10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

• Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Greetings
• Introduction of Keynote Speaker
• Keynote Address: Tobias Buckell
• Vote of Thanks
• Closing Remarks

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

• Patriarchy and Queer Affiliations in the Contemporary Caribbean Domestic Novel: A Study of Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter and Ingrid Persaud’s Love After Love: Elizabeth Jackson, The UWI, St. Augustine
• Neither Here nor Queer:  Battyboys, Bulldaggers and Bugarrons in the Age of Queer Liberalism: Kedon Willis, The City College of New York

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

• Daylight Come on the Converged Caribbean: Jarrel De Matas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• “A toppled ruined tidal door in the greenhouse drought spectre of earth and sky”: The call for a visionary change of the breach in the ancient vestiges of synchronicity in Wilson Harris’s The Mask of the Beggar: Shareed Mohammed, The UWI, St. Augustine  

4:00 p.m. – 5: 30 p.m.

• ‘Up Inna the Video Light’: Batty Boy and the Radical Refusal of Recuperation: Jovanté Anderson, University of Miami
• Filming Heterotopias: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe as a Textual and Cultural Survival Strategy: Andrew Kendall, University of Guyana
• Project Caribbean Experiment: The Use of Science Fiction in Sr. Langosta’s Music Video ‘Island’s Loophole’: Michelle Ramos-Rodríguez, Independent Scholar

10:00 a.m. - 11: 30 a.m.

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

• “Only the Fool Points at His Origin with His Left Hand”: Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Celebration of His Authentic Origin: Leonard Obina Onwuegbuche, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike
• Who are We? Explorations of Self in Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Mother Poem and George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin: Alfrena Jamie Pierre, The UWI, St. Augustine
• Traditional Performing Arts and Self Assertion: Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s Use of Musical Variations in Literature: Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

• Effects of and Alternatives to the Tourist Industry in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry: Maria Grau Perejoan, University of the Balearic Islands
• Diaspora and Transnational Caribbean Home Cooking: Keja Valens, Salem State University

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

• Edward Kamau Brathwaite at Carifesta ’72: René Johannes Kooiker, Yale University
• (Type)ing Brathwaite: Digital Transformations from Paper to Pixel: Samantha Stephens, University of Virginia

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

• Elaine Savory, Emeritus Professor, The New School, Literary Studies and Environmental Studies
• Kwame Dawes, Professor, University of Nebraska

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

• Before the Cradle and Beyond the Grave: Concerns and Considerations about Pedagogy and Caribbean Literature: Samuel Soyer, The UWI, Cave Hill
• The Value of Popular Knowledge in Caribbean Literature Classes: Scott Ting-A-Kee, Independent Scholar
• Adapting Caribbean Literary Texts into Virtual Reality: A ‘User-Response Approach’: Amanda Zilla, The UWI, St. Augustine

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

• Theorizing Traumatology in the Fiction of Curdella Forbes: Thom C. Addington , Richard Bland College of William & Mary
• “Maybe broken is just the same as being”: Brokenness and the Body in Kei Miller’s Short Stories: Tohru Nakamura, Keio University
• “If I have to kill a tree child to save my child, I’ll do it”: Human and Nonhuman Extinctions on Hispaniola in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light and Rita Indiana’s Tentacle: Seanna Viechweg (University of Virginia)

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

• Rainbow Bright: Unsettled Futures, Queer Precarity, and Caribbean Apocalypses in Rita Indiana’s Tentacle: Suzanne F. Boswell, Independent Scholar
• Transgressive Loves: Images of Contemporary Trinidad in Novels by Three Women Writers: Michael Mitchell, University of Paderborn
• “Of Chimeras and Churiles: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Reimaginings of the Monstrous Past”: Lisa Outar, Independent Scholar

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.