RTCC PROGRAMME

(RE)THINKING CARIBBEAN CULTURE

PROGRAMME

(Monday June 4 is a Bank Holiday)

DAY 1: TUESDAY JUNE 5

8 - 9 AM

LAST-MINUTE REGISTRATION

9 - 10 AM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS I (LT1)

THEORISING CARIBBEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY: "Les Sables Fertiles: Rethinking a Caribbean Poetics of Location" Professor J. Michael Dash, NYU (Moderator: Dr. Anthea Morrison)

10 AM - 10.30 AM: COFFEE BREAK

10.30 AM - 12 NOON: SESSION I

(Re)Thinking ‘Creolisation’ (Chair: Dr. Anthony Phillips) (LT2)

Nigel Bolland "Reconsidering Creolisation and Creole Societies"
Richard Clarke "From Dialectic to Différance: Rethinking Creolisation in the Work of Stuart Hall"
Mimi Sheller "Theoretical Piracy on the High Seas of Global Culture: Appropriations of ‘Creolisation’ in the Discourses of Globalisation"

Caribbean Cultural Identity (Chair: Dr. Ian Craig) (LR1)

Trevor Marshall "The Barbadian Cultural Explosion of the Late Twentieth Century: Renaissance or Revolution?"
Andrea King, Jomo Phillips, and Icil Phillips "'Shaking Down Babylon’: RasTafari Music as Shaper and Definer of Youth Reality in Barbados"
Rubadiri Victor "Dreaming, its Role in the Life and Death of Civilisations, the Caribbean Dream and How it is Transforming the World"

Language and Caribbean Cultural Identity I (Prof. Peter Roberts) (LR3)

Hazel Simmons-McDonald "Cultural Preservation and Language Reclamation: the St. Lucian Paradox"
Korah Belgrave "‘Ado Pull Cow Rope’: the Use of Prefabricated Language in the Writing of Barbadian Journalists"
Iyabo Osiapem "Running Head: Black English in Bermuda"

Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (Chair: Dr. Judith Soares) (LR4)

Paget Henry "Lewis Gordon: Post-colonial Afro-Caribbean Philosophy in a Neocolonial Age"
Clevis Headley "Theorising Afro-Caribbean Philosophy and African Existentialism through a Reading of Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy"
Aaron Kamugisha "Reading Said and Wynter on Liberation and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition"

12 NOON - 1 PM: BUFFET LUNCH AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

12.30 pm: Book Launch (Teaching Complex Amphitheatre):
Glyne Griffith, ed. Caribbean Cultural Identities (Bucknell Review)

1 - 2 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS II: CARIBBEAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (LT1)

"Representing 'Woman' in the Historiography of Caribbean Slavery" Professor Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice Chancellor Undergraduate Studies, UWI (Moderator: Dr. Alan Cobley)

2 - 3.30 PM: SESSION II

The History of Caribbean Sports (Chair: Dr. Aviston Downes) (LT2)

Donald H. Davis "Jamaica Reggae Boyz: a Critique of the Pre-René Simoes Era (1983-1993)"
Christian Campbell "Aunt Judith's Grands: James, Gender, and the Resistance Down Under"
Jai Jebodhsingh "The Psycho-Cultural Value of Sport in the West Indian Context"

(Re)Thinking ‘Diaspora’ I (Chair: Dr. Glyne Griffith) (LR1)

Michaeline Crichlow "Diasporic Re-Entries into Atlantic Spaces: Acting Out the Nation in Transnational"
Kezia Page Fagon "‘Flinging Stone Behind You’: Deportation and Border Politics: Re-Visiting Notions of the Caribbean and Caribbean Identity"
James Procter "Travelling Bags: Dwelling and Diaspora"
Velma Pollard "Features of Caribbean Culture in the Work of Caribbean Writers in the Diaspora"

Caribbean Pedagogical Issues (Chair: Mr. Tony Griffith) (LR3)

Desmond Clarke "Rethinking Literacy and Literacy Instruction in Barbados: a Socio-Cultural Perspective"
Gerry Rose "Private Secondary Schools in Barbadian Society"
Tony Bastick "Influences on Employment Discrimination in the Caribbean: the Case of the Marginalized Men and Wasted Women of Dominica"
Helen-Ann Wilkinson "The Use of Video in English Language Teaching: Examples from FD10A English for Academic Purposes, UWI (Mona Campus)"

Tourism and Caribbean Cultural Identity (Chair: Mrs. Maureen Lucas) (LR4)

David Bennett and Sophie Gebhardt "Changing Directions: Tourism, Culture and the Caribbean"
Patricia Turnbull "Hustling to Host: Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, and Participation in British Virgin Islands Tourism"
J. Sanchez Taylor "Taboo: Female Sex Tourism, Race, and Heterosexuality in the Caribbean"

Round-Table on Fine Arts in the Caribbean (LR1)

3.30 - 4 PM: LIQUID BREAK

4 - 5 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS III (LT1)

THEORISING 'GENDER' AND 'MISOGYNY' IN THE CARIBBEAN: "A Feminist Theorising of Gender in Commonwealth Caribbean Society: Confronting Power and Politics" Dr. Eudine Barriteau, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI (Moderator: Prof. Christine Barrow)

5 - 6.30 PM: SESSION III

(Re)Thinking Gender and Misogyny in the Caribbean (Chair: Dr. Evelyn O'Callaghan) (LT2)

Alissa Trotz "Behind the Banner of Culture: Gender, ‘Race,’ and Female Subjectivities in Post-colonial Guyana"
Denise deCaires Narain "Embodying Feminisms: Contesting Definitions and Performances of ‘the’ Caribbean Woman"
Michael Bucknor "Masculine Performance: the Art of Sex--Austin Clarke’s The Origin of Waves and Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain."
Dannabang Kuwabong "Conceptualising The Lonely Londoners and Wide Sargasso Sea as Narratives of Migratory Misogyny"

The ‘Local' and the 'Global’ (Chair: Mr. Phil Nanton) (LR1)

Mark McWatt "‘Omens of Humanity’: Global Texts and Contexts in Wilson Harris’s Critical Writings"
Hilbourne Watson "The Human History of Nature versus the State of Nature: Interrogating the Impact of Orthodox Theorising on Colonial and Postcolonial Conceptions of Culture in the Caribbean"
Annalee Babb "Strangers to Ourselves: Re(en)visioning Caribbean Culture in a Globalised Socio-Political Economy"
Stephen Jennings "‘Glocalisation’: a Possible Concept in the Rethinking of Current Caribbean Culture"

Caribbean Music I (Dr. Curwen Best) (LR3)

Mike Alleyne "Caribbean Identity and the International Recording Industry"
Janice Millington "Knocking the Expressive Out of Us: Approaches to Music Education in a Caribbean Cultural Context"
Elizabeth Watson "Fete, History, or Both? An Analysis of the ‘Tune o’ de Crop’ Winners in Barbados, 1979 - 2000"
Carolyn Cooper "‘Vile Vocals’: Exporting Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics to Barbados"

Caribbean Cultural Studies (Chair: Dr. Victor Chang) (LR4)

Grant Farred "A Place of Origins, Originary Texts: Beyond a Boundary and Caribbean Cultural Studies"
Isabel Hoving "The Need for Interdisciplinarity: Gardening, Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, and Cultural Studies"
Maria Koundoura "The Practice of Theory: Reading the Caribbean in Culture Studies"
Joe Pereira "Introducing Cultural Studies in UWI: Reflections on an Experience"

NO DINNER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

7.30 PM - 9.30 PM: OPENING CEREMONY
(MC: Mr. Gerry Rose)

7.30 pm: Welcoming Address: Dr. Alan Cobley, Dean, Faculty of Humanities
7.45 pm: Welcome Remarks: The Minister of Education and Culture (Ag.), Senator Cynthia Forde
8.00 pm: Feature Address: The Vice Chancellor of UWI Professor Rex Nettleford
8.30 pm - 9.30 pm: Cocktails and food will be served and entertainment provided by David Hutchinson on the steel pan.

DAY 2: WEDNESDAY JUNE 6

9 - 10 AM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS IV (LT1)

THEORISING 'ETHNICITY,' 'RACE,' AND 'RACISM' IN THE CARIBBEAN: “Theorizing Race and Racism in an Age of Disciplinary Decadence” Prof. Lewis Gordon, Brown U (Moderator: Dr. Paget Henry)

10 - 10.30 AM: COFFEE BREAK

10.30 - 12 NOON: SESSION IV

(Re)Thinking ‘Ethnicity,’ ‘Race,’ and ‘Racism’ I (Chair: Prof. Mark McWatt) (LT2)

Leslie Lim "Let’s Talk About 'Race': Daring to Confront 'Racist' Ideologies in Anglophone Caribbean Discourse"
Anthony Phillips "White Bias in Twentieth-Century Barbados: from Fernando Henriques to George Lamming"
Philip Nanton "Collymore: a Man of the Threshold"
Kim Robinson "White West Indian Writers and their Black Protagonists"

(Re)Thinking ‘Diaspora’ II: the Black Atlantic Thesis (Chair: Dr. Michael Bucknor) (LT3)

Lauren Onkey "The Black Atlantic and the Caribbean"
Manuel Martin-Rodriguez "The Hispanic Atlantic: Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and the Diaspora"
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal "Hybridity and Diasporization in the 'Black Atlantic': The Case of Chombo"

The Law and Caribbean Cultural Identity (Chair: Dr. Kean Gibson) (LR3)

Cynthia Oliver "Performing the Native: Caribbeanness in the U.S. Virgin Islands"
Ummni Khan "Constructing the Female Deviant: The Discourse of Sexualisation and Sodomisation in the Case of Indravani Ramjattan"
Larisa Mann "Shaky Ground, Thin Air: Intellectual Property Law and the Jamaican Music Industry"

Caribbean Carnivals (Chair: Ms. Joan Cuffie) (LR4)

Patricia Moonsammy "J’Ouvert: Syncreticism and Trinidadian National Identity"
Gerard Aching "Masking and Official Visibility: the Legislation of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago"
Belinda Edmondson "Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance"
Cleve Scott "‘Mas ah know yo’’: Carnival and Class Solidarity in St. Vincent and the Grenadines during the Early Twentieth Century"

Film Screening I (ALT): Bruce Paddington's George Lamming, God give us the talent..

12 NOON - 1 PM: BUFFET LUNCH AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

12.30 pm: Book Launch (Teaching Complex Amphitheatre): George Lamming Conversations II

1 - 2 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS V (LT1)

THEORETICAL ISSUES IN CREOLE LINGUISTICS: "The Descent of the Creole Speaker: a Cartesian Critique of 'Neo'-Darwinian Linguistics" Professor Michel DeGraff, MIT (Moderator: Prof. Peter Roberts)

2 - 3.30 PM: SESSION V

The Historiography of Caribbean Slavery (Chair: Dr. John Mayo) (LT2)

Brigitte Kossek "The Remaking of Any Body During Slavery: Power, Dread, and Desire: Postcolonial Theory as a Challenge for the Rewriting of Slavery--the Rewriting of Slavery as a Challenge for Postcolonial Theory"
Pedro Welch "Reconceptualising Slavery: the Urban Context"
Fred Limare "Double-Edged Faith: Caribbean Quakers and Slavery"
Carlotta Abrams "Azucar Amarga: Bitter Sugar: Mississippi’s Connection to Cuba Before and After Batista"

(Re)Thinking the Caribbean ‘Nation-State’ and ‘Nationalism’ (Chair: Dr. Don Marshall) (LR1)

Charles V. Carnegie "Imagining the Postnational"
Heather Andrade "The Democratisation of Narration / Building the Nation State: An Analysis of Earl Lovelace’s Salt"
Beth Wightman "Island (E)states: the Space of Anglophone Caribbean Literary Culture"
Phillippe Zacair "Caribbean Nationalism and Expressions of Identity During the Cuban Wars of Independence in the Nineteenth Century"

The Curriculum and Caribbean Cultural Identity (Chair: Dr. Glenford Howe) (LR3)

Martha Isaac "Ethnogenesis: a Curriculum Afterword"
Terry Harewood "Beyond the Union Jack: Reflections on Culture and Education Under the Blue, the Yellow and the Black"
Ruth Perry "Post-Colonial Exports: Teaching Crick Crack Monkey in the Bahamas in 1989"

Language and Caribbean Cultural Identity II (Chair: Dr. Kean Gibson) (LR4)

Jeannette Allsopp "Labelling in Caribbean Languages as an Indicator of Caribbean Cultural Identity"
Richard Allsopp "The Psychic Dimension of Caribbean Linguistic Identity"
Lionel Davidas "Toward a Comparative Approach in Teachers’ Training Schemes and a Plea for Early Language Learning in the Caribbean"

Film Screening II (ALT): Michelle Mohabeer's Child-Play, Coconut / Cane & Cutlass

3.30 - 4 PM: LIQUID BREAK

4 - 5 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS VI (LT1)

PHILOSOPHY IN THE CARIBBEAN: "Philosophy and Authenticity" Professor Kwasi Wiredu, Duke U & U of South Florida (Moderator: Dr. John Mayo)

5 - 6.30 PM: SESSION VI

Contested Concepts and Conceptual Contests in the Caribbean (Chair: Mr. Gerry Rose) (LT2)

Majid Amini "Caribbean Philosophy or Philosophy in the Caribbean?"
Ed Brandon "Creolisation, Syncretism, and Multiculturalism"
Sherry Asgill "What is Caribbean Identity?"

(Re)Thinking ‘Ethnicity,’ ‘Race,’ and ‘Racism’ II (Chair: Dr. Clive Lewis) (LT3)

Jennifer Hurley "The Discursive Construction of Race and its Impact on Caribbean Society"
Juliet Krikel "Children’s Ideas about Difference in a Multi–Constituent London Borough"
Carmel Haynes "The Grey Area: Some Observations on Black on Black Racism in Contemporary Britain"
Gerise Herndon "Culture versus Race in Immigrant Literature: Pineau and Kincaid"

Cultural Identities in the Caribbean Diaspora (Chair: Dr. Carl Wade) (LR1)

Dara Byrne "Constructing Cari-Canada: Exploring Hybrid Identities in First-Generation Caribbean-Canadian Youth"
Richardine Woodall "(Re)Thinking My ‘-Ness’: Diasporic Caribbean Blacks in the Canadian Context"
Frank Robinson "The Caribbean Diaspora in Panama: Defensive Nationalism and Anti-West Indian Sentiment"
Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra "Rethinking Utopianism in Caribbean Diasporic Narratives"

Francophone Caribbean Literature (Chair: Dr. Martha Isaac) (LR3)

Anthea Morrison "Native and Other Lands: Reconfigurations of Home in Recent French Caribbean Fiction".
Renée Larrier "‘Girls by the Shore’: Sarah, Amabelle Désir, and The Farming of Bones"
Susan Yearwood "Trauma, Contradictory Messages and Cultural Anomaly in Edwige’s Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory"
Medha Karmarkar "Poetic Mothers and Witches in Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Maryse Condé’s Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem"

Religion and Caribbean Cultural Identity (Chair: Dr. June Bobb) (LR4)

Lucie Pradel "African Contributions to Caribbean Cultures"
Kean Gibson "Guyana Comfa Religion: a Confrontation of Diversity"
Ken Gelder "Haitian Voodoo as Postcolonial Symptom"
Flora Gonzalez "Abakua Secrets: from Lydia Cabrera to Belkis Ayon"

6.30 - 7.30 PM: LIGHT DINNER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

7.30 PM - 9.30 PM: CULTURAL EVENING (LT1)

Poetry and Fiction Readings by:
- Mark McWatt,
- Margaret Gill,
- Velma Pollard,
- Eddie Baugh,
- Marjorie Maxwell, etc.
Folk-Singing: Gabby
Dance Performance: the Israel Lovell Foundation

DAY 3: THURSDAY JUNE 7

9 - 10 AM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS VII: CARIBBEAN CRITICAL THEORY (LT1)

"Literary Theory and the Caribbean" Professor Edward Baugh, UWI, Mona (Moderator: Dr. Evelyn O'Callaghan)

10 - 10.30 AM: COFFEE BREAK

10.30 - 12 NOON: SESSION VII

(Re)Thinking Form, Genre, and Representation (Chair: Dr. Richard Clarke) (LT2)

Jana Braziel "Trans-American, Trans-Caribbean, and Diasporic Transmutations of Autobiography"
Patricia Saunders "Those Who Insist on Be(com)ing: Historical Subjects and the Task of Translating Identity"
Andrew Millington "The Theory of Practice in Making Caribbean Culture: African Diaspora Film and Caribbean Philosophy"
Kelvin Quintyne "A Structuralist Analysis of Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas"

Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Chair: Dr. Anthea Morrison) (LT3)

Vivian Nun-Halloran "Reinventing the Ethnic Self in Cambridge and Feeding the Ghosts"
Ryan Trimm "Narrative Antagonisms: Or, Racial and Gendered Englishness in Cambridge"
Linda Lang-Peralta "Ambivalence in Jamaica Kincaid: 'Smiling with My Mouth Turned Down'"
Claudia Marquis "‘Not At Home in Her Own Skin’: Jamaica Kincaid, Selfhood, and History"

‘Nation Language’ and Caribbean Literature (Chair: Ms. Korah Belgrave) (LR1)

Faith Smith "Can Anything Good Come from Cedros? Nation Language in 19th Century Trinidad"
Leah Rosenberg "The Road to Nation Language: the Importance of Unpopular Literature"
Carolyn Allen "Decoding this ‘Creolised Mess’: a Taxonomy of Code-Switching Strategies in Banana Bottom and Myal"

Hispanic Caribbean Literature (Chair: Mrs. Amparo McWatt) (LR3)

Nicole Roberts "Inventing Paradise: Representations of the Dominican Nation in the Poetry of Blas Jiménez"
Virginia Adan-Lifante "History and Self-Knowledge: ‘El baúl de Miss Florence’ by Ana Lydia Vega"
Victor Simpson "Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity"

Comparative Approaches to Caribbean Literature (Chair: Dr. Marie Umeh) (LR4)

Maritza Stanchich "Wilson Harris and Edouard Glissant on Faulkner: Toward Caribbean Commensurabilities"
Ian Bethell Bennett "Sugar’s Succulent Subjugation"
Beverley-Jean Daniel "Patterns of Mothering from Africa to the Caribbean: a Contemporary Analysis"
Elizabete Vasconcelos "Mothering Memory: (Re)Memory in Three Novels of the Diaspora"

Film Screening III (ALT): Yao Ramesar's Mami Wata, Black Indian

12 NOON - 1 PM: BUFFET LUNCH AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

12.30 pm: Book Launch (Teaching Complex Amphitheatre): Don Marshall and Glenford Howe, eds. The Empowering Impulse: the Nationalist Tradition of Barbados

1 - 2.30 PM: SESSION VIII

Towards a Caribbean Aesthetic (Chair: Prof. Edward Baugh) (LT2)

Raymond Ramcharitar "The Problem with / Need for Theory in the Anglophone Caribbean"
Donette Francis "The JAZZ Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite"
Jean Antoine "An Emerging Audio-Visual Caribbean Aesthetic"
Margaret Gill "Dominant Feminist Literary Theories and Literary Discourse in Two George Lamming Texts"

The Legacy of José Marti (Chair: Mr. Victor Simpson) (LT3)

Ricardo Szmetan "José Martí hoy. Del mito al hecho: apropiación política de un ícono"
Fernando Operé "Transnacionalismo y Marti"
Raphael Dalleo "An Other Our America: Re-Rooting the Lineage of José Martí, through Edouard Glissant"

Colonial Discourse and the Construction of Race in the Caribbean (Chair: Ms. Sherry Asgill) (LR3)

Glyne Griffith "Reading in the Dark: Race, Literature and the Discourse of Blackness"
Lisa Blansett "Whiteness on the Edge of Time: Making Race in Janet Schaw’s Eighteenth Century Travels"
Joanna Johnson "The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands: Whose Testimony?"

The Indian and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean (Chair: Dr. Carolyn Cooper) (LR4)

Brinda J. Mehta "Exile and the Indo-Caribbean Predicament in Ramabai Espinet’s ‘Barred: Trinidad 1987'"
Guha Shankar "Performance Anxiety: the Cultural Politics of Representation in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora"
Lisa Yun "Transgressions of Body and Race: Re-Imagining Chinese Diaspora"
Victor Chang "Sexuality as Identity: Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda"

Film Screening IV (ALT): Si me comprendieras (Cuban film with subtitles)

2.30 - 3 PM: LIQUID BREAK

3 - 4.30 PM: SESSION IX

Caribbean Philosophical Issues (Chair: Dr. Majid Amini) (LT2)

Tunde Bewaji "Sheparding and Leadership: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Polity"
Gordon Buffonge "‘Culture made me do it’: Identity, Discourse, and Collective Action in Caribbean Culture"
Earl McKenzie "Glissant on Time and History"
Nalini Persram "Guerilla Governmentality"

(Re)Thinking Sexuality and Homophobia in the Caribbean (Dr. Clive Lewis) (LR1)

Rosamund King "Sex and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature: Towards a Textual Genealogy"
Carmen Gillespie "Nobody Ain’t Billing Me: an Exploration of Homophobia, Anti-Americanism, and Intertextuality in Contemporary Barbados"
Ivette Romero "Explosions of Colour: Responses to AIDS and Homophobia in Puerto Rican Visual Arts"
Jerome Wynter "‘The Violence of Bisexuality’ – Contact and the Nature of ‘Caribbean Cultural Identity’: a Reading of David Dabydeen’s Turner"

Caribbean Film (Chair: Dr. Jane Bryce) (In Memory of Helen Carnegie) (LR3)

Michelle Mohabeer "Towards a Caribbean Cinematic Aesthetics: Framing Caribbeanness Through a Self-Reflexive Lens"
Bruce Paddington "Imagining the Caribbean"
Ian Craig "Is the Gaze Foreign? Cuban Cinema in the Age of Tourism and the Satellite Dish."
Guillermina De Ferrari "If You Only Understood: Race, Gender, and the New Rhetoric of Defeat in Today’s Cuba"

Caribbean Fine Arts (Chair: Ms. Carmel Haynes) (LR4)

Krista Thompson "Nationalizing the Traveller’s Gaze in Jamaican Art (1922-62)"
Veerle Poupeye "Harmony Hall Intuitives: Jamaican Popular Art as National Culture and Commodity"
Erica James "What Good are Roots if You Can't Take Them With You? Caribbean Art in the Global Imaginary"
Yanique Hume "Re-Figuring Cubanidad: the Haitian Presence in Cuban Popular Festivals"

4.30 - 5 PM: BREAK (NO REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED)

5.00 - 6.30 PM: SESSION X

Afro-Caribbean Philosophy II (Chair: Ms. Taitu Heron) (LT2)

George Belle "A Nile Valley Philosophy and Cognitive Caribbean Thought: the Political Perspective of Caliban’s Reason"
Kamau Brathwaite "Caribbean Cosmology, Caribbean Aesthetics"
Maceo Dailey and Will Guzman "Ekwueme Michael Miles Thelwell: the Caribbean Mind and the Quest for Social and Political Justice in the Twentieth Century African Diaspora"

Technology and Caribbean Cultural Identity (Chair: Mr. Kelvin Quintyne) (LR1)

Danielle Elliott "The View from Cyberspace: Caribbean Culture on the Internet"
Colin Depradine "Virtual Communities: the New Digital Frontier"
Curwen Best "Cricket and the Digital Dispensation"

Caribbean Music II (Chair: Janice Millington) (LR4)

Louis Regis "Towards a Methodology for Calypso Research: a Suggestion"
Yvonne Bobb Smith "Envisioning Caribbean Popular Culture: Theory, Pedagogy"
Nadine Rogers "Carnival and Health: the Case for Calypsonians as Indigenous Folk Healers in HIV Prevention Efforts"
Umi Vaughan "Donde estan los especuladores? Contemporary Popular Culture in Cuba"

NO DINNER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

8 PM TILL ?: LAS’ LAP: CRUISE ON THE M. V. HARBOUR MASTER