A meeting designed to mull over from a number of academic and cultural disciplines will be held March 26-29 in several venues of the Madrid Community. The topics will deal with the relationship among the powers, genres and resistance, the public and private conceptions in terms of media exposure, the influence of Caribbean communities in the promotion of civil liberties and rights, and role played by women in the room-making process within the diaspora, as well as proposals of public intervention.
During this four-day event, there’ll be lectures and roundtable discussions. What’s more, a theoretical study on the Caribbean will be presented and there will be a Meeting of Caribbean Artists based in Spain, plus a video-art presentation from the region.
The roundtable discussions will hinge on the exchange of ideas, mutual knowledge and the building of strong networking for the sake of work and creation on the basis of common objectives. Such topics as Genre Cartography in Social-Cultural Management in the Caribbean and its Diaspora (featuring guests from the Spanish Cultural Centers in the Caribbean region and Mayra Santos-Febres, a writer and director of the Word Festival in Puerto Rico); Caribbean Art Cartography in its Spanish Diaspora (featuring Caribbean fine artists living in Spain) and Genre Cartography within the Diaspora: Associationism, immigration and Visualization (feminists, immigrants and the like to discuss on the situation of the diaspora in the current cartography of both Madrid and Spain).
The congress’s general coordinator is Jesus del Valle Velez (Puerto Rico- Spain) and Dagmary Olivar Graterol (Venezuela-Spain), supported by Dr. Adriana Lopez-Labourdette (Cuba-Switzerland) and Carlos Garrido Castellano (Spain).
The Kore Group of Genre Studies at the Carlos III University in Madrid is acting as institutional coordinator. In fact, this call is seen as a continuation of activities carried out over the past two years by this institution and by YoSoyElOtro, the Caribbean Cultural Association in Spain, focused on the assessment of cultural processes linked to Caribbean women in the Caribbean region and its diaspora.
The purpose of this meeting banks on the creation of a research network based on genre matters within the Caribbean context, as well as the building of an integration framework aimed at giving more media hype to Caribbean communities living in Spain by paying closer heed to cultural interchange processes related to genre issues.
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