University of Birmingham (Department of Modern Languages)

Contemporary Caribbean Visual Culture: Artistic Visions of Global Citizenship

Registration: Fage Library, Arts Building Thursday June 12 Arts Building, Lecture Room 3 Friday June 13 Arts Building, Room 201 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday, 12th June

Arts Building Lecture Room 3

9 Registration-Coffee 9´30-10 Caribbean Visions of Global Citizenship: Mobility, Engagement and Dissent: Opening Remarks by Conrad James and Carlos Garrido Castellano 10-11 Gazing Outwards and Family Photographs As Catching Color, or Chair: Looking Back: Agents of Social the Skin as James Configuring Caribbean Memory and Canvas: New Clifford visual culture. Roshini Citizenship. Grace Visual Economies Kent Kempadoo. University of Aneiza Ali. Editorial East London Director. Of Note in Caribbean Magazine Popular Culture. Patricia J. Saunders. University of Miami

11-12 The Ghetto Biennale: Opaque Curation: Haiti’s First Chair: Toward a Border Contemporary Haitian National Pavilion Francisco J. Culture. Leah Gordon. Art between at the Venice Hernández independent artist and Autonomous Biennale: Adrián curator Musealization and Claiming Opacity Foreign Presentation. on a Global Stage. David Frohnapfel. Wendy Asquith. Freie Universität Berlin University of Liverpool/Tate Liverpool

Lunch Break 13´00-14´00 Visual Culture and Remembrance, Re- Visualizing the Chair: Criminal Iconization: The membering, Changing Ghetto: Patricia J. Meaning and Function of Diasporisation of the Aestheticizing Saunders Visual Images in the Chinese Jamaican: Poverty and Perpetuation of ‘Necropolis’ Project and Violence in Donmanship and Crime the Revitalised Ethnic Trench Town, in Inner-City Association in the Jamaica. Alana Communities in Contact Zone. Yoshiko Osbourne. Jamaica. Shibata. Kobe University of Tracian Meikle. University Amsterdam University of Amsterdam 14´00-15´00 El ojo del canario: The Re-animating the Sobre el discurso Chair: melancholy injunctions Caribbean: Cubanidad homoerótico en el Juan García of Martí. Dunja and Caribbeanness in arte cubano… Única Fehimovic. Cambridge ¡Vampiros en La Entre la University Habana! And Chico y premeditación Rita (2010). Kristian estética, lo van Haesendonck. natural y la University of Lisbon globalización cultural. David Martín López. University of Granada 15´00-15´30 Tea Break 15´30-16´30 "Uncovering the "Uncovering the Memorias de un Chair: John Invisible": Portraits of Invisible": Portraits of tiburón perdido: Perivolaris Latin Americans (and Latin Americans (and Photographing Caribbeans) in London, Cuba in Black Caribbeans) in London, by British-Mexican and White. James by British-Mexican photographers Pablo Clifford Kent. photographers Pablo and and Roxana Allison. University of Roxana Allison. Pablo Allison. Chester Catherine Davies. Independent University of Nottingham Photographer

16´30-17´00 Paulette A. Ramsay. Poetry Introduction by Michael Bucknor 17´00 Wine Reception 20´00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 13th June

Arts Building Room 201

8´30-9 Coffee 9-10 Race and nation in Archivos visuales y Crear desde la Chair: contemporary Cuban registro de obra en el distancia: la David video-art. Yissel Arce Caribe poética expresiva Martín Padrón. Universidad colombiano(1968-2013). de Gertrudis López Autónoma Metropolitana Danny Armando de Xochimilco González Cueto. Rivalta, Brenda Universidad del Cruz, Laura Atlántico Ribero y Carolina Belén Martínez. Aurora Alcaide Ramírez. University of Murcia

10-11 Caribbean visual politics Eyealect: aesthetic and Crime, Volcanic Chair: and the film studies narrative strategies and Eruption, Conrad archipelago: a reply to visual language Diaspora: James Leon Wainwright and development in the Citizenship and Michelle Stephens. feature film Haiti bride. Community in Francisco J. Hernández Yao Ramesar. Francophone Adrián. Durham University of the West Caribbean Film. University Indies. Independent Louise filmmaker Hardwick. University of Birmingham 11-12 I am a citizen too. Between the visual and Aubrey Williams Chair: Tim Disability and the verbal: Artistic Self- and British Cribb representations in film consciousness, Multi- Abstraction: and literature. Jean textuality and the Symbol and Antoine-Dunne. Question of Nationalist Landscape - Alan University of the West Commitment in Edward Dave and Peter Indies Baugh’s Poetry. Lanyon. Stewart Michael Bucknor. Brown. University

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Lunch Break 13´00- Patrick Chamoiseau, “the L’Artocarpe, A Pivotal Moment 14´00 Warrior of the Contemporary Art in 1941: The Chair: Imaginary”: building Contemporain: Getting Dawn of an Other Louise identity with images. Away from the French Caribbean Hardwick Tiphaine Malfettes. Enclave. Joëlle Ferly. Culture In University of Paris- Artist and founder of Martinique. Sorbonne L´Artocarpe Eliane Mackintosh. Birkberk College 14´00- ‘Displace & Distaste’ The Surinam. Lost in the Trini Migrants 15´00 Taste for the Other: Caribbean. Rob Perrée. and Mas Camps Chair: Tavares Strachan's Independent writer and in Boston's Leon Bahamian Pavillion at curator, editor/founder 'Caribbean' Wainwright Venice Biennale 2013. of www.africanah.org Carnival. Ping- Natalie Willis. York St Ann Addo.

John University University of Massachusetts 15´00- Tea Break 15´30 15´30- Conversation between Carlos Garrido & Blue Curry 16´00 16´00- Promesas, nostalgia y Desorden de la vida. One 17´00 otras ilusiones en el Jesús Miguel Rosado Bowl: Evoking Chair: arte.Susan Mézquita. Perdomo. Dominican Belonging. Dianne Aurora Dominican artist and artist Regisford. Oxford Alcaide teacher based in Brookes Ramírez Switzerland 17´00- Diaries of an Immigrant. Tania Hoser and Satya Collimore. 17´30 University of the West Indies Chair: Jean Antoine- Dunne 17´30 Conference Closure and Wine Reception