of Management Studies, UWI-Cave Hill, and Univ. of Surrey (UK)
Contact Sherma Roberts at sherma.roberts@cavehill.uwi.edu
January 12-15, 2010
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
Conference honoring Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott: “Interlocking Basins
of a Globe”
Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education,
UWI-St Augustine
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=728
Contact Jean.Antoine@sta.uwi.edu, Paula.Morgan@sta.uwi.edu or
Barbara.Lalla@sta.uwi.edu
February 25-27, 2010
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
International Conference: “The Francophone Caribbean and North America”
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone
Studies, Florida State Univ.
Website http://www.fsu.edu/~icffs/events.html
Contact icffs@mailer.fsu.edu
March 1-5, 2010
La Habana, Cuba
12th 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 18-20, 2010
San Juan, Puerto Rico
7th Quest for Global Competitiveness Conference
“Time for Change: Academia Making the Connection with the Global
Corporate World”
School of Business Administration, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
Website http://quest.uprrp.edu
Contact Yvonne Huertas at questconference@uprrp.edu
March 24-26, 2010
St Augustine, Trinidad &Tobago
11th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social &
Economic Studies (SALISES)
“Turmoil and Turbulence in Small Developing States: Going Beyond Survival”
SALISES & UWI-St Augustine
Website http://sta.uwi.edu/salises
Contact Francine Alleyne at the.salises@sta.uwi.edu
April 20-24, 2010
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
12th International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women
Writer and Scholars (ACWWS)
ACWWS & Louisiana State University
Website www.acwws.org
Contact caribbean@lsu.edu
April 22-24, 2010
Turks & Caicos Islands
55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC)
CHRC
Website www.chrc-caribbean.org
Contact chrc@chrc-caribbean.org or chrc@trinidad.net
Further ahead
June 1-4, 2010
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
40th Anniversary Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies
Website http://www.can-latam.org
July 7-9, 2010
Southampton, England, UK
34th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk
August 9-13, 2010
Cave Hill, Barbados
18th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL)
Website http://www.scl-online.net/callforpapers2010.html
October 21-23, 2010
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
9th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA)
Website http://www.puertorican-studies.org
Compiled by: Peter Jordens, plancari@cura.net
