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The IGDS – RCO Brief Description The conference is a collaboration between the Institute for Gender and Development Studies – Regional Coordinating Office (IGDS –RCO) and the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS). The IGDS – RCO Brief Description The Regional Coordinating Office (RCO) is the administrative hub of the regional Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) and coordinates the regional activities of the three Campus-Based Units, the Mona Campus Unit (MCU), the Nita Barrow Unit (NBU), and the St. Augustine Unit (SAU), including convening meetings of the Unit Heads, the Management Committee and the yearly Regional Planning and Strategy Committee (RPSC) meetings; consulting with the Campus-Based Units on policy formulation and project management; developing and coordinating regional research projects; facilitating collaboration among Campus-Based Units on matters of teaching, research, outreach, publications and conferences; and coordinating the establishment of collaborative relationships with regional and multi-lateral institutions on behalf of the IGDS. In addition, the RCO runs a Graduate Programme and plays an active role in the development of gender-sensitive policies and programmes at the national, regional, and international levels. The RCO also provides technical advice to multi-lateral, governmental, and non-governmental agencies on several projects and programmes. 1 | Page ACWWS Brief Description The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) was formed in 1994 to continue the momentum sparked by the 1988 Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference organized by Prof. Selwyn Cudjoe (then of Wellesley College), and thereby advance creative writing and critical work by and about Caribbean women. ACWWS still celebrates and circulates the literature, orature, and literary scholarship of Caribbean women, but has expanded to include multidisciplinary research about Caribbean women, gender, and sexuality. The organization strives to provide a forum for critical examinations of this wide body of work; increase awareness of the Caribbean diaspora; and foster a climate of cooperation among all linguistic and cultural groups of the Caribbean. Please visit our website: www.acwws.org Executive Committee + affiliations: Giselle Liza Anatol, President Professor, English, University of Kansas Meredith Gadsby, Immediate Past President Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Oberlin College Donna Aza Weir-Soley, Vice President Associate Professor, Florida International University Rhonda Frederick, Secretary Associate Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies, Boston College Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Treasurer Professor, African American Studies and Sociology, The College of New Jersey Opal Palmer Adisa, Publications Editor Professor & University Director, The Institute for Gender and Development Studies, RCO, The University of the West Indies, Mona Vicki Silvera, Archivist, Permanent Collections Libraries, Florida International University Juliet Emanuel George, Archivist, Acquisitions Associate Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College [CUNY] 2 | Page Conference Planning Team IGDS – RCO’s Team Conference Co-Char, Professor Opal Palmer Adisa, University Director, IGDS – RCO, The UWI. Professor Opal Palmer Adisa, is the University Director of The Institute for Gender and Development Studies, of the UWI, located in the Regional Office, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, oversees the IGDS units at Mona, Cave Bill and St Augustine UWI campuses. A gender specialist, cultural activist and writer, Adisa believes that literature and the performance arts are the best approaches to interrogate gender equality and formulate an approach to gender justice; and she has been doing this through her poetry and stories. Her first short story collection, Bake - Face and Other Guava Stories , 1987, Illuminates the lives of working class Jamaican women who are victims of child sexual and physical abuse, domestic violence and other social strictures. Until Judgment Comes, 2009, a collection of 7 stories about Jamaican men, examines the problematic relationship some men have with their mothers and the childhood abuse that thwart their emotional development. Adisa has published 20 books; her essays, poetry and stories have been collected in over 400 journals and her plays which explore these social issues have been performed in California, New York, St Croix, Barbados and Jamaica, Egypt & Brazil. Professor Adisa continues to excavate these themes in her work as she strives for Gender Justice. She headed the Diversity Studies department at California College of the Arts, for a decade, where she taught from 1992-2016. Adisa lectures and facilitates workshops on: Gender mainstreaming and gender equality, Gender-based violence in the Caribbean, Parenting the Child(ren) You Have: Parenting Workshop 101, The Writers as Cultural Activist and Striving from Gender Justice, Writing to Bring About Gender Justice, Ending Child Abuse and Advocating for Children’s Rights, Caribbean Masculinity and Fatherhood & Urban Youth. Other Team Members Dr. Dalea Bean is a Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the IGDS – RCO, The UWI. Her general research interests include women and gender justice in Caribbean history, women in conflict situations, and gender relations in the Caribbean hotel industry and Caribbean masculinities. Her first single-authored book: “Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change” was published in 2017. She has also written <Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up more than Half the Sky commissioned and published by the RJR Gleaner Communications Group. 3 | Page Shawna Kae Burns, Graduate Student, IGDS – RCO, The UWI. She is also a lecturer at The UWI, Mona Campus, and a social worker. Dr. Bronty Liverpool-Williams is an Administrative Officer in the IGDS – RCO, The UWI. She has extensive experience in teaching at the secondary level and served as Deputy Headmistress of the St. Vincent Girls’ High School. She also has expertise in quality assurance in education having, served as Deputy Chief Inspector of the National Education Inspectorate in Jamaica. Her research interests include educational leadership, school inspection, and women in the Caribbean. Kadine Marshall Williams, Senior Secretary, IGDS – RCO, The UWI. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Gender and Development Studies. holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Gender and Development Studies. She provides administrative support to the overall functions of the IGDS - RCO. Dr. Adwoa Onuora is a lecturer in the IGDS – Mona Campus Unit. She has worked in formal and informal educational settings and has expertise in community situated-learning, equity and social change. She has taught and published on critical pedagogy and educational transformation, de- colonizing practices and indigenous epistemologies, the intersection and impact of gender, sexuality/sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, abilities, and culture on women’s lived experiences. Dr. Maziki Thame is a Senior Lecturer in the IGDS - MCU. Her research focuses on the postcolonial Caribbean, the place of race, class, violence, radicalism, identity and gender in political life. Her work asks questions about how gender, race and class shape experiences of citizenship and how liberation is pursued in the Caribbean modern. Her most recent publications include: “Woman Out of Place: Portia Simpson-Miller and Middle Class Politics in Jamaica”, in Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice, edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, and “Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism”, in Small Axe 54. (Source: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/igds/maziki-thame) Conference Co-Chair, Dr. Donna Aza Weir-Soley, Associate Professor in English, FIU Dr. Donna Aza Weir-Soley is the Vice President of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars and Associate Professor of English, and affiliate faculty in African & African Diaspora Studies, Women's Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. Born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, Weir-Soley migrated to the United States at the age of 17. She received her diploma from Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, New York. While an undergraduate at the City University of New York at Hunter College, Weir-Soley was among the first cohort of students of color across the United States to win a Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship in 1988. That 4 | Page fellowship allowed her to study at the prestigious Oxford University in the summer of 1989 (Oxford Center for African Studies, Jesus College) where she took courses with Professors Anthony Appiah, Houston Baker, Carole Boyce-Davies, Geneva Smitherman, Valerie Smith, and many other notable scholars. Dr. Weir-Soley graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College in 1990 and won the Andrew Mellon Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities to attend the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Weir-Soley graduated from U.C. Berkeley with an MA in English (special emphasis in Creative Writing) in 1993, and a PhD in English Literary Studies in 2000. She received a Mellon Travel and Research/Dissertation grant to conduct fieldwork for her dissertation on the relationship between African spirituality, Jamaican Nation language and Caribbean women’s writing in 2000. In 2004-2005, she was awarded the Mellon/Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship to complete
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