Overview
The theme of the twelfth edition of Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) centres on interrogating Caribbean philosophical and intellectual traditions. In this endeavour, we seek papers exploring the variety of philosophical and intellectual issues within, or relevant to, the Caribbean region. We are interested in papers that examine the theoretical foundations of issues pertinent to the Caribbean: issues such as those pertaining to investigation of identity, race, and social change; the question of diaspora; slavery, colonialism, and reparations; aesthetics and ethics; religion, spirituality, and culture; gender and sexuality; regionalism and integration; ramifications of CSME. Hosted by the The Symposium is hosted by Department of History and Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
Keynote Speaker
Paget Henry is Professor of Sociology and African Studies at Brown University. His specializations are Dependency Theory, Caribbean Political Economy, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Art and Literature, Africana Philosophy and Religion, Race and Ethnic Relations, Poststructuralism, and Critical Theory. He has served on the faculties of S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, The University of the West Indies (Antigua) and the University of Virginia. He is the author of Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life Of V.C. Bird, (Hansib 2009), Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (Routledge, 2000), Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua (Transaction Books, 1985), and co-editor of C.L.R. James's Caribbean (Duke UP, 1992) and New Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy, and Development (Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983). He has published more than fifty articles, essays, and reviews.
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