As part of its 34th cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 34—the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to this year’s Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Annual Memorial Lecture. Now in its 8th iteration, the memorial lecture will be delivered by Dr. Rhoda Reddock (Professor Emerita, Gender Social Change and Development, The University of the West Indies-St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Dr. Paul Latortue (Business Administration, UPR) will serve as commentator.
The lecture, “Welcome to Paradise: Neoliberalism, Violence and the Social Gender Crisis in the Caribbean,” will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:30pm in Room 238 of the Ramón Emeterio Betances Building (REB 238), College of Social Sciences, UPR-RP. [This event is free and open to the public, with simultaneous transmission via https://www.youtube.com/@iec2. Also see fundraising note below.]
Description: This presentation provides an intersectional analysis of the emergence of neo-liberalism and its multi-faceted impact globally, with special reference to the Caribbean region. It highlights the social and gendered impact of neoliberal global restructuring on the lives of Caribbean peoples drawing a parallel with similar developments over the 20th Century. It challenges the current global political orthodoxy characterized by the ‘Washington consensus’ by linking its many facets and the ways in which they all facilitate and reinforce each other. In particular, it seeks to re-introduce ‘the social’, ‘the gendered’ and the ‘global political economy’ into discourses on the endemic violence and social deterioration confronting the region. In so doing it interrogates the social, economic and gendered determinants of contemporary social inequalities and violence and the criminal justice response that has predominated.
Dr. Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, acting director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies (UPR) writes: The establishment of the Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Annual Memorial Lecture was accompanied by the creation of the Lewis Memorial Fund with seed contributions from the Lewis Family and over 50 colleagues and friends, many of you included. The Fund has allowed us to organize seven lectures from 2014 to 2023 and support the academic and intellectual advancement of Caribbean Studies at the UPR.
To achieve our goals and continue our agenda, we want to invite you to be a sponsor and support the Lewis Conference initiative by making a monetary contribution in this link, under Special Project #8 “Caribbean Studies” [Proyectos Especiales > Estudios del Caribe]. Should you prefer to make your contribution directly to the ICS via check please make it payable to Universidad de Puerto Rico and mail it directly to our address:
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, Acting Director
Institute of Caribbean Studies
University of Puerto Rico
9 Ave. Universidad – Suite 901
San Juan, PUERTO RICO 00931-2529
Your contribution will be deposited in the ICS donors account for the Lewis Memorial Lecture, and it will be recognized appropriately in our conference materials and, if you wish so, you or your representative will be recognized during the event. We are thankful for any contribution, big or small.
For more information contact us at: iec.ics@upr.edu.
Also see similar posts at https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/8th-gordon-k-sybil-lewis-annual-memorial-lecture/ and https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CARIBBEAN-STUDIES;c7d5cc30.2403
As part of its 34th cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 34—the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to this year’s Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Annual Memorial Lecture. Now in its 8th iteration, the memorial lecture will be delivered by
