VISCO

Virgin Islands Studies Collective

HLSCC Creative Writing Fiction Master Workshop

back to our projects HLSCC Creative Writing Fiction Master Workshop This workshop focuses on the craft of fiction writing in order to develop skills in story writing or novel writing. Particular focus will be on completing a full narrative arc, developing believable characters, and building a meaningful setting about and for the Virgin Islands. Students […]

Decolonial Interdisciplinary Collaborations and Archival Interventions

back to our projects “Decolonial Interdisciplinary Collaborations and Archival Interventions” Panel discussion, Stanford University (virtual), March 2011. This panel discussion was organized by the African and African American Studies Program for a series of lectures entitled The Virgin Islands as Necro-World: Race and America’s Colonial Problem. The series was designed to situate the U.S. Virgin […]

What is a Virgin Islander?

back to our projects “What is a Virgin Islander?” Bajo El Sol, St. John, Sabroso Restaurant, St. Thomas, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix; April 2019 In 2019, VISCO held community forums on each of the major islands in the US Virgin Islands. The forums engaged questions around idnetity, history, education, and cultural development. […]

We Carry It Within Us

back to our projects We Carry It Within Us Panel Discussion at the Schomburg Center, NY, May 2019. The Lapidus Center presented a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film “We Carry It Within Us”. This film explores the collective memory of and differing perspectives on the shared slavery and colonial histories between Denmark […]

The Body of the Virgin Islands Woman

back to our projects “The Body of the Virgin Islands Woman: Queens, Debutants, and Virgins” Panel Discussion, St. Thomas Graphics Collection (virtual), June 2021 https://youtu.be/tY6L4UrxhZU?si=VUT_Mpo_5wopJQQC Drawing on images from the St. Thomas Graphics Collection, the members of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective discuss the representations of Virgin Islands women in carnival, debutante balls and tourist […]

Ancestral Queendom

back to our projects “Ancestral Queendom: Reflections on the Prison Records of the 1878 Fireburn on St. Croix, USVI (formerly Danish West Indies)” Published in NTIK, February 2020. This article is written in what can be described as the “post-centennial” era, post 2017, the year marked by the 100th anniversary of the sale and transfer […]

Under the Baobab

back to our projects Under the Baobab Panel Discussion at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference at the University of the Virgin Islands, June 2023 The essay, “Under The Baobab: the Memory Routes and Contested Histories of a St. Croix Tree”, was shared. In this collaborative essay the Virgin Islands Studies Collective used a large baobab […]

dECOlonial Feelin

back to our projects dECOlonial feelin The dECOlonial Feelin Symposium, hosted by Emory University and Clark Atlanta University, will take place in Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. from September 19-21, 2024. Thursday and Saturday’s activities will take place at Clark Atlanta University; Friday’s activities will take place at Emory University. Please see here for the full symposium […]

Elemental Protest

back to our projects “Elemental Protest: Protest movements and the natural environment in the Virgin Islands” Panel to be presented at Emory University, 2024. The members of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective will each lecture on the role of the natural environment in major revolutionary movements in Virgin Islands history and current day realities.  Each […]

The MAPP

back to our projects Virgin Islands Virtual Museum and Archive of Decolonial Thought, Practice and Pedagogy (The MAPP) Virgin Islands Virtual Museum and Archive of Decolonial Thought, Practice and Pedagogy (The MAPP)’s immediate and ongoing goal will be to serve as a virtual space for art, thought and pedagogy in the Virgin Islands and other […]