SESSION I - 9.30 a.m. – 11.00 a.m., Room: Shell B

Panel 1: Thinking Freedom

CHAIR: Professor Alan Cobley

• Independence or Nationalism? A Fresh Look at Andreu Iglesias' Los derrotados - Victor Simpson , UWI, Barbados
• Performative Bondage: Dancing in the Dark - Agnel Barron , UWI, Barbados
• Freedom and Identity: The Limits of Freedom - Sherry Asgill , UWI, Barbados

11.15 a.m.-12.45 p.m., Room: Shell A

Panel 2: Independence and Political Freedom

CHAIR: Dr. Don Marshall

• Black Massa or Liberator?: Eric Williams and the Labour Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, 1960-1980 - Jerome Teelucksingh , UWI, Trinidad
• When is the Cross not a Nation: Debates in the Construction of a National Identity in Trinidad and Tobago since 1962 - Sparkle Ferreira , UWI, Barbados
• Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist Networks in the Circum Caribbean, 1900-1925 - Kirwin Shaffer , Penn State University - Berks College , PA , USA
• Participatory Political and Economic Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean: An Imperative for the 21 st Century - Ajama Nangwaya , University of Toronto , Canada

1.45 pm – 3.15 pm (Parallel Session)

Panel 3: Education and Equality of Opportunity I - Room: Shell A

CHAIR: Dr. Jennifer Obidah

• Museum Education as a Mode to Equal Opportunities - Hilde Neus , Suriname Museum Foundation , Suriname
• 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 ? – Stacey Blackman , UWI, Barbados
• Integrating ICT into the Language Arts Curriculum - Ngoni Chipere , UWI, Barbados

Panel 4: Language and Freedom - Room: Shell B

CHAIR: Professor Mark McWatt

•  A Reference to Freedom in Two Old West Indian Sayings - Bernadette Farquhar , UWI, Barbados

•  Language Identity and Freedom: A Creole Perspective - Hazel Simmons-McDonald , UWI, Barbados

•  Freeing the Imagination, Decolonizing Education: The Relevance of Rastafarian Orature for Schooling and Educating Afro-Caribbean Youth - Kaydeene Reddie , University of Toronto , Canada

3.00 – 5.00 pm.

Panel 5: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Freedom - Room: Shell A

CHAIR: Dr. Ngoni Chipere

•  Taboo “Masons”: Women Infiltrating ‘Secret' Fraternities in Barbados . Alison Ramsay , UWI Barbados .

•  The Caribbean Plantation System and its Legacy - Margaret Cox , Touro College , NY , USA

•  St. Lucia 's Folk Culture and the Struggles for Emancipation - Travis Weekes, UWI Barbados

•  Re-Educating the Abolitionist Mind: the Need for a New Perspective on Wilberforce 9 and Lord Nelson) in Barbados – Trevor Marshall , Barbados Community College, Barbados

7.30 p.m. – “Three Nights of Freedom”

Performance: Drumming *A Barbadian Slave Narrative* Dance/Drama of ‘Bidding' on the auction block

Keynote Address – ‘Different Trajectories of Freedom in the Anglophone Caribbean'

Delivered by Professor Bridget Brereton, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

Venue: The Theatre, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI

9.00-10.30 a.m.

Panel 6: Freedom Research - Room: Shell A

CHAIR: Dr. Marcia Burrowes

• The Evolution of the Caribbean Woman Griot: From Kincaid's Annie to Kempadoo's Lula - Crista Mohammed, UWI, Trinidad
• “free to wine free to wuk my waist": Interrogating an Expression of Freedom in Barbados Popular Dance Culture - John Hunte , postgraduate student, UWI, Barbados
• Freedom of the Spirit and African Cultural Retentions: The case of East Port-of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - Sandra Gift & Oba Kenyatta Omawale Kitem , UWI, Trinidad
• Myth and Ritual in Hosay, Ramleeela and Carnival as Expressions of Vibrant Culture - Edith Perez-Sisto , Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

10.45-12.15 p.m.

Panel 7: Race and Representation - Room: Shell A

CHAIR: Dr. Joyce Stewart

• Francophone Caribbean Writers and the Legacy of Negritude - Kahiudi Mabana , UWI, Barbados
• Negritude and Globalization: Caught Loitering on Colonial Premises - Margaret Gill & Joy Workman, UWI, Barbados
• Black to Creole and Back: Investigating Caribbean Discursive Identities – R. Anthony Lewis, University of Technology , Jamaica
• Whose Jubilee? Race and Identity in Nineteenth Century Barbados - Marcia Burrowes , UWI, Barbados

1.15-2.45 p.m.

Panel 8: Freeing the Imagination - Room: Shell A

CHAIR: Ms. Margaret Gill

• Freedom in the Mas(k): The Diasporic Carnivalesque in Midnight Robber - Michelle Smith-Bermiss , James Madison University, USA
• Lysitrata with Locks: A Study of a Cultural Transplantation of a Greek Play to a Contemporary Caribbean Setting - Elisabeth Bladh, UWI, Barbados
• When My Lady has had Enough: Performances of Freedom in Alice Childress's Copra: A West Indian Drama - Elizabeth Brown-Guillory , University of Houston, USA
• Eulogizing Liberators and the Myth of Freedom - Philip Nanton, UWI, Barbados

3:00-4.30p.m.

Panel 9: Sexuality and Freedom Themes

CHAIR: Ms. Carmen Hutchinson-Miller

• Latina Lesbian Activism and Documentation - Juanita Diaz-Cotto, State University of New York at Binghamton , USA
• The Challenges of Citizenship, Vulnerability and Risk: Gender, Social Change, and the Epidemics of HIV and AIDS - Robert Carr , UWI, Jamaica
• Gender and Sexuality in Maryse Conde's Recent Fiction - Carine Mardorossian , State University of New York, USA

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.

Panel 10: Gendered Identities

CHAIR: Dr. Aviston Downes

• Exploring Representations of Gendered Nationalism in (Jamaican) Dancehall Popular Culture: The Search for a Method - Agostino Pinnock, UWI, Jamaica
• Manipulating the Freedom Road : Free Coloured Women in Pre-Emancipation Barbados - Pedro Welch , UWI, Barbados
• Are Caribbean Women Sexually Emancipated from the Chains of Slavery? - Annecka Marshall, UWI, Jamaica & Donna Maynard , UWI, Barbados
• 21st century Caribbean Woman Question: What Oppresses Women? - April Bernard, UWI, Barbados

10.45 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.

Panel 11: West Indian Independence and Political Freedom

CHAIR: Dr. Richard Goodridge

• The West Indies Federation: the Route/Root to West Indian Nationhood Stanley Griffin , UWI, Barbados
• ‘Dwell Together in Unity': Political Hopes and Expectations for the West Indian Federation - Cherri-Ann Beckles, UWI, Barbados
• Freedom Attained or Denied: Interrogating the Legacy of the West Indies Federation - Sharon Alexander-Gooding , UWI, Barbados

1.15 p.m. – 2.45 p.m.

Panel 12: Migration and Other Freedoms

CHAIR: Dr. Pedro Welch

• Redefining Freedom by Extending the Boundaries of Barbados: An Examination of early Barbadian Migration within the Caribbean - Alana Johnson , UWI, Barbados
• Dominica as Spiritual Landscape: Representations of Nature and Ritual in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Maria Elena John's Unburnable - Ena Harris , Bard College, USA
• Religion and the Creation of Ethnic Violence in Guyana - Kean Gibson , UWI, Barbados
• Immigrant Empowerment: Through economic benefit or despite economic marginalization in host countries: The case of Barbados – Ranjini Thaver , Stetson University , Florida , USA

3.00-4.30

Panel 13: Education and Equality of Opportunity II

CHAIR: Dr. Stacey Blackman

• 'Can u assist me?': Help needed with communicating skills more so than communications technology” Kelvin Quintyne , UWI, Barbados
• Libraries and Freedom: The Implications of Freedom of Information for Libraries in Barbados - Beverley Wood, UWI, Barbados
• Transformative Dialogues: Successes and Challenges Teaching Theories of Difference - Jennifer Rossi , St. John Fisher College , USA

7.30 p.m. “Three Nights of Freedom”

Keynote Address –

‘Assimilation or Emancipation: the Guadeloupean dilemma' delivered by M. Jean-Claude Lombion, Mayor, Morne à l'Eau, Guadeloupe

Performance: Haitian Dance and Drumming: tribute to the Festive and Sacred Arts of Haiti featuring acclaimed Haitian Choreographer and Dancer, Jean-Rene Delsoin.

Venue: The Theatre, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI