Programme

FINAL PROGRAMME

Posted 26 February 2008

Thursday, February 28, 2008

9.00 - 9.30 a.m. Registration
(Faculty of Humanities & Education, Room ASR2)

9.30 - 9. 40 a.m. Welcome (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Arts Lecture Theatre)
Jane Bryce (Head, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

All panels will be held in the Arts Lecture Theatre

9.40 - 10.45 a.m. PANEL 1: PERFORMANCE AND LYRICS
Chair: Jane Bryce (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

∙ Robert Schmid (Graduate student, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
A Dispersion of Duppies
∙ Laurence A. Breiner (Boston University)
“Who’s your Daddy?” Genealogies of Jamaican Performance Poetry
∙ Kim Robinson-Walcott (The University of the West Indies, Mona)
Bun or Fire Bun? Macka Diamond’s novel Bun Him!!!

10.45 - 11.15 a.m. Coffee (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

11.15 - 12.30 a.m. PANEL 2: TRAUMAS, MOTHERLANDS AND OTHER LANDS
Chair: Curwen Best (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

∙ Andrea Humphrey (Graduate student, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
Caribbean Myth and Folklore: The Icons of a New Science Fiction
∙ Jennifer Rahim (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Venezuela in the Trinidadian Literary Imagination
∙ Ronda C. Henry (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
“Why is it Black Women Cannot Be Sexual Without Being ‘Ho’s’?”: Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Sexuality, Expressivity, and Freedom

12.30 - 2.00 p.m. Lunch (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

2.00 - 3.30 p.m. PANEL 3: CREOLE IDENTITY?
Chair: Richard Clarke (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

∙ Susan C. Shepherd (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
Making the Fragments Whole: Language, Oppression, and Empowerment in Creole Identity
∙ Caryn Rae Adams (Graduate student, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
“Without you Mother, who am I and where do I belong?’: Mothering, Home and Identity in Kincaid’s Annie John and Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
∙ Joanna Johnson (University of Miami)
Jean Rhys and the English Landscape

3. 30 - 4.00 p.m. Coffee (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

4.00 - 5.30 p.m. PANEL 4: REVISITING CARIBBEAN CLASSICS
Chair: Michael Bucknor (The University of the West Indies, Mona)

∙ Raphael Dalleo (Florida Atlantic University)
Bita Plant as Literary Intellectual: Anticolonialism and Banana Bottom
∙ Shala Alert (Graduate student, The University of the West Indies, Mona)
Kneading/Needing the Myth: Female Masculinity and Feminised Masculinity in Mittelholzer’s Children of Kaywana
∙ Nadia Indra Johnson (Graduate student, University of Miami)
Sexuality and Gendered Citizenship in Sylvia Wynter’s Hills of Hebron
∙ Rob Leyshon (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
Plays need Love Too: Reading Caribbean Drama

6.00 p.m.
Dean's Welcome Reception
The Verandah, UWI

Friday, February 29, 2008

9.00 - 9.30 a.m. Registration (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Room ASR2)

9.00 - 10.30 a.m. PANEL 5: BAJAN NARRATIVES
Chair: Carl Wade (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

∙ Whitney B. Edwards (Howard University)
‘Migration Trauma’: An Examination of Narrative Structure and Strategies in Austin Clarke’s The Meeting Point
∙ Philip Nanton (The University of the West Indies)
Eulogizing Heroes and Locating Freedom: Problematizing Three Recent Barbadian Texts
∙ Jennifer Thorington Springer (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
“Who’s Pimpin’ Who?”: Female Subjectivity in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe

10.30 - 11.00 a.m. Coffee (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

11.00 - 12.30 a.m. PANEL 6: GEORGE LAMMING AND CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP
Chair: Stewart Brown (Birmingham University)

∙ Patricia J. Saunders (University of Miami)
Water Without Berries: Race, Sexuality and Citizenship in Caliban’s (M)Otherland
∙ Richard Clarke (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
Writers and Subjectivity: Lamming, Brathwaite, Hall
∙ Jean Antoine Dunne (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Caribbean Visions or, to Put it Another Way, “We Movin’”

12.30 - 2.00 p.m. Lunch (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

2.00 - 3.30 p.m. PANEL 7: MEMOIRS AND MYTHS
Chair: Curdella Forbes (The University of the West Indies, Mona)

∙ Rachael Mair-Boxill (Graduate student, The University of the West Indies, Mona)
Looking Under Stones: Narrating AIDS and Telling Secrets in Rosemarie Stone’s No Stone Unturned
∙ Carolyn Cooper (The University of the West Indies, Mona)No Woman, No Cry: Rita Marley’s Feminist Fable
∙ Beth Wolk (University of Delaware)
Mothers, Birth, and Trauma in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
∙ Nicola Hunte (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)
The Desire for a Regenerative Recovery of the Past: Wilson Harris’s Discussion of Myth - Omeros and Beloved

3. 30 - 4.00 p.m. Coffee (Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

4.00 - 5.30 p.m. PANEL 8: LAUNCH OF NEW BOOKS AND BOOK SIGNING
Chair: Mark McWatt (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill)

∙ Patricia Saunders - Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Caribbean Literature and the Task of Translating Identity
∙ Laurence Breiner - Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry
∙ Curdella Forbes - A Permanent Freedom
∙ Sandra Pouchet Paquet, Steve Stuempfle, Pat Saunders eds. - Calypso and the Literary Imagination
∙ Jennifer Rahim - Songster and Other Stories
∙ Stewart Brown - Tourists, Traveller, Troublemaker
∙ Jane Bryce - Chameleon

7.30 p.m.
An Evening Celebrating George Lamming
Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI

Saturday, March 1, 2008

9.15 - 10.30 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
“Minor Figures, Major Issues: Caribbean in Quiet Revolutions.”
Alison Donnell (Reader, School of English and American Literature, University of Reading)

10.30 - 11.00 a.m. Coffee(Faculty of Humanities and Education, Main Quadrangle)

11.00 - 12.30 a.m. PANEL 9: CHALLENGING DISCOURSES
Chair: Calvin Holder (Clara Barton High School, Brooklyn)

∙ Paula Morgan (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Indo Trinidadian Women Constructing Habitable Narratives
∙ Stephen Flemming (Graduate student, York University)
“A Face Slipping:” Challenging dominant Canadian Critical Discourse on Caribbean-Canadian Literature
∙ Curdella Forbes (The University of the West Indies, Mona)
Yearning for Utopia: Earth, Body, Deviance and Festive-Carnival Failure in Cereus Blooms at Night.’
∙ Tyronne Ali (The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine)
The Legend of the Penis: Real or Perceived?: Exploring male sexuality in selected Caribbean works over the past 50 years

12. 30 - 12. 45 WIACLALS Presentation (Michael Bucknor)

12. 45 - 1.00 Business Meeting (representatives of The University of the West Indies, University of Miami, College of the Bahamas, University of Guyana, University of Puerto Rico and other member institutions)

CONFERENCE ENDS