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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Trajectories of Freedom:
Caribbean Societies Past and Present

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21st Century Caribbean Woman Question: What Oppresses Women? Dr. April Bernard

 

A Reference to Freedom in Two Old West Indian Sayings. Dr. Bernadette Farquhar

 

Are Caribbean Women Sexually Emancipated from the Chains of Slavery. Ms. Annecka Marshall & Ms. Donna Maynard

 

Black to Creole and Back: Investigating Caribbean Discursive Identities . Dr. R. Anthony Lewis.

 

Black Mass or Liberator?: Eric Williams and the Labour Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, 1960-1980. Mr. Jerome Teelucksingh

 

"Can u assist me?": Help needed with communication skills more so than communications technology. Mr. Kelvin Quintyne

 

Dominica as Spiritual Landscape: Representations of Nature and Ritual in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Marie-Elena John's Unburnable . Dr. Ena Harris

 

“Dwell Together in Unity": Political Hopes and Expectations for the West Indies Federation . Mrs. Cherri-Ann Beckles .

 

Eulogizing Liberators and the Myth of Freedom. Mr. Philip Nanton

 

Exploring Representations of a Gender and Sexuality in (Jamaican) Dancehall Popular Culture: The Search for a Method. Mr. Agostinho M. N. Pinnock

 

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Francophone Caribbean Writers and the Legacy of Negritude. Dr. Claver Mabana

 

"free to wine free to wuk my waist": Interrogating an Expression of Freedom in Barbados Popular Dance Culture. Mr. John Hunte

 

Freedom Attained or Denied: Interrogating the Legacy of the West Indies Federation . Mrs. Sharon Alexander-Gooding

 

Freedom and Identity: The Limits of Freedom. Ms. Sherry Asgill

Freedom in the Mas(k): The Diasporic Carnivalesque in Midnight Robber . Dr. Michelle Smith-Bermiss

 

Freedom of the Spirit and African Cultural Retentions: The Case of East Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago . Dr. Sandra Gift & Oba Kenyatta Omowale Kiteme

 

Freeing the Imagination, Decolonizing Education: The Relevance of Rastafari Orature for Schooling and Educating Afro-Caribbean Youth. Ms. Kaydeene Reddie

 

From modality to engaging with the learning activity. Is a greater synergy between learning modalities and teacher pedagogy needed to assist students with dyslexia at secondary school in Barbados ? Dr. Stacey Blackman

 

Gender and Sexuality in Maryse Conde's Recent Fiction. Dr. Carine Mardorossian

 

Heart of Lightness: (Post)Colonial Knowledge in Contemporary Caribbean Discourse. Dr. Kristian Van Haesendonck

 

Independence or Nationalism? - A Fresh Look at Andreu Iglesias' Los Derrotados. Dr. Victor Simpson

 

Integrating ICT into the Language Arts Curriculum. Dr. Ngoni Chipere

 

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Language, Identity and Freedom - A Creole Perspective. Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald

 

Latina Lesbian Activism and Documentation. Dr. Juanita Diaz-Cotto

 

Libraries and Freedom: the Implications of Freedom of Information for Libraries in Barbados . Ms. Beverly Wood

 

Lysistrata with Locks: A Study of a Cultural Transplantation of a Greek Play to a Contemporary Caribbean Setting. Dr. Elisabeth Bladh

 

Manipulating the Freedom Road : Free Coloured Women and Manumission in Pre-Emancipation Barbados . Dr. Pedro Welch

 

Museum Education as a Mode to Equal Opportunities. Drs. Hilde Neus

 

Myth and Ritual in Hosay, Ramleela and Carnival as Expressions of Vibrant Culture . Ms Edith Peréz Sisto

 

Negritrude and Globalisation: Caught Loitering on Colonial Premises. Ms. Margaret Gill & Ms. Joy Workman

 

Participatory Political and Economic Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean : An Imperative for the 21st Century. Mr. Ajama Nangwaya

 

Queering Freedom: Sexuality, Colonialism and Post Colonialism . Ms. Tara Atluri

 

Re-Educating the Abolitionist Mind - The Need for a New Perspective on Wilberforce (And Lord Nelson) in Barbados . Dr. Trevor Marshall

 

Redefining freedom by extending the boundaries of Barbados : an examination of early Barbadian migration within the Caribbean . Dr. Alana Johnson

 

Religion and the Creation of Ethnic Violence in Guyana . Dr. Kean Gibson

 

Re-membering Freedom: Race and Redemption in Frances Harper's "Deliverance" and Cristina Ayala's "Rendención" . Ms. Monique-Adelle Callahan

 

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Resonating Theories of Difference: Advantages of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Theorizing and Teaching Identity. Dr. Jennifer Rossi

 

St. Lucia 's Folk Culture and the Struggles for Emancipation. Mr. Travis Weekes

 

Taboo “Masons”: Women Infiltrating ‘Secret' Fraternities in Barbados . Ms. Allison Ramsay

 

The Caribbean Plantation System and its Legacy. Dr. Margaret Cox

 

The Challenges of Citizenship, Vulnerability and Risk: Gender, Social Change, and the Epidemics of HIV and AIDS. Dr Robert Carr

 

The Evolution of the Caribbean Woman Griot: From Kincaid's Annie to Kempadoo's Lula. Ms. Crista Mohammed

 

The Nature of Blood: Freedom and Identity. Ms. Agnel Barron

 

The West Indies Federation : The Route/Root to West Indian Nationhood. Mr. Stanley Griffin

 

Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist Networks in the Circum-Caribbean, 1900-1925. Dr. Kirwin R. Shaffer

 

When is the Cross not a Nation: Debates in the Construction of a National Identity in Trinidad and Tobago since 1962. Ms. Sparkle Ferreira

 

When My Lady has had Enough: Performances of Freedom in Alice Childress's Copra: A West Indian Drama. Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

 

Whose Jubilee? Race and Identity in Nineteenth Century Barbados . Dr. Marcia Burrowes

 

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