Audra A. Diptee will be holding the post of Professeure InvitĂ©e at the UniversitĂ© Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris (January – April, 2019).  While there she will be undertaking archival research, working on her next manuscript, as well as continuing work on a collaborative project with colleagues at the Centre International de recherches sur les esclavagesĚý(°ä±ő¸é·ˇł§°ä).

She has been invited to give research presentations at both CIRESC and the Atelier des Ă©tudes tranationales (ADET) in which she will be discussing early ideas on her current project.  Her presentation will be entitled “Imaginer l’horizon des pays du Sud sous l’angle de l’histoire, de la mĂ©moire et du pouvoir.”

While in Paris she will be offer a graduate seminar at the Institut des hautes études de l’Amérique latine (IHEAL) that addresses themes related to race, colonialism, and imperialism in Caribbean contexts.

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ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ David Austin:  David Austin is the author Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize for literature in English or Creole. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James, and has produced radio documentaries on the life and work of Frantz Fanon and C.L.R. James for CBC’s flagship program, Ideas.  He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy and Religion Department at John Abbott College.

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