Following on conversations that animated Caribbean Digital events in 2014 and 2015, this third
public forum will engage critically with the digital both as practice and as a historicized societal
phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies
that are reconfiguring the social and geographic contours of the Caribbean. Conference
organized by Kaiama Glover and Alex Gil. For full agenda and list of participants please visit
Conference Agenda
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Panel 1: Digital Diasporic Religion
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Panel 2: Mapping Caribbean Concepts
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:45-3:00 p.m.
Panel 3: Tales from the Archive
3:15-4:30 p.m.
Panel 4: Multimedia Melting Pots
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Panel 5: Caribbean Praxis
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Closing Panel: Framing Digital Art
Conference co-sponsored by French Department, Program in Comparative Literature, and
Africana Studies Department at Barnard College, and by the Institute for Research in African
American Studies (IRAAS) and Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia
University. This conference is featured as part of “le Français dans tous ses états”, with support
from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.
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