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The Association for the Study and Culture of Continental America and the Caribbean (ConaC Vienna/KonaK Wien) was founded in Vienna in 1996 by junior and senior scholars from Peru, Argentine, Chile and Austria to serve as a nonprofit, undenominational and independent platform for the scientific and cultural exchange between Austria/Europe, Continental America and the Caribbean. To meet this aim, ConaC Vienna carries out activities in the fields of research, education, public events, publications, information dissemination, international cooperation, consulting, supervision, and assistance.

One of ConaC Vienna’s main activities is to run the Society for Continental American and Caribbean Studies (FGKK). In 2008, the FGKK was assigned with all tasks concerning research, science, and mobility. Since then, it edits “Américas. Contributions to the Study of Continental America and the Caribbean”, carries out scientific events and research projects, supervises and assists scholars, promotes international cooperation to facilitate academic exchange, network building, and mobility, and is the scientific head of ConaC’s own library, the “Amauta”.

Conference convener

CHRISTIAN CWIK International Institute of Caribbean Studies University of Cartagena Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Dr. Christian Cwik is scientific staff member of the International Institute of Caribbean Studies and professor at the Philosophy Department at the University of Cartagena (Colombia). Furthermore, he is research fellow of the research group “Frontiers, Society, and Culture in the Caribbean and Latin America” and works as lecturer at the Universities of Cologne,

Graz, Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and Vienna. Prior to that, he was professor for Latin American and South West European History at the University of Erfurt (Germany), for Caribbean History the University of Cartagena (Colombia), for Political Sciences and Government Studies at the Venezuelan Bolivarian University (Caracas), as well as for Political Science at the Pedro-Gual-Academy of Diplomacy (Caracas, Venezuela).

His current research and teaching interests include the history of minorities, outlaws, proto-states, frontiers, contraband trade, autonomies, migration/escape/Shoah, resistance, discrimination, racism and anti-Judaism in the Americas and the Atlantic World.

Dr. Cwik is the author of number of articles and chapters on the Sephardic social, economic and legal history in the Americas and the Atlantic World, the relations between Sephardic Jews, Native Americans and Maroons, the escape of Jews and Nazis to the Americas in the 20^th century, as well as Maroon history. He is the editor of 32 volumes of “Americas. Journal of Continental America and the Caribbean” and Editorial Board member of “Clío América. Revista interdisciplinaria en Ciencias Sociales para Estudios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe” (Universidad del Magdalena), “El Taller de la Historia. Anuario del Programa de Historia” (Universidad de Cartagena), and “Ariadna Tucma: Revista Latinoamericana” (Buenos Aires). He was invited to give visiting lectures at Universities and Museums in Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Germany and Jamaica, and presented papers at conferences in Austria, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Spain, the USA and Venezuela.

Dr. Cwik is the president of ConaC Vienna, and a member of the Steering Committees of the Association of Economic History of the Caribbean, and the Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians (ADHILAC).

In 2005, he was the recipient of the Science Award from the City of Vienna, as well as the Prize of the 640 Year Commemoration of the Establishment of the University of Vienna. In 2005 and 2006 he received the Research Fellowship of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna.

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