We're pleased to announce that the programme for our annual conference, at ILCS on November 17-18, is now available: sfps.org.uk/sfps-annual-co… Registration form at the same link. Hope to see many of you there; many thanks to Christopher Hogarth and Jennifer Boum Make for organising!

We are back for our first event of AY 23-24! @CharlyVerstraet & Lucy Swanson will be in conversation with Prof. Nick Nesbitt to discuss his latest book, The Price of Slavery, Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (UVA Press, 2022), on Nov. 15 at 10AM EST/8AM MST/4PM France.

Kwazman Vwa will be back for one last conversation in 2023! We will discuss "Guadeloupe, Paysages Intranquilles" with Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Sylvain Duffard on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 1PM EST. You can register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/. We hope to see you there!

For our next convo, we received the generous support of Penn's Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies Dept and @WUSTL. Shout out to the institutions who support our work! Register here for our next event on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 1pm EST: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/

As we say goodbye to 2023, we have an annoucement to make! Next semester will be Syllabus Season with Kwazman Vwa. We will focus on recent scholarly works produced about the Caribbean. It's all about womxn, mothers, daughters, citizens and zombies.

Conversations will be held via zoom, in English, all at 1p.m. Registration links to come. Mark your calendars and stay tuned! We look forward to spending time with you in 2024. Be well! More info here: kwazmanvwa.com/2023/12/22/sav…

Bònn ane, bonne année, happy new year! We are delighted to kick things off with a convo with Tegan Zimmerman on her monograph, Matria Redux. The event will be held in English, via Zoom. Want to join us on January 19, 2024 at 11:00AM EST? Register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/

This is happening next: We'll be in conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson on her new book, White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship and Political Wayfaring in Haiti. Join us on Feb. 28th, at 1pm EST. You can register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/

This is kwazmanvwa! Tune in on February 28th at 1pm for our next conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson on her new book: White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti. Register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/.

⚡️ Chlordécone : l'Assemblée nationale reconnaît symboliquement la responsabilité de l'État dans l'empoisonnement des Antilles 📲💻 la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/chlordecone-l-…

"Work and Care in Crisis." The Medical Humanities Responds to Covid-19" A symposium organized by Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, Thursday, March 14, 9:30AM-1:00PM, ICC 462

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Our next roundtable discussion is coming up! We'll be in conversation with our very own Lucy Swanson to discuss her monograph The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction. Register for our next event on Monday, March 25 @ 1pmEST at: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/

Join the Lannan Center for the last Reading and Talk of the year featuring Canadian writer Dionne Brand on Tuesday, April 16 at 7PM! bit.ly/Dionne-Brand

Our last syllabus roundtable of the semester is this Wednesday (4/24) at 10:30 AM EST. We will be in conversation with Chris T. Bonner to discuss his new book, Cold War Negritude (Liverpool University Press, 2024). You can register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/.

#curtaindrop Kwazman Vwa wishes you all a beautiful and restorative summer! We will see you back here soon. Take good care!

The program for our SFPS 2024 Annual conference, The End(s) of Empire, is available, and it looks to be a fantastic two days. You can peruse it here: sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-ev…. So looking forward to these exchanges this November 15 and 16!

Bel bonjou tout moun! We are back! We hope you all have enjoyed the summer! We're excited to kick off the new academic year by welcoming Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a conversation about her work on September 10 at 11 AM EST. Register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/ @alexispauline

This month, we’ll have the immense pleasure to be in conversation with the great Gisèle Pineau. We will discuss her latest novel, La vie privée d'oubli (Philippe Rey, 2024). We hope you'll be able to join on October 23rd @ 11AM EST! Register here: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/

What a beautiful conversation we've had with the great Gisèle Pineau! We look forward to keep amplifying the important themes we addressed today: collective transatlantic history, trauma, matrilinearity, care and healing. The video will be live soon! Mèsi, tout moun!