Toggle Sidebar CFP: “Consent not to be a single being: Worlding the Caribbean” (Symposium) [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Here is a call for papers for the symposium entitled “Consent not to be a single being: Worlding the Caribbean” to be held in London UK and/or online (depending on what the future holds) in December 2021 (exact dates to be announced). The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 6, 2021, 6:00pm UTC. Description (from Transnational at Tate): Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational (HTRC:T), University of the Arts London (UAL) and Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange (TrACE) are pleased to announce a jointly organised symposium entitled “Consent not to be a single being: Worlding the Caribbean”. As part of the Worlding Public Cultures London Academy, the symposium takes the Caribbean and Caribbean thought as a starting point to reconsider global histories of art in the context of migration and environmental precarity. As a region wrought by the transhistorical forces of transatlantic slavery, industrialisation, settler colonialism and resource extraction on the one hand, and creolisation on the other, Caribbean modernity allows us to theorise larger patterns about potential forms of global modernity. Indeed, the region functions as a location from which to theorise key concepts developed by Caribbean thinkers, which provide a guiding structure for the symposium: