June 20-22, 2014
Charles Town, Portland, Jamaica

The Sixth Annual Charles Town International Maroon Conference will be held under the theme “Maroons, Indigenous Peoples, and Indigeneity.” The Conference invites papers that examine themes related to the existence and survival of Maroons and Indigenous Peoples and which explore the multifaceted relationships between place and tradition in communities around the globe.

Held in the Maroon community of Charles Town surrounded by Jamaica’s Blue Mountains, this interdisciplinary conference will explore issues, values, and practices of Maroons and Indigenous Peoples as well as ideas about marronage and indigeneity to consider the ways they have endured, transformed, and resonated in the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, South America, Europe, the United States and Africa. The conference offers a unique combination of cultural events as well as scholarly panels across a wide range of fields including (but not limited to) history, linguistics, art, literature, film, sociology, ethnography, ethnomusicology, geography, legal studies, gender studies, post-colonialism and cultural studies.

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words or inquiries tomaroonconference@gmail.com.

Issues to consider might include but are not limited to:

Land Rights
Cultural Rights
Treaty Rights
Territoriality

Sovereignty
Representation
Language and Literature
The Tainos and the Maroons
Traditional Leadership
Identity

Customary Laws and Legal Pluralism
Space/Place

Sustainability

Dispossession and landlessness

Reparations
Cultural heritage economics
Tourism

DNA

Education