THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:00AM
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REGISTRATION
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8:30-9:00AM
Dany Garcia & Dwayne Johnson Living Room
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WELCOMING REMARKS Patricia J. Saunders & Donette Francis
OPENING REMARKS
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9:00-10:00AM
Multi-Room A/B
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KEYNOTE
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles “Shipscapes: Imagining an Ocean of Space”
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10:15-11:30AM
Session 1 Multi-Room C
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STAGING THE SELF AND THE BODY Chair: Michael Bucknor, University of the West Indies, Mona
Thomas C. Addington, Howard University “(Re)figuring the body by ‘Moonshine Dolly’: The Mediation ofHistories and Beingness in Olive Senior’s and Christian Campbell’s Poetry”
Lara Cahill-Booth, Miami Dade College “Masculinity, Corporeality, and the NDTC Stage”
Laurence Breiner, Boston University “Derek Walcott and the problem of how to put a people on stage”
Isis Semaj-Hall, University of the West Indies, Mona “Manscapes: Grooming New Jamaican Iconography”
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Session 2 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES AND CULTURAL IDENTITY Chair: Iona Wynter-Parks, Oglethorpe University
Fély Catan, PhD Candidate in Romance Studies, University of Miami “Non-Sovereignty Thinking in Caribbean Women’s Writings: Disrupting the Normative Categories of Nationalism and Independence”
Viviana Pezzullo, Florida Atlantic University “Imagination and Cultural Identity Across Two Generations of Migrants in L’Exil selon Julia by Gisèle Pineau”
Denise Pinnaro, Florida Atlantic University “The Shadow as Hero? The Persona as False Hero? Archetypes, Identity, and Power Dynamics in Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête”
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Session 3 Executive Conference Room
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LANDSCAPES AND PLANTIONOCENES
Ali Friedberg Tal-mason, Florida Atlantic University The Caribbean Origins of Anthropocene: Why We Need a Change of Cene-ery
Allison Harris, Clemson University “Sylvia Wynter and the Plantationocene”
Suzanne Boswell, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick Zombie Time, Tropical Times: (De)colonial Time Travel in Wilson Harris’ Palace of the Peacock
Sally A. Everson, University of The Bahamas-North “Mid-Nineteenth Century Landscapes of Unbelonging: Adolphus: A Tale (1853)”
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11:30AM-12:45PM
Session 4 Multi-Room C
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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Chair: Rafe Dalleo, Bucknell University
Jarrel De Matas, University of the West Indies “Child-(e)scapes: A Study of Children of the Spider."
Renee Latchman, Howard University “Abjection and the Postcolonial Adolescent in Colin Channer’s The Girl with the Golden Shoes”
Carmen Duarte, Florida Atlantic University Slave Children: Analysis of Biography of a Runaway Slave
Amanda L. Bryan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Masculine Identity: Moving Through Calvary Hill in The Dragon Can’t Dance
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Session 5 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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HIGHER SCIENCE AND SPIRITUAL GROUNDATION Chair: Angeletta KM Gourdine, Louisiana State University
Camille R. Banks, Daley College “‘Yemoja, please help:’ The ‘Healer/Comforter’ as a Central Figure in Diasporic African Literature”
Corey Lamont, Howard University, Washington, DC “Visions, Prophecies and the “Profane” Imagination in Ezekel Alan’s Disposable People”
Stacy J. Lettman, Florida Atlantic University “The Struggle between Reason and the Imagination: The Post-Slavery Emancipatory and Liberatory “Ideoscape” in Andrew Salkey’s A Quality of Violence”
Hannah Lutchmansingh, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine "Rooted deep within our Caribbean Belly”: Phantoms of the Nation in the Works Erna Brodber and George Lamming””
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Session 6 Executive Conference Room
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LANDSCAPE/TIDALECTICS Chair: Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Amherst College
Rodolphe Solbiac, Université des Antilles, Martinique “Poetics of Landscape in 21st Century Anglophone Caribbean Diasporic Writing: David Chariandy’s Soucouyant.”
Odette De Siena, M.A., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México “Will create new soils, new souls, new ancestors”: The Polyphonic Heroless Verses in Kamau Brathwaite’s The Arrivants
Kelly Baker Josephs, The City University of New York “After the Collaboration: The Kamau Brathwaite Bibliography”
Enmanuel Martínez, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Decontentalizing the “Archival Turn”: Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever, Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past, and the Promise of a Critical Archival Studies
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12:45-2:15PM
Multi-Room A/B
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LUNCH
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2:30PM
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BUSES DEPART FOR AFTERNOON SESSIONS AT HISTORIC VIRGINIA KEY BEACH
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3:15-4:30PM
Session 7 Historic Virginia Key Beach
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“DISASTER RELIEF:” EMANCIPATORY NOVELS BY WRITERS FROM ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN Chair: Myriam J. A. Chancy, Scripps College
Myriam J. A. Chancy (Haiti), Scripps College
Ifeona H. Fulani (Jamaica), New York University
Karin Lachmising (Suriname), Cross Cultural Communication Specialist
Nelly Rosario (Dominican Republic), Texas State University
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4:30-5:30PM
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BOOK LAUNCH
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6:00-7:00PM
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MIAMI PERFORMS A LIVING MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF THE ZONG MASSACRE AT HISTORIC VIRGINIA KEY BEACH M. NourbeSe Philip, Poet, Essayist, Novelist
followed by reception
Click here to view introductory video by M. NourbeSe Philip
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
8:00AM-4:00PM
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REGISTRATION
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8:30-9:30AM
Multi-Room A/B
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KEYNOTE
Kevin Browne, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine "Frame Work: Imaging and the Afterlife of Things"
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9:30-11:00AM
Session 8 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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CARIBBEAN IN CRISIS: CLASHING IDENTITIES IN THE POSTMEDIA LANDSCAPE Chair: Malena Rodríguez Castro, University of Puerto Rico
Denise Joan Salas Pitre, University of Puerto Rico “The Ravages of War: Environmental Devastation and Spectacle in Vieques”
Atabei Rivera Mirabal, University of Puerto Rico “Poetics of the Remnants: Precariousness and Productivity in the Music Video Pa'lante"
Jean M. Vallejo González, University of Puerto Rico “Towards a Phenomenology of Documentary Consciousness: Politics of Reception in the Puerto Rican short film Tipos de Prensa”
Karen M. Serrano Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico “Halfpoints: Identity Through the Carnival Performance in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber”
Joel Morales Rolón, University of Puerto Rico “The Right to Appear: The Performance of Discomfort and the Embodiment of Indiscipline in Rita Indiana’s “El castigador””
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Session 9 Multi-Room C
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NATIONALISMS POLITICAL THOUGHT Chair: Simone Alexander, Seton Hall University
David W. Hart, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse “Power-scapes: Ethnoscapes and Culturalism in Caribbean Literature”
Raj Chetty, St. John’s University “Más Allá del Play: Race and the Dominican Baseball Player in Sugar”
Ariel Martino, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick “Revolutionary Sovereignty and Total Freedom: C.L.R. James’s early political thought”
Laurie Lambert, Fordham University - Lincoln Center “Voices from the Caribbean Past, Visions for the Caribbean Future: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers”
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Session 10 Multi-Room A/B
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SOUNDSCAPES: SONIC DISTRUBANCES
Njelle W. Hamilton, University of Virginia “The Soundscapes of Memory: Transnational Intimacies and Resonances in Caribbean Musical Fictions”
Treviene A. Harris, University of Pittsburgh “Calypso Counterpoint in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant”
Aliyah Khan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Seasonal Stormscapes: Black Atlantic Hurricane Migration and Music”
Geraldine E. Skeete, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine “Narrow and Wide: Routing Inscape and Landscape in John Stewart’s ‘The Old Men Used to Dance’”
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10:30AM-12:30PM Executive Conference Room
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KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN: INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS I
Chair: Kate Ramsey, Univeristy of Miami
Kenneth Connell, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill “Non-communicable Disease Burden in Small Island States: the Case of Barbados”
Yanique Hume, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill “Haiti in the Cuban Imaginary”
Nadève Ménard, Université d’État d’Haïti "Cultivating Caribbean Networks in Haitian Literary Studies"
Patricia Mohammed, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine "Building Collaborations for the Educational Needs of the Caribbean”
Fátima Portorreal, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) “Agua y conservación en la mirada campesina” [Water and Preservation from a Peasant’s Perspective]
Oonya Kempadoo, Grenada Community Library & Resource Centre
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11:15AM-12:30PM
Session 11 Multi-Room C
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BRITISH HAUNTOLOGIES OF HISTORY Chair: Glyne Griffith, SUNY Albany
Laura Bass, University of Miami “Remembering Caribbean WWI History: Memory, Mourning, and Life Writing”
Ian Bethell Bennett, University of the Bahamas “Confronting our ghosts: Migration, immigration and the collision scape of bodies and boundaries”
Adlai Murdoch, Tufts University “Enoch Powell, Stuart Hall and the Writing of Post-Windrush Caribbean Identity in Britain”
Jared Flurry, University of Miami “This War has changed everything:” Weaponized Sex and Entropic Ideoscapes in deBoissiere’s Rum and Coca Cola”
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Session 12 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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DIGITAL DIASPORAS & AFRO-FUTURISMS
Annie Paul, University of the West Indies, Mona “Prefiguring the 21st century in Caribbean Writing: PREE”
Nicola Hunte, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill “Traveling Identities, Virtual Frames: Embodying the Caribbean in Digital Spaces”
Margaret Cox, Savannah State University “Brown Girl in the Ring: Orisha, Healing and Afrofuturism”
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Session 13 Multi-Room A/B
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EMBODIED MOURNING Chair: Rhonda Frederick, Boston College
Loisa Landragin, Aix Marseille Université “The Abject: Representations of the Black Female Body in Nourbese Philip’s Poetry”
Camille Isaacs, OCAD University “Embodied Memory: The Body as Migrating Monument in the Works of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt”
April Conley Kilinski, Johnson University, Knoxville “Trauma as Witness: Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying”
Rachel L. Mordecai, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Caribbean Women’s Textile/Textual Practices as Archives of Memory and Mourning”
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12:30-1:30PM
Dany Garcia & Dwayne Johnson Living Room
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LUNCH
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1:45-2:45PM
Multi-Room A/B
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KEYNOTE
Sophia George, University of Miami “The DNA Within Us, Our Risks to Cancer”
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3:00-5:00PM
Exeuctive Conference Room
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ACADEMIC PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
Kimberly Guinta, Senior Editor, Rutgers University Press
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3:00-4:15PM
Session 14 Multi-Room A/B
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CON-FEDERATING THE ARCHIPELAGO I Chair: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University “Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti”
Angel Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute “Betances, Hostos, and Tapia y Rivera: Modern Subjectivities in Conflict”
Glyne Griffith, SUNY Albany “The BBC Caribbean Voices Radio Broadcasts and the Cultural Collapse of the West Indies Federation”
Respondent: Jossiana Arroyo, University of Texas at Austin
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Session 15 Multi-Room C
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THE EARLY CARIBBEAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND METADATA OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC
Chair: Beatrice Colastin Skokan, University of Miami, Richter Library
Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
Elizabeth Dillon, Northeastern University
Alanna Prince, Northeastern University
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Session 16 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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HONORING THE DEAD Chair: Kezia Page, Colgate University
Amrita Bandopadhyay, University of Florida “Monkey Lovers and Flying Palanquins: Hidden Histories, Memory Scapes and Feminine Imagination in Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin,”
Paula Morgan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine May We Rest in Peace: Revisiting the Unquiet Dead of the Zong Massacre
Dyanne K. Martin, Broward College "Pruning the Ethnic Landscape: Pési or Perejil?”
Petal Samuel, University of Virginia "A Universe of Silence”: Black Dispossession, the ‘Right to Quiet,’ and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Terrains of Silence
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4:30-5:45PM
Session 17 Multi-Room A/B
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CON-FEDERATING THE ARCHIPELAGO II Chair: Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Emerson College
Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Emerson College “Nationalisms and Transnationalism of the Federated Archipelago”
Alison Donnell, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom “An aesthetics of Federation and a federation of aesthetics: West Indian literature and the project of regional unity”
Kahlil Chaar Pérez, Harvard University “A Romantic Vision: Ramón Emeterio Betances and the Caribbean Federation”
Respondent: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
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Session 18 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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HAITI AND THE HISPANIC (CIRCUM)CARIBBEAN Chair: Josune Urbistondo, University of Miami
Philip Kaisary, Carleton University “The Haitian Revolution and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s La última cena (The Last Supper, 1976)”
Natalie Marie Léger, The City University of New York Mucho Woulo: Black Freedom and The Kingdom of this World
Ayanna Legros, Duke University “Yankee, Out! Hugo Chávez and the Fight to End U.S. Hegemony in Haiti”
Vanessa K. Valdés, The City College of New York “The Road of Social Progress”: Revolutions and Resistance in the 1936 Lectures of Dantès Bellegarde”
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Session 19 Multi-Room C
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JAMAICAN POLITICAL IDEOSCAPES Chair: Winnifred Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey
Kimberly Robinson-Walcott, University of the West Indies, Mona Dudus, Viv and Vybz: Legitimate Resistance, Legitimacy, and a Different Reality
Michael K. Walonen, Saint Peter's University “Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings”
Amanda Zilla, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Digitalising “Wake Work”: The Adaptation of Marlon James’ Book of Night Women into Virtual Reality
Denise Jarrett, Morgan State University The Digital Camera, Postcolonization, and Power in Two Short Stories from Jamaica and Trinidad
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
8:00AM-12:15PM
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REGISTRATION
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9:00-10:15AM
Multi-Room A/B
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KEYNOTE Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College
“The Debris of Caribbean History: Literature, Art and Archipelagic Plastic”
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10:30AM-12:00PM
Executive Conference Room
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PUBLISHING WORKSHOP FOR CREATIVE WRITERS
Johnny Temple, Akashic Books, Brooklyn, New York
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10:30-11:45AM
Session 20 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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GRAMMARS OF REPRESENTATION AND THE CHALLENGE OF NARRATING CARIBBEANESS
Chair: Evelyn O’Callahan, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
J. Dillon Brown, Washington University Moving the Centre: The Caribbean in Britain
Marta Fernandez-Campa, University of East Anglia Cross-disciplinary connections in Caribbean Literature and Visuality
Keja Valens, Salem State University Caribbean eco-poetics
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Session 21 Multi-Room A/B
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INDO-CARIBBEAN IDENTITIES & HISTORIES Chair: Patricia Mohammed,University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University “The World of Islands: Samuel Selvon and Harold Sonny Ladoo’s idea of the Indo-Caribbean”
Tarika Sankar, University of Miami “Pumpkin-Vine Family”: Finding Jahaji-Bhain Sisterhood in Exile in Ingrid Persaud’s If I Never Went Home
Anita Baksh, Ph.D., LaGuardia Community College “The Pundits Didn’t Tell Us the Truth”: Hinduism and Queerness in Indo-Caribbean Diasporic Literature”
Lisa Outar, Independent Scholar “Feminism and Creolized Religious Practices in Indo-Caribbean Literature”
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Session 22 Multi-Room C
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LAN(D)GUAGES AND VISUAL RESISTANCE Chair: Iona Wynter-Park, Oglethorpe University
Kate Brennan, University of Toronto “Grafted Tongues: Modeling the Caribbean with Languages
Iona Wynter-Park, Oglethorpe University Translating Patrick Chamoiseau: French language as an environment
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Beyond the Great Camouflage: Suzanne Césaire’s Archipelagic Vision as Anti-colonial Resistance"
Kathleen DeGuzman, San Francisco State University “‘The Tegucigalpa of the Caribbean’”: Memories of Underdevelopment and Archipelagic Visuality
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12:00-1:15PM
Dany Garcia & Dwayne Johnson Living Room
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LUNCH
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1:15-2:30PM
Session 23 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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QUEER IDENTITY AND SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP
Leah Rosenberg, University of Florida “A Queer Eye for Tropicality: Queerness and the Critique of Tourism in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1984)and Nicole Dennis Benn’s Here Comes the Sun”
Alexandria Smith, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey “Pounding Spice (Island): The Metaphors and Materiality of Black Queer Caribbean Space”
Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick “Blazing Fragment(s)”: Archipelagos of Sexual Citizenship in Dionne Brand’s “hard against the soul”
Johanna X. K. Garvey, Fairfield University “’A true no-nation’: Exploring Global Citizenship in Oonya Kempadoo’s All Decent Animals”
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Session 24 Multi-Room C
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CARIBBEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSITION: PEOPLE, PLACE AND LITERARY BELONGING Chair: Alison Donnell, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Lissa Paul, Brock University From Rebel to Reactionary: Or How Radical British Author and Teacher Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) Negotiated Slave-Dependent Barbados at the Time of Bussa’s Rebellion
Atreyee Phukan, University of San Diego Over the Kala Pani: Passage and Poetics
Laurie Lambert, Fordham University Writing the Crisis of Nationalism
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Session 25
Multi-Room A/B
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CARIBBEAN DIASPORAS: ART AS MEMORY AND ARCHIVE Chair: Carmen Haydée Rivera, University of Puerto Rico
Mirerzas González Veélez, University of Puerto Rico Nadjah Rios Villarini, University of Puerto Rico “Carnival and Migration. The Digital Humanities Advancement Project”
Carmen Haydée Rivera, University of Puerto Rico “Generational Roots and Re-routing in the Works of Diasporic Puerto Rican Writers”
Malena Rodríguez Castro, University of Puerto Rico “Precarious Bodies, Precarious Citizenship. Confinement and Writing of Puerto Rican Immigrants”
Don Walicek, University of Puerto Rico “Guantánamo’s Secrets: Memory, Migrants, and Empathy”
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1:30-3:30PM Executive Conference Room
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP Kei Miller, Poet/Essayist/Novelist, University of Exeter
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2:45-4:00PM
Session 26 Bruce & Robbi Toll Library
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GLOBAL CIITES Chair: Carole Bailey, Westfield State University
Jacqueline Jiang, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras “The Drumbeat, la ciudad y la Descarga: The Plurality of Willie Perdomo’s The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon”
Carole Bailey, Westfield State University A Return of King Sugar?: The “Third World” Urban Space and the Redefinition of Global Power"
Valeria Ruzina, Florida Atlantic University “The Spirit Which Wonders in Hell Finds Its Authenticity in Life”
Wilfredo Rafael Santiago Hernandez, University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras El Coqui and the Carabao
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Session 27 Multi-Room A/B
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AUTO-NARRATIONS Chair: Lia Bascomb, Georgia State University
Antonia MacDonald, St. George’s University “Nobody really knows for sure.” Eugene Coard and the Production of Fake News in Garth St Omer’s Prisms.
Karen Sanderson Cole, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Matters at the Heart of the Nation: In the Midst of It ANR Robinson and From Mason Hall to White Hall Keith Rowley
Tzarina T. Prater, Bentley University “The Children of Dragons and Shopkeepers: National and Genealogical (Un)Certainty”
Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi, University of Hartford Transnational Time Travel: Recovering Ethnoscapes in Angie Cruz’ Let It Rain Coffe
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Session 28 Multi-Room C
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THE EYES HAVE IT: ENVISIONING CARIBBEAN TERRAINS
Sheryl C. Gifford, Florida Atlantic University “Alternate or Altered Reality? Jason de Caires Taylor’s Environmental Art and Caribbean Cultural Consumption”
Kwynn Johnson, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine “Place as Palimpsest / Yon kote tankou Palimpseste”
Rachel Moseley-Wood, University of the West Indies, Mona “A University of the People?: Visual Education in the British West Indies”
Jorge Luis Morejon, University of Miami “South Florida’s Rituals: Unearthing Invisible Traces”
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3:00-4:15PM
Executive Conference Room
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KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN: INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS II Chair: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
Kenneth Connell, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Donette Francis, University of Miami
Mirerza González Vélez, University of Puerto Rico
Yanique Hume, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Oonya Kempadoo, Grenada Community Library & Resource Centre
Nadève Ménard, Université d’État d’Haïti
Patricia Mohammed, The University of the West Indies , St. Augustine Campus
Fátima Portorreal, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC)
Kate Ramsey, University of Miami
Nadjah Rios Villarini, University of Puerto Rico
Carmen Haydée Rivera, University of Puerto Rico
María Elena Rodríguez-Castro, University of Puerto Rico
Patricia J. Saunders, University of Miami
Chantalle F. Verna, Florida International University (and other colleagues from FIU)
Camilla Valdés, Casa de las Américas
Don Walicek, University of Puerto Rico
(Closed working meeting | For more information, contact Dr. Yolanda Martínez San Miguel)
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4:15-5:00PM
Multi-Room A/B
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GENERAL BODY MEETING
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Please note that there is very little opportunity for moving papers around in the program.