Friday March 31, 2017. Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Caribbean Literature and Culture 9:30 – 10:00: Second floor atrium, Tawes Hall. Coffee and sign-in.

10:00 – 11:00: 2115 Tawes Hall First session: Writing Carnival from the Diaspora Moderator: Corey Lamont, Howard University “Writing ‘The Hiroshima Mushroom Cloud Mas.’ Skype Conversation with Roger McTair, Creative Writer, Toronto, Canada/Trinidad & Tobago.

“Horror and the Global Citizen: The Work of Carnival, Folklore, and Roger McTair.” Curdella Forbes, Howard University

11:05-11:45 Second Session: Considering the Carnivalesque Moderator: Orrin Wang, University of Maryland “Carnivalesque Aesthetics?” Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland.

11:45 – 11:55: Coffee break, Second Floor Atrium

12:00 – 1:20 Third Session: A Caribbean Community Carnival in the Washington Metropolitan Area Moderators: Dayleen DeRiggs and Althea Grey-McKenzie, Carivision Community Theatre

“Carnival on the Streets of the Washington Metropolitan Area: A History.” Von Martin (WPFW (Pacifica Foundation, Washington) and Caribbeana Communications)

“Organizing and Costuming a Carnival Band” Kenley (Shortmus) John

1:25 – 2:25 : Lunch, Second Floor Atrium, Tawes Hall

2:30 – 3:30 Fourth Session: Dramatized Readings and other Explorations Moderator: Merle Collins

“Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Mas” Carivision Community Theatre

“Caribbean Carnival and the Carnivalesque in the Fiction of Paule Marshall and Earl Lovelace” Gustavo Quintero, Undergraduate Student, University of Maryland

“Excerpted Voices from Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, The Timeless People” Laurel Beavan, Aautumn Evans-Jones, Elliot Frank, Undergraduate students, University of Maryland

3:30 – 4:30 Keynote : Writers Playin Mas – A Revisitation Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College Introduction : Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland

4:30 – 5:00 Thank you and Community Conversation Moderator: Merle Collins, University of Maryland Open discussion from the floor. Carnival stories. Conference participants tell their stories of carnival through the years. Conference Discussion Ends

Carnival Spinning at Rollingcrest Community Center Interested participants go to Lot JJ (the parking lot behind Tawes), to board bus for Rollingcrest Community Center. Bus is scheduled to leave at 5:15. At Rollingcrest, the spinning tutor will lead participants on a virtual ride (on stationary bikes) along the traditional Washington DC route of the Caribbean carnival. Participants will exercise to some typical carnival (calypso and soca) music. The bus is scheduled to arrive back at Lot JJ by approximately 7p.m.