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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations to our very own Vanessa Pérez-Rosario on her new book on Julia de Burgos!

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New Book Brings Pioneering Puerto Rican Voice to English-Speaking Readers

Professor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario offers the first comprehensive bilingual, English-Spanish collection of the poetry, essays, and letters of writer and activist Julia de Burgos.

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Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 18h

Pendant earring and just a few curls peaking out of the checkered headwrap. Detail from one of the many images of the #eighteenthcentury #caribbean made by Agostino Brunias and circulated by many others.

Print of woman wearing an earring and head wrap

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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 3d

Forthcoming (April 2026): The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - Edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam | Duke University Press | More information can be found here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia...

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Sep 11

‼️The latest dLOC newsletter is out! Check it out in English, French, and Spanish!

English: www.canva.com/design/DAGqq...

Français: www.canva.com/design/DAGyZ...

Español: www.canva.com/design/DAGyP...

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LACS-SHA @lacs-sha.bsky.social · 5d

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #histodons #caribbean

https://associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeting/

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 5d

Una Semana Más!

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 4

El Comité Ejecutivo de la ACH anuncia la 57ª Conferencia Anual se celebrará en la University of the West Indies Jamaica, del 24 a 28 de mayo de 2026. (El viernes 29 de mayo está prevista una excursión opcional.)

Convocatoria: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/es/reunion-a...

Reunión anual – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 5d

One more week! #skystorians

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 9

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean

Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 5d

Encore une semaine! #caraïbes #histoire #skystorians

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 6

Le comité exécutif de l’ACH sont heureux de vous annoncer que la 57e conférence annuelle se tiendra du 24 au 28 mai 2026 à l’Université des West Indies en Jamaïque. #caraïbes #histoire #skystorians

Appel a contributions: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/fr/reunion-a...

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Alexa Rodríguez @alexarodriguezphd.bsky.social · 6d

New publication! 🚨

My article looks at how, during the 1916 US occupation, Dominican education administrators negotiated US expectations by drawing on the expertise of their Latin American counterparts.

First 50 copies are free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZSMJ...

Modernising Dominican education: transnational exchanges in the Revista de Educación during the 1916 US occupation

During the eight-year US occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), US military officials and Dominican education administrators sought to transform the school system as a way to create a mo...

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Small book, big map! As part of his research on Huguenot-Indigenous American interactions, Maddock Fellow Dr Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social is looking at translations of Alexander Exquemelin's book on pirates. Apparently the pirates of the Caribbean used to hang out around Tortuga in Haiti

A large map of the Caribbean pull-out from a duodecimo book printed in 1686

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 7d

Small Axe: a caribbean journal of criticism publishes work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 77 is now online, view the full TOC: buff.ly/ARwiPeV
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 11d

The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 11d

Great opportunity to get supportive feedback!
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Call for Papers – The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 16d

Thursday 2nd October, 6.30pm: The Georgian House, Edinburgh, in conversation with Lisa Williams, founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association and Black History Walking Tours Edinburgh: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch: Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

Miranda Kaufmann in conversation with Lisa Williams

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 13d

Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.

www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...

Image of the fruit and seeds of the ackee tree in front of leaves.

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 16d

Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:

Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development

@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

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Caribbean Studies Seminar

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Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 18d

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean #histodons

Call for papers! […]

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 18d

Veinte días!

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 4

El Comité Ejecutivo de la ACH anuncia la 57ª Conferencia Anual se celebrará en la University of the West Indies Jamaica, del 24 a 28 de mayo de 2026. (El viernes 29 de mayo está prevista una excursión opcional.)

Convocatoria: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/es/reunion-a...

Reunión anual – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 18d

Vingt jours!

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 6

Le comité exécutif de l’ACH sont heureux de vous annoncer que la 57e conférence annuelle se tiendra du 24 au 28 mai 2026 à l’Université des West Indies en Jamaïque. #caraïbes #histoire #skystorians

Appel a contributions: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/fr/reunion-a...

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 18d

Twenty days left to apply!

Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 9

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean

Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 21d

Today! Our first CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26!

“The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s” with Andrew Williams, University of the West Indies (Mona)

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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 27d

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'.
In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant.
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The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England - Economic History Society

This blog post is based on a grant awarded to Dr Michael Bennett of the University of Sheffield and Dr Misha Ewen, now of the University of Sussex, by the Economic History Society through the Carneval...

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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 27d

New (August 2025): Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change – Patricia Northover, Richard L. Bernal, Hamid A. Ghany and Natalie Dietrich Jones | University of the West Indies Press | More information can be found here: www.uwipress.com/978976640982...

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