8:00AM

REGISTRATION

8:30-9:00AM

Dany Garcia & Dwayne Johnson Living Room

WELCOMING REMARKS
Patricia J. Saunders & Donette Francis

OPENING REMARKS

9:00-10:00AM

Multi-Room A/B

KEYNOTE

Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles
“Shipscapes: Imagining an Ocean of Space”

10:15-11:30AM

Session 1
Multi-Room C

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”

Session 2
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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”

Session 3
Executive Conference Room

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)”

11:30AM-12:45PM

Session 4
Multi-Room C

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

Session 5
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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””

Session 6
Executive Conference Room

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

12:45-2:15PM

 Multi-Room A/B

LUNCH

2:30PM

BUSES DEPART FOR AFTERNOON SESSIONS AT HISTORIC VIRGINIA KEY BEACH

3:15-4:30PM

Session 7
Historic Virginia Key Beach

“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

4:30-5:30PM

BOOK LAUNCH

6:00-7:00PM

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

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Click here to view introductory video by M. NourbeSe Philip

8:00AM-4:00PM

REGISTRATION

8:30-9:30AM

Multi-Room A/B

KEYNOTE

Kevin Browne, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
"Frame Work: Imaging and the Afterlife of Things"

9:30-11:00AM

Session 8
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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””

Session 9
Multi-Room C

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”

Session 10
Multi-Room A/B

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’”

10:30AM-12:30PM
Executive Conference Room

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

11:15AM-12:30PM

Session 11
Multi-Room C

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”

Session 12
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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”

Session 13
Multi-Room A/B

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”

12:30-1:30PM

Dany Garcia & Dwayne Johnson Living Room

LUNCH

1:45-2:45PM

Multi-Room A/B

KEYNOTE

Sophia George, University of Miami
“The DNA Within Us, Our Risks to Cancer”

3:00-5:00PM

Exeuctive Conference Room

ACADEMIC PUBLISHING WORKSHOP

Kimberly Guinta, Senior Editor, Rutgers University Press

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3:00-4:15PM

Session 14
Multi-Room A/B

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

Session 15
Multi-Room C

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

Session 16
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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

4:30-5:45PM

Session 17
Multi-Room A/B

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

Session 18
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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”

Session 19
Multi-Room C

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

8:00AM-12:15PM

REGISTRATION

9:00-10:15AM

Multi-Room A/B

KEYNOTE
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College

“The Debris of Caribbean History: Literature, Art and Archipelagic Plastic”

10:30AM-12:00PM

Executive Conference Room

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

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

Session 21
Multi-Room A/B

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”

Session 22
Multi-Room C

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

12:00-1:15PM

Dany Garcia & Dwayne Johnson Living Room

LUNCH

1:15-2:30PM

Session 23
Bruce & Robbi Toll Library

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”

Session 24
Multi-Room C

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

Session 25

Multi-Room A/B

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”

1:30-3:30PM
Executive Conference Room

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

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

Session 27
Multi-Room A/B

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

Session 28
Multi-Room C

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”

3:00-4:15PM

Executive Conference Room

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)

4:15-5:00PM

Multi-Room A/B

GENERAL BODY MEETING