PROGRAMME
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES - DAY 1 Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
4:00 – 4:30
| EARLY REGISTRATION | |
4:30 – 5:00
| Chair | | | Dr. Matthew Smith | | | Department of History & Archaeology, UWI Mona | | | Welcome & Introductions | | | Prof. E. Nigel Harris — Vice-Chancellor, UWI | | | Prof. Brian Meeks — Director, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI Mona | |
| Dr. Mark Figueroa — Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI Mona | |
| Introduction of Keynote Speaker Prof. Michaeline Crichlow | |
| African and African American Studies, Duke University | | 5:00 – 5:40 | Keynote Speaker | |
| Prof. J. Lorand Matory Chair, African and African American Studies, Duke University | |
| Paper Title -Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions | |
5:40 – 6:00
| Discussions | |
6:00 – 6:30
| Book Launch | |
| Introduction by: Prof. Sean Metzger (Duke University) | |
| Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation Michaeline Crichlow with Patricia Northover | | | (2009 Duke University Press) | |
6:30
| Refreshment Break |
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES - DAY 2 Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
8:00 - 8:45 am
| REGISTRATION | |
8:45 – 9:00 am
| Welcome and Chair – Michaeline Crichlow (Professor African and African American Studies, Duke University) | |
9:00 - 10:40 am
| Session A: Times of Entanglement – Historical struggles for Caribbean Freedoms | |
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Chair:
| Patrick Bryan (Dept. of History and Archaeology, UWI Mona) | |
| Paper 1: | Jessica Byron (Department of Government, UWI Mona) - G.K. Lewis and Reflections on Sovereignty in the Caribbean Context from colonial nationalism to the present day. | |
| Paper 2: | Beverly Shirley (Open Campus, UWI Mona) – Powerful or Powerless?: Understanding the Gender of Leadership and the Leadership of Gender | |
| Paper 3: |
Walter Mignolo (Romance Studies and Literature, Duke University) - Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom: The Legacy of Sir Lloyd Best
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| Paper 4: |
Valérie Gobert-Sega (EHESS-CIRESC) - Family and Marriage as a State of Freedom
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| Discussion | |
10:40 - 11:00 am
| COFFEE BREAK | |
11:00 - 12:40 pm
| Session B: HAITI PANEL- From the First State of Freedom to a State of Emergency | | Chair: | Matthew Smith (Dept. of History and Archaeology, UWI Mona) | | Paper 1: |
Julia Gaffield (Department of History, Duke University) – “So Many Schemes in Agitation”: British Negotiations with Haitian Leaders, 1804-1805
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Deborah Jenson (French Studies and Romance Studies, Duke University) - States of Ghetto, Ghetto of States: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Sovereignty of Words
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Jermaine McCalpin (Department of Government, UWI Mona) -Freedom, Truth and Justice in the Caribbean: an Examination of Truth Commission Experiments in Haiti and Grenada
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Jean Casimir (State University of Haiti) -Wanted: Haitian Governments in Search of a National State
| | Discussion | | 12:40 - 2:00 pm | LU NCH (Mona Visitors’ Lodge) | | 2:00 - 3:20 pm | Session C: Postcolonial Sovereignties – Citizenship, Statehood, and the Politics of Freedom | | | Chair: | Trevor Munroe (Professor of Government and Politics – Visiting Fellow, SALISES, UWI Mona) | | | Paper 1: | Michaeline Crichlow (African and African American Studies, Duke University) - Power and Its Subjects: ‘Good’ Governance Dilemmas under Contemporary Globalization Processes | | | Paper 2: | Tennyson S.D. Joseph (UWI, Cave Hill) - Sovereignty For Sale: The China-Taiwan Diplomatic Tussle and the Politics of Materialism in Saint Lucia (Consequences for Caribbean Democracy) | | | Paper 3: | Sean Metzger (English and Theatre Studies, Duke University) -Incorporating: On Chinese/Trinidadian Cultural Production, Speculation, and the State
| | | Discussion | | 3:20 - 3:40 pm | COFFEE BREA K | | 3:40 - 5:00 pm | Session D: Liminal Acts of Freedom – Interrogating Freedoms through literature, ‘culture’, movement and performance | | | Chair: Claudette Williams (Professor of Hispanic and Caribbean Literature, Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures, UWI Mona) | | | Paper 1: Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (French and Francophone Literature, UWI, St. Augustine) - The Poetics of Freedom and The Freedom of Poetics | | Paper 2: Warrick Lattibeaudierre (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, UWI Mona) - From Chameleon to Matador and back; towards a feminist politics of change in Montero’s del Rojo de su Sombra, Chamoiseau’s Texaco and Confiant’s Mamzelle Libellule | | Paper 3: | Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi (Département d’études anglaises, Département d’études anglaises, Université de Montréal) - Caribbean-African Relationalities, Or, Remainders of Formal Autonomy | | Discussion | SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES - DAY 3 Friday, June 18, 2010 | 8:30 - 9:00 am | LATE REGISTRATIO N | | 9:00 - 10:30 am | Session E: PLENARY | | | Welcome & Chair Deborah Jenson Professor of French Studies Duke University | |
| Introduction of Keynote Speaker Patricia Northover Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI Mona | |
| Keynote Address Rupert Lewis Professor of Political Thought Department of Government, UWI Mona; | |
| & Associate Director of the Center for Caribbean Thought, UWI, Mona | | | Paper Title: Engaging the Crisis of Contemporary Caribbean Politics | | 10:30 - 10:50 am | COFFEE BREAK | | 10:50 - 12:10 pm | Session F: The Politics of making and unmaking Freedoms in the Caribbean | |
| Chair: | Jermaine McCalpin (Department of Government, UWI Mona) | |
| Paper 1: | Eris Schoburgh (Department of Government, UWI Mona) - ‘Informal Citizenship’ – Conceptualizing expressions of freedom in contemporary developing societies | |
| Paper 2: | Jahlani Niaah (Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI Mona) - 'Polite Violence' and Rastafari's Pedagogy of Freedom | | | Paper 3: | Brian Meeks (SALISES, UWI Mona) – Labour Day Crisis in Jamaica: First Impression | | | Paper 4:
| Nyan Whittingham (Department of Government, UWI Mona) - Fighting for Freedom: Local Government’s role in delivering states from a state of un-freedom amidst global trends
| | | Discussion | | 12:10 - 1:10 pm | LU NCH | | 1:10 - 2:50 pm | Session G: The Political Economy of (Un)Freedoms in the Caribbean and beyond | | | Chair: | Peter Clegg (Visiting Fellow, SALISES, UWI Mona) | | | Paper 1: | Kenneth Surin (Chair of Literature Programme, Duke University) - Revising the Delinking Strategy: Is there a Caribbean Model, or, Can Lessons be Learned from CLR James and Walter Rodney? | | | Paper 2: | Richard Rosa (Department of Romance Studies, Duke University) - Governing Tourism: representation, domination and freedom in Puerto Rico: 1949 | |
| Paper 4: Patricia Northover (SALISES, UWI Mona) - Abject Blackness, Hauntologies of Development and the Demand for Authenticity-A Critique of Sen’s ‘Development as Freedom’ | | | Discussion | | 2:50 - 3:10 pm | COFFEE BREA K | | 3:10 - 4:50 pm | Session H | : The Arts of Creolization: Visual politics and expressions for freedoms | | | Chair: | Annie Paul (SALISES, UWI Mona) | | | Paper 1: | Carolyn Cooper (Department of Literatures and English, UWI Mona) - Caribbean Fashion Week: Creolising Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica | |
| Paper 2: | Veerle Poupeye (National Gallery of Jamaica) - The Iconography Of Freedom And Bondage In Modern And Contemporary Jamaican Art | |
| Paper 3: | Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián (Spanish and Latin American Studies, Duke University) -Exorbitance: Toward a Political Aesthetics of Inter-Atlantic Insularity | |
| Discussion | | 4:50 - 5:00 pm | Conference Closing | |
| Patricia Northover | |
| Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI Mona | | 5:00 – 6:30 pm | Cocktails & Cultural Event |
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