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Celebrate the official launch of the Jamaica Journal online in the Digital Library of the Caribbean:

Jamaica Journal Historical Collection Online
November 15, 2009, 4-6pm
Florida International University; Green Library 220

Event will feature Jamaican writer Donna Weir-Soley, reading from her book, Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women’s Writings. Tour an exhibit featuring the Jamaica Journal with presentations from the Institute of Jamaica.

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Subscriptions to the Jamaica Journal and books by Weir-Soley will be available for purchase and signing.

Co-Sponsors Include: Air Jamaica, Jamaican Information Service, Jamaica Tourist Board, and the Latin American and Caribbean Center

This event celebrates the collaborate work of the Jamaica Journal and the Digital Library of the Caribbean. With the cooperation of the publisher, a long run of the Jamaica Journal from the holdings of Digital Library of the Caribbean partners has now been made available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean. These issues are now online here.

One issue of special note is that of Volume 10, No. 1 (1976), dedicated to the folk music of Jamaica. When originally distributed, this issue was accompanied by a vinyl record of examples of traditional Jamaican music. The supplemental recordings were converted to digital audio, and may be heard online. This serves as an example of how the Digital Library of the Caribbean can bring together information from different formats (print, audio, etc.) in one online repository.

Jamaica Journal Online: http://www.dloc.com/ufdc/?m=hdBI2&b=UF00090030

Digital Library of the Caribbean: http://www.dloc.com

Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age
September 15, 2009
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Graham Center 150
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th St.
Miami, FL 33199

The Digital Library of the Caribbean will host three speakers on the use of digital resources for Caribbean teaching and research.   The speakers will highlight how digital access to Caribbean research materials is opening new paths for both research and teaching.

• Dr. JoAnne Harris, Brittain Fellow, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Tech
• Dr. Nicola Foote, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, Florida Gulf Coast University
• Mr. Patrick Tardieu, Curator, Fathers of the Holy Spirit Library, Port au Prince, Haiti

Event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact 305.348.3008 or dloc@fiu.edu.

President Obama’s Presidential Inauguration can be viewed live on Tuesday on large screens–in addition to the many computer screens it will fill–at three of the UF Libraries:

• Library West in the InfoCommons (3rd floor)
• Education Library (limited seating)
• Large screen just outside the Journalism & Communications Library

I saw this announcement and it sounds great. I hope to make it (if finishing an article doesn’t prevent me), but it’s especially wonderful because this will definitely be a smart, aware, contextualized discussion of feminism like the kind found in Bitch Magazine articles which interrogate popular culture in a way not done elsewhere, or done as well or at least not as humorously.

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The University of Florida’s Center for Women’s Studies & Gender Research & The Friends of Wild Iris Books invite you to join a participatory discussion with Debbie Rasmussen, Publisher of Bitch: Feminist Responses to Popular Culture about how—and whether—feminism can become a transformative, justice-centered movement for social change.

• How can we drive attention to the power, privilege, and marginalization that continue to play out in feminist communities, and how can those of us with power and privilege become genuine and effective allies to those without it?
• How can we collectively create a feminist/ media/justice movement that doesn’t rely on white supremacy, class privilege, and economic exploitation?
• Can the idea of “feminism” shift to foreground an uncompromising, transformative commitment to systemic social change, or is it time to evolve to new language?

When: Friday, 3 October, 7:00 pm
Where: The Atrium at Ustler Hall,  UF Campus (UF Campus Map)