Date: Monday 16th November, 2020

Time: 6pm - 7:30pm

From centreforthehumanities.org

Please join Small Axe editorial committee member Régine Michelle Jean-Charles for Île en île, a digital humanities archive documenting the cultures with especial focus on the literature of the world's Francophone islands. A pioneering addition to the French-speaking Internet, Île en île has served to present to a global audience works by authors far removed from a Parisian "center." Online since 1998, it is an extensive archive with biographies, bibliographies, excerpts of prose and poetry, and an audio and video archive.

Join scholars Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Françoise Lionnet, Thomas C. Spear, and Alex Gil who will address the transformations that have taken place in the last decades in the field of Francophone Studies as well as with the digital resources available to scholars, students, readers, and teachers.

Free and open to the public. Register here.

More on  Régine Michelle Jean-Charles:

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic specializing in francophone studies. She is an associate professor of French and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Her scholarship and teaching on world literatures in French includes Black France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an AM and PhD from Harvard University. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Mays Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Ohio State University Press, 2014) as well as numerous essays that have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as American Quarterly, French Forum, The Journal of Haitian Studies, Research in African Literatures, Palimpsest, and Small Axe. She is currently working on two book projects: one on literary ethics in contemporary Haitian fiction and another on Haitian girlhood in literary and visual texts.

Date: Thursday, 5th November 
Time: 3:00pm EST

From LACS Stony Brook:

The Greater Left/Greater Caribbean: Undertheorized Radical Movements in the Archipelago series presents 'Following the Revolution: The Transnational Activism of Blanca and Juan Moncaleano, 1911-1916,' a lecture by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, History, Dartmouth College. The event will be presented by Régulo Silva (PhD Candidate, Hispanic Languages and Literature).

Jorell Meléndez Badillo is the author of the forthcoming The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press) and Voces libertarias: Orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico (Ediciones CCC: Santurce, 2013; 2nd ed., Madrid: Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo, 2014; 3rd ed., Lajas, P. R.: Editorial Akelarre, 2015). 

See below for the Zoom details:

Zoom Meeting ID: 966 6689 1148

Passcode: 638249

Date: Friday, 30th October

Time: 10am EST

From the Institute of Jamaica:

The Institute of Jamaica hosts Heritage Fest in October of each month in celebration of “Heritage Month”. The event, celebrated under a theme of cultural significance highlights Jamaica’s treasures and brings together the community creating national pride and inspiring generations.

Join on the Institute of Jamaica's YouTube page

From the Dark Laboratory website:

In this virtual showcase, students from Tao Leigh Goffe’s Cornell seminar “Archipelagoes: A Digital Decolonial Lab” will present their final collaborative project a glossary of terms for decolonization. The glossary will center mother tongues of Indigenous language, creoles, pidgin, and patwas. Tao Leigh Goffe has contributed to Small Axe and sx salon, and will appear in the upcoming issue 63 of the journal. 

Register for the event here.

Dark Laboratory describes itself as "an engine for collaboration, design, and study of Black and Indigenous ecologies through creative technology. Co-founded by Tao Leigh Goffe and Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professors at Cornell University, the Dark Laboratory is a collective funded by generous sponsors including the Rural Humanities, a Mellon initiative at Cornell University. We are situated at the intersection of scholarship, artistic praxis to examine Indigenous forms of storytelling by centering local and global non-profit community institutions as educators." 

Date: Thursday, 22nd October

Time: 4:30pm EST

From Stony Brook Latin American and Caribbean Studies:

A conversation with contemporary queer Caribbean writers Yaissa Jiménez (República Dominicana), Johan Mijail (República Dominicana), Ángel Antonio Ruiz (Puerto Rico) y Juan de Dios Sánchez (Colombia)

Moderated by Mario Henao  (PhD candidate, Hispanic Languages and Literature)

Live stream: https://www.facebook.com/StonyBrookLACS

Stony Brook LACS has multiple events planned for the rest of the semester, which you can see here.

Columbia University's news page recently interviewed the hosts of Zora's Daughters, PhD anthropology students Brendane Tynes and Alyssa James, who also works as an editorial assistant for Small Axe. Read the Q&A here.

Date: Thursday, 22nd October

Time: 4pm EST

Amongst a line-up of other esteemed poets, sx salon creative editor Rosamond S. King will lead a close reading of Natalie Diaz’s “My Brother at 3 A.M.” for the Flow Chat's Foundation's fall/winter 2020 CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE season. Read more on the Flow Chart's Foundation's website.

Date: Thursday 24rd September
Time: 3:30PM on Zoom

Zoom meeting details:
https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/96003849213?pwd=YUdEc0JkcEtTKzZzclNHUHVheXM4UT09

Meeting ID: 960 0384 9213
Passcode: 605356
 

Screening: https://www.facebook.com/StonyBrookLACS/

Date: Monday, 28th September
Time: 7:30pm

Discover your next favorite New York reading series! The Reading Series of New York collective is excited to feature readers from five of New York’s finest reading series. Each curator will introduce a writer who epitomizes the spirit of their series – featuring Rosamond S. King (Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon), Stacie Evans (Big Words, etc.), Malcolm Tariq (Maracuyá Peach Reading Series), I.S. Jones (Angry Reading Series), Marwa Helal (Soul Sister Revue), and Rachel Eliza Griffiths (First Person Plural Reading Series)!

Image and text from the Brooklyn Book Festival's website

From Black Women Radicals' Twitter:

We are excited to launch our "Caribbean Feminisms Series", a four-part digital event series hosted & curated by Nana Yeboaa Afua Brantuo & Dr. Andrea N .Baldwin. The series pays homage to historical & contemporary Caribbean feminists & feminisms.

The first event of the series, "Digital Caribbean Feminisms", is on Thurs., Sept. 24 @ 4:30 PM ET. Panelists include: Dr. Tonya Haynes, Zainab Floyd, Dr. Angelique V. Nixon and Kenita Placide. 

Register here and read more here.