Cover of Small Axe journal, issue 77. The background is a heavily textured abstract painting in grayscale, with layered brushstrokes creating a rough, chaotic surface. In the top left corner, the journal’s logo reads “sx” in white within a box, with the number “77” in red on a square next to it. Below the logo is the text “small axe” in lowercase white letters.
Small Axe: a caribbean journal of criticism publishes work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 77 is now online, view the full TOC: buff.ly/ARwiPeV
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06.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.
03.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Book Launch: Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean
Miranda Kaufmann in conversation with Lisa Williams
Thursday 2nd October, 6.30pm: The Georgian House, Edinburgh, in conversation with Lisa Williams, founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association and Black History Walking Tours Edinburgh: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
28.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue.
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
01.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Caribbean Studies Seminar
Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
28.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean #histodons
Call for papers! […]
25.09.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Veinte días!
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Vingt jours!
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Twenty days left to apply!
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Today! Our first CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26!
“The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s” with Andrew Williams, University of the West Indies (Mona)
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
23.09.2025 07:15 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
New (August 2025): Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change – Patricia Northover, Richard L. Bernal, Hamid A. Ghany and Natalie Dietrich Jones | University of the West Indies Press | More information can be found here: www.uwipress.com/978976640982...
16.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on 23 September for the start of our CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26 @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s w/ Andrew Williams (University of the West Indies, Mona) shorturl.at/euVXU
15.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories
Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen
Next week, the Society is in Aberdeen to meet with historians and RHS members for the next in its visits programme for 2025.
The visit includes a public lecture, on Weds 17 Sept, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social given by our guest speaker, Prof Matthew J. Smith: bit.ly/3IjbMVj. All welcome to attend 1/2
12.09.2025 08:37 — 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
50th Annual Conference: uMkhonto weSizwe (Tip of the Spear): Black Studies as Uncompromising Liberation | National Council for Black Studies | Baltimore, MD | March 11-14, 2026 | Submission Deadline: December 22, 2025 | For more information, visit here: convention2.allacademic.com/one/ncbs/ncb...
09.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians
The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
09.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Le comité exécutif de l’ACH sont heureux de vous annoncer que la 57e conférence annuelle se tiendra du 24 au 28 mai 2026 à l’Université des West Indies en Jamaïque. #caraïbes #histoire #skystorians
Appel a contributions: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/fr/reunion-a...
06.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Thanks! Trying very hard to get us spooled up here! pls do recommend follows. :)
04.09.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Réunion annuelle – Association of Caribbean Historians
Le comité exécutif de l’ACH sont heureux de vous annoncer que la 57e conférence annuelle se tiendra du 24 au 28 mai 2026 à l’Université des West Indies en Jamaïque. (Une excursion facultative est prévue le vendredi 29 mai.)
Appel a contributions: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/fr/reunion-a...
04.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Reunión anual – Association of Caribbean Historians
El Comité Ejecutivo de la ACH anuncia la 57ª Conferencia Anual se celebrará en la University of the West Indies Jamaica, del 24 a 28 de mayo de 2026. (El viernes 29 de mayo está prevista una excursión opcional.)
Convocatoria: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/es/reunion-a...
04.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians
The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
04.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
Historian of the global Spanish empire living and working on Wurundjeri country. Author of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (2024).
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
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Puerto Rican Doctoral Candidate the Graduate Center, CUNY. Researches agricultural politics in Northern Ireland after Brexit.
Ph.D. Student in History and Jewish Studies at New York University. Interested in modern political history, labor, migration, diaspora, and religion.
The Dominican Voices Project is a bilingual digital archive that documents education and childhood in the Dominican Republic from 1920 to 1960. dominicanvoicesproject.com
2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Lecturer in Early Modern History | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | writing my third book
Historian of Latin America and the Atlantic World @ NYU Abu Dhabi || Emotions, Politics, Communication || Latest book: "The Age of Dissent" https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364814/the-age-of-dissent/
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History, NYU. Opinions are mine; facts and evidence belong to everybody. If I'm not in the library I probably […]
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Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Historian / writer / university lecturer.
Author of 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2024) https://cambridge.org/core_title/gb/613004
& lecturer @uclhistory
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Lecturer | Humanities Training | @ihr.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social & School of Advanced Study | Caribbean Seminars @ilcs.bsky.social | Book: 'Legal Identity, Race & Belonging' https://shorturl.at/JPH0j Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa #digitalidentity
Teaching English at the University of Edinburgh. Generally reading, writing, day dreaming. Writing and thinking about Edith Wharton, Nancy Cunard, modernism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, cosmopolitanism, & other people and things like that.
@ScholarsLab Director ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture
*Experimental/DH/library futures & community
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AmandaVisconti.com
Trying to watch more cricket than I write about. 🏏 Seeing two books through the presses. One is about Nancy Sharp [https://tinyurl.com/2736jaw4]. C.L.R. James and John Arlott both get a mention in the other one [https://tinyurl.com/465bnwzv].
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative. slaveryarchive.com
Collections Researcher at The National Archives. Environmental history and colonial botany
