Caribbean Studies Association's 40th annual conference

The Caribbean Studies Association's 40th annual conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 25-29, 2015, at the Hilton Hotel (New Orleans Riverside), 2 Poydras Street, New Orleans

Fittingly set in what is called the “northernmost Caribbean city," this milestone conference will feature five days of presentations based on the theme: “The Caribbean in an Age of Global Apartheid: Fences, Boundaries, and Borders—Literal and Imagined.”

Plenary and round-table discussions will address the question of an autochthonous Caribbean by connecting the unique Creole cultures of New Orleans and Southwest Louisiana with Africa and the Caribbean, especially the Francophone Caribbean (the Antilles and Haiti) and Cuba.

The distinctive Creole cultures of New Orleans and Southwest Louisiana are unique because of Louisiana’s colonial history under three different masters:  Spanish, French and Anglo-American.  Its subsequent three-tiered racial, class and culture structure, is found nowhere else in America.

We predict that this year's conference will draw up to 600 scholars, activists and other allied professionals from all over the world.  The local planning committee includes New Orleans artists and culture workers as well as faculty from Tulane, Dillard, Xavier, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge).

Scholars and students from a variety of academic disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences) and related professions are welcome to submit panel and paper proposals.  For the call for papers and more information,

www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org