• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 27 / 2010

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Research program, 2010

The Caribbean Study Center from the Casa de las Américas, together with the Arts and Languages Faculty from the University of Havana, are announcing for the second occasion the Texturas Caribeñas (Caribbean Textures) research program, to take place from September 2010 until December 2011.

This time the program is announced in the name of one of the most representative symbols of the Caribbean culture: Caliban. From 17th century in Europe to our days in the Caribbean; from theater to poetry, narration, essays, visual arts and the movies; from chronic to testimony; from the Caribs to the current social minorities; from cannibalism to cultural anthropophagi; from character to metaphor; from storm to hurricane; the Caliban from Shakespeare´s work has always been related to the history, culture and thoughts of our people.

For the Caribbean, Caliban has not just generated a large bibliography, but it has also been a constant stimulus for every art. Some of the most important voices who have gotten closed to Caliban, together with some new ones have been called here for these and many other reasons. They all keep reflecting from their art or thoughts on this symbol and the themes that relate them to the Caribbean: cultural resistance, exile, the task of the intellectuals, marginalization, anti-colonialism, language as a weapon and regional integration. Among the intellectuals who will be recognized and looked into by this research program will be Aimé Césaire, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Maryse Condé, George Lamming, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Joel James Figarola, Flora Lauten, Raquel Carrió, Roger Toumson and Carlos Jáuregui. Lead by the reflections of these artists or writers, there will be sessions dedicated to the Caliban theme in essay writing, visual arts, music, cinema and stage arts.

This second edition of Texturas Caribeñas also aims for a spatially and temporally itinerant research program that promotes the interest for our region from an integration perspective starting from meaningful confluences and cultural crossings (written, visual, musical or in any other way in which they might be manifested in the Caribbean reality). Therefore there will be propitiated a closer relationship in the relations with the announced theme from events and voices with a varied character. That is why there will be undertaken conferences on collateral themes, such as cartography and European imaginary on the Caribbean, literary representations of the monster, literature in the exile and indigenous cultures and there will be also scheduled other collateral actions, such as exhibitions, audio-visual samples, concerts, theater representations and plastic arts workshops.

As it was the case in the previous edition, participation in all of the activities of Texturas Caribeñas is open, but those interested have the choice to enter it as a Free Course or Postgraduate Course. In this last case, people should sent to the e-mail address [email protected] and until Monday, September 27, the following personal information:

· Name and surname
· Study course: Free Course or Postgraduate Course
· ID. Number
· Personal address
· E-mail
· Educational level
· Work place

You could also contact us through our phone number 838 2710

Those who choose the postgraduate modality, in order to make their registration effective should present a photocopy of their degree title in the Caribbean Study Center from the Casa de las Américas, or scanned it and send it through e-mail.

All of those who have been registered should attend to no less than eight sessions to earn their participation diploma. Apart from this demand, in order to evaluate the postgraduate course there should be presented a final paper that relates in some way the theme of the program with their professional or research interests.

The activities of the program should take place monthly and even though it will be specified on the way, there have already been announced the first five month work:

September 30

- 2:00 p.m. reading room from the José A. Echeverría library: Opening of the course. Bibliographic exhibition on Caliban. There will be exhibited magazines related to the theme, as well as editions and translations of important authors such as George Lamming, Aimé Césaire and Roberto Fernández Retamar.
- 3:00 p.m., Manuel Galich room: A tribute to Roberto Fernández Retamar through the panel El Caliban de 1971, tres miradas (Caliban from 1971, three sights), by the researchers and essay writers Ambrosio Fornet, María Elena Capó and Félix Julio Alfonso. The book Todo Caliban will be sold.
- 4:00 p.m., Presentation of the book Nuestro símbolo: Caliban by Roberto Fernández Retamar, made by the Vigía Editorial House in a special editions for the eightieth birthday of the author.

October:
- Sessions dedicated to Caliban and Barbados. Important researchers will be present to reflect upon the thoughts of E. Kamau Brathwaite and George Lamming on occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his book Los placeres del exilio (Pleasures of exile).

November:
- Author week dedicated to Maryse Condé. A special look into her work Histoire de la femme cannibale.

December:
- Panel Caliban en el pensamiento latinoamericano y caribeño del siglo XXI (Caliban in the Latin American and Caribbean thinking from the 21st century), made up by important Social Sciences specialists within an international event organized by the Caribbean Cathedra from the University of Havana.

January:
- Colloquium Caliban en la obra de Joel James Figarola (Caliban in Joel James Figarola´s work), in collaboration with the Caribbean House from Santiago de Cuba.

Source: Cubarte