CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION welcomes you to their

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JUNE 1-5, 2009

Theme: “Centering the Caribbean in Caribbean Studies” “Centrar el Caribe en los estudios del Caribe” “Mettre la Caraї be au coeur des études caribéennes” 34TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CARIBBEANSTUDIESASSOCIATIONOURHISTORY –

he Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) providing one of the only venues for persons TCCCcis an independent professional organisation working on the Caribbean to come together to devoted to the promotion of Caribbean studies share their work, to engage in collaborative from a multidisciplinary, multicultural point of endeavours, to exchange ideas, to meet each view. It is the primary association for scholars and other, and to develop the field of Caribbean practitioners working on the Caribbean Region Studies. Most importantly, the Caribbean Studies (including Central America and the Caribbean Association has become potentially one of the coast of South America). Its members come from most important vehicles for researching, the Caribbean Region, North America, South analysing, and documenting the growing America, Central America, Europe and significant presence of populations of Caribbean elsewhere, even though more than half of its descent in the United States, Canada, and Europe. members live in the United States, many of them It provides the perfect venue for maintaining the teaching at US universities and colleges. Founded intellectual and academic connections needed to in 1974 by 300 Caribbeanists, the CSA now has study this growing phenomenon. over 1,100 members. Members of the CSA have played leading roles in The Caribbean Studies Association enjoys non- the Caribbean, most notably in public service and profit status and is independent of any public or in academia. These include current and past private institution. Membership is open to anyone service as leaders of governments, administrators interested in sharing its objectives, regardless of in multilateral and bilateral regional academic discipline, profession, ideology,place of organisations. Many of our current members residence, ethnic origin or nationality. serve in senior positions at Caribbean, North American andEuropean universities. The focus of the CSA is on the Caribbean Basin which includes Central America, the Caribbean Coast of Mexico, as well as Venezuela, Colombia, Northeast Brazil and the three Guianas. The Association serves a critical function for scholars CONTENTS

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 4-5

MENSAJE DE LA PRESIDENTA 6-7

MESSAGE DE LA PRESIDENTE 8-9

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR 10-11

MESSAGE FROM THE LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR 12

TIMETABLE 13

PLENARIES 14

HOTEL MAP 15

PANELS 16-51

BOOK LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION 52

FILM PERFORMANCE TRACK 53-60

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 61

PAST,PRESENT AND UPCOMING PRESIDENTS 62

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 63

INDEX 64-73 34TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT’SMESSAGE

PATRICIA MOHAMMED

ear CSA members, first-timers and those from our annual invasions which require for D whose support has made this year's success the time of local organising committees, programme possible – on behalf of the Executive and inputs of commercial and institutional Council and Advisory Board I extend a warm funding? Then there was the term 'Caribbean welcome to the 34th Annual Conference of the Studies' itself, one which was taken for granted – Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) and to as if this had not itself undergone shifts in Jamaica. We look forward to greeting old friends emphasis and disciplinary interests in three and inviting new members and participants into decades. Commenting on the selected theme, the extended family of over 1,000 who now Prof. Bhoendradatt Tewarie (Pro Vice Chancellor, constitute the association's membership. When Planning, University of the West Indies) asks, you come to a CSA conference and join this “What impact has the decades of Caribbean association, you have already made the Studies had on the Caribbean? What has thinking, commitment to one of the many goals that the discussing and writing about the Caribbean done association serves, of advancing the development forthe Caribbean?” of this region and the welfare of its diasporic population. In this vein I pay homage to the 33 A fluctuation of interest in the Caribbean must presidents and the numerous executive council also engage us: flavour of the day a few centuries members before this year's team who have ago, the Caribbean has slipped gently into committed themselves to delivering a conference obsolescence on the Western Hemispheric stage, and taking the CSA through another term. which two-day hosted meetings of the Summit of the Americas cannot easily resolve – we are small In selecting the site of Jamaica this year, one of the players in a very big field. In the world of few prerogatives the president has for his or her scholarship and publishing, Caribbean markets year of office, I have brought the membership to are miniscule and hold very little interest for large my second home in the Caribbean. The theme of presses that must sell books and information to the conference, “Centering the Caribbean in survive. Thus when Dr. Diana Thorburn, Caribbean Studies”, started with a niggling Programme Chair and UWI Jamaican scholar, thought that refused to be dismissed over the last coined the phrase that would become the theme, decade. While the CSA emerged as an association we were both committed as longstanding CSA 34 years ago through the initiatives of scholars members to engaging this year's conference in situated in North America, I was increasingly discussions around these issues. Jamaica was one concerned about the benefits to Caribbean of the best places to do so, as site of the first UWI societies who served each year as hosts to the campus. With the full support of Professor annual conferences. How do these societies gain Gordon Shirley, Principal of UWI's Mona

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Campus, and with Annette Insanally, Director of Cooblal, Secretary/Treasurer, CSA, and Ms the Latin American–Caribbean Centre as our Michelle Seeraj (Research Assistant, UWI, St. Local Organising Chair, together with the Augustine) who assisted as secretariat members ongoing backing of Dr Hamid Ghany, Dean of the at St Augustine, were invaluable and Faculty of Social Sciences (who has hosted the irreplaceable as colleagues. Professor Anton CSA Secretariat at the UWI St Augustine over the Allahar was a hard act to follow as the cheerful yet last four years), the Principal of the St Augustine grounded past president, and he continued to Campus, Professor Clement Sankat, and the Pro provide this year the benefit of his experience, as Vice Chancellors of Research and Graduate did Dr. Dwaine Plaza, Programme Chair 2007/8. Studies, Professors Wayne Hunte and Ronald Drs. Samuel Fure (Cuba) and Maggie Shrimpton Young, we can safely attest to the partnership of (Mexico) looked after travel grant issues that have the University of the West Indies in this year's brought some of you here; while Professor conference and to our shared institutional Jocelyne Guilbault and incoming CSA president interests in tertiary-level delivery in hammering Linden Lewis have ensured that we have free and out ideas in this theme. fair elections to select the next executive. We invite each paid-up member to ensure that you exercise We were overwhelmed with applications of all your vote. Each year we also depend on and kinds this year, and have divided these into celebrate our authors, presses and publishers who tracked sessions that may allow us to shop wisely have become our regulars, and for the in the department store of panels, plenaries and organisation of this aspect of our programme and performances that await you in this programme. the annual book launch event we thank Drs. We have attempted to create no clashes with the Carolle Charles and Lisa Outar. three plenaries that deal with the main theme of the conference in order to allow for full The CSAconference brings us all together to unite participation by members. We invited as scholar- on some common ground, despite differences of in-residence for the week, Professor George many hues. We wanted to put together a Lamming, noted Caribbean author; and we have conference programme that admittedly, begins created a film and performance track that sets up uncharacteristically early. Although taxing for an alternative space in the Jonkanoo Lounge of the those who keep late nights, we have provided Hilton Hotel for the other languages from which times throughout the programme for a siesta if culture writes – visuality, dance, orality and you so choose, or engagement in other spheres music. where numerous invaluable exchanges take place in the CSA – in our recreated internet café in the The association runs on the wheels of its Executive Hilton mezzanine, and at carefully spaced out Council, Advisory Board, Secretariat and receptions and activities that allow us time for a members who commit themselves and deliver on more fluid and pleasurable melding of ideas. their promises. I thank each of you who will have made this programme a success – a full list For those of you who will experience Jamaica for appears on appropriate pages of this programme. the first time, or through the eyes of the CSA, I At the same time, I must single out for special hope that this conference will prove to be attention those who have tirelessly worked on the productive, enjoyable andinspiring. details that have made up the whole. Dr. Diana Thorburn as Programme Chair has been unstinting and caring in her role. Annette Patricia Mohammed Insanally as Local Organising Chair I have come Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies to know, respect and be in awe of in terms of her University of the West Indies, StAugustine managerial and organisational skills. Ms Joy President CSA2008/9

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stimados miembros de la CSA -los que se sobre el tema escogido, el Dr. Bhoendradatt E nos unen por primera vez y aquellos cuya Tewarie (Vicerrector de Planificación de la UWI), contribución ha hecho posible el programa de este se preguntaba "¿Qué impacto han tenido las año, - a nombre del Consejo Ejecutivo y la Junta décadas de Estudios Caribeños sobre el Caribe? Asesora, les extiendo una calurosa bienvenida a la ¿Qué han aportado al Caribe las ideas, XXXIV Conferencia Anual de la Asociación de discusiones y escritos sobre el Caribe?" Estudios Caribeños y a Jamaica. Esperamos con ansiedad saludar viejos amigos y acoger a los Debemos comprometernos también con una nuevos miembros y participantes dentro de una fluctuación en los intereses sobre el Caribe - de familia extendida de más de 1000, quienes ahora sabor cotidiano hace algunos años, el Caribe se ha constituyen la membrecía de la asociación. escurrido sigilosamente hacia una obsolescencia Cuando participan en una conferencia de la CSAy en el escenario del Hemisferio Occidental y esto se unen a esta Asociación, ya se han no puede resolverse fácilmente con dos días de comprometido con uno de los muchos propósitos reuniones en la Cumbre de las Américas – somos a los que sirve la asociación, el de continuar el jugadores pequeños en un campo demasiado desarrollo de esta Región y el bienestar de su grande. En el mundo académico y publicitario, población en la diáspora. En este sentido me los mercados caribeños son minúsculos y gustaría rendir homenaje a los 33 Presidentes y los reportan muy poco interés para la gran prensa numerosos miembros del consejo ejecutivo que que está obligada a vender libros e información precedieron el trabajo del equipo de este año, para sobrevivir. Es así que cuando la Dra. Diana quienes se dedicaron a realizar con éxito una Thorburn, Presidenta del Programa y académica conferencia y conducir la CSA hacia otro periodo de la Universidad UWI acuñara la frase que se de trabajo. convertiría en el tema, como miembros activos de la CSA por mucho tiempo, quedamos ambas Al seleccionar a Jamaica como sede este año, comprometidas a estimular durante esta aprovechando una de las pocas prerrogativas que conferencia discusiones pertinentes a estos el Presidente tiene para su mandato, he logrado asuntos. Consideramos que Jamaica es uno de los traer a la membrecía a mi segundo hogar en el mejores espacios para hacerlo, en cuanto sede del Caribe. El tema de la conferencia "Centrando el primer recinto universitario de UWI y con el Caribe en los estudios Caribeños" comenzó con apoyo total del Profesor Gordon Shirley, Rector una pequeña idea que se ha negado a ser de UWI para el Recinto de Mona, y Annette rechazada durante la última década. Aún cuando Insanally, Directora del Centro para América la CSA nació como una asociación hace 34 años Latina y el Caribe …como nuestra Presidenta por medio de las iniciativas de estudiosos que Local del Comité Organizador. Todo esto, unido vivían en Norteamérica, me sobrecogía la al continuo apoyo del Dr. Hamid Ghany, Decano creciente preocupación sobre los beneficios para de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, quien ha aquellas sociedades caribeñas que habían servido brindado la sede a la Secretaría de la CSA en la cada año como sedes de las conferencias anuales. UWI St. Augustine durante los últimos cuatro ¿Qué ganancias derivaban aquellas sociedades de años, el Rector del recinto de St. Augustine nuestras invasiones anuales que para su éxito Profesor Clement Sankat, los Vicerrectores de requerían el tiempo de los comités organizadores Investigación y Estudios de Postgrado, Profesores locales, así como la contribución financiera de los Wayne Hunte y Ronald Young, nos permite comercios e instituciones? Además de ello, anticipar con certeza la participación de la teníamos el término Estudios Caribeños como tal, Universidad de West Indies durante la dado por sentado – como si el mismo no hubiese conferencia de este año y asegurar que sufrido cambios en su énfasis e intereses compartimos intereses institucionales comunes disciplinarios durante tres décadas. Al comentar sobre una educación superior enfocada en ideas

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que se relacionan con este tema. Samuel Furé (Cuba) y Maggie Shrimpton (México) que se encargaron de los asuntos Abrumados por la enorme cantidad de relativos a las donaciones para viajes y lograron propuestas para presentaciones de todo tipo este traer a algunos de ustedes acá, mientras que la año, decidimos dividirlas en sesiones Profesora Jocelyne Guilbault y el próximo relacionadas de manera que puedan escoger Presidente de la CSA Linden Lewis han sabiamente de entre la oferta de los paneles, asegurado que tendremos elecciones libres y plenarias y actuaciones que les aguardan en este justas para seleccionar al próximo Ejecutivo. programa. Hemos tratado de evitar coincidencias Invitamos a todos los miembros abonados que se entre las tres plenarias que tratan sobre el tema aseguren de emitir su voto. Cada año también central de la conferencia a fin de permitir una dependemos y celebramos nuestros Autores, participación total de la membrecía. Hemos Impresores y Publicistas quienes han llegado a ser invitado un estudioso en residencia para la parte integrante de nuestros eventos, y por la semana, el Profesor George Lamming, notable organización de este aspecto de nuestro autor Caribeño, y hemos preparado una pista de programa y del evento Anual de Lanzamiento de filme y actuación que ofrece un espacio Libros agradecemos a los Dres. Carolle Charles y alternativo en el Salón Jonkanoo del Hotel Hilton Outar. para aquellos otros lenguajes que conforman la cultura- visuales, danza, oralidad y música. La conferencia de la CSA nos une a todos en un terreno común, a pesar de las diferencias con La Asociación funciona gracias al trabajo del muchos matices. Queríamos organizar un Consejo Ejecutivo, la Junta Asesora, la Secretaría y programa de conferencia que comprendemos los miembros que se comprometen y cumplen sus comienza más temprano que de costumbre. Y a promesas. Mi agradecimiento a cada uno de pesar de la carga de trabajo para aquellos que han ustedes que ha contribuido al éxito de este tenido que dedicar noches enteras, hemos programa – en las páginas pertinentes incluido espacio de tiempo libre a lo largo del encontrarán un listado completo. Al mismo programa para aquellos que deseen tomarse una tiempo, debo destacar de manera especial a siesta, o cumplir con un compromiso en otras aquellos que han trabajado incansablemente en esferas donde se producen varios y valiosos todos los detalles que han conformado la intercambios en la CSA - en el internet café que totalidad del evento. La Dra. Diana Thorburn hemos recreado en el Hilton mezannine, así como como Presidenta del Programa ha sido pródiga y en las cuidadosamente espaciadas recepciones y cuidadosa en su papel, Annette Insanally como actividades que nos permita tener tiempo para un Presidenta Local a quien he llegado a conocer, discurrir de ideas más fluido y placentero. respetar y quien me ha sorprendido por sus habilidades administrativas y de organización, la Para aquellos que vivirán la experiencia de Srta. Joy Cooblal Secretaria/Tesorera de la CSA y Jamaica por primera vez, o que lo harán por la Srta. Michelle Seeraj (Asistente de medio de los ojos de la CSA, espero que esta Investigación, UWI St. Augustine) quien asistió a conferencia les resulte productiva, divertida e los miembros de la Secretaría en St. Augustine, inspiradora. han sido todas colegas valiosas e insustituibles; el Profesor Anton Allahar, quien ha dejado un espacio difícil de llenar por su trabajo alegre pero profundo como Ex presidente y quien ha Patricia Mohammed continuado este año ofreciendo el beneficio de su Profesora de Género y Estudios Culturales experiencia; así como lo ha hecho el Dr. Dwaine Universidad de West Indies, StAugustine Plaza, Presidente del Programa (2007/8). Los Dres. Presidenta de la CSA2008/9

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her membres du CSA, à vous nouveaux des Etudes caribéennes ont-elles eu sur la CCCCcvenus parmi nous, et à tous ceux dont le Caraïbe? Qu'est-ce que les réflexions, les soutienC a permis la réalisation du programme de discussions et les écrits ontfait pour la Caraïbe ? » cette année, au nom du Conseil exécutif et du Conseil consultatif, je vous souhaite la bienvenue Le vent tourne pour la Caraïbe, et cela doit nous à la fois à la 34ème Conférence de l'Association interpeler – au centre de tous les intérêts il y a des études caribéennes, et à la Jamaïque. Nous quelques siècles, la Caraïbe a doucement glissé avons hâte de saluer les vieux amis mais aussi vers l'obsolescence sur la scène occidentale d'inviter les nouveaux participants et membres à hémisphérique, fait que deux jours de Sommet rejoindre cette famille élargie qui compte des Amériques ne peut pas facilement maintenant plus de 1000 membres. Venir à une contrebalancer – nous sommes des petits acteurs conférence de CSA et joindre les rangs de cette sur une grande scène. Dans le monde du savoir et Association, c'est déjà s'engager pour la de l'édition, les marches caribéens sont réalisation d'un des nombreux buts, celui de la minuscules et ne présentent que peu d'intérêt poursuite du développement de cette Région et le pour les gros éditeurs dont la survie dépend des bien-être de ses ressortissants. Dans le même ventes de livres et de connaissance. Ainsi, quand esprit, je tiens à rendre hommage aux 33 Diana Thorburn, chercheuse jamaïcaine à présidents et aux nombreux membres du conseil l'Université des West Indies, responsable de la exécutif qui ont précédé l'équipe de cette année programmation de la conférence cette année, a eu qui est soucieuse de mener à bien la conférence et l'idée du slogan qui est par la suite devenu le de porter CSAvers un nouveau terme. thème, nous nous étions déjà engagées, en tant que membres de longue date de CSA, à faire de En choisissant la Jamaïque cette année, le choix du ces questions le pivot des discussions de la site étant une des prérogatives du Président conférence. La Jamaïque était l'un des endroits les durant son mandat d'un an, j'ai attiré les membres plus appropriés pour cela, de par son passé de vers mon deuxième pays dans la Caraïbe. Le premier campus de UWI, et grâce au soutien total thème de la conférence « Mettre la Caraïbe au du Professeur Gordon Shirley, Principal du cœur des études caribéennes » a d'abord vu le jour Campus de Mona, et d'Annette Insanally, sous la forme d'une idée persistante qui, durant Directrice du Centre Amérique Latine-Caraïbe toute une décennie, a refusé de se taire. Bien que qui dirige aussi notre comité organisateur sur CSA en tant qu'association découle de l'initiative place. Quand on y ajoute l'appui continu de d'universitaires basés en Amérique du Nord, je Hamid Ghany, Doyen de la Faculté des sciences me sentais de plus en plus soucieuse des sociales qui a accueilli le Secrétariat de CSA avantages que pourraient en retirer les sociétés pendant les quatre dernières années, le Principal caribéennes qui accueillaient la conférence du campus de Saint-Augustine, le Professeur chaque année. En quoi ces sociétés bénéficient- Clement Sankat, les Vice Présidents en charge de elles, de ces invasions annuelles, qui pour réussir, la Recherche et des Etudes de second et troisième mobilisent le temps des comités organisateurs, et cycle, les professeurs Waynbe Hunte et Ronald la participation financière publique et privée. Et Young, nous pouvons sans aucun doute puis, il y avait aussi le terme même d'« Etudes témoigner du partenariat de l'Université des West caribéennes », qui, croit-on, va de soi, comme s'il Indies pour la conférence de cette année, ainsi que n'était pas lui-même passé par trois décennies de de notre intérêt commun à voir l'enseignement changements d'orientation et d'intérêt supérieur mettre à plat les idées que suscite ce disciplinaires. En guise de commentaire face au theme. thème choisi, Bhoendradatt Tewarie (Vice Président chargé de la planification, UWI) s'est Nous avons quasiment croulé sous les demandé "quel impact les décennies d'existence soumissions d'articles de tous genres cette année,

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et nous les avons répartis en séances fléchées qui Jocelyne Guilbault et le nouveau Président devraient nous permettre de faire de bonnes Linden Lewis ont fait en sorte l'élection du affaires dans cette grande foire de tables rondes, prochain Conseil exécutif soit libre et juste. Nous séances plénières et prestations qui vous invitons tous les membres à jour de leurs attendent dans ce programme. Nous avons tenté cotisations à user de leur droit de vote. Chaque d'éviter que les trois plénières qui traitent du année, nous dépendons de, et honorons les thème principal de la conférence se chevauchent, auteurs, imprimeries et éditeurs qui sont devenus afin de faciliter l'entière participation des réguliers chez nous, et pour l'organisation de cet membres. Nous avons invité, à titre d'expert en aspect de notre programme ainsi que la foire aux résidence pour la semaine, le professeur George livres annuelle, nous remercions Carolle Charles Lamming, auteur caribéen de grande renommée et Lisa Outar. et nous avons créé une piste dédiée au film et à la performance scénique qui mène à un espace La conférence de l'AEC nous rassemble tous alternatif dans le Jonkanoo Lounge de l'Hotel autour d'un point commun, malgré les différences Hilton où s'expriment les autres langues de la et les nuances. Nous avons voulu concevoir un production culturelle – arts visuels, danse, oralité programme qui, nous en convenons, démarre tôt et musique. dans la journée, ce qui n'est pas dans nos habitudes. Bien que cela soit éprouvant pour ceux L'association tourne grâce à son Conseil exécutif, qui veillent tard, nous avons aménagé des ses Conseil consultatif, Secrétariat et membres qui moments libres dans la programmation pour faire s'engagent et tiennent leurs promesses. Je une sieste, si vous en décidez ainsi, ou pour se remercie chacun d'entre vous qui aura contribué à rencontrer dans d'autres sphères ou les nombreux faire de ce programme une réussite– la liste et précieux échanges de CSA prennent place – complète apparait dans le programme. Je me dois dans notre cyber-face dans la mezzanine du toutefois de porterune attention toute particulière Hilton, et au cours des réceptions et autres à ceux qui ont travaillé sans défatiguer aux détails activités savamment placées dans le programme qui ont fini par former un tout. Diana Thorburn pour nous permettre d'échanger et de mêler les qui a rempli son rôle de responsable de la idées. programmation avec une gentillesse sans limites, Annette Insanally, présidente du comite Pour ceux d'entre vous dont c'est la première organisateur dont j'ai pu découvrir et respecter, expérience en Jamaïque, ou la première fois à non sans admiration, les talents de management travers l'AEC, j'espère que cette conférence se et d'organisation, mesdemoiselles Joy Cooblal révélera productive, agréable et riche en secrétaire/trésorière de l'AEC et Michelle Seeraj inspiration. (Assistante de recherche, UWI Saint-Augustine) dont la contribution en tant que membre du Secrétariat et collègues fut inestimable et irremplaçable, d'autant plus que le bilan du Patricia Mohammed professeur Anton Allahar était difficile à Professeur en Etudes de genre et Etudes reproduire, et l'ancien président, jovial mais culturelles consciencieux a continué cette année de nous faire University of the West Indies, StAugustine profiter de son expérience, de même que Dwaine Présidente, CSA2008/9 Plaza, chef de la Programmation 2007/2008. Samuel Fure (Cuba) et Maggie Shrimpton (Mexique) se sont occupés des questions de bourses de voyage qui ont permis à nombre d'entre vous d'être ici pendant que professeur

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affordto miss!

We are pleased to have four rich graduate student-specific activities this conference. Our regular graduate student breakfast will be next door at the Courtleigh Hotel on Wednesday elcome at last morning. We also have a tenure panel on Tuesday to CSA 2009. I morning, and our regular 'finishing the PhD & W getting a job' panel on Thursday morning. Also on say at last because the programme as you now Wednesday we are holding a series of leadership have it is the result not only of months of work in and grant-writing workshops specifically sorting and organising submissions and featured targeting graduate students and newly minted activities, but has been in the hearts and minds of PhDs (but open to everyone). President Pat and myself from back in 2007 when she became vice-president and I was programme Our efforts to further CSA's links with NGOs and chair-designate. We have, since then, been in one organisations that are policy- and policy- long and intricate conversation about the “type” research-oriented have resulted in a healthy of conference we wanted to put on, and, then, selection of not-strictly-academic panels and actually working on putting our ideas into reality. activities this year.

Our principal vision was, of course, a diverse, Monday morning features the first of our policy- interesting and organised conference. But beyond related discussions at CSA 2009 with a UNESCO- or within that, we especially wanted to continue led discussion on perhaps the first question that and broaden three newer trends at CSA: namely, arises when thinking about relationships between promoting and featuring films and performance, academic and policy organisations: what is the graduate student-specific activities, and role of the dialogue between researchers and furthering CSA's links with NGOs and policy policy makers? On Wednesday morning the organisations. “IC3” group from SUNY Albany will stage a discussion on climate change in the Caribbean. While every panel is special and interesting – andI Thursday is a big day for our policy-related know because I read each and every single panels. The Inter-American Foundation, an abstract! – I would like to here bring to your independent agency of the US government that attention some of what I will call the programme provides grants to nongovernmental and highlights, being those panels or activities community-based organisations in LatinAmerica thatreflect our goal in diversifying the CSA and the Caribbean, will be staging a programme for this year: panel/roundtable. The Caribbean Policy Research Institute, the newly established policy think tank First, the entire film/performance track. This was that is making waves across the region, will the brainchild of President Pat, and I am especially present the findings of one of its many exciting proud that we not only have a completely full film research projects, also on Thursday morning. On and performance schedule, but that it is featuring Thursday afternoon, the Environment and a wonderfully diverse mix of documentaries, Sustainability group will hold its second annual feature films, archival films, and student films. CSA panel. The Washington-based think tanks Further, we made a special attempt to attract will also stage a roundtable discussing a topic performance panels for the first time to CSA. I that's always of interest to CSA members – the invite you to view the entire film/performance Cuba-US relationship. Finally, the plenary on track schedule and see if there's anything you can Friday morning featuring the OAS Deputy

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Secretary General represents the continued developing the creative talents of Jamaican youth strengthening of CSA's relationship with that and realising Jamaica's potential as a world organisation. cultural superpower, at the same time as channelling young people's creative energy away Politics and society from violence and criminal activity. Finally, we are also pleased to host a number of members and Agood proportion of CSA's programme is usually panels of the Masculinities Network, which devoted to issues of politics and society. This year comprises academics, activists and other there are a few panels that we think take professionals who undertake research in particularly interesting angles on our Caribbean Caribbean Masculinities, working in tandem with space that we would like to highlight. The the Working Group on Caribbean Masculinities, President's plenary on Tuesday morning “kicks Gender Equity and Social Policy to create gender- off” the conference theme on taking charge of our sensitive policy interventions and programmes intellectual agenda, a topic near and dear to the that work to promote gender equity,and decrease heart of President Pat (and many of the rest of us). gender-based violence and male social exclusion Our scholar in residence for CSA 2009, George in the region. Lamming, will participate in a roundtable This is just a sample of the richness and variety of discussion on the place of journals in the making, our programme this year. With over 150 panels to and remaking, of the study of the Caribbean on choose from, we are sure you will not be lacking Thursday morning, and on Thursday afternoon for a single moment of stimulation and David Lewis has brought together what he calls inspiration this week. We hope you will gain as the “masters” of Caribbean studies to share their much from CSA2009 as we have in preparing this wisdom with the rest of us. A reflection on the programme for this year's conference. thirty-year commemoration of the Grenada Revolution and a discussion of its legacy in the Caribbean, will take place on Friday morning. Diana Thorburn Lecturer, Department of Government Networking University of the West Indies, Mona CSAProgramme Chair CSAhas long been proud of its informal links with other related organisations that promote Caribbean studies, development, art and culture. This year we are happy to have expanded our social networks in this regard by being the venue of the newly-revitalised Haitian Studies Association meet-and-greet event on Wednesday evening, open to all CSA participants. We have partnered with the Institute of Jamaica, the oldest cultural institution in the English-speaking Caribbean, to offer on lunchtime on Wednesday a cultural outing comprising a visit to the IOJ with lunch and a guided tour of the Xaymaca-Spanish Jamaica exhibit. On Wednesday afternoon we continue what we hope will become a CSA tradition with the NGO Tour, this year hosted by the Area Youth Foundation, a dynamic little Jamaican NGO with big plans for capturing and

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ANNETTE INSANALLY

hank you for making it to JAMAICA. We will do our best to make it a worthwhile and Tmemorable experience. You will see that the programme content is sufficiently diversified and engaging and seeks to promote a high level of interaction and discourse. Outside of panel presentations, there is a Caribbean film andperformance track which you must not miss! We expect to see you at all the Featured panels and roundtables and, of course, at all the fun evening events.

Most evenings there is a planned activity. These and other events are listedin your programme schedule and will be posted also on the electronic billboard in the main conference area. In addition to the information provided in your package, there are clearly identifiable student liaisons available to provide further guidance.

We hope you will also take advantage of the many optional cultural provisions and make it a truly Caribbean affair. Remember that there is a tour desk in the reception area at the Hilton.

We invite you then to enjoy the conference, the Hilton and its environs . . . a very user-friendly space. Incedentally, Flow has kindly made an internet hotspot available to us for the week. Details on this will be posted outside the secretariat (Ballroom area). Remember to check the CSAwebsite for our page on what to do andwhere to go in Kingston. Our student liaisons will be very happy to suggest or inform as you need.

Annette Insanally Coordinator, LatinAmerican-Caribbean Centre University of the West Indies, Mona Chair, Local Organising Committee

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TUESDAY, 2 JUNE 2009 FRIDAY 5 JUNE 11:30 AM–1:00 PM, BALLROOM 11:30AM–1:00PM, BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B 1B/2B/3B CSA PRESIDENT'S PLENARY OAS PLENARY (ROUNDTABLE) (ROUNDTABLE) “Centering the Caribbean in “Taking Ownership of Our Intellectual Hemispheric Relations: How Will the Agenda” Region Look in 20 Years?”

Chair: Professor Pat Mohammed, Chair: Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, University of the West Indies, St. Deputy Secretary General, Organisation of Augustine, Trinidad American States

Discussants: George Lamming, University Discussants: His Excellency Leonel Fernández Reyna, President of the of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Dominican Republic

Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie, University of Professor Gordon Shirley, Principal, the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Dr. Hamid Ghany, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad dr. Andres Serbin, Director, Coordinador Regional de Investigaciones Economicas y Prof. Brian Meeks, University of the West sociales, Argentina Indies, Mona, Jamaica OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS Prof. Anton Allahar, University of Western Ontario, Canada WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE 2009 8:00AM–9:30AM, COURTLEIGH HOTEL Prof. Jean Stubbs, London Metropolitan GRADUATE STUDENT AND CSA University, UK FACULTY BREAKFAST

Prof. Linden Lewis, Bucknell University, WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE 2009, USA 10:00AM–4:00PM Les Ambassadeurs (Hilton top floor) Fred Reno, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane SPONSORED WORKSHOP ON GENDER "Gender and Leadership: The Nexus Yolanda Wood, University of Havana, between Academia and Activism” Cuba Workshop sponsored by Ford Foundation/CSA Gender and Young Scholars Programme/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung/UNIFEM Barbados

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PANEL 1A: MORANT BAY PANEL 1C: BOARDROOM 2 (171) Tertiary-Level Foreign Language (117) Decoding Natural Disasters in the Education in the Anglophone Caribbean: Caribbean Contextual Challenges, Realistic Prospects Prelim. Seismic Hazard for Portmore – Stephanie Organiser: Rohan A. Lewis Williams, University of the West Indies, Mona. Jamaica. [email protected] Impacting Students' Choices: Foreign Language Education Policy Options for Tertiary Institutions and Government – Decoding the Disaster: Haiti, Hurricanes – Mark Rohan A. Lewis, University of Technology, Jamaica. Schuller, York College, CUNY, NY, USA. [email protected] [email protected] Foreign Language Education in Higher Education: “For Us, It's Not the Buildings that Matter” – Roberto Foreseen Challenges, Viable Solutions – Desrine Bogle, Barrios, Southern Illinois University, USA. Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected] Social Equity in Climate Adaptation Plans – Kalim Shah, Establishing a Compulsory Foreign Language Component University of Trinidad and Tobago, Arima. in the Undergraduate Degree at the UWI: Challenges and [email protected] Opportunities – Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] PANEL 1D: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Digitising Babel: Design and Implementation of an Online (160) Cuba, el Caribe y Estados Unidos en la Self-Access Learning Centre for the 'Digital Native' at Era Obama UTECH, Jamaica – Michelle Stewart-McKoy, University of Technology, Jamaica. Organiser: Milagros Martinez Reinosa [email protected] Discussant: Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Centro de New Ways of Teaching Foreign Languages for Caribbean Estudios Hemisféricos de la Universidad de La Technical Students: Examples of Chemical Engineering, Habana, Cuba. c/[email protected] , and Hospitality and Tourism at the University of [email protected] Technology, Jamaica – Mariana González and Carmen Rodríguez-Schade, University of Technology, Jamaica. La Crisis Global Internacional y su Impacto en la [email protected] Economías Caribeñas – Zoila González Maicas, Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI) del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba. c/o PANEL 1B: ST. ANN A [email protected], [email protected] (130) Gender, Diaspora and the Female Body Chair: Nicole Roberts, University of the West Indies, El conflicto entre Cuba y Estados Unidos en la Era Obama: St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] Una Visión Académica desde Cuba – Esteban Morales Domínguez. Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos de la Haitian-American Novelist Edwidge Danticat and the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. c/o Voodoo Body – Mario LaMothe, Northwestern [email protected], [email protected] University, USA. [email protected] Mere Relative: Diasporic Reports – Alexis Gumbs, Duke El Presidente Obama y el Reto del Cambio: Implicaciones University, USA. [email protected] para Cuba y el Caribe – Indira Rampersad, University of the West Indies, St. Monnaie Mythique: A Woman's Worth – Edwin Hill, Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] University of Southern California, USA. [email protected] La Proyección Externa de Cuba hacia el Caribe Caribbean Feminist Re/membrance – Lapetra Rochelle (CARICOM) en la Era Obama Bowman, University of Texas, USA. – Milagros Martínez Reinosa, Universidad de La [email protected] Habana, Cuba. c/[email protected] , Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women's [email protected] Fiction – Carine Mardorossian, University of Buffalo, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 1E: BALLROOM CNFG01 PANEL 1G: BALLROOM CNFG05 (222) Health as Human Rights in Jamaica (110) Church and Religion across Caribbean Spaces Organiser: Melissa Thompson Health Consequences of Structural Adjustment – Melissa Integration of Faith and Learning – Carol Fider, Thompson, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Northern Caribbean University, Mandeville, Jamaica. FL, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Should Unequal Access to Healthcare Be Considered a An Exploration of Spirituality as a Factor of Marital Human Rights Violation? Satisfaction among Caribbean Immigrant Physicians and – Rain Jarrett, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Their Spouses – Elisabeth Esmiol Jones, Loma Linda Raton, FL, USA. [email protected] University, California, USA. [email protected]

Tracking Human Rights: The Jamaican Diaspora From Sam Sharpe to Paul Bogle: Understanding their Movement – Nadja Johnson, Florida Atlantic Biblical Hermeneutics University, Boca Raton, FL, USA. [email protected] – Devon Dick, Boulevard Baptist Church, Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected] The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Health: The Jamaican Experience – Shakeisha Wilson and Joan Churching the Bus – Carol Marie Webster, Independent Thomas, University of the West Indies, Mona, Scholar, USA. [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected] Religious Activities and Parenting – Zephon Lister, Loma Linda University, California, USA. PANEL 1F: BALLROOM CNFG03 [email protected] (106) Revolution and Resistance in Caribbean History

Chair: Diana Senior, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose. [email protected]

A Taste of Freedom: Deserted Plantations and Revolution in St. Lucia 1791–1803 – Jerry Wever, Spelman College, Atlanta, USA. [email protected]

Small Axe: The Sam Sharpe Rebellion as a Source for Constructing a Black Atlantic Theology of Liberation – Delroy Reid-Salmon, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, UK. [email protected]

De Buena Tinta: The Explosion of the Maine Battleship as Reflected by the Jamaican Press – Maria Sanchez and Iris Mutiz, Northern Caribbean University, Mandeville, [email protected] , [email protected]

Identity, Collectivity and Autonomy – Christina Abram- Davis, San Francisco State University, USA. [email protected]

The Economic Role of Free Women of Colour – Stéphanie Belrose, The Sorbonne, Paris, France. [email protected]

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PANEL 2A: MORANT BAY Canadian Banks and the Caribbean – Peter Hudson, (155) Centering Caribbean Sexuality Studies University of Buffalo, NY, USA. [email protected] Organiser: Rosamond King Financial Sector Crises and Consequences – Darron The Potential of Technology – Rosamond King, Brooklyn Thomas, University of the West Indies, Mona, College, NY, USA [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

Why Here, Why Now? – Thomas Glave, State PANEL 2D: BOARDROOM 2 University of New York - Binghamton, NY & (181) Independence and Autonomy in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Caribbean (ROUNDTABLE) Cambridge, MA, USA Organiser: Peter Clegg All about the IRN – Vidyaratha Kisson, The International Resource Network, the Center for Governance in Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago Lesbian & Gay Studies, City University of New York, – Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan University, UK. NY, USA [email protected]

PANEL 2B: ST. ANN A Governance in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba – (180) The Status of Creole, Then and Now Jessica Byron, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Organiser: Belinda Edmondson Governance in the UK Overseas Territories – Peter Clegg, Schooling the Nation: Language Politics – Stella Amelie University of the West of England, Bristol. UK. Vincenot, New York University, USA [email protected] [email protected]

Speaking Out of Turn: Deportees, Returnees, Refugees – Governance in the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean States – Faith Smith, Brandeis University, Boston, MA, USA Matthew Bishop, University of Sheffield, UK. [email protected] [email protected]

The Taming of Miss Lou: Gentrification and Dialect – Governance in the US Caribbean – Emilio Pantojas- Belinda Edmondson, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan. USA [email protected] [email protected]

PANEL 2C: ST. ANN B Governance in the DOMs – Fred Reno, Centre (172) Empires and Intermediaries: History of d'Analyse Géopolitique et Internationale, UAG, Banking in the Caribbean Guadeloupe. [email protected]

Organiser: Peter Hudson PANEL 2E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (162) Estudiando el Caribe desde Cuba Barclays and the West Indies – Kathleen Monteith, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Organiser: Tania García Lorenzo [email protected] Discussant: Anton Allahar, University of Western Monetary Policy in Haiti – Pierre Guy, Universidad Ontario, Canada. [email protected] Autonoma de Ciudad de Mexico. [email protected] Los Estudios del Caribe en Cuba – Digna Castañeda, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. c/o Capital Markets in Late Colonial Cuba – Susan [email protected] Fernandez, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA. [email protected] El Caribe en un Centro de Estudios – Yolanda Wood, Centro de Estudios del Caribe de Casa de las Americas, Cuba. c/o [email protected],

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La Cátedra de Estudios Caribeños de la Universidad de la The Making of an Entrepreneur in the Entertainment Habana y su Proyección Docente e Investigativa sobre la Industry: Moving Beyond the Stigma – Meagan Realidad del Caribe – Milagros Martínez, Universidad Sylvester, University of the West Indies, St. de la Habana, Cuba. c/o [email protected] Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

Los Estudios en Cuba acerca de la Economía y la Organizing Jamaican Fishers in the Wake of Hurricane Integración del Caribe – Tania García Lorenzo, Ivan: A Case Study in Applied Anthropology – William Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. Wedenoja, University of the West Indies, St. [email protected] Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

Testing the Influence of National Business Culture and PANEL 2F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Context on Motivation in Grenada, St. Lucia and St. (219) Alterity and Minoritisation in the Caribbean: Vincent – Reccia Charles, St. Georges University, Revealing Othering Practices through Literature Grenada. [email protected] and Performance

Organiser: Patricia Moonsammy PANEL 2H: BALLROOM CNFG05 (112) Authority, Technology and the Media in the Discussant: Nicole Castor, Texas A&M, College Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Station, TX, USA. [email protected] "Bad Business": Obeah, Violence and Power – Randy Comparing Indian Diasporas: Notes from the Francophone Browne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Anglophone Caribbean – Lisa Outar, St. Johns USA. [email protected] University, Jamaica, NY, USA. [email protected] Centring Dominican Historiography within Caribbean A Mouse under a Big Foot: The Question of Responsibility Studies – Christina Violeta Jones, National Archives, in Danticat's Shaping of Haitian Identity – Mary Jo College Park, MD, USA. [email protected] Caruso, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, USA. [email protected] Imperial Aspirations and Geographic Logic – Paula Hastings, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, The Festive Mainstream, Alternative Performance, and USA. [email protected] Radical Politics: The Case of Rapso in Trinidad and Tobago – Patricia Moonsammy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. [email protected]

Neo-Creole Aesthetics and Pastiche Consciousnesses: Understanding the Cultural Logics of Contemporary Trinidadian Dance – Meida McNeal, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 2G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (107) Insiders and Outsiders in Caribbean Economies

Exploitation of Jamaican Workers: From Colonial Rule to Structural Adjustment –Melissa Thompson, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA. [email protected]

Development and 'Friction' in the USVI – Tamisha Navarro, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 3A: MORANT BAY Political Advertising and the Portrayal of Gender, Colour (132) Voices, Places and Spaces across the and Class in Jamaica's General Elections 2007 – Taitu Caribbean Heron, Women's Media Watch, Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected] Gender and Negotiation – Noel Cowell, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Demise of Public Service Broadcasting – Juliette Storr, [email protected] Penn State University, Beaver, PA, USA. [email protected] Damages Wrought by Gossip – Sharla Blank, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, USA. The Publishing Industry in the Caribbean: Regional [email protected] Dynamics and the Cuban Case – Jacqueline Laguardia Martínez, University of Havana, Cuba Journeys of Our Mothers: The Transnational Experiences of Jamaican Women – Audrey Watkins, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, USA. PANEL 3D: BOARDROOM 2 [email protected] (217) Building the Digital Library of the Caribbean: Technology, Pedagogy, and Finance Conceptualising Success: Aspirations of Young Black Guyanese Immigrant Women for Higher Education – Organiser: Leah Rosenberg Alicia Kelly, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. [email protected] The Digital Library of the Caribbean: An Overview, New Direction and Challenges – Gayle Williams, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. PANEL 3B: ST. ANN A [email protected] (100) Caribbean Imaginations (literature) Atlanta is Virtual Borders and Converging Cultures: A Caribbean Imaginaries and Counterpoetics – Eugenio Digital Conundrum – JoAnne Harris, Georgia Institute Matibag, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. of Technology, USA. [email protected] [email protected] The Old and the New: Teaching Caribbean Literature Carnival of the Spirit: Wilson Harris and Sacred-Secular- Using the Digital Library of the Caribbean – Leah Spectacular Space(s) of Caribbean Architecture – Michelle Rosenberg, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Smith-Bermiss, James Madison University, [email protected] Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 3E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Oral and Scribal Arts: Re-examining Old Wounds – Philip (175) UNESCO Addressing Social Transformations Nanton, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, in the Caribbean: The Role of the Dialogue Barbados. [email protected] between Researchers and Policy Makers Technologising the Word: Kamau Brathwaite's Sycorax Organiser: Pedro Monreal Video Style and 'The Black Angel' – Hyacinth M. Simpson, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Chair: Everton Hannam, Jamaica National Canada. [email protected] Commission for UNESCO. Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected] PANEL 3C: ST. ANN B Tackling Complex Issues in a Rapidly Changing Social (108) Mediating Politics and the Politics of Media Environment: The Contribution of UNESCO – Julio in the Caribbean Carranza, UNESCO, Montevideo, Uruguay. [email protected] Deep Penetration: Guyana's B-R-C-R Complex and Histo- political Syndrome – Paloma Mohammed, University of Guyana, Georgetown. [email protected]

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Trade Negotiations and the Research-Policy Nexus: Gender Differences in Attitudes towards Depression, Reflections on the EPAexperience – Norman Girvan, Antidepressant Medication, and Behavioural Intentions Faculty, Institute of International Relations, University among a Sample of University Students in Jamaica – of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Kenisha Nelson, University of Technology, Kingston, [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

Sustainable Tourism: From Research to Policy-Making. The Medical Plight of Guyanese Amerindians – Raywat Case of Northern Jamaica – Wendy Lee, Northern Deonandan, University of Ottawa, Canada. Jamaica Conservation Association, Runaway Bay, St. [email protected] Ann, Jamaica. [email protected]

Research-Policy Linkages in Cuba: The Case of the PANEL 3H: BALLROOM CNFG05 University of Havana – Omar Perez, University of (116) Environment and Sustainable Development Havana, Cuba. [email protected] Education, Policy and Caribbean Society

Toward a Forum of Social and Sustainable Development in Chair: Kalim Shah, University of Trinidad and the Caribbean – Pedro Monreal, UNESCO, Kingston, Tobago, Arima. [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected] Navigating Caribbean Environmental Space – Gregory Freeland, California Lutheran University, Thousand PANEL 3F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Oaks, CA, USA. [email protected] (220) Streams of Desire: Sex, Money and Death in Caribbean Women's Writings Naturaleza y Cultura en el Caribe, Nature and Culture in the Caribbean – German Marquez, Universidad Organiser: Nadia Celis Nacional de Colombia, San Andres Island. [email protected] Women Killers of Men, Killers of the Status Quo: D'eaux Doucesand Fado, Two Examples in Francophone High School Environmental Stewardship – Delroy Pierre, Caribbean Literature – Hanetha Vete-Congolo, Bowdoin University of St. Martin, St. Maarten. College, Brunswick, Maine, USA. [email protected] [email protected] Economía del Cambio Climático en Caribe – Daymler The Fluidity of Female Desire(s) inBrin d'Amour by O'Farrill, University of Havana, Cuba. [email protected] Raphael Confiant – Karen Lindo, Bowdoin College, New Brunswick, Maine, USA. [email protected] Acercamiento a Una Estrategia de Educación Ambiental para El Caribe: Un Hito más para la Integración – Heterotopias of Desire: Sex, Money and Power in the Rodríguez Matos, Neris Universidad de Oriente, Caribbean of Mayra Santos-Febres – Nadia Celis, Santiago de Cuba. [email protected] Bowdoin College, New Brunswick, Maine, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 3G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (113) Society and Health in the Caribbean Quantitative Perspectives

Illness and Unemployment in Jamaica – Orville Beckford, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

Using the Biopsychosocial Model to Evaluate Wellbeing of Elderly Jamaicans – Paul Bourne, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

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PANEL 4A: MORANT BAY Life History of a Cuban Sick Patient with HIV/AIDS – (131) Pregnancy and Parenting in Jamaica and St. Ignacia Rodríguez Estévez, Sancti Spiritus Medical Lucia School, Cuba. [email protected]

Unwanted Pregnancy: By Whom? – Keino Senior, Surface Tensions and HIV in the Caribbean – Teresa University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Downing-Matibag, Iowa State University, Ames, [email protected] Iowa, USA. [email protected]

Male Parenting: A New Look? – Eleanor Wint, Straddling: Exploring the Impact of the HIV/AIDS University of Northern British Columbia, Prince Epidemic with Caribbean Sexuality Discourses – Daniel George, Canada. [email protected] Townsend and Akim Ade Larch

Birth Spacing and Fertility Preferences – Julian Devonish, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. PANEL 4D: BOARDROOM 2 [email protected] (129) Caribbean Studies Pedagogy, Identity and Globalisation A Correlation of Socioeconomic Status with Parity in Young Jamaicans –Tazhmoye Crawford, Donovan Chair: Jennifer Beaumont, New Jersey Department of McGrowder, Michael Gardner and Lorenzo Gordon, Education, USA. [email protected] University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]; African Languages and Caribbean Studies – Abdul Nanji, [email protected] Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. [email protected] The Impact of Infertility on Fertility – Sharon Priestly, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Caribbean Studies in the Formation of Cuban Identity – [email protected] Alejandro Rafael Torres Saavedra, Pedagogical University "Enrique J Varona”, Havana, Cuba. [email protected]

PANEL 4B: ST. ANN A Caribbean Philosophy and Its Value to Caribbean Studies – (101) Diasporic Identities and Authorship Roxanne Burton, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Dictating the Diaspora: Yunior, Intertextuality, and the Problem of Authenticity inDrown and Oscar Wao – SCHOLduggery to SCHOLARTship – Kessey Jemmot, Elena Machado Sáez, Florida Atlantic University, Boca University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Raton, FL, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Hamel, the Obeah Man, Kills His Author – Josh Brewer, Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette, Indiana, PANEL 4E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B USA. [email protected] (242) Opportunities and Challenges for Caribbean Development Locating Where to Write – Alisa Brathwaite, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, The Lack of Venture Capital for Business – Naderah MA, USA. [email protected] Farquharson, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 4C: ST. ANN B Economic Development in Jamaica: Insights from a (114) Discourses on HIV / AIDS across the Comparative Study of Jamaica and Singapore – Dianna Caribbean DaCosta, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: New Ethical Imperatives for Medical Research – Tralonda Triplett, University of The Impact of the Common External Tariff on Jamaica's Miami, USA. [email protected] Beef Sector – Eric Bailey, Michigan State University,

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East Lansing, MI, USA. PANEL 4H: BALLROOM CNFG05 [email protected] (158) Racial Formations in Cuba

PANEL 4F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Organiser: Mark Sanders (123) Colonialism, Anarchy and Sovereignty in Caribbean Political Discourse The Afro-Cuban Voice and Lydia Cabrera – Karen Callier, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Politics of Sovereignty in the Caribbean – Hilbourne [email protected] Watson, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA. [email protected] African Students in Revolutionary Cuba – Omar Granados, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Transnational Anarchism in the Caribbean – Kirwin [email protected] Shaffer, Penn State University–Berks College, Reading, PA, USA. [email protected] Ricardo Batrell, a Black Mambí in Cuba – Mark Sanders, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Object of Colonialism or Neglect – Alisha Hoffman- [email protected] Mirilovich, East Stroudsburg University, PA, USA. [email protected] Black Cuban Diasporic Identity – Aisha Cort, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. [email protected] Thomas Carlyle's Colonisation Proposal – Fragano Ledgister, Clark Atlanta University, USA. [email protected]

A Tentative Definition of the Caribbean – Alex Miller, University of South Carolina, Lancaster, SC, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 4G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (156) Caribbean Migration: Emigrants, In-Migrants and Returnees

Organisers: Frank L. Mills and Godfrey St. Bernard

A Comparative Study of Anglophone Caribbean Migrants in the USA – Frank L. Mills, Eastern Caribbean Center and University of the Virgin Islands. [email protected]

Contemporary Intra-regional Migration in the Caribbean: Challenges to the CSME – Michele Reis, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

The Homecoming and Challenges to Professional Enterprise: The Case of Returnees in Trinidad and Tobago – Godfrey St. Bernard, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

Perspectives from Children of Parental Migration inTrinidad – Mala Jokhan, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

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PANEL 5A: MORANT BAY PANEL 5C: ST. ANN B (165) Governance and the Non-Sovereign (126) Alternative Approaches to Public Policy in Caribbean the Caribbean

Organiser: Peter Clegg Chair: April Bernard, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected] Autonomy and Decolonisation – Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan University, UK. Role of Civil Society in Public Policy – Yonique [email protected] Campbell, Cabinet Office, Jamaica House, Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected] The UK Caribbean Overseas Territories in Focus – Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Introducing Results-based Management in the Jamaica [email protected] Public Sector: Possibilities and Challenges – Ivan Cruickshank, University of the West Indies, Mona, What Future for the French Caribbean? – Matthew Jamaica. [email protected] Bishop, University of Sheffield, UK. [email protected] Black Feminism and Development – Caroline Hossein, University of Toronto, Canada. Puerto Rican Development Today – Emilio Pantojas- [email protected] Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan. [email protected] Re-thinking Administrative Culture and Development in Jamaica – Edwin Jones, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] PANEL 5B: ST. ANN A (102) Literary Perspectives from Slavery to the Present Day PANEL 5D: BOARDROOM 2 (164) Contending Forces Politics of Respectability Chair: Rosita Villagomez, College of Mount Saint and the Caribbean Sexual Imaginary Vincent, New York. (ROUNDTABLE) [email protected] Organiser: Angelique V. Nixon Le Cours/La Cour: Class [room] and School – Renee Larrier, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Angelique Nixon, New York University, NY, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Caribbean Ariel: Re-Reading The Tempest – Njelle Belinda Wallace, New York University, NY, USA Hamilton, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA. [email protected] [email protected] Lyndon Kamaal Gill, Harvard University, MA, USA. Dungeons and Women Slaves in Higher Ground – Josiane Ranguin, The Sorbonne, Paris, France. Vanessa Agard-Jones, University of New Mexico, [email protected] Albuquerque, USA. [email protected]

Mirrors and Maps: Critical Fabulations – Amanda Healy, Ronald Cummings, University of Leeds, [email protected] [email protected]

Turmoil in Paradise: New Female Caribbean Authors – Iliana Paga¡n-Teitelbaum, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 5E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Chambers, University of the West Indies, Mona, (178) Construir el Conocimiento Sobre el Caribe Jamaica. [email protected] (ROUNDTABLE) Creating Inclusive Schools – Yegin Habtes, University of Organiser: Graciela Chailloux the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] Mark Figueroa, University of the West Indies, Mona. Family Choices and Access to Tertiary Education ─ Colin [email protected] Williams, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Norman Girvan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] PANEL 5H: BALLROOM CNFG05 Pedro Rivera Guzman, Universidad de Puerto Rico en (141) Diaspora, Identity and Transnational Bayamon. [email protected] Engagement

Graciela Chailloux, University of Havana, Cuba. The Caribbean Diasporan Experience: A Tool for Critical [email protected] Theory – Delroy Reid-Salmon, Oxford Centre for Christianity & Culture, UK. [email protected]

PANEL 5F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Multiple Meanings of Haitian \"Jaspora\" – Carolle (115) Technology, Illness and Disease in the Charles, Baruch College, CUNY, USA. Caribbean [email protected]

Chair: Naomi Watson, The Open University, UK. Understanding Motivations for Transnational [email protected] Engagement: The Jamaican Case – Janine Rose, York University, Canada. [email protected] Cultural Analysis: HPV Vaccine Use in Jamaica – Maisha Kambon, University of South Florida, USA. Cultural Identity in the Jamaica Diaspora – Nadja [email protected] Johnson, Florida Atlantic University, USA. [email protected] An Exploration of the Determinants of Success in the Jamaican Labour Market by Persons Living with Sickle Cell La Diáspora Haitiana en República Dominicana: Un Tema Disease – Camille Daley, University of the West Indies, Pendiente de la Agenda Bilateral – Carrasco Herrera Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] and Julia Mercedes, Centro de Estudios sobre América (CEA), Cuba. [email protected] Palliative Sedation: Is It Killing the Helpless? – Simeon Mohansingh, University of the West Indies, Mona, El Nuevo Rol de la Diaspora en la Estrategia Geopolitica Jamaica. [email protected] del Caribe Anglofono – Piedra Rencurrell and Jose Francisco, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. Childhood Obesity Assessment in Jamaica – Beverly [email protected] Blake-Scarlett, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 5G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (136) Contemporary Dimensions of Education in the Caribbean

The Effect of the Blended Learning Approach on the Academic Performance of the Distance Learner in a Level One Cost and Management Accounting Course at the UWI Open Campus – Joan Thomas-Stone, and Arlene

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PANEL 6A: MORANT BAY Dancehall Music – Michael-Edward James, University (127) Power, Governance and Language in Haiti of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Governance and Decentralization in Haiti – Francois Pierre-Louis, Queens College, CUNY, NY, USA. [email protected] PANEL 6D: BOARDROOM 2 (154) Human Rights in the Caribbean (ROUNDTABLE) Language, Identity and Power in Haiti – Vanessa Merine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. Organiser: Belinda Edmondson [email protected] Hope Lewis, University of Technology, Kingston, Under the Gun: The Impact of Small Arms Proliferation on Jamaica. [email protected] Security in Haiti – J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA. Arif Bulkan, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, [email protected] Barbados. [email protected] Karen Bravo, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA. PANEL 6B: ST. ANN A [email protected] (243) Engendering Emancipation: Slavery, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Yvonne McCalla Sobers, Families Against State Terrorism, Kingston, Jamaica. Writing [email protected]

Organiser: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Rohan Anthony Lewis, Northeastern University, [email protected] Boston, MA, USA. [email protected]

“Me Hab Me Regan Gown”: Contesting and Transculturating Afro-Caribbean Femininities in PANEL 6E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Nineteenth-Century Oral Poetry – Omise'eke Natasha (232) Centering Sexuality in Caribbean Studies Tinsley, University of Minnesota, USA

Las Antillas para los Antillanos?: Revisiting Caribbean Organiser: Kamala Kempadoo Regionalisms in the Twenty-First Century – Irmary Reyes-Santos, University of Oregon, USA Discussant: Andil Gosine

Gender and Diasporic Modernities in the Late Nineteenth The “Opportunity” of HIV/AIDS? Sexual Rights and Century – Faith Smith, Brandeis University, USA. Social Norms in the Caribbean – Latoya Lazarus, York [email protected] Univesity, Canada. [email protected]

Erasing the Memory of Slavery: Black Women's Bodies and Mapping the Sexuality of the West Indian Diaspora in the (Re) Production of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century Canada – Tracy Locke, York University, Canada. Cuban Creole Nationalism – Tania Triana, [email protected] University of Oregon, USA Queerness and the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora – Lauren PANEL 6C: ST. ANN B Pragg, York University, Canada. (121) Music, Money and Identity in Reggae, [email protected] Dancehall and Reggaeton

Chair: Baz Dreisinger, John Jay College of Criminal PANEL 6F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Justice, USA. [email protected] (109) Intellectual Foundations of Caribbean Politics Reggae in a Global Cultural Universe – Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, Walter Rodney: Naïve Politician, Overzealous France. [email protected] Revolutionary or Transformational Leader – David Hinds, Arizona State University, USA. Clash: Corporate Coalition vs. Dancehall – Melville [email protected] Cooke, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] CLR James and the Immanent Plantation – Christopher Taylor, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Raperos En Color: Colour Commentary and Race in [email protected] Reggaeton – Wilfredo Gomez, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA. [email protected] Ariel Camejo Vento, Universidad de La Habana, [email protected] , [email protected] Mi Name “Goodas”: Self Perceptions of Women in

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The Struggle for Relevant Knowledge: A Comparison of the [email protected] Intellectualism of Eric Williams and Lloyd Best – Maurice St. Pierre, Morgan State University, USA. Evangelism and Work: Issues of Identity and Justice on [email protected] Construction Sites in Jamaica – Garth King, United Theological College of the West Indies, Jamaica. “Negroes of the West Indies and America, Unite!”: UNIA, [email protected] ABB and Bolshevism in the Black Caribbean, 1919–1924 – Margaret Stevens, Brown University, USA. [email protected] PANEL 6I: BOARDROOM 1 (249)Achieving Tenure and Promotion Using Caribbean Studies (ROUNDTABLE) PANEL 6G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (176) Sports, Culture and Civic Responsibility Tips for Putting Together Your Candidate Statement – (ROUNDTABLE) Rhonda Frederick, Boston College, USA. [email protected] Organiser: Jennifer Beaumont Tips for Selecting Outside Reviewers – Belinda The Miracle Team – Jennifer Beaumont, New Jersey Edmondson, Rutgers University, USA. Department of Education, NJ, USA. [email protected] [email protected] The Role of Senior Faculty in Preparing Your Tenure and Kent Bernard, State of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Promotion File – Anton Allahar, University of Western [email protected] Ontario, Canada. [email protected]

Wendell Mottley, Credit Suisse, New York, USA. Re-organising Your CV so that It Reflects Caribbean [email protected] Studies as a Focal Point for Tenure – Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State University, USA. Edwin Roberts, School District of Philadelphia, PA, [email protected] USA.

Edward Skinner, Skinner & Co, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago TUESDAY 11:30am 1:30pm –

PANEL 6H: BALLROOM CNFG05 BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (184) Dominant Hermeneutics: Religious PLENARY: “Taking Ownership of Our Intellectual Discourse and Jamaican National Identity agenda” CSA President's Plenary (ROUNDTABLE) Organiser: Anna Perkins See page 13 for details “This is a Christian country!” The Limits of Popular Religious Discourse on Jamaican Identity – R. Anthony Lewis, University of Technology, Jamaica. [email protected]

Prophetic and Apocalyptic Discourse in Jamaican Politics: The Phillip Phinn Phenomenon – Anna Kasafi Perkins, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

A Chai Chai Chai Chakka Chakka Chai Chai: Exploring the Sacred and Profane through Dancehall Gospel – Donna Hope, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

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PANEL 7A: MORANT BAY PANEL 7C: ST. ANN B (182) CLR James's Radical Black Internationalism (122) Caribbean Sexualities: Work, Risk and Identity Chair: Dr. Michelle Stephens, Colgate University, USA [email protected] Chair: Cynthia Shelton, Kentucky State University, USA. [email protected] Organiser: Michelle Stephens The Disintegration of the “New Man” and the Emergence Heidegger, Marxist-Existentialism, and the Making of of the Queer Subject inManteca by Alberto Pedro C.L.R. James's Athenian Caribbean – David Austin, Torriente – Elena Valdez, Rutgers University, USA. Concordia University, Canada. [email protected] [email protected]

The 1960s C.L.R. James: The New Society and the Quest HIV/AIDS and the Jamaican Sex Worker – Rashalee for a Caribbean Modernity – Aaron Kamugisha, Mitchell, University of the West Indies, Mona, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected] The Caribbean Lesbian Phallus and Other Productive Between Popular Self-Activity and Heroic Representative Eccentricities – Lyndon Gill, Harvard University, Men: The Dual Character of C.L.R. James' State USA. [email protected] Capitalism and the Making of National Liberation Struggles – Matthew Quest, Georgia State University, Liminal Identities: Caribbean Men Who Have Sex with USA. [email protected] Men in London, UK – Moji Anderson, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 7B: ST. ANN A (103) Hybridity and Postmodernity in the PANEL 7D: BOARDROOM 2 Aftermath of Slavery and Colonialism (137) Past and Present Dimensions of Language Education in the Caribbean Chair: Hernan Diaz, Lousiana State University, USA. [email protected] Tertiary-Level Japanese in Jamaica – Audley Green, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Middle Impasse: Repetition in Glissant – Lincoln [email protected] Shlensky, University of Victoria, Canada. [email protected] Anonymous Sojourners: Mapping the Territory of Caribbean Experiences of Immersion for Language Geopoética de Antonio Benítez Rojo: La Isla que se Repite. Learning – Ian Craig, University of the West Indies, El Caribe y la Perspectiva Posmoderna – Arango Milián Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected] and Haydée Beatriz, University of Havana, Cuba. [email protected]; [email protected] Brazilian Portuguese and the New Orthography – Patricia dos Reis, University of the West Indies, Mona, Caribbean Brokers: Poetics of Caribbean Specificity and Jamaica. [email protected] Theories of the Global – Jeannine Murray-Roman, University of California, USA. [email protected] Language and Pedagogical Practices in Haiti – Jean- Pierre Marky, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Subjectivities in Motion: Caribbean Literary (Dis) USA. [email protected] Articulations of Being – Miriam Chancy, State University of New York, Albany, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 7E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B PANEL 7G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (192) Antillanismo y Pensamiento Caribeño (142) Transnational Remittances: Implications for Families and for National Development Organiser: Vivian Auffant Remittances and Inequalities – Caroline Hossein, Antillanismo: Surgimiento y Resonancias – Yolanda University of Toronto, Canada. Ricardo, University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón. [email protected] [email protected] The Socio-Economic Impact of the Overseas Employment Hostos, Freire y la Tecnología – Leonides Santos y Programme – Allison Bailey Wedderburn, University Vargas, Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), San Juan. of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

La Pertinencia de la Confederación Antillana – Vivian Transnational Mothering from the Global Greenhouse: Auffant, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan. Scaling Economic Remittances from Shop Floor to [email protected] Household – Jennifer Domise, University of Waterloo, Canada. [email protected] Antecedentes de la Bioética en Hostos y la Relación con el Estudio Actual – Roberto Gutierez Laboy, University of Caribbean Migration Project: An Exploratory Project – Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. [email protected] Daina Nathaniel and Alison Mc Letchie, Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, University of Hostos, Freire y la Tecnología – Luis Pabón Batlle, South Carolina, Colombia, SC, USA. Instituto Estudios Martianos, Havana, Cuba. [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]

PANEL 7H: BALLROOM CNFG05 PANEL 7F: BALLROOM CNFG01 (185) Centering Caribbean Studies in Hispanic (133) Snapshots of Caribbean People's Intimate and Lusophone Reggae Lives Organiser: Samuel Fure Davis Chair: Denise Eldemire-Shearer, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. “Hispanic Reggae” in Cuba and Latin America – Samuel [email protected] Fure Davis, University of Havana, Cuba. [email protected], [email protected] Quinceañeras: Coming of Age through Digital Photography in Cuba – Anna Cristina Pertierra, (Re)Leitura Do Transnacionalismo Jeje: Jamaica Caribenha University of Brisbane, Australia. e Jamaica Brasileira – Maristane Sousa Rosa, State [email protected] University of Maranhao-UEMA, Brazil. . [email protected] Older Women in Trinidad: Health, Finance – Joan Rawlins, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Reggae and Rastafari in Salvador, Bahia – Jan de Cosmo, Trinidad. [email protected] Florida A&M University, FL, USA. [email protected] Where They Walk: Self-Making and New Geographies of Experience of Senior Black Women in Brazil – Celeste Reggae on Film: Audiovisual Arrangements of Music- driven Territories – Leonardo Alvares Vidigal, Federal Henery, University of Texas, Austin, USA. University of Minas Gerais-UFMG, Brazil. [email protected] [email protected]

Religiosity and Marital Conflict and Marital Satisfaction among Seventh-day Adventists in the Caribbean and Latin America – Gittens, Horatius and Colwick M. Wilson, Loma Linda University, USA. [email protected]

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GRADUATE STUDENT AND CSA FACULTY PANEL 8C: ST. ANN B BREAKFAST – Courtleigh Hotel 8:00am (111) Caribbean Political Figures in Historical Perspective Sponsored Workshop: "Gender and Leadership” – Les Ambassadeurs (Hilton top floor) 10:00am – Chair: Maurice St. Pierre, Morgan State University, 4:00pm Baltimore [email protected]

See page 13 for details The Caribbea– Key to the Americas? Walter Adolphe Roberts and the Concept of Pan-Americanism – Birte Timm, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany [email protected]

PANEL 8A: MORANT BAYROOM Norman and Edna Manley and the Jamaican Literary (140) Caribbean Class and Racial Identities at Public Sphere of the 1930s and 1940s – Raphael Dalleo, Home and Abroad Florida Atlantic University, USA. [email protected] Migrating Race: Migration and Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans – Carlos Vargas-Ramos,Hunter College, A New Maroon: Peralte's Role in Haiti – Yveline Alexis, CUNY, USA. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. [email protected] [email protected] Edward Blyden and the Politics of Negritude – Patrick Asiáticos en el Caribe: Encuentros y Desencuentros. Goodin, Howard University, USA. Introducción a un Estudio Comparativo – Eng Menéndez [email protected] and Yrmina Gloria, Universidad de Habana, Cuba. [email protected] Francisco de Arango y Parreño: Precursor de la Teoría de las Ventajas Comparativas – Eric Beira Casanova, Encountering the One-Drop Rule: Racial Identity University of Havana, Cuba Negotiation among Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida – Sharon Placide, Florida International University, USA. [email protected] PANEL 8D: BOARDROOM 2 The People Sector in Plural Jamaica – Ruel Cooke, (169) Strengths of Haitians University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Organiser: Guerda Nicolas

Redefining the Role of the Middle Class – Mikaila Brown, Weathering the Storms like Bamboo – Guerda Nicolas, Columbia University, USA. University of Miami, USA. [email protected] [email protected] Haitian Women: Spheres of Influence – Elizabeth Pierre, Boston College, USA. [email protected] PANEL 8B: ST. ANN A (104) Representation of Women in Hispanophone Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Interventions for and Francophone Caribbean Literature Haitians – Vanessa Prosper, Harvard Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Chair: Carolle Charles, City University of New York [email protected] [email protected]

Strategising Female Survival in Nuestra – Nicole Roberts, PANEL 8E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. (198) Processus d'Emancipation entre Concept et [email protected] pratiques

Women, Borders and Nation: Ana Maurine Lara's Erzulie's Organiser: Myriam Cottias Skirt – Sobeira Latorre, Southern Connecticut State University, USA. Des discours aux pratiques: “l'émancipation des esclaves” [email protected] dans l'espace colonial français transatlantique 1848–1884 – Céline Flory, EHESS, Paris, France. "Jean Rhys' 'Coulibri' Vision” – Paula Grace Anderson, [email protected] University College of the Cayman Islands, George Town, Grand Cayman. [email protected] “Le silence des passions”: Elites républicaines et abolition de l'esclavage en 1848 – Myriam Cottias, Centre National de la Recherche CNRS, Schoelcher-Martinique. [email protected]

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Jean Price-Mars: Combat et débat “Les intellectuels haïtiens MEI Peer-Led Education in USVI – Nadia Thomas, défendent” l'antériorité haïtienne et l'émancipation University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. politique. Le culturel est alors un champ d'investigation [email protected] quand la souveraineté politique est hypothéquée (1915) – Délide Joseph, EHESS, Paris, France [email protected] PANEL 8H: BALLROOM CNFG05 (170) Climate Change and the Caribbean Antonio Maceo : l'emancipation des anciens esclaves et le (ROUNDTABLE) programme anti-racial – Silvina Testa, CIRESC – MIGRINTER, Paris-Poitiers, France. [email protected] Organiser: Mary Valentis

Relire Frantz Fanon à partir de René Maran pour une remise Tropical Archipelagoes – Hernan Diaz, SUNY Albany, en question de la théorie de l'aliénation – Elsa Geneste, NY, USA. [email protected] EHESS, Paris, France. [email protected] Ghost Studies – Enrique Mario Santí, University of Kentucky, USA. [email protected] PANEL 8F: BALLROOM CNFG01 (157) Capitalism: Reform, Crisis or Death Michael Hill, SUNYAlbany,USA. [email protected] Organiser: Ian Boxill Paul Grimstad, Yale University, USA. [email protected] Bailouts, Handouts and the Dying Gasps of Capitalism – Anton Allahar, University of Western Ontario, Canada. [email protected] Glyne Griffith, SUNYAlbany,USA. [email protected] Regulation versus Self-regulation: Capitalism as Ideology – Ian Boxill, University of the West Indies, Mona, Román de la Campa, University of Pennsylvania, Jamaica. [email protected] USA. [email protected]

Where Are You Going and What Can I Do for You? Jorge Brioso, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA. Capitalism, Race and Identity Dilemmas in Latin-American [email protected] Cities – Cesar Cisneros-Puebla, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico. Thomas Cohen, SUNY Albany, NY, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Rethinking Caribbean Futures beyond the 2008 Crisis of Jose Manuel Prieto. [email protected] Capital – Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

Contesting the Superiority of Materialism – Mitzie Reid, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 8G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (228) HIV/AIDS in the US Virgin Islands

Organiser: Ededet Iniama

The State of HIV/AIDS in the US Virgin Islands – Ededet Iniama, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected]

HIV/AIDS: Stigma and Discrimination – Grace E. Iniama, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected]

Minority Education Institutions (MEI) Initiatives for HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Hepatitis in USVI – Doris C. Battiste, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected]

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PANEL 9A: MORANT BAY PANEL 9C: ST. ANN B (124) Caribbean Regional Integration: Retrospect (134) Multidimensional Perspectives on Gender in and Prospect the Caribbean

Caribbean Integration Fifty years after the West Indian Knowlege/Power and Gender in the Caribbean – Tonya Federation: Any Insights from Europe? – Wendy Haynes, Institute for Gender & Development Studies, Grenade, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Barbados. [email protected] [email protected]

A Proposal of Caribbean Integration: “The Moskitia and the Woman to Woman: Let's talk – Women of African Descent archipelago of San Andrés, Old Providence and Ketlina in in the Diaspora ─ Denise Bacchus, Santa Barbara City the Midst of Colombia and Nicaragua” – Archbold College, CA, USA. [email protected] Hawkins and Javier Jacinto, Christian University, San Andres Island, Colombia. [email protected] Gender, Illicit Drug Trafficking, Security and the Caribbean: A Feminist Assessment – Ellie Schemenauer, The Free Movement Of Labour In Caricom: The Influence University of Wisconsin, USA. [email protected] of the CSME on the Provision of Social Services within the Community: An Analysis of Contingent Rights – Kai-Ann Of Models and Metaphors: Theoretical Reflections on Skeete, Institute of International Relations, University Gender in Rural Jamaica – Diana Fox, Bridgewater State of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. College, USA. [email protected] [email protected] Gender Studies at UWI: An Agenda to Educate, Advocate Towards a Caribbean Union: Rethinking Ideas of the West or Postulate? – Nicole Smythe-Johnson and Annie Indies Federation – Nicole Warmington-Granston, Paul, [email protected]; Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Judgements in Paradise – Rohan Williams, Otterbein PANEL 9D: BOARDROOM 2 College, Westerville, Ohio, USA. (150) Identity, Race and Nation: Comparative [email protected] Perspectives

Chair: Nivia Montenegro PANEL 9B: ST. ANN A (105) Literary Perspectives on the Movement to The Symbolism of Race in Cuba – Pedro Perez-Sarduy, Freedom London Metropolitan University, UK. [email protected] Chair: Thomas Cohen, State University of New York at Albany. [email protected] Puerto Ricans: The Forgotten West Indians – Cyndia Morales, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Ersilian Spiderwebs of Colonial Ideology – Allyson USA. [email protected] Salinger Ferrante, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Identidad, Cubanía y discursos culturales en la Cuba [email protected] contemporánea – Kenia Dorta Armaignac, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología de Cuba. Imagining Nations – Kei Miller, University of Glasgow, [email protected],, [email protected] Scotland. [email protected] [email protected]

Man Friday Speaks in Walcott's Pantomime– Sam Vasquez, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 9E: BALLROOM 1B/ 2B/ 3B PANEL 9G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (256) Centering the Caribbean in Caribbean (248) Gender, Sexuality and HIV studies (FEATURED PANEL) Organiser: Tisha Nickenig Centering the Caribbean in Caribbean Studies: The role of UNESCO HIV and the Media: Representations of Gender, Sexual Culture and HIV & AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago – Presenter: Dr. Kwame Boafo, Director of the UNESCO Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies, St. Office for the Caribbean. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] . Gender, Child Sexual Abuse and HIV: Understanding PANEL 9F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Social Norms and Perceptions throughout Trinidad and (186) Careers, Health and Nurse Education Tobago – Gabrielle Hosein, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Organiser: Naomi A. Watson [email protected]

Review of Eastern Caribbean Prisons: The Impact of the Conceptualizing Sex/Gender Diversity: A Caribbean Environment on the Mental Health of Prisoners and the Perspective – Christiana Abraham, University of the Implications for Prison Workforce Development – Lisa West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. McLean, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. [email protected] [email protected]

Internationalisation of the Postgraduate Nursing PANEL 9H: BALLROOM CNFG05 Curriculum: Exploring Cultural Issues and Concepts in (193) Rekindling an Interest in the Centrality of Teaching and Learning – Nazreen Akhtar, University of Labour in the Caribbean Southampton, UK. [email protected] Organiser: Linden Lewis Guyanese Women in the UK: Their Experiences of Diabetes, Health Knowledge and Beliefs, and Implications Discussant: Hilbourne Watson, Bucknell University, for Self Care – Ann Mitchell, Open University, Milton USA. [email protected] Keynes, UK. [email protected] Labour Challenges in the Context of Liberal Restructuring Education, Class, Human Capital: Implications for African – Dave Ramsaran, Susquehanna University, USA. Caribbeans in the British workforce – Vivienne Connel- [email protected] Hall, HM Revenue and Customs, UK. [email protected] Grounding Empowerment: Red Thread Women's Organisation in Guyana – Alissa Trotz, University of Career Choices of British Born Caribbean Young People; Toronto, Canada. [email protected] Exploring Their Perceptions of Careers in Health Care and Nursing and the Implications for Culturally Sensitive The Alchemy of Labour in the Caribbean – Linden Lewis, Health Care, Nursing Practice and Diversity Initiatives in Bucknell University, USA. [email protected] the British NHS – Naomi Watson, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. [email protected]

“She Cannot Be Confined to Her Own Region”: Caribbean Nurses and Transnationalism – Karen C. Flynn, University of Illinois, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 10A: MORANT BAY PANEL 10C: ST. ANN B (125) Welfare, the State and Human Development (247) The Conduct of Caribbean Masculinity in across the Caribbean the Public Sphere

Chair: Paul Hawkins, University of Pretoria, South Organiser: Peter Weller Africa [email protected] Creating Subjective Masculinities: A Preliminary Study of Wasted Capital and Enhanced Welfare – Mitzie Reid, Youth, Masculinity, Violence and Migration in the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Bahamas – Ian Bethell Bennett, University of Puerto [email protected] Rico. [email protected]

Small Island Welfare Regimes in the Caribbean: A Men's Journey to the Gender Table: Who is Setting the Comparative Review – Catherine Jones Finer, University Table and Are There Enough Place Settings? – Peter of Birmingham, UK. [email protected] Weller, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Marginalidad, pobreza y welfare en Puerto Rico – Linda Colon-Reyes, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Situating the Lives of Caribbean Men on the Block with [email protected] Their Communities – Rohan Jeremiah, St. George's University, Grenada. [email protected] Building it Now: Facilitating Human Development in the Caribbean – S. Faiz Ahmed, University of Prince Men-Touring – Svenn Mikki Grant, YMCA Trinidad. Edward Island, Charlottetown. [email protected] PANEL 10D: BOARDROOM 2 Perceptions of Jamaica's Programme of Advancement (221) Religion Cultural Preferences and Values through Health and Education (PATH) – Sean French, among Urban, Rural and Coastal Guyanese University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Organiser: Leon Wilson

Chair: Colwick M. Wilson, Loma Linda University PANEL 10B: ST. ANN A (177) Landscaping Jamaican Intimacies Subjective and Objective Assessment of Religiosity in Guyana: Adult and Adolescent Views – Leon C. Wilson, Organiser: Angeletta Gourdine East Carolina University, USA. [email protected]

Chair: Donna Weir-Soley, Florida International Cultural Preferences of Guyanese Adolescents: The Impact University of Religiosity, Media Exposure and Demographic Factors – Brenda Marshall, Wayne State University, USA. Waiting in Vain? Urban Romance and Caribbean [email protected] Intimacies in Channer's Novel – Rhonda Frederick, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA. Race, Gender, Religiosity and Adolescent Values in Guyana – Sherma Charlemagne, Loma Linda Mami Wata and the Women: Spiritual and Sensual University. [email protected] Communion – Linda Strong Leek, Berea College, Kentucky, USA. [email protected]

Telling Bodies: Gender and the Land in Narratives of Jamaica – Angeletta Gourdine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 10E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B PANEL 10G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (227) Arte y Cultura en el Caribe Colombiano (167) Obama and The Agenda For Change: implications for the Caribbean – 2009 and Beyond Organiser: Silvia Elena Torres Organiser: Charles Green El Caribe Lejos del Mar – Deibys Carrasquilla Baza, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe, San Caricom, Obama's America and the Future of Capitalism Andres Isla. [email protected] – Basil Wilson, John Jay College, CUNY, USA. Las Escuelas de Formación de Música tradicional – Sally [email protected] Ann Garcia Taylor, INFOTEP, San Andres Isla. [email protected] Barack H. Obama: Is the Charismatic Paradigm Applicable – Aubrey Bonnett, SUNY Old Westbury, USA. Pensar el Caribe en las artes visuales – Fabian Leotteau, [email protected] Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe, San Analysing the Caribbean Response to the Obama Andres Isla. [email protected] Campaign at Home and Abroad – Joyce Toney, Hunter College, CUNY, USA. [email protected] La danza y el teatro en el Caribe Insula – Silvia Elena Torres, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede What does the Caribbean Political Experience Teach Caribe/INFOTEP, San Andres Isla. African-Americans about the Obama Presidency? [email protected] – Anthony P. Browne, Hunter College, CUNY, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 10F: BALLROOM CNFG01 So Close Yet so Far: The Impact of Barack Obama's (135) Place, Space, Identity and Self: Past and Presidency on the US Virgin Islands – Malik Sekou, Present Perspectives University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] A Space for Reconstructing Self and Other – April Bernard, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected] PANEL 10H: BALLROOM CNFG05 (173) Caribbean Migrant Communities Knowing How to Make Cassava Bread: Pageantry and the Problem of Defining Indigeneity in Creole Amazonia – Organiser: Cédric Audebert Stacy Hope, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. [email protected] Caribbean Communities in Great Britain and France: Social Incorporation and Political Representation – Souley Centring around History and Identity – Ursula Troche, Hassan, University of Poitiers. Culture-Net-Work, London, UK. [email protected] [email protected] Caribbean Socio-spatial Patterns in the Miami-Ft. Reciprocity and Indo-Caribbean Identity in a Global Lauderdale Area: A Comparison between Jamaicans and Perspective – Amitava Chowdhury, Queens University, Haitians – Dr. Cédric Audebert, University of Poitiers. Canada. [email protected] [email protected]

Technologies of Governance in a Trinidadian Company Jamaican Immigrant Incorporation in Toronto and Miami Town – Jacob Campbell, University of Arizona, USA. – Terry-Ann Jones, Fairfield University, CT, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Transnational Return Migration to the English-Speaking Caribbean – Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State University, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 11A: MORANT BAY (163) Queerness and the Jamaican Nation El Rastro Chino en la Cultura Cubana (The Chinese Traces in Cuban Culture) – Rogelio Rodríguez Coronel, Organiser: Esther Figueroa Universidad de Habana, [email protected] ,

"Not in My Cabinet": The Impossibility of the Queer The Politics of Guyanese Racial Identity – Rosanne Citizen – Esther Figueroa, Jamaica. [email protected] Purnwasie, York University, Canada. [email protected] Nanny of the Maroons and the Genealogy of the Man- Royal: Constructing a Speculative Queer Jamaican Genealogy – Ronald Cummings, University of Leeds, PANEL 11D: BOARDROOM2 M UK. [email protected] (203) Knowing, Being and Power: Bringing Epistemology and Ontology Back into the Policy "Doan Mek Mi Hol Yuh!: Questioning, Subjectivities, Sciences Sexualities and the Politics of Place in Jamaican Popular Culture – Agostinho Pinnock, University of the West Organiser: Lawrence Alfred Powell Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Discussant: Brian Meeks, University of the West Colonial Optics: Dancehall and the Imperatives against the Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] "Unnatural” – Camille Nelson, Washington University, St. Louis, USA. [email protected] From Douens to El Tucuche: The Meaning of Being in Leroy Clarke's Art – Clinton Hutton, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] PANEL 11B: ST. ANN A (223) The Blue Mountains: Forests for the Future The Power of Mediated Constructions of Reality and Meaning – Lawrence Alfred Powell, University of the Organiser: Thera Edwards West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Environmental Conservation – Thera Edwards, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Being and Epistemology in Theology: Conceptualizing [email protected] 'Incarnation’ – Martin Schade, University of Technology, Jamaica. [email protected] Protected Areas Management for Conservation – Thera Edwards, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] PANEL 11E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (191) Re-configuring Home: Writers from the Conservation of Birds – Marlon Beale, University of the Caribbean Diaspora and their Parents' Cultural West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Traditions [email protected] Organiser: Marie-Jose N'zengou-Tayo Conservation of the Flora – Shauna-Lee Chai, Cambridge University, UK. [email protected] Reconstructing Caribbean Magic in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring– Velma Pollard, Jamaica. [email protected] PANEL 11C: ST. ANN B (143) To and From the Caribbean: Places and Peoples Re-imagining Guadeloupe in Gisèle Pineau's L'exil selon Julia– Elizabeth Wilson, Jamaica. From Calabar (Nigeria) to Calabar (Jamaica) – Ededet [email protected] Iniama, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] Re-interpreting Haitian History through Vodou – Françoise Cévaër, University of the West Indies, A New Black Atlanta – LaToya Tavernier, CUNY Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Graduate Centre, NY, [email protected]

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Invisibility Undone: Heterogeneity and Mestizaje in Successes of Caribbean Physicians – Sarah C. Stuchell, Mayra Montero's Son de Almendra– Maite Villoria Loma Linda University, CA, USA. Nolla, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

PANEL 11H: BALLROOM CNFG05 PANEL 11F: BALLROOM CNFG01 (204) Re-thinking Development, Globalisation (139) Crisis and / in Caribbean States and Power: 'Creolisation' on the Move

Undoing History as Repetitive Time – Sarah Vaughn, Organiser: Michaeline Crichlow Columbia University, NY, NY, USA. [email protected] Small States and Citizens Suffering for Space: Neo-liberal Governmentality, Democratic Deficits and the Rhetoric of Coping Mechanisms under Military Rule: Livelihoods in Good GovernanceVPatricia Northover, University of the Suriname 1980–1987 – Hebe Verrest, KITLV, Leiden, West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Netherlands. [email protected] [email protected]

Imposing Democracy: From Political Kaleidoscope to Regionalism as the Route to Development: The Colours in Grenadian Elections – Douglas Midgett, CARIFORUM/EC EPA – Patsy Lewis, University of University of Iowa, USA. douglas- the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

The Politics of Audacity in Guadeloupe – Yarimar Small States and Citizens Suffering for Space: Neo-liberal Bonilla, University of Virginia, USA. Governmentality, Democratic Deficits and the Rhetoric of [email protected] Good Governance – Michaeline Crichlow, Duke University, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 11G: BALLROOM CNFG03 Public Administration and Good Governance – Edwin (224) Caribbean Medical Doctors and Their Jones, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Families: Family Functioning, Gender, Stress and [email protected] Parenting

Organiser: Colwick Wilson

Career and Familial Issues Experienced by Caribbean Married Female Physicians in the United States: A Qualitative Study – Nishana Clarke, Loma Linda University, CA, USA. [email protected]

Immigrant Dual Career Couples in Which One is a Physician – Carlene Fider, Loma Linda University, CA, USA.

Stress and Families among Caribbean Physicians – Tone Olaffson, Loma Linda University, CA, [email protected]

Marital Satisfaction of Male West Indian Physicians – St. Clair Alexander, Loma Linda University, CA, USA. [email protected]

Planning Parenthood: Expectations, Challenges, and

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PANEL 12A: MORANT BAY Demographic Ageing in the Caribbean Sub-Region: (236) Discrepant Discourses I: Identity and Implications for the Elderly in Trinidad and Tobago – Diaspora in the Works of Patricia Powell Godfrey St. Bernard, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] Organiser: Patricia Saunders Quality of Life of Jamaica's Elderly Population – Respondent: Patricia Powell, Stanford University, Chukwudum Uche, University of the West Indies, USA. [email protected] Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

Contexualising Contemporary Contructions of Diapora Utilisation of Public Hospital Services by the Elderly in Identity in the Works of Patricia Powell – Patricia Jamaica: A Ten-year Review – Joan Rhule, University of Saunders, University of Miami, USA. the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

Queer Time: Simultaneity, Sexuality, and the Novels of Financial Planning and Dependency in Old Age – Julian Patricia Powell – Nadia Ellis, University of California, Devonish, University of the West Indies, Mona, Berkeley, USA. [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

“Is He a Lesbian or What?” Teaching Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda– Sheri-Marie Harrison, University of PANEL 12D: BOARDROOM 2 Missouri. [email protected] (205) Centering the Opposition in the Caribbean Political Process

PANEL 12B: ST. ANN A Organiser: Wendy Grenade (190) Caribbean Women Writers: Negotiating Gender within Their Unique Socio-Political Peasant Revolt and Social and Political Change in Saint Spaces Lucia: 1952–57 and 1992–97 – Tennyson Joseph, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Organiser: Marie-Agnès Sourieau [email protected]

Heteroglossia and Fluid Subjectivities in Caribbean Exploring Dilemmas in the Political Wilderness: The Case Women's Writing – Caroline Cousins, University of the of the National Democratic Congress in Grenada, West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] 1995–2008 – Wendy Grenade, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. From Chameleon to Matador and Back: Towards a Feminist [email protected] Politics of Change in Montero's del Rojo de su Sombra, Chamoiseau'sTexaco and Confiant's Mamzelle Libellule Opposition to What and for What? Rethinking the Role of – Warrick Lattibeaudiere, University of the West Opposition in Caribbean Politics – David Hinds, Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA. [email protected] Georgina Herrera: Writing the Woman in Revolutionary Cuba – Lindy Jones, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. PANEL 12E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (239) El Caribe en Los estudios y Caribeños en Colombia PANEL 12C: ST. ANN B (210) Quality of Life Dynamics: The Elderly in the Organiser: Johannie Lucia James Cruz Caribbean Region

Organiser: Chukwudum Uche Algunas representaciones del trópico en el discurso colonial – Zurita Buelvas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia The Elderly in the Caribbean, 2000 – Valerie Nam, Sede Caribe. [email protected] Statistical Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected]

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La etnicidad Anglocaribeña Raizal dentro del marco del Trail of Research: US Anthropology in Jamaica – A. Lynn Estado colombiano – Fady Ortiz Roca, Universidad Bolles, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe. [email protected] [email protected] “Don't Ride the Bus!”: And Other Warnings Women Dinamicas de Poblamiento y su Influencia en la Anthropologists Are Given during Fieldwork – Bianca Apropiacion Del Espacio en la Isla de San Andres Durante Robinson, Duke University, USA. el Periodo (1953–2008) – Loyda del Carmen Fonseca [email protected] Cuadrado, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe. [email protected] Anthropology and the Jamaican Moment – Don Robotham, City University of New York, NY, USA. Tensiones globales - Tensiones locales: El caso de los [email protected] habitantes de Providencia y Santa Catalina islas y su relación con discursos sobre desarrollo- naturaleza – Katia Anthropology: A Chance to Return to Its Sources in Silvana Padilla Díaz, Universidad Nacional de Philosophy and Political Economy – Barry Chevannes, Colombia Sede Caribe. [email protected] University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Familias Nativo Raizales en Isla San Andres – Luz Viana Cristopher Britton, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe. [email protected] PANEL 12H: BALLROOM CNFG05 (120) Creolisation, Language and Culture: Theory and Practice across the Caribbean PANEL 12F: BALLROOM CNFG01 (206) Rethinking Aspects of Quantitative Research Chair: Claudette Williams, University of the West in the Caribbean: The Case of Socioeconomic Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Surveys in Jamaica The 'Creole' Concept in Culture Studies – Mervyn Organiser: Mark Figueroa Alleyne, Universidad de Puerto Rico; University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Re-examining Key Questions in Jamaican Socioeconomic [email protected] Surveys – Dillon Alleyne, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Creole Origins and Cohabitation – Nicholas Faraclas, University of Puerto Rico [email protected] The Impact of Inconsistency in Data Categories on Longitudinal Research in Jamaica – Nekeisha Spencer, Da Wahn Faamli Ting: Perspectives on Belizean Creole – University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Grant Rich, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, [email protected] Alaska. [email protected]

Gender, Household Structure and Leadership in Jamaica. Coloniality and Language Practices in Haiti – Jean-Pierre Can We Believe the Survey of Living Conditions? – Mark Marky, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Figueroa, University of the West Indies, Mona, [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 12G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (202) The Prism of the Anthropological Lens on Jamaica

Organiser: A. Lynn Bolles

Bodies, Bodies Everywhere: Exemplary Spectacularity and Violence in Jamaica – Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 13A: MORANT BAY PANEL 13C: ST. ANN B (250) Finishing the PhD, Getting a Job and Doing (234) Centering the Caribbean in Migration Caribbean Studies ( ROUNDTABLE) Studies (ROUNDTABLE)

Tips for Finishing Your Dissertation – Samuel Furé Organiser: Annette Insanally Davis, University of Havana, Cuba. [email protected] [email protected] Leith L. Dunn, University of the West Indies, Mona, Tips for Working with a Faculty Member Who Is Living in Jamaica. [email protected] another Country –Michelle Reis, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Sheri-Ann George, University of the West Indies, [email protected] Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

Time Management: How to Survive Life as a Junior Soyini Ashby, University of the West Indies, Mona, Researcher or Postdoc – Marika Preziuso, University of Jamaica. [email protected] Loughborough, UK. [email protected] Michele Reis, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago '–It Takes a Village': How to Draft a Successful Job Letter [email protected] Shona Jackson, Texas A&M University, USA. [email protected] PANEL 13D: BOARDROOM 2 Tips for Preparing for Your First Job Interview – Dwaine (245) Business Development in the Caribbean: Plaza, Oregon State University, USA. Challenges and Opportunities [email protected] Organiser: Archibald Campbell

PANEL 13B: ST. ANN A Creating a Culture of Innovation and Creativity in (183) Literary Caribbean Caribbean Companies – Marjorie Campbell, Elecif Arthurs and Valoris Smith, Mona School of Business, Organiser: Rita Keresztesi University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Re-defining the Caribbean through Literature – Maggie Internationalisation of SME's: Overcoming the Challenges Shrimpton, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, – Vanetta Skeete, Cheralee Morgan and Silburn Mexico. Clarke, Mona School of Business, University of the [email protected] West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Mapping the Lived through the Imagined – Marika Cost Reduction through Lean Sigma Methodology – Jackie Preziuso, University of Loughborough, Leicestershire, Johnson, Dwight Shelley and Denis Grey, Mona UK. [email protected] School of Business, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica The Spirit of Africa – Ileana Sanz, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Strategy Dynamics of Caribbean Businesses: Accessing Capital – Ravi Rambarran, Leroy Paul and Winston Black Power in the Caribbean – Rita Keresztesi, Butler, Mona School of Business, University of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 13E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Island Fictions: Writing Diaspora in Anglophone (195) The Place of Journals in the Making, and Caribbean Literature – Elvira Pulitano, California Remaking, of the Study of the Caribbean Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, (ROUNDTABLE) USA. [email protected]

Organiser: Kelly Josephs

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David Scott, Columbia University, NY, USA. Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected] Policy Discourse on Migration and Its Impact – Pauline Krista Thompson, Northwestern University, USA. Knight, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

Faith Smith, Brandeis University, PANEL 13H: BALLROOM CNFG05 [email protected] (215) Confrontations with the Issue of Sexual Orientation among Caribbean Social Work Kelly Baker Josephs, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Professionals (ROUNDTABLE) [email protected] Organiser: Kimberly Hinds PANEL 13F:BALLROOM CNFG01 (151) Crime, Violence and Security in the Lita Allen, University of the West Indies, Mona, Caribbean Jamaica. [email protected]

Crime and Human Resource Management – Noel Cowell, Judy Stanigar, [email protected] University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Valerie Thompson-Ebanks, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA. [email protected] Internal Security, Other Roles and the Jamaica Defence Force – Dion Phillips, University of the Virgin Islands, Kimberly Hinds, University of the West Indies, Mona, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

Mob Killings in Jamaica 1998–2007 – Glendene Lemard, Wendy McLean, University of the West Indies, Mona, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected] PANEL 13I: LES AMBASSADEURS Police Youth Clubs in Jamaica – Elizabeth Slack, Western (254) Exploring Studies in Growth Strategies for Illinois University, USA. [email protected] Small States (ROUNDTABLE) (CaPRI)

Discourse on Crime and Criminality in Trinidad – Akua Presentation of Scoping Paper: Growth Strategies for Benjamin, Ryerson University, Canada. Small States: A Proposal for A Programme of Studies – [email protected] John Rapley, Caribbean Policy Research Institute, Jamaica. [email protected] Crime and Citizenship in Urban Jamaica – Rivke Jaffe, Leiden University, Netherlands. [email protected] Discussants: Yiagadeseen Samy, Carleton University, Canada. PANEL 13G: BALLROOM CNFG03 [email protected] (233) Migration Impact and Development Policy Dirk Willem Te Velde, Overseas Development Organiser: Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Institute, UK. [email protected] The Economic Impacts of Migration 1 – Mikhail-Ann Urquhart and Claremont Kirtin, University of the Bimbika Sijipati, Pacific Institute of Public Policy, West Indies, Mona, [email protected] , Vanuatu. [email protected] [email protected] Damien King, University of the West Indies, Gender Perspectives on Migration Impact – Natasha Mona/Caribbean Policy Research Institute, Jamaica. Mortley, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

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PANEL 14A: MORANT BAY PANEL 14C: ST. ANN B (229) Memorialisations, Reparations, Engagement (194) Theorising Race and Ethnicity: Sociological in the Caribbean and Social Psychological Considerations of the Caribbean and American Contexts Organiser: D. Alissa Trotz Organiser: Marina Ramkissoon Memorialisation, Reparations, and Engagement: Rastafari after Coral Gardens – Deborah A. Thomas, University of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean: Meanings and Impact Pennsylvania, USA. [email protected] on Health Outcomes – Tracy McFarlane, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Music and Memory: Calypso Commemorations of the Grenada Revolution – Shalini Puri, University of Representations of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [email protected] the US and How This Correlates with Stratification in Both Regions – Michael Barnett, University of the West Remembering Hurudaia: Memory, Politics and Violence in Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Guyana – D. Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto, Canada. [email protected] Conceptualizations of Race and Ethnicity: American and Caribbean Models – Marina Ramkissoon, University of If Walls Could Talk: Performing and Mourning – Memories the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. of Community Violence in Mural Art and Security Fencing [email protected] in Jamaica – Honor Ford-Smith, York University, Toronto, Canada. [email protected] Complex Personhood and the Liberation of the Skin Bleachers in Jamaica – Christopher A.D. Charles, John PANEL 14B: ST. ANN A Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA (197) Centring Sexuality: Desire between Women [email protected]

Organiser: Keja Valens PANEL 14D: BOARDROOM 2 (196) Gender and Power across the Disciplines Chair: Caryn Adams, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados., [email protected] Organiser: Shakira Maxwell

Eccentric Relations, Vecindarios Excéntricos – Keja Valens, “Votes for (Some) Women Now!”: Political Franchise in the Salem State College, MA, USA. [email protected] Aftermath of War – Dalea Bean, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Revolutionary Love: Women and Resistance in No Telephone to Heavenand In Another Place, Not Here – “Some of the Worst Characters in the City”: The Gendered Emily Meyers, University of Oregon, USA. Nature of Crimes Which Violated the Public Order in Early [email protected] Jamaica – Shakira Maxwell, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She Emerged from the Waters, Whole and Broken: Caribbean [email protected] Desires in Ana-Maurine Lara's Erzulie's Skirt– Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, University of Minnesota, USA. "Wave You Han' If You Want to Be Sanctified”: Gendered [email protected] Interpretations of the Body in the Light of Christian Theology – June Castello, University of the West Indies, "You Daddy Ain't You Daddy": Shani Mootoo's Queer Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Families – Evelyn O'Callaghan, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. We Want Justice! Student Perspectives of Gender Justice in [email protected] Caribbean Classrooms – Suzanne Charles, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Place and the Possible: Progressive Politics, Queer Subjects and the Lives of Others in Shani Mootoo's Writings – Alison Donnell, University of Reading, UK. [email protected]

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PANEL 14E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Chair: Walter Lonner, Western Washington University, (255) Violence and Community Development in Bellingham, WA [email protected] the Caribbean (IAF Panel) Discussant: Lawrence Powell, University of the West Organiser: Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]

Community-based Responses to Family- and Gender-based Distributive Fairness in the Indian Perspective – Lilavati Violence in the Dominican Republic – Maris Lucila Lara Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Nuñez and Nerkis Viviana Lara Nuñez, Centro de India. [email protected] Servicios Legales para la Mujer (CENSEL), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Self-Esteem in Graduate Women: A Study in Jamaica and the United States – Rosemary Frey, University of Conflict, Violence and the Challenge of Community Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. Development in Haiti: Two Case Studies – Eric Calpas, [email protected] QIFD USA & Field Office Haiti. The Critical Importance of Cross-cultural Comparison – Community Responses to Gang Violence: An Inner-city Walter Lonner, Western Washington University, USA. Kingston Perspective – Richard Troupe, Hope for [email protected] Children Development Company, Kingston, Jamaica. Indiscipline in Jamaican Schools: Whither the Roots? – Joan PANEL 14F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Black, University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. (199) The Caribbean's Deportation Phenomenon [email protected]

Organiser: Bernard Headley Hidden from Our Eyes: An Examination of the Haitian and Grenadian Truth Commissions – Jermaine McCalpin, Chair: Bernard Headley, University of the West Indies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

Exiled to the Caribbean – Tanya Golash-Boza, University PANEL 14H: BALLROOM CNFG05 of Kansas, USA. [email protected] (214) Guyana: History, Theory – Specificity, difference Effecting State Intervention in US Deportation Proceedings – Aarti Shahani, New York University, New York and Organisers: Nalini Persram and Shona N. Jackson Families for Freedom, USA. [email protected], [email protected] Guyanese Modernity and Cultural Subjectivity in the Caribbean – Nalini Persram, York University, Canada. Human Consequences of Deportation – Vivienne McLean, [email protected] CUNY, USA. [email protected] Decolonisation and Diaspora – Nalini Mohabir, Deportations to Jamaica: One Deportee's Story – Charles University of Leeds, UK. [email protected] Brown, St. Thomas Parish Council, Morant Bay, Jamaica. [email protected] Undoing History as Repetitive Time: The Figure of 'Crisis' in Benitez-Rojo's and Thomas's Caribbean – Sarah E. Regional Government Policy Approaches to the Deportation Vaughan, Columbia University, USA. Quagmire – Suzette Martin-Johnson, University of the [email protected] West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] The Iwokrama Project: 'Sustainability,' Ownership and PANEL 14G: BALLROOM CNFG03 Amerindians – Yoshiko Shibata, Kobe University, Japan. (213) Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fairness and [email protected] the Self Labour and/in Chaos – Shona Jackson, Texas A&M Organiser: Lawrence Powell University, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 15A: MORANT BAY PANEL 15C: ST. ANN B (138) Education in the Caribbean: Challenges and (235) Performing Heritage, Re-presenting Identity: Possibilities The Dynamics of Festival Tourism in the Contemporary Caribbean Building Resilience in Human Resources – Christine Marrett, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Organiser: Yanique Hume [email protected] Implementing Sustainable Heritage Tourism – Keith Inclusive Education in the Global Context: The Impact on Nurse, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, the Government and Teachers in a Developing Country – Barbados. [email protected] Alicia Trotman and Greg Wiggan, Michigan State University, USA. [email protected] Staging Culture / Performing Difference: Re-presenting Cuba in the Festival of Caribbean Culture (Fiesta del Limited Human Capital and Its Challenges on Pro-Poor Fuego) – Yanique Hume, University of the West Development Strategies for Youth – Grace-Ann Cornwall, Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected] University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Policing the Mas': Whose Identity, Whose Heritage? – Marcia Burrowes, University of the West Indies, Cave Culture Clash: Underachievement in Literacy – Andrea Hill, Barbados. [email protected] Todd, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Festival Tourism in the Caribbean: Identity and Politics after Neoliberalism – Philip Scher, University of Institutional Identity: Examining the impact of HBCU Oregon, USA. [email protected] (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Designation of the University of the Virgin Islands Festivals: The Missing Agenda in Caribbean Cultural – Sheree Bryant Sekou, University of San Francisco, Policy Discourse? – Suzanne Burke, University of the USA. [email protected] West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] PANEL 15B: ST. ANN A (207) Caribscapes: Imagining Caribbean PANEL 15D: BOARDROOM 2 Subjectivity through Place (200) Territory: The Heart of Caribbean Identity?

Organiser: Lara Cahill-Booth Organiser: Maya Anderson

A Baroque Approach to Anglophone Caribbean Modernism The Territory - Negotiated Boundaries of Indigenous Land – Carmen Ruiz-Castaneda, University of Miami, USA. and Livelihood in the Commonwealth of Dominica – [email protected] Emma Mullaney, Miami University, Ohio, USA. [email protected] “And How Did I Hone My Skills as a Narrator?”: The Imaginative Art of Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Borders Unbound: Contrasts in Gender and Ethnic Tale– Lara Cahill-Booth, University of Miami, USA. Identity in Contemporary Cuban Fiction – Maya [email protected] Anderson, Université Cergy Pontoise, France. [email protected] Ecofeminism and the Postcolonial Nation: Using the Land to Participate in the Nation in Shani Mootoo's Cereus The New Pañamas: Territorial Conflict in San Andres Blooms at Night– Michelle Ramlagan, University of Island, Columbia – Gabriel Gonzalez, Ecole Pratique Miami, USA. [email protected] des Hautes Etudes, France [email protected]

Who am I without my Cuba? Identity, Migration, and Gender in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting– Josune Urbistondo, University of Miami, USA. [email protected]

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PANEL 15E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. (240) La sostenibilidad ambiental del Caribe [email protected]

Organiser: Germán Márquez PANEL 15G: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (161) Men, Violence and Criminal Justice: New Harmful algal blooms in the Seaflower biosphere reserve, Paradigms for Progress Caribbean Colombia: environmental and economic implications – J. Ernesto Mancera y Brigitte Gavio, Organiser: Ian A. Bethell Bennett Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe, Isla San [email protected] y Género Masculino, Violencia y Prisión: En búsqueda de [email protected] nuevos paradigmas (Masculinity, Violence and Prison: In Search of New Paradigms) ─ Victor Garcia, University La integración para el manejo sostenible en el Caribe: caso of Puerto Rico. [email protected] de la pesquería artesanal del Archipiélago de San Andrés y Providencia, Caribe colombiano – Adriana Santos- El paradigma hegemónico masculino: Implicaciones para la Martínez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede política y la administración pública. (The Hegemonic Male Caribe, San Andres. [email protected] Paradigm: Implications for Social and Public Administration Policy) ─ Irving Nieves, University of Análisis de la vulnerabilidad actual del sistema agrícola en Puerto Rico. [email protected] la isla de Providencia y Santa Catalina, Caribe colombiano – Carolina Velásquez y Adriana Santos-Martínez, Partnership for Peace, Grenada ─ Shane Joseph, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe, Isla Domestic Violence Intervention Programme, 'Man to San [email protected] y Man', Legal Aid and Counselling Clinic [city? [email protected] Country?] [email protected]

Caracterización histórica del turismo en el Caribe con énfasis en el Archipiélago de San Andres y Providencia – PANEL 15H: BALLROOM CNFG05 Johannie James y Carolina Velásquez, Universidad (201) Issues in Caribbean Media: Problems and Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe, Isla San Andres. Possibilities [email protected] [email protected] Organiser: Lynette M. Lashley El Narcotráfico en la región Caribe: Desafíos a la seguridad regional – Silvia Cristina Mantilla, Universidad Gayelle Television Channel: A Model for Locally- Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe, Isla San Andres. Originated Programming in Trinidad and Tobago and the [email protected] Caribbean – Lynette Lashley, Miramar, FL, USA. [email protected] PANEL 15F: BALLROOM CNFG01 (208) Politicised and Racialised Agency: Caribbean Excesses in Press Freedom by the Media and Government Assertions of National Identity and Citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago: A Need for Policy – Andy Johnson, Express Newspaper, Trinidad. Organiser: Simone A. James Alexander Challenges Impacting the Media of Trinidad and Tobago Gendered Agency: Resistance as Discursive Strategy in and the Caribbean – Knolly Clarke, Caribbean Council Caribbean Women's Narratives – Simone Alexander, of Churches, Trinidad. [email protected] Seton Hall University, USA. [email protected] Caribbean Media: Who Are the New Audiences and Visible Blackness? Bleached Bodies and Conceptions of Content Producers in the Profoundly Changed Public Blackness in the Age of Globalisation – Winnifred Brown- Sphere? – Juliette Storr, Penn State University, Mona, Glaude, The College of New Jersey, USA. Jamaica.ca, Pennsylvania [email protected] [email protected]

Writing (from) the Periphery: Power, (Counter) Discourse, and Franco-Caribbean Difference – H. Adlai Murdoch,

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PANEL 16A: MORANT BAY The UNESCO Sustainable Development Programme for (252) US–Cuba Relations: A Roundtable Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Caribbean – Discussion with Washington Think Tanks Pedro Monreal, UNESCO, Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected] Organiser: José Raúl Perales UNDP and Marine Governance Issues in Jamaica and the Tomas Bilbao, Cuba Study Group Caribbean – David Smith, UNDP, Kingston, Jamaica. UNEP and Marine Governance in Jamaica and the Daniel Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue Caribbean – Chris Corbin, UNEP, Kingston, Jamaica. cjc@[email protected] Ted Piccone, Brookings Institution Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Hispanic Sarah Stephens, Center for Democracy in the Caribbean – German Marquez, Universidad Nacional Americas de Colombia, San Andres Island. [email protected] Geoff Thale, Washington Office in Latin America Sustainable Governance of Fisheries and the Coastal Zone PANEL 16B: ST. ANN A in Jamaica: Challenges and Achievements – Leonie (253) Casa de las Americas: 50 Years on the Move Barnaby, Ministry of Local Government and Environment, Kingston, Jamaica. Organiser/Chair: Samuel Furé Davis, Universidad de [email protected] la Habana, Cuba. [email protected], [email protected] Fisherfolk Livelihoods and Marine Governance in Belize – Nicholas Watts, Sandra Grant and Adam Lloyd, CASA and Caribbean Studies – Ileana Sanz Cabrera, London Metropolitan University, private consultants University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. (Belize). [email protected] [email protected] Landscape and Urban Ecology in the Caribbean and Latin The CASA Literary Prize: A Laureate´s Perspective – America – Juan P. Ruiz, Departamento de Ecología, Velma Pollard, Jamaica. [email protected] Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, España. [email protected] An Editorial Experience – Norman Girvan, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, PANEL 16D: BOARDROOM 2 St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] (179) Learning Caribbean Studies from the Masters (ROUNDTABLE) Academic Formation and New Generations of Caribbean Studies – Samuel Furé Davis, Universidad de la Chair: Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Habana, Cuba. [email protected] Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

Discussant: Roy Augier, University of the West PANEL 16C: ST. ANN B Indies, Mona, Jamaica. (251) The Governance of Fisheries and the Marine [email protected] Environment in the Caribbean Organisers: David Lewis and Anthony P. Maingot Organiser: Nicholas Watts The Development of ‘Caribbean Studies’ in the Thought Chair: Franklin McDonald, UWI Institute for and Work of Eric Williams – Humberto Garcia Muniz, Sustainable Development, Mona, Jamaica. University of Puerto Rico. [email protected]

Marine Governance in the Caribbean – Patrick Gordon K. Lewis and Interdisciplinary Studies – Anthony McConney and Robin Mahon, CERMES UWI Centre P. Maingot, Florida International University, USA. for Resource Management and Environmental [email protected] Studies, Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected]

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Beyond the Work of Gordon K. Lewis: The Future of An investigation into the Cultural Origins of the Use of Caribbean Studies – David E. Lewis, Manchester Trade the Holy Herb (Ganja) within the Rastafari Tradition – Ltd. (Washington, DC), USA. Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

PANEL 16E: BALLROOM CNFG01 Strength, Empowerment and Independence: The Era of the (118) Interrogating Tourism across the Caribbean Maroons – E. Valerie Smith, Florida Gulf Coast and Beyond University, USA. [email protected]

Chair: Meagan Sylvester, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. PANEL 16G: BALLROOM CNFG05 [email protected] (168) The Politics and Aesthetics of Caribbean Popular Culture Santiago de Cuba: Ponderación de sus valores culturales caribeños para despuntar entre los destinos de mayor arribo Organiser: Claudette Williams turístico en la region – Elena Tabera Delís, Cuba. [email protected] Don Drummond: The Music, It's My (Our) Whole Story – Herbie Miller, University of the West Indies, Mona, Valorisation du Patrimoine et tourismes alternatifs.: cas du Jamaica. [email protected] parc historique de la canne à sucre en Haïti – Athanasia Koussoula Bonneton, Universite des Antilles et The Politics of Jamaican Music 1960–1975 – Patrick Guyane, Guadeloupe. [email protected] Hylton, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Restos y perspectivas de la agricultura – Eder Jair Ortiz Roca, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, San Andrés Using Political Cartoons as a Tool in Providing Authentic Isla. [email protected] Learning Experiences – Horace Williams, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Equal to White Men? African American Male Sex Tourism [email protected] in the Caribbean – Benjamin Russell, Northeastern Illinois University, USA. [email protected] Engaging Nation Dance Language in Contemporary Caribbean Dance – L'Antoinette Stines, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. PANEL 16F: BALLROOM CNFG03 (119) The Impact and Legacy of Afro-Caribbean Religions and Traditions

Chair: Colwick Wilson, Loma Linda University. [email protected]

History of the Cabildo Congo Reales San Antonio – gnacia Rodríguez Estévez and Leydis Mendoza, Sancti Spiritus Medical School, Cuba. [email protected]

Para un estudio de una mentalidad caribeña en Santiago de Cuba:"Los Rastafaris" – Elena Tabera Delís, Cuba. [email protected]

The I-n-I of Rastafari: A Prototype for the Philosophy of Dialectical Incarnation – Martin Schade, University of Technology/ University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

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PANEL 17A: MORANT BAY PANEL 17C: ST. ANN B (209) Physical and Mental Health and Domestic (187) UVI Interdisciplinary Caribbean Classes Abuse in the Caribbean and the United States Organiser: Patricia Harkins-Pierre Organiser: Ishtar Govia In the Trenches – Emily Carter, University of the Virgin Chair: James S. Jackson, Institute for Social Research, Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] University of Michigan Reading with a Caribbean Focus – Linda Wymer, Discussant: Leon Wilson, Wayne State University University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] Evaluating the Risk for Intimate Partner Abuse among Americans and Black Caribbeans – Krim Lacey, Institute Introduction to the Humanities: Exploring Caribbean Arts for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann and Humanities at the University of the Virgin Islands – Arbor, MI, USA. [email protected] Patricia Harkins-Pierre, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. [email protected] West Indian Health Status and Substance Use in the United States and the Caribbean: An Overview – Ivy Caribbean Focus: Student Retention – Julie Cruz, Forsythe-Brown, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI. MI, USA. [email protected] [email protected]

Discrimination and Distress: West Indians and Haitians in PANEL 17D: BOARDROOM 2 the United States – Ishtar Govia, Institute for Social (188) Centering the Caribbean in the Global Research, University of Michigan, USA. Sphere [email protected] Organiser: Janell Hobson Race and Mental Health in Guyana – Colwick Wilson, Loma Linda University, USA. [email protected] A Women's History of the World – Janell Hobson, SUNY, Albany, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 17B: ST. ANN A Globalising Blackness in the Caribbean – Ime Kerlee, (231) Race and Africanity: Caribbean Perspectives University of New Mexico, USA [email protected]

Organiser: Locksley Edmondson Sex on the Beach – Sylvia Perez, SUNY Albany, USA. [email protected] Chair: Maureen Warner-Lewis, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. PANEL 17E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (238) Discrepant Discourses II: Identity and Representation, Identity and Black Activism: The Afro- Diaspora in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Colombian Context – Dorith Grant-Wisdom, University (ROUNDTABLE) of Maryland, USA Organiser: Nadia Ellis Thinking about Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century – a Jamaican Perspective with a South African Background – Chair: Nadia Ellis, University of California, Berkeley Rupert Lewis, University of the West Indies, Mona, [email protected] Jamaica. Kei Miller, University of Glasgow, UK. The Rastafari Experience in Ethiopia ─ Ayele Bekerie, [email protected] Cornell University, USA. Patricia Powell, Stanford University, USA. Contextualising and Evaluating the Significance of the [email protected] Founding Father of Negritude: Aime Cesaire (1913–2008) – Locksley Edmondson, Cornell University, USA Marlene Nourbese Philip, Toronto, Canada.

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Patricia Saunders, University of Miami, USA. PANEL 17H: BALLROOM CNFG05 [email protected] (189) Sexualities, Social Exclusion and Human Rights Vulnerability in the Caribbean Context of Faith Smith, Brandeis University, USA. HIV [email protected] Organiser: Robert Carr

PANEL 17F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Contradictory Sexualities: Empowerment or Vulnerability (212) Of Ritual Cleansing and Uncommon for Adolescent Girls in Barbados – Christine Barrow, Pairings: Negotiating Curious Juxtapositions in the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Modern Caribbean Popular Cultural Landscape [email protected]

Organiser: Sheri-Marie Harrison Communication and HIV: Multi-Dimensional Frustration – Marjan de Bruin, University of the West Indies, To di Wirl: Black Masculinity and Contrasting Rhetorics of Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] Restraint – Sheri-Marie Harrison, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. [email protected] Social Exclusion, Citizenship, and Rights: Grappling with Vulnerability in the Epidemic of HIV – Robert Carr, Pressured Affiliations: From Ancient Tales to Modern University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Popular Culture in Walcott's Omeros and “Forty Acres: a [email protected] poem for Barack Obama” – Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, USA. [email protected] Risking Education: Placing Young MSM in the HIV Prevention Equation – R. Anthony Lewis, Caribbean Fire and Rain: Damnation and Cleansing in the Music Vulnerable Communities Coalition Corpus of Reggae Dancehall Performer Capleton – [email protected] Andrea Shaw, Nova Southeastern University, USA. [email protected]

PANEL 17G: BALLROOM CNFG03 (153) Future Latin American-Caribbean Relations

Organiser: Marlon Anatol

Guyana and CARICOM Relations: New Thoughts and Possibilities – Mark Kirton, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

The Rise of Brazil and the Effects on CARICOM – Niki Braithwaite, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

Regionalism: The Future of CARICOM – Mario Romany, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected]

Globalisation and Caribbean and Latin America – Marlon Anatol, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, [email protected]

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PANEL 18A: MORANT BAY University of Charlotte, NC, USA. (241) The Elusive Goal of Economic Development [email protected] in the Caribbean Reading Recipe, Digesting Food – James Bell, University Locating the Caribbean Cultural Economy in Caribbean of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Studies Discourse: Looking through the Window of [email protected] Industrial Policy – Jo-Anne Tull, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] The Resurgence of Political Commentry in the 2009 Calypse Manarch Contest - Lynette Lassley, Miramar, Issues Influencing Telecentre Success – Arlene Bailey, FL. [email protected] University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] The Resurgence of Political Commentary in the 2009 Calypso Monarch Contest – Lynette Lashley, Miramar, Creating Value for Caribbean Knowledge – Tamira FL, USA. [email protected] LaCruz, MarkStra, Curacao. [email protected]

Caribbean Manufacturing, Is It Dead?: EPAs and PANEL 18D: BOARDROOM 2 Globalisation – Marlon Anatol, University of the West (218) Rethinking the Windrush Generation: New Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Perspectives on Anglophone Caribbean Literature [email protected] of the 1950s

Organiser: Leah Rosenberg PANEL 18B: ST. ANN A (216) Translating Caribbean Identities Diaspora, Exile and Representation: The BBC “Caribbean Voices” – Glyne Griffith, SUNY Albany, NY, USA. Organiser: Randi Kristensen [email protected]

Translating Masculinity: Caribbean Film – Gia On Reading John Hearne Seriously – Kim Robinson- Harewood, George Washington University, USA. Walcott, University of the West Indies, Mona, [email protected] Jamaica. [email protected]

Translations of Freedom: Marronage – Randi Gray Enslaved by the Yankee Dollar: Rum and Coca-Cola and Kristensen, George Washington University, USA. the Perils of Postwar Power – J. Dillon Brown, [email protected] Washington University, St. Louis, MI, USA. [email protected] Translating: Original and Translator – Carlos Schroeder, Northern Virginia Community College, USA. [email protected] PANEL 18E: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B (226) 30 Years Later: The Regional Legacy of the Translating Caribbean Citizenship – Tanya Shields, Grenada Revolution University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. [email protected] Organiser: Shalini Puri

Re-visiting the Political in Grenada's Revolution: Lessons PANEL 18C: ST. ANN B for Caribbean Futures – Brian Meeks, University of the (128) Eating and Talking: Perspectives on West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Contemporary Caribbean Consumption and [email protected] Communication Patterns Remembering the Grenada Revolution: A Personal Chair: Cheryl Brayboy, Johnson C. Smith University Engagement – Patsy Lewis, University of the West [email protected] Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

Fall of the Golden Arches – Daina Nathaniel, Queens

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Archipelago Memories: The Grenada Revolution in the Anansi and the Politics of Ambiguity: Decriminalising Regional Imaginary – Merle Hodge, University of the Ganja in Jamaica – Barry Chevannes, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected]

The Grenada Revolution: A Shot at Participatory Democracy – Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh, PANEL 18H: BALLROOM CNFG05 USA. [email protected] (246) Music as a Societal Phenomenon in Contemporary Brazil

PANEL 18F: BALLROOM CNFG01 Black Music as Subaltern Hegemony: Contemporary (225) Because of Sex, in Spite of Gender, and Vice Experience from Brazil – Allysson Garcia, U.Federal de Versa Goiás, Brazil. [email protected]

Chair: Sheila Coulson, University of Technology, Environmental Philosophy in Texts, Music and Media of Jamaica [email protected] Brazil, Caribbean and the Americas – Russell Stockard, California Lutheran University, USA. Gender Differences in Awareness Seeking Behaviour and [email protected] Political Tolerance in Jamaica: Implications for Democracy – Balford Lewis, University of Technology, Jamaica. Iconografia do reggae no Brasil: registros em São Luís, [email protected] Salvador e Fortaleza – Alex Ratts and Carlos Benedito Rodrigues da Silva, Universidade Federal do Woman's Sexual Body: A Cultural Site – Sylvia Hall, Maranhão/ Universidade Federal de Goiás. University of Technology, Jamaica. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Importing Sex: The Influence of America – Nicole Cameron, University of Technology, Jamaica. [email protected] FRIDAY11:30am 1:00pm Michelle Xavier: Punk Chic Meets Soca – Kia Barratt, – University of Technology, Jamaica. [email protected] PLENARY: BALLROOM 1B/2B/3B Impact of Gender on Poly-drug Consumption – Joy “Centering the Caribbean in Hemispheric Harrison, University Hospital of the West Indies, Relations: How Will the Region Look in 20 Years?” Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] OAS Plenary (ROUNDTABLE)

PANEL 18G: BALLROOM CNFG03 See page for details (230) Ganja the Holy Herb in History, Science and Law

Organiser: Ennis B. Edmonds

Cannabis Effects on Brain and Behaviour – Hewlet McFarlane, Kenyon College, USA. [email protected]

An Investigation into the Cultural Origins of the Use of the Holy Herb (Ganja) within the Rastafari Tradition – Antonio Barnett, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected]

51 34TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CSA 2009 BOOK LAUNCH THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 MAIN BALLROOM, HILTON HOTEL 6:00–8:00 PM

he CSA is always proud of the productivity of its Rhoda Reddock, Dorothy Roberts, Kanne Douglas Tmembers, andthis year weare pleasedto launch and Sandra Reid,Sex, Power and Taboo. Ian Randle twenty of the books writtenin the past two years. These Publishers, Jamaica 2009. Reviewer: Patricia works range across disciplines and include literature, Mohammed. testimonies about life and political experiences, and studies of politics, economy, migration and gender. In Elizabeth Thomas-Hope (ed.), Freedom and Constraint spite of our efforts, there is still a dominance of English in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora. Ian Randle asa Caribbean language, yet the authors andthe studies Publishers, Jamaica 2009. Reviewer: BarryChevannes. presented here do represent the diversity within the regionitself. AWARDS The book launch will also be the occasion for the Amongthe books to belaunchedare: presentation of the Gordon K & Sybil Lewis Award, a prize awarded each year for the best book about the Graciela Chailloux and Silvia Odriozola, Teoria de la Caribbean. The award will be presented by David Economia de Plantacion: Una Aproximacion Historica Lewis and past CSA president Anton Allahar, chair of eIinstitucional al Desarollo del Caribe. Fondo Editorial the book award committee. Casa de Las Americas, Cuba 2008. Reviewer: Norman Girvan. The Best Dissertation Award will also be announced and presented at the launch by the chair of the Reginald Dumas,An Encounter with Haiti. Medianet dissertationaward committee, Ileana Sanz. Limited, Trinidad and Tobago, August 2008. Reviewer: Matthew Smith. RECEPTION The book launch and presentation of awards will be J.P. Duviols and P. Urena-Rib, Dictionaire Culturel followed by a reception with mento entertainment that Caraibes: Histoire Litterature Arts Plastiques Musique has been generously supported by a number of the Traditions Populaires. Collection Ellipses, Guyanne presses participating in this year's book exhibition and Francaise, December 2008. Reviewer to be announced. booklaunch.

M. Nourbese Philip,Zong . University Press of New England, USA, 2009. Reviewer: Pat Saunders.

CSA 2009 EXHIBITION

ach year, the CSA invites presses producing work in the field of Caribbean Studies to make available Etheir offerings to attendees of the annual conference. If you are interested in having your work available for sale here in the future, please speak to your press about securing a table for next year. This year's exhibition, which will include books as well as local arts and crafts, will be open each day of the conference and will be held at: BALLROOM FOYER Hilton Hotel 1–5 June 2009

2009 participating presses:

Duke University Press Haitian Studies Project Ian Randle Publishers The Institute of Jamaica Journal of Liberty Hall MaComère Journal Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies The University of Chicago Press The University of the West Indies Press

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Notes Times in this track vary from one panel to the next in this schedule based on number of panellists and/or length of film. Unless otherwise stated, the language of presentation is in English*E = Equipment needs identified

MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 8:00 am–9:30 am 3.Presenter: WilliamBerry,UniversityofIllinois, Urbana, USA. [email protected] PANEL J1: VISUAL ARCHIVES 1 Fantasising, Fictionalising and Framing the Caribbean 1.Presenter :MimiScheller,DepartmentofSociology *E – Powerpoint projector and Anthropology, Swarthmore College, USA. [email protected] 4.Presenter :AtticusDeCairesNarain,Schoolof ALCOA Cruises the Caribbean: Visual Cultures of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Bauxite Mining during the Caribbean Struggle for UK. [email protected] Resource Sovereignty Piracy, Cinema and Televisual Politics *E – Data projector for powerpoint *E – Powerpoint projector

2.Presenter :ElspethKydd,UniversityoftheWestof 5.Presenter :KeiMiller,UniversityofGlasgow, England, UK. [email protected] Scotland. [email protected] Caribbean Autobiography, Domestic Photography Imagining Nations and the Family Photo Album *E – DVD, powerpoint MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 11:15 am–1:00 pm

MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 9:45 am–11:15 am PANEL J3: DOCUMENTARY FILM: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, CARIBBEAN PANEL J2: FILM, EXOTICISM AND POLITICS OF VISUAL CULTURE Presenter: Marsha Pearce, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. 1.Presenter :EmielMartens,DepartmentofMedia [email protected] Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Wrestling with the Angels: An Exploration of [email protected] Caribbeanness, 91 mins. Jamaican Yard in Hollywood Cinema, or Adventure, Explores Caribbean identity through the images and Romance, and Enjoyment on Tropical Playground sounds of a ubiquitous feature of contemporary popular culture: the music video. 2.Presenter :EnriqueCamacho,Faculty,Universidad *E–DVD Nacional Autónoma de México. [email protected] Jamaica en postales: Iconologia (Spanish) *E – Powerpoint projector

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MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 1:00 pm–2:00 pm 3.Presenter: AlixPierre,MorrisBrownCollege, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. [email protected] PANEL J4: DOCUMENTARY FILM: GRENADA The Maroon Aesthetic in Francophone Visual Arts AND CARRIACOU 4.Presenter :WinstonCampbell,Universityofthe Presenter:Merle Collins, [email protected] West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Saracca and Nation: Memory and Re-creation in [email protected] Grenada and Carriacou, 41mins. 36secs. Rethinking Caribbean Religious Experience: A Case Exploring the role of memory in the creation of Study on Church Architecture in the Anglophone City contemporary culture. “Saracca” is a village event of Kingston Jamaica commemorating the harvest, honouring ancestors and intended to attract a blessing. 5.Presenter :MariaAngelaCapucci,Universityof *E–DVD Brasilia, Brazil. [email protected] A Different New Baroque Landscape in British and French Caribbeans MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 2:00 pm–2:45 pm *E – Primarily powerpoint projection needed for these presentations PANEL J5: DOCUMENTARY FILM: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 8:00 am–9:30 am Presenter: Jada-LeeCondappa ,UniversityoftheWest Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] PANEL J7: AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE AND OTHER ANGELS: Contending Realities of Beauty, PERFORMANCE: HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND Ethnicity and Representation in Trinidad and Tobago. SEXUALITY 30 mins. Themes of ethnicity, identity, beauty and self- 1.Presenter :MonikaLawrence, Universityofthe representation are explored as it relates to the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. phenomena of “hybridity” and crossroads within the [email protected] Caribbean landscape, focusing on women in Trinidad Rex Nettleford: Choreographer and Cultural and Tobago. Philosopher in Three Classic Works – Pocomania, *E–DVD Kumina and Gerrehbenta *E–DVD

2.Presenter :PetraRivera,UniversityofCalifornia, MONDAY 1 JUNE 2009 2:45 pm–5:00 pm Berkeley, CA, [email protected] To Perrear or Not to Perrear: Moral Panic, Reggaetón PANEL J6: RETHINKING CARIBBEAN and Female Sexuality in Puerto Rico ARCHITECTURE: BEYOND HOMES AND *E –Powerpoint projector HOMESTEADS 3.Presenter :HaroldPatten,UniversityofSurrey, Guildford, UK. [email protected] 1.Presenter :DaphneHobson:GeorgiaInstituteof Jamaican Popular Dance: Dancehall as Survival or Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Revival [email protected] *E–DVD Carib “Round Ends” and English “Porches” 4.Presenter :JacquelineGrant-Kent,Universityof 2.Presenter :MercedesLuciaVelezWhite, Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA. [email protected] Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Public Performance: Free Blacks Negotiating Colombia. [email protected] Equality in Nineteenth Century Cuba Architectura, deportiva en San Andres

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5.Presenter :ChristianCampbell,Universityof 2.Presenter :Marie-JoseN'Zengou-Tayo,Faculty, Toronto, Canada. [email protected] University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Folk Drag: Miss Lou's Liminality [email protected] Will make comments on the film from a literary perspective. TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 9:30 am–10:15 am 3.Presenter: CarolleCharles,BaruchCollege,CUNY, PANEL J 8: PERFORMANCE – ORALITY NY, USA. [email protected] Will make comments on the film from a sociological Presenter: Philip Nanton, University of the West and feminist perspective Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected] Island Voices 4.Presenter: MarkSchuller,YorkCollege,CUNY,NY, Performance based on Spoken Word CD: 30 mins. USA. [email protected] Written and produced by Phillip Nanton. Co-director of the film, will speak on the making of The performance combines use of art work, live stage the documentary. readings and recordings. Previous performances at public venues include Barbados, London, Trinidad, 5.Presenter: Ms.ReneeBergan,RenegadePictures Jamaica, St. Vincent and the 2007 Miami Inc., [email protected] International Book Fair. Other co-director, will also comment on the making *E –Audio player of the film. *E–DVD

TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 10:15 am–11:30 am TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 2:30 pm–3:30 pm PANEL J9: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO FILM COMPANY PRESENTATION PANEL J 11: DOCUMENTARY FILM: TRINIDAD, V.S. NAIPAUL Presenter: Carla Foderingham, Chief Executive Officer, TTFilmCo Presenter/Discussant: Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Chair: Franklyn St. Juste, Lecturer, CARIMAC University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Apresentation on the work of the TT Film CO and V.S. Naipaul: Writer and Critical Thinker, 40 mins. shorts from films produced by funded filmmakers. Interview with V.S Naipaul during his visit to *E–DVD Trinidad in 2007. *E–DVD 11:30 AM–1:00 PM: NO PANELS – MAJOR CSA PLENARY TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 3:30 pm–5:30 pm

TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2009 1:00 pm–2:30 pm PANEL J 12: CALYPSO CARNIVAL AND PRESENTATION IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PANEL J10: DOCUMENTARY FILM: HAITI AND BRAZIL

Film and Discussion: Poto Mitan: Haitian 1.Presenter: SamanthaNoel,DukeUniversity,North Women/Global Economy 43 mins Carolina, USA. [email protected] Personal stories of five Haitian women that give the Taking the Queen to the Streets: The Jaycees Carnival global economy and impact on Haiti a human face. Queen Competition in T&T Carnival

1.Presenters :GinaUlysse,WesleyanUniversity, 2.Presenter: KenwynMurray,UniversityoftheWest Middletown, CT, USA. [email protected] Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Panel chair and organiser, and will offer comments [email protected] from the perspective of the agency of subject in the Mas and Caribbean Visual Aesthetics field.

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3.Presenter: JocelyneGuilbault,Universityof *E –Powerpoint projector and audio player California – Berkeley, CA, USA. [email protected] WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 10:15 am–11:30 am Pedagogies of Pleasure: Soca Star Competition in Trinidad's Synergy TV PANEL J15 – FILM: ARCHIVES BRITISH COLONIAL FILMS ON THE CARIBBEAN 4.Presenter :BernardFarius Calypso in Brazil Presenter: Shalini Puri, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [email protected] 5.Presenter : DeborahMathews,Universityofthe New Resources for the Study of Colonial Film: The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. British Caribbean Film Collection [email protected] Screening of clips from several British colonial films Festivalisation, Performance and Modernity about the Caribbean taken from the online catalogue *E –Powerpoint projector for most of panellists of the moving image collection of the British Empire. *E–DVD

TUESDAY2JUNE 2009 6:30 pm–9:00pm WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 11:30am–12:30 pm UWI/CULTURAL NIGHT PANEL J16: FILM ARCHIVES: ART AND Hosted by Principal of the UWI Mona Campus, Prof. ARCHIVES IN CARIBBEAN FILM Gordon Shirley. Transportation provided to Mona Visitors Lodge. Entertainment by local artistes 1.Presenter :JeanAntoine-Dunn,Universityofthe West Indies, St. Augustine; Trinidad. [email protected] WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 8:00AM–9:30 AM 2.Presenter :FranklynSt.Juste,UniversityoftheWest PANEL J13: INTERPRETATIONS OF CARIBBEAN Indies, Mona, Jamaica. [email protected] ART

1.Presenter : LawrenceWaldron,St.John'sUniversity, WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 12:30 PM–2:30 PM New York, NY, USA. [email protected] Frederic E Church's Jamaica Paintings PANEL J17: DOCUMENTARY FILM: JAMAICA TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENT 2.Presenter :MariadeJesusCordero,UtahState University, Logan, Utah, [email protected] Presenters:Esther Figueroa and Diana Macaulay, The many faces of Haiti in the visual Art of Hersza [email protected] Barjon Jamaica for Sale, 92 mins/2008/Jamaica/Copyright Vagabond Media & Jamaica Environment Trust 3.Presenter :MartaFernandezCampa, University of As Jamaica is irreversibly transformed by massive Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA. hotel and luxury condominium development, Jamaica [email protected] For Sale both documents this transformation and tries Caribbean Dialogical Narratives to turn the tide. Producer /Director Esther Figueroa will be available for Q&Aafter the showing as will 4.Presenter: MarielleBarrow,UniversityoftheWest Mimi Sheller and Krista Thompson who are in the Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. film. [email protected] *E–DVD Visual Dialogues of the Sacred

5.Presenter :CatherineAmidon,KarlDrerupArt Gallery, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA. [email protected] Eyeing New Media

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WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 1:00 pm–2:30 pm WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 4:30 pm–5:30 pm

STREET PERFORMANCE PANEL J19: DANCE PERFORMANCE

Presenter: Honor Ford Smith Dancer: Celia Weiss Bambara, Postdoctoral fellow in Letters from the Dead African American Studies, UIC, USA. Phd in Dance Performers from various communities affected by History and Theory, [email protected] violence in Kingston, Jamaica along with original cast from Toronto. Image event designed and built by Ashade Approximate run time, 30 mins. Space needed Kara Springer, and conceptualised and directed by approximately 15 ft by 20 ft. Honor Ford-Smith. Original performers Natalie Queries the spiritual economies of possessions and Beckford, Joan Kivanda, Tanisha Sri Bhaggiyadatta, dispossessions manifested in imperialism. 2008. Saeda Mohammed, Danielle Smith, Leonarda Choreographic Assistance – Christian Bambara, Carranza and Heather Lash. Music – Ayugb Ogada, Drumming – Zap Mamma. Check electronic noticeboard for performance location in Kingston WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 5:30 pm–7:00 pm

WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 2009 2:30 pm–4:30 pm PANEL J20: FILM – Documentary, Community, Youth – JAMAICA PANEL J18: MUSIC – DANCEHALL DISCOURSE: BEHIND THE RIDDIM Presenter: Sheila Graham, Kingston, Jamaica. ROUNDTABLE [email protected]

Panel organiser and chair: Baz Dreisinger, Discipline Two documentary films: Music, [email protected] A Mountain View, 43 mins. Community leaders and residents speak on attempts Since its inception, dancehall music has been the to end violent upheavals in this area of Jamaica. subject of scrutiny and censure. In this panel, the debates and controversy surrounding dancehall Making it Right, 43 mins. music, including portrayals of sex and violence, the Producer, CVM-TV, Director Tonya Haynes creative process behind the riddim, visual About the work of the Area Youth Foundation (AYF), representations of dancehall in music videos and exposes viewer to work and achievements of project films, the role of television and radio in disseminating AYF. the music, and corruption in the dancehall industry, *E–DVD are tackled by those actively involved in the genre: artists, producers, directors. THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 8:00 AM–10:00 AM Presenters: Carleene Samuels: film, event and music video Panel J21: MEN AND PERFORMANCE: BODIES producer AND SPACE JayWill: music video director Johann Dawes: managing director, Hype TV Chair: Linden Lewis, Bucknell University, PA, USA. Cordell “Scatta” Burrell: dancehall music producer [email protected] Bounty Killer: dancehall artist Don “Corleon” Bennett: dancehall music producer 1.Presenter :LindenDouglas, Miss Kitty: radio host and entertainment personality On Masculinities in Contradistinction

2.Presenter :JohnHunte,UniversityoftheWest Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Picking up and the letting of the lone ranger

3.Presenter: OwenBlakkaEllis,YorkUniversity,

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Toronto, Canada. [email protected] Including both music and performance, this Violence, Masculinity and the Comic Space presentation explores the history of the calypso dance on the streets during the masquerade, at private functions, and in the dance-halls throughout the Thursday 4 June 2009 10:00 am–12:00 noon 1930s to the 1970s; it demonstrates the complexities of the calypso dance and how it evolved over time to PANEL J22: ARCHIVES – REPATRIATING include how the basic form eventually became CARIBBEAN MUSIC RECORDINGS interpreted at social functions, in dance-halls and on the streets. The objective of this panel is a roundtable discussion to address the discrepancy that exists between the *E- Audio player and needs body mike extensive holdings of field research recordings of Caribbean music in North American and European archives and the limited availability of these resources THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 1:00 PM–2:30 PM in most libraries in the Caribbean. Dialogue between scholars, librarians and archivists in the Caribbean, PANEL J24: SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS – US and Europe. UWI ST. AUGUSTINE AND MONA

1.Panel organiser, chair and presenter : Steve 1. Presenter: Patricia Mohammed, University of the Steumpfle, Executive Director, Society for West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. Director, Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington, [email protected] Indiana, USA. [email protected] The Colour of Darkness, 20 mins, edited by Luke Paddington 2. Presenter: Elizabeth Watson, Campus Librarian, Featuring a commentary with anthropologist Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Professor Barry Chevannes, this film traces the Barbados. [email protected] emergence of a home-grown Rastafarian iconography in Jamaica. Third in the series A 3. Presenter: Claudia de Four, Head, Technical Different Imagination. Services, Main Library, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. [email protected] 2.Presenter: NatalieWei,GraduateStudent, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 4. Presenter: MaureenWebster-Prince, Head, Av Dept, Trinidad. [email protected] Cord AV Information Network, National Library of Chinee Gyal, 10 minutes (est.) Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. [email protected] Chinee Gyal is a visual exploration of the 5. Presenter: Rosita M. Sands, Professor of Music, Trinidadian vernacular term used to identify Music Dept, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, women bearing any physical expression of USA. [email protected] Chinese features. This short film seeks to present the varying degrees of Chinese-ness within the 6. Presenter: Bertram Lyons, Archive Manager and Trinidad population in an investigation and Dissemination Co-ordinator, Alan Lomax reflection of the terminology by the women Archive,New York, USA. [email protected] themselves. *E – Audio and powerpoint projector OTHER FILMS TO BE ANNOUNCED – LOOK AT ELECTRONIC NOTICE BOARD THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 12:00 NOON–1:00 PM

PANEL J 23: DANCE PERFORMANCE THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 2:30 PM–4:00 PM INDIVIDUAL – TRINIDAD PANEL J25: CSA AUTHOR IN RESIDENCE Presenter/Performer: Jeff Henry, York University, Toronto, Canada. [email protected] Professor George Lamming, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Fundamentals of the Calypso Dance of Trinidad and BOOK READING AND SIGNING Tobago

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Chair: Lisa Outar, St. John's University, New York, 4.Presenter: SilviaElenaTorres,Faculty,Universidad NY, USA. [email protected] Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe/INFOTEP, San Andres Isla. [email protected] La danza y el teatro en el Caribe Insula THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 4:00 PM–6:00 PM La danza, junto con la música han sido las más reconocidas expresiones artísticas del Caribe insular Panel J26: OTHER FILMS TO BE ANNOUNCED colombiano. Agrupaciones como Bahía Sonora en la danza y The Rebels en la música, dan cuenta de este FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2009 8:00 AM–9:30 AM potencial artístico reconocido a nivel nacional e internacional.

PANEL J27: ARTE Y CULTURA EN EL CARIBE *E: Audio and powerpoint projection COLOMBIANO

Organiser/Chair: Silvia Elena Torres, FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2009 9:30 AM–11:30 AM [email protected] PANEL J28: VISUAL ARTS – CARIBBEAN El panel plantea una reflexión sobre los estudios y las VISIONS AND VISIONARIES prácticas culturales y artísticas en el Caribe insular y continental colombiano. Para esto se plantea el Languages: English & Spanish análisis de distintas disciplinas artísticas como la música, la danza , el teatro y las artes plasticas. 1.Presenter : Jerry Philogene, Faculty, Dickinson College, Carlisle, [email protected] 1.Presenter :DeibysCarrasquillaBaza,Faculty, Travelling Diasporically, the Haitian Flâneur: Jean Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe, San Ulrick Desert and Negerhosen 2000 Andres Isla. [email protected] This presentation is guided by a serious of questions El Caribe Lejos del Mar about citizenship, notions of "primitivism," the Esta ponencia analiza, bajo el contexto de los estudios "question of authenticity," and the figure of the del Caribe en Colombia, las representaciones étnico – traveler, and explores the ongoing, multi-media raciales en las prácticas musicales en el municipio de series, Negerhosen2000, by Désert. Désert creates a Tamalameque. dialogue that articulates the regroupings and recreations of constructing a Haitian diasporic 2.Presenter: SallyAnnGarcia Taylor. Faculty, cultural identity. INFOTEP, San Andres Isla. [email protected] Las Escuelas de Formación de Música tradicional 2.Presenter : Claudia Felipe Torres, Faculty, Esta ponencia se propone ilustrar los diferentes Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. elementos institucionales y las consecuencias [email protected] culturales que han configurado la conformación de las El Caribe en la Historia del Arte: una intensa y Escuelas de Formación Artística en el Archipiélago de urgente experiencia pedagógica San Andrés, especialmente en la música tradicional, Más de una década de incorporación de la enseñanza como estrategia para la recuperación de la cultura de de la historia del arte del Caribe, en la carrera de las islas. Historia del Arte de la Universidad de La Habana, ha supuesto un visible impulso para los estudios 3.Presenter: FabianLeotteau,Faculty,Universidad caribeños en el ámbito académico.. Una cifra creciente Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe, San Andres Isla. de trabajos de diploma y tesis de maestría en torno al [email protected] arte caribeño, y una formación más integral de los Pensar el Caribe en las artes visuales profesionales avalan esta singular experiencia La construcción de los ideales estéticos basados en los pedagógica. conceptos de transculturación que se originan en las prácticas identitarias en el Caribe, son la base de los 3.Presenter : Steve Ouditt, Faculty, University of the Estudios del Caribe como también, el inicio de los West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. trabajos de investigación-creación. [email protected] Selections from the Abjection Collection

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'The Abjection Collection' is a series of art exhibitions 2.Presenter :SashaSutherland,sportsadministrator, and installations that investigate 'Desire' in images of MPhil cultural studies candidate, University of the abjection taken from political pictures of post- West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Independence Trinidad and Tobago. [email protected] Regendering Caribbean Sport: Women's Football in 4.Presenter : Kirenia Rodríguez Puerto, University of Barbados Havana, Cuba. Looks at women's football in Barbados, proposing Entre modelos y transgresiones: la imagen del Caribe that a re-gendering of the sports field in the a través de la fotografía del siglo XIX. Caribbean might satisfy the tensions that exist where La imagen decimonónica del Caribe se construye por policies of inclusion, location, centring and los estudios historiográficos a través de la accommodation of the female athlete in Caribbean arquitectura, la pintura y el grabado. Entre ellos se sport have failed. podrían citar la presencia del cimarronaje, los instrumentos religiosos de cultos afrocaribeños y los 3.Presenter :JohnHunte,danceartist,PhDcultural síntomas de modificaciones urbanas sensibles a las studies candidate, University of the West Indies, Cave enfoques de personalidades como Harry Hamilton Hill, Barbados. [email protected] Johnston, Charles DeForest Fredricks y José Gómez de Beyond the Silence: Men, Dance and Masculinity in la Carrera. the Caribbean *E- Power point projection Uses Barbadians in his case study, interrogates the lived experiences of male dancers from the Caribbean, revealing issues that challenge FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2009 11:30 AM–1:00 PM conventional myths of masculinity, and in so doing risks exposing masculinity's flexibility, fluidity and PANEL J29: CULTURAL STUDIES: mutability. INTERROGATIONS, SHIFTS, CENTRES: LOCATING OUR CARIBBEAN IN CARIBBEAN 4.Presenter :SoniaWilliams,SoniaWilliams,theatre STUDIES practitioner, MPhil cultural studies candidate, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Postgraduate cultural studies students at UWI Cave [email protected] Hill continue to engage a practitioner approach to the Liminality in Caribbean Theatre: Voice, Agenda and deployment of cultural dynamics in Caribbean space. Action in the Case Study of King Dyal's Theatre In gathering epistemological knowledge, panellists Offers the late King Dyal, an icon in the Barbadian present congruencies and discrepancies that elucidate cultural landscape, as a case study that challenges the previous notions of cultural studies, locating their definition of theatre as presented in Western canon. experience within the realm of the broader network of By legitimising King Dyal's voice, agenda and action, academia. These critiques disturb popular Williams re-conceptualises ways of seeing assumptions around dance, music, theatre, sports and performance beyond the theatre walls in culturally skin colour; they offer no solutions or answers, but hegemonic Barbados. reaffirm the Caribbean as a site for rich, complex and complicated articulations of power and identity in 5.Presenter :DanielaSantos,DanielaSantos,MPhil their respective fields. cultural studies student, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Organiser/Chair: John Hunte, University of the West [email protected] Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. [email protected] How Deep Is Skin Deep?: Comparing Social Constructs of Race and Identity in Brazil and 1.Presenter : Stefan Walcott, musician, PhD cultural Barbados. studies student, University of the West Indies, Cave Analyses and compares perceptions of skin colour Hill, Barbados. [email protected] among African descendants in Brazil and in "Kaiso vs. Soca equals Bacchanal!” Shifting Barbados. Despite a seemingly common desire among Boundaries within Calypso and Soca persons of African descent to be ascribed with lighter Analyses the shifting boundaries within calypso and skin complexion, further analysis connotes varying soca, highlighting the complex nature boundary in meanings, definitions, and ascriptions that have Barbadian music discourse. cultural, social as well as geographic implications.

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FORD ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR CSA STRATEGIC PLANNING Prof. Patricia Mohammed, President Prof. Linden Lewis, Vice President Prof. Anton Allahar, Past President Dr. David E. Lewis, Vice President, (2007– 2008) Manchester Trade Ltd Ms. Joy Ramcharan-Cooblal, Secretary / Mr. José Raúl Perales, Woodrow Wilson Treasurer International Center for Scholars Dr. Diana Thorburn, Programme Chair Prof. Jorge Heine, CIGI Chair in Global (2008– 2009) Governance, Wilfrid Laurier University Dr. Carolle Charles, Council Member Mr. Jean- Yves Lacascade, Regional Prof. Jocelyne Guilbault, Council Member Cooperation Advisor, European Union Dr. Samuel Furé Davis, Council Member Dr. Patricia Saunders, Council Member Delegation to Zambia Dr. Deborah A. Thomas, Council Member Prof. Rhoda Reddock, Deputy Principal, Dr. Alissa Trotz, Council Member The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine SECRETARIAT Prof. Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Joy Ramcharan-Cooblal, Secretary / Development, New York University Treasurer Prof. Percy Hintzen, African American Clairmonte Frank, Administrative Assistant Studies, University of California, Berkeley Michelle Seeraj, Research Assistant Dr. Cora Christian, U.S. Virgin Islands Prof. Simon Jones-Hendrickson, Humanities COMMITTEES Department, University of the Virgin Islands Social Issues – Carolle Charles, George Priestley Gender and Young Scholars – Patricia Saunders LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE, Nominations and Elections – Jocelyne Guilbault, JAMAICA Linden Lewis Annette Insanally (Chair) CSA Awards – Holger Henke, Irma McLaurin Kim Robinson-Walcott Governance – Patricia Mohammed, Anton Esmeralda Nunes Allahar, Linden Lewis, Joy Cooblal Alexa Chin Finance – Anton Allahar, Linden Lewis, Irma Bradson Longsworth McLaurin, Godfrey St. Bernard, Joy Clyde Lawrence Coobla Latin American-Caribbean Centre staff

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Linden Lewis, Guyana, 2009–2010 Roland I. Perusse, United States, 1975–1976 Patricia Mohammed, Trinidad and Tobago, 2008–2009 Anton Allahar, Trinidad and Tobago, MEMBERS OF THE CSA ADVISORY 2007–2008 BOARD Percy Hintzen, Guyana, 2006–2007 Pedro Noguera, United States, 2005–2006 Dr. Jacqui Alexander, University of Toronto Emilio Pantojas, Puerto Rico, 2004–2005 Dr. Cora Christian, M.D. of the US Virgin Frank Mills, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2003–2004 Islands, Past President of CSA Jean Stubbs, United Kingdom, 2002–2003 Dr. Theo Gittens, (United Nations Ivelaw Griffith, Guyana, 2001–2002 Development Program) Cora Christian, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dr Dan Erickson, (Inter American Dialogue) 2000–2001 Dr. Simon Jones-Hendrickson (Past CSA Neville Duncan, Jamaica, 1999–2000 President, University of the Virgin Islands, Gilberto Arroyo, Puerto Rico, 1998–1999 Ambassador at Large, St Kitts Government) A. Lynn Bolles, United States, 1997–1998 Mr. Jean-Yves Lacascade (European Union) Locksley Edmondson, Jamaica, 1996–1997 Dr. David Lewis (Manchester Trade LaVerne Ragster, Virgin Islands, 1995–1996 Limited) Rita Giacalone, Argentina, 1994–1995 Dr. Claire Nelson (Inter American Hilbourne Watson, Barbados, 1993–1994 Development Bank) Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, Trinidad and Professor Rex Nettleford, Former Vice Tobago, 1992–1993 Chancellor of the University of the West Robert Millette, Grenada, 1991–1992 Indies Jorge Heine, Chile, 1990–1991 Dr. Jose Raul Pereles (Woodrow Wilson Selwyn Ryan, Trinidad and Tobago, Center for International Scholars) 1989–1990 Professor Rhoda Reddock (University of the J.Eddie Greene, Guyana, 1988–1989 West Indies, St. Augustine) Andres Serbin, Argentina, 1987–1988 Alma H. Young, United States, 1986–1987 Compton Bourne, Guyana, 1985–1986 Vera Rubin, United States, 1985 Fuat M. Andic, Turkey, 1984–1985 Simon Jones-Hendrickson, St. Kitts and Nevis, 1983–1984 Anthony P. Maingot, Trinidad and Tobago, 1982–1983 Ransford Palmer, Jamaica, 1981–1982 Vaughan A. Lewis, St. Lucia, 1980–1981 Wendell Bell, United States, 1979–1980 Angel Calderon Cruz, Puerto Rico, 1978–1979 John Figueroa, Jamaica, 1977–1978 Basil A. Ince, Trinidad and Tobago, 1976

1362 34TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

arious organisations, agencies and individuals contributed to the holding of this year's Vconference in Kingston, Jamaica. These include the University of the West Indies (UWI), the University of the West Indies Press, the Inter-American Foundation, UNIFEM, UNESCO, OAS, the Ford Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, NCB Foundation, Digicel, Flow, Anbell, Restaurants of Jamaica and Juici Patties.

At both the Mona and St. Augustine campuses of the UWI, particular individuals greatly facilitated the process. In this regard, special thanks are due to the following persons at the UWI: Professor Gordon Shirley, PVC and Campus Principal, Mona; Professor Ronald Young, PVC, Graduate Studies; Professor Wayne Hunte, PVC, Research; Professor Clement Sankat, PVC and Campus Principal, St. Augustine; Dr. Hamid Ghany,Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, St. Augustine; Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie, PVC, Planning and Development; and Professor Timothy Shaw,Director, Institute of International Relations, St.Augustine.

Special thanks also to the Ford Foundation (NY); to Dr. Pedro Monreal, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean; Linda Kolko, Vice President for Operations, Inter-American Foundation; Sandra Edwards and Roberta Clarke, UNIFEM Caribbean Office; Judith Wedderburn, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Jamaica; Ambassador Albert Ramdin, OAS Deputy Secretary General; and Dr. Riyad Insanally, Representative to Trinidad and Tobago.

At the local level, there were many persons who worked assiduously on various aspects of the conference:

Programme Committee: Dr. Ishtar Govia, Dr. Marie-Jose Nzengou-Tayo, Dr. Matthew Smith, Dr. Sonjah Stanley-Niaah, and Dr. Ileana Sanz, headed by programme chair Dr. Diana Thorburn.

Local Organising Committee: Alexa Chin, Clyde Lawrence, Bradson Longsworth, Esmeralda Nunes, Dr. Kim Robinson-Walcott, led by Annette Insanally (chair) and supported by the Latin American-Caribbean Centre team. The committee wishes especially to thank Kay Brown, Desiree Robins, andAmbassador Elinor Sherlock. Secretariat: Joy Cooblal-Singh, Clairmonte Frank, Michelle Seeraj, led by president Professor Patricia Mohammed; also former president Dr.AntonAllahar, Dr. Dwaine Plaza and Dr. Holger Henke.

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Abraham, Christiana UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 9G Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Adams, Caryn UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 14B Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Agard-Jones, Vanessa University of New Mexico [email protected] 5D Tues 8:00am–9:30am Ahmed, S. Faiz University of Prince Edward Island [email protected] 10A Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Akhtar, Nazreen University of Southampton [email protected] 9F Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Alexander, Simone A. Seton Hall University [email protected] 15F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Alexander, St. Clair Loma Linda University [email protected] 11G Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Alfonso, Maria I. St. Joseph’s College, Patchouge [email protected] 9B Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Allahar , Anton Dr. University of Western Ontario [email protected] 6I Tues 9:45am-11:15am Allen, Lita UWI, Mona [email protected] 13H Thu 9:45am–11:15am Alleyne, Dillon UWI, Mona. [email protected] 12F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Alleyne, Mervyn Universidad de Puerto Rico; [email protected] 12H Thu 8:00am–9:30am Anatol, Marlon UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 18A Fri 9:45am–11:15am Anatol, Marlon Inst. ofInternational Relations, UWI, St.Augustine [email protected] 17G Fri 8:00am–9:30am Anderson, Maya Université Cergy Pontoise, France [email protected] 15D Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Anderson, Moji UWI, Mona [email protected] 7C Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Armaignac, Kenia D. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología de Cuba [email protected] 9D Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Ashby, Soyini UWI, Mona ______13C Thu 9:45am–11:15am Audebert, Cédric University of Poitiers [email protected] 10H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Auffant, Vivian Universidad de Puerto Rico [email protected] 7E Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Augier, Roy UWI, Mona ______7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Austin, David Alfie Roberts Inst. Concordia University [email protected] 7A Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Bacchus, Denise Santa Barbara City College [email protected] 9C Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Bailey, Arlene UWI, Mona [email protected] 18A Fri 9:45am–11:15am Bailey-Wedderburn, Allison UWI, Mona [email protected] 7G Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Bailey, Eric Michigan State University [email protected] 4E Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Baker Josephs, Kelly Johns Hopkins University [email protected] 13E Thu 9:45am–11:15am Barnaby, Leonie Ministry of Local Govt. and Environment [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Barnett, Antonio UWI, Mona. [email protected] 18G Fri 9:45am–11:15am Barnett, Michael UWI, Mona [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Barnett, Michael UWI, Mona [email protected] 14C Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Barratt, Kia UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 18F Fri 9:45am–11:15am Barrios, Roberto Southern Illinois, University Carbondale [email protected] 1D Mon 8:00am–9:30am Barrow, Christine UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 17H Fri 8:00am–9:30am Beale, Marlon UWI, Mona. [email protected] 11B Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Bean, Dalea UWI, Mona [email protected] 14D Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Beatriz, Haydée University of Havana, [email protected]; 7B Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Beaumont, Jennifer New Jersey Department of Education [email protected] 4D Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Beaumont, Jennifer New Jersey Department of Education [email protected] 6G Tues 9:45am–11:15am Beckford, Orville UWI, Mona [email protected] 3G Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Bekerie, Ayele ______17B Fri 8:00am–9:30am Bell, James UWI, Mona [email protected] 18C Fri 9:45am–11:15am Belrose, Stéphanie The Sorbonne, Paris, France. [email protected] 1G Mon 8:00am–9:30am Benedito R. da Silva, Carlos NEAB/UFMA, São Luis-Maranhão [email protected] 18H Fri 9:45am–11:15am Benjamin, Akua Ryerson University [email protected] 13F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Bernard, April UWI, Cave Hill. [email protected] 10F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Bernard, April UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 5C Tues 8:00am–9:30am Bernard, Kent State of Michigan ______6G Tues 9:45am–11:15am Bernard-Johnson, Desiree UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 5G Tues 8:00am–9:30am Bethell Bennett, Ian University of Puerto Rico [email protected] 10C Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Bishop, Matthew University of Sheffield [email protected] 2D Mon 9:45am–11:15am Bishop, Matthew University of Sheffield [email protected] 5A Tues 8:00am–9:30am Black, Joan UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 14G Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Blake-Scarlett, Beverly UWI, Mona [email protected] 5F Tues 8:00am–9:30am Blank, Sharla Washburn University [email protected] 3A Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Bogle, Desrine Northern Caribbean University [email protected] 1A Mon 8:00am–9:30am Bolles, A. Lynn University of Maryland College Park [email protected] 12G Thu 8:00am–9:30am Bonneton, Athanasia K. Universite des Antilles et Guyane [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Bonnett, Aubrey SU Old Westbury [email protected] 10G Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Bourne, Paul UWI, Mona [email protected] 3G Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Braithwaite, Niki Inst. of International Relations, UWI [email protected] 17G Fri 8:00am–9:30am Brathwaite, Alisa Massachusetts Institute of Technology [email protected] 4B Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Bravo, Karen Indiana University, Indianapolis [email protected] 6D Tues 9:45am–11:15am

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Brewer, Josh Ivy Tech Community College [email protected] 4B Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Brioso, Jorje Carleton College [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Britton, Luz Viana Cristopher UNAL, Sede Caribe [email protected] 12E Thu 8:00am–9:30am Brown, Dillon Washington University [email protected] 18D Fri 9:45am–11:15am Brown, Charles St. Thomas Parish Council [email protected] 14F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Browne, Randy University of North Carolina [email protected] 2H Mon 9:45am–11:15am Browne, Anthony P. Hunter College, CU [email protected] 10G Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Browne, Anthony P. Hunter College, CU [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am–11:15am Brown-Glaude, Winnifred The College of New Jersey [email protected] 15F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Bryant Sekou, Sheree University of San Francisco, CA, [email protected] 5G Tues 8:00am–9:30am Buelvas, Zurita UNAL, Sede Caribe. [email protected] 12E Thu 8:00am–9:30am Bulkan, Arif UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 6D Tues 9:45am–11:15am Burke, Suzanne UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 15C Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Burrowes, Marcia UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 15C Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Burton, Roxanne UWI, Mona [email protected] 4D Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Byron, Jessica UWI, Mona. [email protected] 2D Mon 9:45am–11:15am Cahill-Booth, Lara University of Miami, Coral Gables [email protected] 15B Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Callier, Karen Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia [email protected] 4H Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Calpas, Eric QIFD & Field Office Haiti ______14E Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Camejo Vento, Ariel Universidad de La Habana, [email protected] 6F Tues 9:45am–11:15am Cameron, Nicole UTECH, Jamaica. [email protected] 18F Fri 9:45am–11:15am Campbell, Jacob University of Arizona [email protected] 10F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Campbell, Yonique Cabinet Office, Jamaica House, [email protected] 5C Tues 8:00am–9:30am Carr, Robert UWI, Mona [email protected] 17H Fri 8:00am–9:30am Carranza, Julio UNESCO, Montevideo, Uruguay [email protected] 3E Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Carrasquilla Baza, Deibys UNAL Sede Caribe [email protected] 10E Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Carter,Emily University of the Virgin Islands [email protected] 17C Fri 8:00am–9:30am Castañeda Digna Universidad de la Habana c/o [email protected] 2E Mon 9:45am–11:15am Castello, June UWI, Mona [email protected] 14D Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Celis, Nadia Bowdoin College, New Brunswick [email protected] 3F Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Cévaër, Françoise UWI, Mona [email protected] 11E Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Chai, Shauna-Lee Cambridge University [email protected] 11B Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Chailloux, Graciela University of Havana, [email protected] 5E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Chamberlain, Joshua UWI, Mona [email protected] 6C Tues 9:45am–11:15am Chambers, Arlene UWI, Mona [email protected] 5G Tues 8:00am–9:30am Chancy, Miriam State University of New York [email protected] 7B Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Charlemagne, Sherma Loma Linda University [email protected] 10D Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Charles, Carolle Baruch College [email protected] 5H Tues 8:00am–9:30am Charles, Christopher John Jay College, New York, [email protected] 9D Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Charles, Christopher John Jay College of Criminal Justice [email protected] 14C Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Charles, Suzanne UWI, Mona ______14D Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Charles,Reccia St. Georges University, Grenada. [email protected] 2G Mon 9:45am–11:15am Chevannes Barry UWI, Mona [email protected] 18G Fri 9:45am–11:15am Chevannes, Barry UWI, Mona [email protected] 12G Thu 8:00am–9:30am Chowdhury, Amitava Queens University [email protected] 10F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Clarke, Knolly Caribbean Council of Churches [email protected] 15H Thu 2:30pm - 3:45pm Clarke, Nishana Loma Linda University [email protected] 11G Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Clegg, Peter University of the West of England [email protected] 5A Tues 8:00am–9:30am Clegg, Peter University of the West of England [email protected] 2D Mon 9:45am–11:15am Clerfeuille, Laurence University of Southern California [email protected] 6A Tues 9:45am–11:15am Cohen, Thomas SU Alba [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Cohen, Thomas State University of NY at Alba [email protected] 9B Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Colon-Reyes, Linda Universidad de Puerto Rico [email protected] 10A Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Connel-Hall, Vivienne HM Revenue and Customs, [email protected] 9F Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Cooke, Melville UWI, Mona [email protected] 6C Tues 9:45am–11:15am Corbin, Chris UNEP, Kingston cjc@[email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Cornwall, Grace-Ann UWI, Mona [email protected] 15A Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Cort, Aisha Emory University [email protected] 4H Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Cousins, Caroline UWI, Mona [email protected] 12B Thu 8:00am–9:30am Cowell, Noel UWI, Mona [email protected] 3A Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Cowell, Noel UWI, Mona [email protected] 13F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Craig, Ian UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 7D Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Crawford, Tazhmoye UWI, Mona [email protected] 4A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Crichlow, Michaeline Duke University, Durham, NC, [email protected] 11H Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Cristina, Silvia UNAL, Sede Caribe [email protected] 15E Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Cruickshank, Ivan UWI, Mona [email protected] 5C Tues 8:00am–9:30am Cruz, Julie University of the Virgin Islands [email protected] 17C Fri 8:00am–9:30am Cummings, Ronald University of Leeds [email protected] 11A Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm DaCosta, Dianna UWI, Mona [email protected] 4E Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Dagnini, Jérémie K Université Michel de Montaigne [email protected] 6C Tues 9:45am–11:15am Daley, Camille UWI, Mona [email protected] 5F Tues 8:00am–9:30am Daniel, Carol Ann Adelphi University [email protected] a 114 Mon 2:30 - 3:45pm Darron, Thomas UWI, Mona. [email protected] 2C Mon 9:45am–11:15am Davis, Samuel Furé Davis University of Havana [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am-11:15am Davis, Samuel F. University of Havana [email protected] 7H Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Davis, Samuel F. Universidad de la Habana [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Davis,Christina Abram San Francisco State University [email protected] 1G Mon 8:00am–9:30am de Cosmo, Jan Florida A&M University [email protected] 7H Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm de la Campa, Román University of Pennsylvania [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Delis, Elena Tabera Cuba [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Deonandan, Raywat University of Ottawa, Canada [email protected] 3G Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Desch, Obi T.J. Baruch College, CU [email protected] 1C Mon 8:00am–9:30am Devonish, Julian UWI, Mona [email protected] 4A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Devonish, Julian UWI, Mona. [email protected] 12C Thu 8:00am–9:30am Diaz, Hernan SU Alba [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Diaz, Hernan Lousiana State University [email protected] 7B Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Dick Devon, Boulevard Baptist Church [email protected] 1H Mon 8:00am–9:30am Domise, Jennifer University of Waterloo [email protected] 7G Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Donnell, Alison University of Reading [email protected] 14B Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Dorith Grant-Wisdom ______17B Fri 8:00am–9:30am Dorith Grant-Wisdom, ______17B Fri 8:00am–9:30am dos Reis, Patricia UWI, Mona [email protected] 7D Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Downing-Matibag, Teresa Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa [email protected] 4C Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Dreisinger, Baz John Jay College of Criminal Justice [email protected] 6C Tues 9:45am–11:15am Dunn, Leith L. UWI, Mona ______13C Thu 9:45am–11:15am Edmondson Belinda Rutgers University [email protected] 2B Mon 9:45am–11:15am Edmondson, Belinda Rutgers University [email protected] 6D Tues 9:45am–11:15am Edmondson, Belinda Rutgers University [email protected] 6I Tues 9:45am-11:15am Edmondson Locksley ______17B Fri 8:00am–9:30am Edwards, Thera UWI, Mona. [email protected] 11B Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Edwards, Thera UWI, Mona. [email protected] 11B Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Eldemire-Shearer, Denise UWI, Mona [email protected] 7F Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Ellis, Nadia University of California, Berkeley, CA [email protected] 12A Thu 8:00am–9:30am Erikson , Daniel Inter-American Dialogue ______7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Esmiol Jones, Elisabeth Linda Loma University, California [email protected] 1H Mon 8:00am–9:30am Esteban Morales Domínguez Cnt.deEstudiosHemisféricos delaUni.deLaHabana c/o [email protected] 1E Mon 8:00am–9:30am Fadahunsi, Olayinka Baruch College, CU . [email protected] 1C Mon 8:00am–9:30am Faraclas, Nicholas Universidad de Puerto Rico [email protected] 12H Thu 8:00am–9:30am Farquharson, Naderah UWI, Mona [email protected] 4E Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Fernandez, Susan University of South orida, St. Petersburg [email protected] 2C Mon 9:45am–11:15am Ffrench, Sean UWI, Mona [email protected] 10A Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Fider, Carol Northern Caribbean University [email protected] 1H Mon 8:00am–9:30am Fider, Carlene Loma Linda University ______11G Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Figueroa, Esther Jamaica [email protected] 11A Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Figueroa, Mark UWI, Mona. [email protected] 12F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Figueroa, Mark UWI, Mona [email protected] 5E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Flynn, Karen C. University of Illinois [email protected] 9F Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Fonseca Cuadrado, Loyda UNAL, Sede Caribe. [email protected] 12E Thu 8:00am–9:30am Forsythe- Brown, Ivy University of Michigan [email protected] 17A Fri 8:00am–9:30am Fox, Diana Bridgewater State College [email protected] 9C Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Francis, Donette Binghamton University [email protected] 12A Thu 8:00am–9:30am Frederick, Rhonda Boston College, Chestnut Hill ______10B Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Frederick, Rhonda Boston College [email protected] 6I Tues 9:45am-11:15am Freeland, Gregory California Lutheran University, CA [email protected] 3H Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Frey, Rosemary UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 14G Thu 11:30am–1:00pm García Lorenzo, Tania Universidad de La Habana c/o [email protected] 2E Mon 9:45am–11:15am

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Garcia Taylor, Sally Ann INFOTEP, San Andres Isla. [email protected] 10E Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Garcia, Allysson U. Federal de Goiás/U. Estadual de Goiás [email protected] 18H Fri 9:45am–11:15am Garcia, Humberto University of Puerto Rico [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Garcia, Victor University of Puerto Rico [email protected] 9E Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Gardner, Michael UWI, Mona ______4A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Gavio, Brigitte Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe [email protected] 15E Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm George, Sheri-Ann UWI, Mona ______13C Thu 9:45am–11:15am Gill, Lyndon Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [email protected] 7C Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Gill, Lyndon Kamaal Harvard University, MA ______5D Tues 8:00am–9:30am Girvan, Norman UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 3E Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Girvan, Norman Inst. of International Relations, UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 5E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Gittens, Horatius Loma Linda University,CA ______7F Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Glave, Thomas State University of NY/ Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. ______2A Mon 9:45am–11:15am Golash-Boza, Tanya University of Kansas, Lawrence [email protected] 14F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Gomez, Wilfredo Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA [email protected] 6C Tues 9:45am–11:15am GonzálezMariana,Rodríguez-Schade UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 1A Mon 8:00am–9:30am Gonzalez, Gabriel Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France [email protected] 15D Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Gordon, Lorenzo UWI, Mona ______4A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Gosine, Andil (Disc.) [email protected] 6E Tues 9:45am–11:15am Gourdine, Angeletta Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge [email protected] 10B Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Govia, Ishtar Inst. for Social Research, University of Michigan [email protected] 17A Fri 8:00am–9:30am Granados, Omar Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia [email protected] 4H Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Green, Audley UWI, Mona [email protected] 7D Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Grenade, Wendy UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 9A Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Grenade, Wendy UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 12D Thu 8:00am–9:30am Griffin, Barry Saint John's University, Collegeville ______15G Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Griffith, Glyne SU Alba [email protected] 18D Fri 9:45am–11:15am Griffith, Glyne SU Alba [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Grimstad, Paul Yale University [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Gumbs, Alexis Duke University [email protected] 1B Mon 8:00am–9:30am Gutierez Laboy, Roberto University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras [email protected] 7E Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Guy, Pierre Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad de Mexico [email protected] 2C Mon 9:45am–11:15am Habtes, Yegin University of the Virgin Islands [email protected] 5G Tues 8:00am–9:30am Hall, Sylvia UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 18F Fri 9:45am–11:15am Hamilton, Njelle Brandeis University,Waltham, MA [email protected] 5B Tues 8:00am–9:30am Hannam, Everton Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO [email protected] 3E Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Harewood, Gia George Washington University [email protected] 18B Fri 9:45am–11:15am Harkins-Pierre Patricia University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas [email protected] 17C Fri 8:00am–9:30am Harris, JoAnne Georgia Institute of Technology [email protected] 3D Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Harrison, Sheri-Marie University of Missouri-Columbia [email protected] 17F Fri 8:00am–9:30am Harrison, Joy UHWI, Mona [email protected] 18F Fri 9:45am–11:15am Hassan, Souley University of Poitiers [email protected] 10H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Hastings, Paula Duke University,Durham, North Carolina [email protected] 2H Mon 9:45am–11:15am Hawkins, Archbold Christian University ______9A Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Hawkins, Paul University of Pretoria, South Africa [email protected] 10A Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Haynes, Tonya Inst. forGender& DevelopmentStudies,UWI,CaveHill [email protected] 9C Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Headley, Bernard UWI, Mona [email protected] 14F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Healy, Amanda [email protected] 5B Tues 8:00am–9:30am Henery, Celeste University of Texas [email protected] 7F Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Heron, Taitu Women’s Media Watch [email protected] 3C Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Herrera, Carrasco & Mercedes, Julia Centro de Estudios sobre América (CEA) [email protected] 5H Tues 8:00am–9:30am Hill, Edwin University of Southern California [email protected] 1B Mon 8:00am–9:30am Hill, Michael SU Alba [email protected] 8H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Hinds, David Arizona State University [email protected] 6F Tues 9:45am–11:15am Hinds, David Arizona State University [email protected] 12D Thu 8:00am–9:30am Hinds, Kimberl UWI, Mona [email protected] 13H Thu 9:45am–11:15am Hobson, Janell SU, Alba [email protected] 17D Fri 8:00am–9:30am Hodge, Merle UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 18E Fri 9:45am–11:15am Hoffman-Mirilovich, Alisha East Stroudsburg University [email protected] 4F Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Hope, Donna P. UWI, Mona [email protected] 6H Tues 9:45am–11:15am Hope, Stacy University of St. Andrews [email protected] 10F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Hosein, Gabrielle UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 9G Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Hossein, Caroline University of Toronto [email protected] 7G Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Hossein, Caroline University of Toronto [email protected] 5C Tues 8:00am–9:30am Hudson, Peter University of Buffalo [email protected] 2C Mon 9:45am–11:15am Huggins, Jacqueline UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 5G Tues 8:00am–9:30am Hume, Yanique UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 15C Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Hutton, Clinton UWI, Mona [email protected] 11D Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Hylton, Hylton UWI, Mona [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Iniama, Ededet University of the Virgin Islands [email protected] 11C Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Jacinto, Javier Christian University,San Andres, Colombia [email protected] 9A Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Jackson, Shona Texas A&M University, [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am-11:15am Jackson, Shona Texas A&M University [email protected] 14H Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Jaffe, Rivke Leiden University, Netherlands [email protected] 13F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Jair Ortiz Roca, Eder UNAL, San Andrés Isla [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm James, Carl York University [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am–11:15am James, Johannie UNAL, Sede Caribe [email protected] 15E Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm James, Michael-Edward UWI, Mona [email protected] 6C Tues 9:45am–11:15am Jarrett, Rain Florida Atlantic University [email protected] 1F Mon 8:00am–9:30am Jemmot, Kessey UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 4D Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Jeremiah, Rohan St. George’s University [email protected] 10C Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Jessica Krug, University of Wisconsin-Madison [email protected] 1C Mon 8:00am–9:30am Jo Caruso, Mary St. John's University, Jamaica [email protected] 2F Mon 9:45am–11:15am Johnson, Andy Express Newspaper, Trinidad ______15H Thu 2:30pm - 3:45pm Johnson, Nadja Florida Atlantic University [email protected] 1F Mon 8:00am–9:30am Johnson, Nadja Florida Atlantic University [email protected] 5H Tues 8:00am–9:30am Jokhan, Mala UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 4G Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Jones Finer, Catherine University of Birmingham [email protected] 10A Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Jones, Christina Violeta National Archives [email protected] 2H Mon 9:45am–11:15am Jones, Edwin UWI, Mona [email protected] 11H Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Jones, Edwin UWI, Mona [email protected] 5C Tues 8:00am–9:30am Jones, Lindy UWI, Mona ______12B Thu 8:00am–9:30am Jones, Terry-Ann Fairfield University [email protected] 10H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Joseph, Kamau Saint John's University [email protected] 15G Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Joseph, Shane Legal Aid and Counselling Clinic [email protected] 9E Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Joseph, Tennyson UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 12D Thu 8:00am–9:30am Kambon, Maisha University of South Florida [email protected] 5F Tues 8:00am–9:30am Kamugisha, Aaron UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 7A Tues 2:30pm - 3:45pm Kellom, Gar Saint John's University, Collegeville [email protected] 15G Thu Kelly, Alicia Queens University [email protected] 3A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Kempadoo, Kamala ______6E Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Keresztesi, Rita University of Oklahoma [email protected] 13B Thu 9:45am–11:15am Kerlee, Ime University of New Mexico [email protected] 17D Fri 9:45am–11:15am King, Rosamond Brooklyn College [email protected] 2A Mon 8:00am–9:30am King, Garth United Theological College of the West Indies [email protected] 6H Tues 9:45am–11:15am Kirton, Claremont UWI, Mona [email protected] 13G Thu 9:45am–11:15am Kirton, Mark Inst. of International Relations, UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 17G Fri 9:45am–11:15am Knight, Pauline Planning Institute of Jamaica [email protected] 13G Thu 8:00am–9:30am Kopka Matthew University of orida, Gainesville . [email protected] 18C Fri 9:45am–11:15am Kovats-Bernat, J. Christopher Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA [email protected] 6A Tues 9:45am–11:15am Krishnan, Lilavati Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur, India [email protected] 14G Thu 9:45am–11:15am Kristensen, Randi Gray George Washington University,Washington, DC [email protected] 18B Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Lacey, Krim Inst. for Social Research, University of Michigan, [email protected] 15H Fri 9:45am–11:15am LaCruz, Tamira MarkStra, Curacao [email protected] 18A Fri 8:00am–9:30am Laguardia Martíne, Jacqueline z. University of Havana ______3C Mon 9:45am–11:15am LaMothe Mario, Northwestern University,Evanston, Illinois [email protected] 1B Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Landau-French, Anya Lexington Institute ______7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Larrier, Renee Rutgers University, New Brunswick [email protected] 5B Tues 4:00pm - 5:30pm Lashley Lynette Miramar, FL [email protected] 15H Thu 8:00am–9:30am Lattibeaudiere, Warrick UWI, Mona [email protected] 12B Thu 2:30 - 3:45pm Laverty, Collin Center for Democracy in the Americas ______7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Lazarus, Latoya York University, Canada [email protected] 6E Tues 4:00pm - 5:30pm Ledgister, Fragano Clark Atlanta University [email protected] 4F Mon 9:45am–11:15am Lee, Wendy Northern Jamaica Conservation Association [email protected] 3E Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Lemard, Glendene University of Massachusetts [email protected] 13F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Leotteau, Fabian Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Caribe [email protected] 10E Wed 9:45am–11:15am

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Lewis, Anthony R. Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition [email protected] 17H Fri 2:30pm–3:45pm Lewis, Balford UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 18F Fri 8:00am–9:30am Lewis, Rupert UWI, Mona ______17B Fri 9:45am–11:15am Lewis, Rupert, UWI, Mona ______17B Fri 8:00am–9:30am Lewis, David E. Manchester Trade Ltd. (Washington, DC) ______7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Lewis, Hope UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 6D Tues 4:00pm - 5:30pm Lewis, Linden Bucknell University [email protected] 9H Wed 9:45am–11:15am Lewis, Patsy UWI, Mona. [email protected] 11H Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Lewis, Patsy UWI, Mona. [email protected] 18E Fri 4:00pm–5:30pm Lewis, Rohan A Northeastern University [email protected] 6D Tues 9:45am–11:15am Lewis, Rohan A. UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 1A Mon 9:45am–11:15am Lewis, Rohan A. UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 6H Tues 8:00am–9:30am Lindo, Karen Bowdoin College, New Brunswick, Maine [email protected] 3F Mon 9:45am–11:15am Lister Zephon, Linda Loma University, California [email protected] 1H Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Locke, Tracy York University, Canada [email protected] 6E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Logie, Carmen Adelphi University ______114 Mon 9:45am–11:15am Lonner, Walter Western Washington University [email protected] 14G Thu 2:30 - 3:45pm Machado Sáez, Elena Florida Atlantic University [email protected] 4B Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Mahon, Robin CERMES, UWI [email protected] 7F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Maingot, Anthony P. Florida International University [email protected] 7F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Mancera, J. Ernesto UNAl, Sede Caribe [email protected] 15E Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Mardorossian, Carine University of Buffalo [email protected] 1B Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Maria and Mutiz, Iris Northern Caribbean University [email protected], [email protected] 1G Mon 8:00am–9:30am Marjan de Bruin UWI, Mona [email protected] 17H Fri 8:00am–9:30am Marky, Jean-Pierre University of ssachusetts, Amherst [email protected] 7D Tues 8:00am–9:30am Marky, Jean-Pierre University of ssachusetts, Amherst [email protected] 12H Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Marquez, German UNAL [email protected] 7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Marquez, German UNAL [email protected] 3H Mon 4:00pm - 5:30pm Márquez, Germán ______15E Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Marrett, Christine UWI, Mona [email protected] 15A Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Marshall, Brenda Wayne State University [email protected] 10D Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Martínez Reinos, Milagros Universidad de La Habana c/o [email protected] 1E Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Martínez, Milagros Universidad de la Habana c/o [email protected] 2E Mon 8:00am–9:30am Martin-Johnson, Suzette UWI, Mona [email protected] 14F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Matibag Eugenio, Iowa State University [email protected] 3B Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Matos, Rodríguez Neris Universidad de Oriente ______3H Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Maxwell, Shakira UWI, Mona [email protected] 14D Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Mc Letchie, Alison University of South Carolina [email protected] 7G Tues 11:30am–1:00pm McCalla Sobers, Yvonne Kingston, Jamaica [email protected] 6D Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm McCalpin, Jermaine UWI, Mona [email protected] 14G Thu 9:45am–11:15am McConney, Patrick CERMES, UWI [email protected] 7F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm McDonald, Franklin UWI Institute for Sustainable Development [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm McFarlane, Hewlet Keon College, Gambier [email protected] 18G Fri 4:00pm - 5:30pm McFarlane, Tracy UWI, Mona [email protected] 14C Thu 9:45am–11:15am McGarrity Maria, Long Island University [email protected] 17F Fri 11:30am–1:00pm McGrowder, Donovan UWI, Mona [email protected] 4A Mon 8:00am–9:30am McLean, Lisa Open University, Milton Keynes [email protected] 9F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm McLean, Vivienne CU New York, [email protected] 14F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm McLean, Wendy UWI, Mona [email protected] 13H Thu 11:30am–1:00pm McNeal, Meida Brown University, Rhode Island [email protected] 2F Mon 9:45am–11:15am Meeks, Brian UWI, Mona [email protected] 18E Fri 9:45am–11:15am Meeks, Brian UWI, Mona [email protected] 7F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Meeks, Brian UWI, Mona. [email protected] 11D Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm Merine, Vanessa orida International University [email protected] 6A Tues 4:00pm–5:30pm Meyers, Emily University of Oregon, Eugene [email protected] 14B Thu 9:45am–11:15am Midgett, Douglas University of Iowa, Iowa City [email protected] 11F Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Mikki Grant, Svenn YMCA Trinidad ______10C Wed 2:30pm - 3:45pm Milián, Arango University of Havana, [email protected] 7B Tues 2:30pm - 3:45pm Miller, Alex University of South Carolina [email protected] 4F Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Miller, Herbie UWI, Mona [email protected] 7F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Miller, Kei University of Glasgow, Scotland [email protected] 9B Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm Miller, Kei University of Glasgow [email protected] 17E Fri 8:00am–9:30am Mills, Frank L. Eastern Caribbean Center [email protected] 4G Mon 2:30pm - 3:45pm

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Mitchell, Ann Open University, Milton Keynes [email protected] 9F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Mitchelle, Rashalee UWI, Mona [email protected] 7C Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Mohabir, Nalini University of Leeds, [email protected] 14H Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Mohammed, Paloma University of Guyana [email protected] 3C Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Mohansingh, Simeon UWI, Mona [email protected] 5F Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Monreal, Pedro UNESCO Jamaica [email protected] 3E Mon 8:00am–9:30am Monreal, Pedro UNESCO, Kingston [email protected] 7F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Monteith, Kathleen UWI, Mona. [email protected] 2C Mon 4:00pm - 5:30pm Moonsammy, Patricia University of Michigan [email protected] 2F Mon 9:45am–11:15am Morales, Cyndia University of Central Florida [email protected] 9D Wed 9:45am–11:15am Mortley, Natasha UWI, Mona. [email protected] 13G Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Mottley, Wendell Credit Suisse, New York ______6G Tues 9:45am–11:15am Mullaney, Emma Miami University [email protected] 15D Thu 9:45am–11:15am Murdoch, H. Adlai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [email protected] 15F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Murray-Roman, Jeannine University of California, [email protected] 7B Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Nam, Valerie Statistical Institute of Jamaica [email protected] 12C Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Nanji, Abdul Cornell University, Ithaca [email protected] 4D Mon 8:00am–9:30am Nanton, Philip UWI,CaveHill [email protected] 3B Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Narichania, Deesha Int. Resource Network, Cnt. for Lesbian/ Gay Studies 2A Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Nathaniel, Daina Queens University of Charlotte [email protected] 18C Fri 9:45am–11:15am Nathaniel, Daina Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina [email protected] 7G Tues 9:45am–11:15am Navarro, Tamisha Duke University, Durham [email protected] 2G Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Nelson, Camille Washington University [email protected] 11A Wed 9:45am–11:15am Nelson, Kenisha UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 3G Mon 4:00pm–5:30pm Nieves, Irving University of Puerto Rico [email protected] 9E Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Nixon, Angelique New York University [email protected] 5D Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Northover, Patricia UWI, Mona [email protected] 11H Wed 8:00am–9:30am Nourbese Philip, Marlene Toronto, Canada [email protected] 17E Fri 8:00am–9:30am Nuñez, Maris Lucila Lara Centro de Servicios Legales para la Mujer ______14E Thu 4:00pm–5:30pm Nurse, Keith UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 15C Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Nzengou-Tayo Marie-José UWI, Mona [email protected] 1A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm O’Callaghan, Evelyn UWI, Cave Hill [email protected] 14B Thu 8:00am–9:30am O’Farrill, Daymler University of Havana [email protected] 3H Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Olaffson, Tone Linda University [email protected] 11G Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Ortiz Roca, Fady UNAL, Sede Caribe. [email protected] 12E Thu 4:00pm–5:30pm Pabón Batlle, Luis Instituto Estudios Martianos [email protected] 7E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Paga¡n-Teitelbaum, Iliana University of Pennsylvania [email protected] 5B Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Pantojas-Garcia, Emilio University of Puerto Rico [email protected] 2D Mon 8:00am–9:30am Pantojas-Garcia, Emilio University of Puerto Rico [email protected] 5A Tues 9:45am–11:15am Paul, Annie [email protected] 9C Wed 8:00am–9:30am Perez, Sylvia SU Alba . [email protected] 17D Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Perez, Omar University of Havana, [email protected] 3E Mon 8:00am–9:30am Perez-Sarduy, Pedro London Metropolitan University [email protected] 9D Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Perkins, Anna ______6H Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Persram, Nalini York University, Toronto, Canada [email protected] 14H Thu 9:45am–11:15am Pertierra, Anna C. University of Brisbane, Australia [email protected] 7F Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Phillips, Dion University of the Virgin Islands [email protected] 13F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Piccone , Ted Brookings Institution ______7F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Pierre, Delroy University of St. Martin, St. Maarten [email protected] 3H Mon 4:00pm - 5:30pm Pierre-Louis, Francois Queens College [email protected] 6A Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Pinnock, Agostinho UWI, Mona [email protected] 11A Wed 9:45am–11:15am Plaza, Dwaine Oregon State University [email protected] 6I Tues 4:00pm–5:30pm Plaza, Dwaine Oregon State University [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am-11:15am Plaza, Dwaine Oregon State University [email protected] 7G Tues 9:45am-11:15am Plaza, Dwaine Oregon State University [email protected] 10H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Pollard, Velma Jamaica [email protected] 11E Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Powell, Lawrence Alfred UWI, Mona. [email protected] 11D Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Powell, Lawrence Alfred UWI, Mona [email protected] 14G Thu 4:00pm–5:30pm Powell, Patricia Stanford University [email protected] 17E Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Pragg, Lauren York University ______6E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Preziuso, Marika Preziuso University of Loughborough [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am–11:15am Preziuso, Marika University of Loughborough [email protected] 13B Thu 9:45am-11:15am Priestly, Sharon UWI, Mona [email protected] 4A Mon 9:45am–11:15am

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Prieto, Jose M. [email protected] 8H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Pulitano, Elvira California Polytechnic State University [email protected] 4B Mon 9:45am–11:15am Puri Shalini, University of Pittsburgh [email protected] 18E Fri 2:30pm–3:45pm Puri, Shalini University of Pittsburgh [email protected] 14A Thu 9:45am–11:15am Purnwasie, Rosanne York University [email protected] 11C Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Quest, Matthew Georgia State University [email protected] 7A Tues 4:00pm–5:30pm Ramkissoon, Marina UWI, Mona [email protected] 14C Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Ramlagan, Michelle University of Miami [email protected] 15B Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Rampersad, Indira UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 1E Mon 8:00am–9:30am Ramsaran, Dave Susquehanna University [email protected] 9H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Ranguin, Josiane The Sorbonne, Paris, France [email protected] 5B Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Rapley,John Caribbean Policy Research Institute, Jamaica [email protected] 13J Thu 8:00am–9:30am Ratts, Alex & Rodrigues da Silva Uni. Federal do Maranhão, Uni. Federal de Goiás [email protected] 18H Fri 9:45am-11:15am Rawlins, Joan UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 7F Tues 9:45am–11:15am Reddock, Rhoda UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 9G Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Reid, Mitzie UWI, Mona [email protected] 10A Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Reid-Salmon, Delroy Oxford Centre for Christianity & Culture [email protected] 5H Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Reis Michelle UWI, St. Augustine and Tobago [email protected] 13A Thu 8:00am–9:30am Reis, Michele Inst. of International Relations, UWI, St.Augustine [email protected] 4G Mon 9:45am-11:15am Rencurrell, Piedra & Francisco, Jose Caribe Universidad de la Habana [email protected] 5H Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Reno, Fred Centre d’Analyse Géopolitique et Internationale, UAG [email protected] 2D Mon 8:00am–9:30am Reyes-Santos, Irmary ______6B Tues 9:45am–11:15am Rhule, Joan Ageing and Wellness Centre, UWI, Mona [email protected] 12C Thu 9:45am–11:15am Ricardo, Yolanda University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón [email protected] 7E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Rich, Grant University of Alaska Southeast [email protected] 12H Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Rivera Guzman, Pedro Universidad de Puerto Rico en Bayamon [email protected] 5E Tues 8:00am–9:30am Roberston-Hickling, Hilary UWI, Mona. [email protected] 13G Thu 8:00am–9:30am Roberts, Edwin School District of Phil. ______6G Tues 9:45am–11:15am Nicole Roberts, UWI, St. Augustine. [email protected] 1B Mon 9:45am–11:15am Robinson Walcott, Kim UWI, Mona [email protected] 18D Fri 8:00am–9:30am Robinson, Bianca Duke University [email protected] 12G Thu 9:45am–11:15am Robotham, Don University of New York [email protected] 12G Thu 8:00am–9:30am Rochelle Bowman Lapetra University of Texas, San Antonio [email protected] 1B Mon 8:00am–9:30am Rodríguez Coronel, Rogelio Universidad de Habana [email protected], [email protected] 11C Wed 8:00am–9:30am Rodríguez Estévez,Ignacia & Mendoza,L. [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm–5:30pm Rodríguez Estévez, Ignacia Sancti Spiritus Medical School [email protected] 4C Mon 4:00pm - 5:30pm Romany, Mario Inst. of International Relations, UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 17G Fri 2:30pm–3:45pm Rosa, Maristane S. State University of Maranhao-UEMA [email protected] 7H Tues 8:00am–9:30am Rose, Janine York University, Toronto [email protected] 5H Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Rosenberg, Leah University of Florida, Gainesville [email protected] 3D Mon 8:00am–9:30am Rosita, Villagomez College of Mount Saint Vincent [email protected] 5B Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Ruiz, Juan. P Departamento de Ecología, UNAM [email protected] 7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Ruiz-Castaneda, Carmen University of Miami, Coral Gables [email protected] 15B Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Russell, Benjamin Northeastern Illinois University [email protected] 7F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Salinger Ferrante, Allyson Southern California, Los Angeles, CA [email protected] 9B Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm Sammy, Yiagadeseen Carleton University, Canada [email protected] 13J Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Sanders, Mark Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, [email protected] 4H Mon 9:45am-11:15am Santí, Enrique M. University of Kentucky [email protected] 8H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Santos y Vargas, Leonides Instituto Estudios Humanísticos Bioética … [email protected] 7E Tues 9:45am–11:15am Santos-Martínez, Adriana UNAL, Sede Caribe [email protected] 15E Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Sanz, Ileana UWI, Mona. [email protected] 13B Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Saunders, Patricia University of Miami [email protected] 12A Thu 9:45am–11:15am Saunders, Patricia University of Miami [email protected] 17E Fri 8:00am–9:30am Schade, Martin UTECH [email protected] 7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Schade, Martin UTECH [email protected] 11D Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm Schemenauer, Ellie University of Wisconsin [email protected] 9C Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Scher, Philip University of Oregon, Eugene [email protected] 15C Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Schroeder, Carlos Northern Virginia Community College [email protected] 18B Fri 2:30pm–3:45pm Schuller, Mark York College, CU [email protected] 1D Mon 9:45am–11:15am Scott, David Columbia University [email protected] 13E Thu 8:00am–9:30am Sekou, Malik University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas [email protected] 13A Thu 9:45am–11:15am Senior, Keino Cnt. for Gender & Development Studies, UWI, Mona [email protected] 4A Mon 9:45am–11:15am Shaffer, Kirwin Penn State University–Berks College [email protected] 4F Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Shah, Kalim, University of Trinidad and Tobago [email protected] 1D Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Shah, Kalim University of Trinidad and Tobago [email protected] 3H Mon 8:00am–9:30am Shahani, Aarti NYU, and Families for Freedom, [email protected] 14F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Shaw, Andrea Nova Southeastern University [email protected] 17F Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Shelton, Cynthia Kentucky State University, [email protected] 7C Tues 8:00am–9:30am Shibata, Yoshiko Kobe University [email protected] 14H Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Shields Tanya University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [email protected] 18B Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Shlensky, Lincoln University of Victoria, Canada [email protected] 7B Tues 9:45am–11:15am Shrimpton, Maggie Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán [email protected] 13B Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Sijipati, Bimbika Pacific Institute of Public Policy [email protected] 13J Thu 9:45am–11:15am Silvana Padilla Díaz, Katia UNAL, Sede Caribe [email protected] 12E Thu 9:45am-11:15am Simpson Hyacinth M. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada [email protected] 3B Mon 8:00am–9:30am Skeete, Kai-Ann Inst. of Int’l Relations, UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 9A Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Skinner, Edward Skinner & Co, Port of Spain ______6G Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Slack, Elizabeth Western Illinois University [email protected] 13F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Smith, Faith Brandeis University [email protected] 2B Mon 9:45am–11:15am Smith, Faith Brandeis University [email protected] 17E Fri 9:45am–11:15am Smith, Valerie. E Florida Gulf Coast University [email protected] 7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Smith, David UNDP, Kingston, [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Smith, Faith Brandeis University [email protected] 6B Tues 4:00pm - 5:30pm Smith, Faith Brandeis University [email protected] 13E Thu 9:45am–11:15am Smith-Bermiss, Michelle James Madison University [email protected] 3B Mon 9:45am–11:15am Smythe-Johnson, Nicole [email protected] 9C Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Spencer, Nekeisha UWI, Mona. [email protected] 12F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm St. Bernard, Godfrey UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 12C Thu 8:00am–9:30am St. Bernard, Godfrey SALISES, UWI [email protected] 4G Mon 8:00am–9:30am St. Pierre, Maurice Morgan State University [email protected] 6F Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Stanigar, Judy [email protected] 13H Thu 9:45am–11:15am Stephens, Michelle ______7A Tues 9:45am–11:15am Stevens, Margaret Brown University [email protected] 6F Tues 2:30pm - 3:45pm Stewart-McKoy Michelle, UTECH, Jamaica [email protected] 1A Mon 9:45am–11:15am Stines, L’Antoinette UWI, Mona. ______7F Thu 8:00am–9:30am Stockard, Russell California Lutheran University [email protected] 18H Fri 4:00pm - 5:30pm Stoll, Allyson Cornell University [email protected] 2H Mon 9:45am–11:15am Storr, Juliette Penn State University Pennsylvania [email protected] 15H Thu 9:45am–11:15am Storr, Juliette Penn State University [email protected] 3C Mon 2:30 - 3:45pm Strong Leek, Linda Berea College, Kentucky [email protected] 10B Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Stuchell, Sarah C. Loma Linda University, CA [email protected] 11G Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Sutton Paul, London Metropolitan University [email protected] 2D Mon 4:00pm–5:30pm Sutton, Paul London Metropolitan University [email protected] 5A Tues 9:45am–11:15am Sylvester, Meagan UWI, St. Augustine. [email protected] 2G Mon 8:00am–9:30am Sylvester, Meagan UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 7F Thu 9:45am–11:15am Tabera Delís, Elena Cuba [email protected] 7F Thu 4:00pm - 5:30pm Tavernier, LaToya CU Graduate Centre [email protected] 11C Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm Taylor, Christopher University of Pennsylvania [email protected] 6F Tues 4:00pm–5:30pm Teelucksingh, Jerome UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 4D Mon 9:45am–11:15am Thame, Maziki UWI, Mona [email protected] 11F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Thomas, Deborah A. University of Pennsylvania [email protected] 12G Thu 4:00pm–5:30pm Thomas, Deborah A. University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] 14A Thu 8:00am–9:30am Thomas-Stone, Joan UWI, Mona ______5G Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Thompson, Melissa: Graduate Student Florida Atlantic University [email protected] 1F Mon 8:00am–9:30am Thompson Melissa, Florida Atlantic University [email protected] 2G Mon 8:00am–9:30am Thompson, Krista Northwestern University [email protected] 13E Thu 9:45am–11:15am Thompson-Ebanks, Valerie Colorado State University [email protected] 13H Thu 9:45am–11:15am Tinsley, Omise’eke N [email protected] 6B Tues 9:45am–11:15am Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha University of Minnesota, [email protected] 14B Thu 9:45am–11:15am Todd, Andrea UWI, Mona [email protected] 15A Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Toney,Joyce Hunter College, CU [email protected] 10G Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Torres, Saavedra & Alejandro, Rafael Pedagogical University "Enrique J Varona”, Havana [email protected] 4D Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Torres, Silvia Elena UNAL, Sede Caribe/INFOTEP [email protected] 10E Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Triana, Tania ______6B Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Triplett, Tralonda University of Miami, [email protected] 4C Mon 9:45am–11:15am Troche, Ursula Culture-Net-Work, London [email protected] 10F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm

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NAME INSTITUTION EMAIL PANEL/ TIME DAY Trotman, Alicia Michigan State University [email protected] 15A Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Trotz, Alissa University of Toronto, Canada. [email protected] 9H Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Trotz, Alissa D. University of Toronto, Canada [email protected] 14A Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Troupe, Richard Hope for Children Development Compa ______14E Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Tull, Jo-Anne UWI, St. Augustine [email protected] 18A Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Ubani, Laura College of Saint Benedict [email protected] 15G Thu 9:45am–11:15am Uche, Chukwudum UWI, Mona. [email protected] 12C Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Urbistondo, Josune University of Miami, Coral Gables [email protected] 15B Thu 8:00am–9:30am Urquhart, Mikhail-Ann UWI, Mona. [email protected] 13G Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Valdez, Elena Rutgers University [email protected] 7C Tues 9:45am–11:15am Valens, Keja Salem State College [email protected] 14B Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Valentis, Mary ______8H Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Vasquez, Sam Dartmouth College, Hanover [email protected] 9B Wed 9:45am–11:15am Vaughan, Sarah E. Columbia University, New York [email protected] 14H Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Vaughn, Sarah Columbia University [email protected] 11F Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Velásquez, Carolina UNAL, Sede Caribe [email protected] 15E Thu 4:00pm–5:30pm Verrest, Hebe KITLV, Leiden, Netherlands. [email protected] 11F Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Vete-Congolo, Hanetha Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine [email protected] 3F Mon 4:00pm–5:30pm Vidigal, Alvares Federal University of Minas Gerais-UFMG [email protected] 7H Tues 11:30am–1:00pm Villoria Nolla, Maite UWI, Mona [email protected] 11E Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Vincenot, Stella Amelie New York University [email protected] 2B Mon 4:00pm–5:30pm Wallace, Belinda New York University [email protected] 5D Tues 9:45am–11:15am Ward, Candace Florida State University [email protected] 4B Mon 8:00am–9:30am Warmington-Granston, Nicole orida International University [email protected] 9A Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Watkins Audrey, Western Illinois University [email protected] 3A Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Watson, Hilbourne Bucknell University [email protected] 9H Wed 11:30am–1:00pm Watson, Hilbourne Bucknell University [email protected] 4F Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Watson, Naomi The Open University, [email protected] 5F Tues 2:30pm–3:45pm Watson, Naomi A. Open University, Milton Keynes, [email protected] 9F Wed 8:00am–9:30am Watts, Nicholas, Grant,Sandra& Lloyd,Adam London Metropolitan University [email protected] 7F Thu 11:30am–1:00pm Webster, Carol Marie Independent scholar [email protected] 1H Mon 4:00pm - 5:30pm Wedenoja, William UWI, St. Augustine. [email protected] 2G Mon 8:00am–9:30am Weller, Peter UWI, Mona [email protected] 10C Wed 9:45am–11:15am Weve, Jerry r Spelman College, Atlanta [email protected] 1G Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Wiggan, Greg Michigan State University ______15A Thu 8:00am–9:30am Willem Te Velde, Dirk Overseas Development Institute, [email protected] 13J Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Williams, Gayle Florida International University [email protected] 3D Mon 9:45am-11:15am Williams, Stephanie UWI, Mona [email protected] 1D Mon 11:30am–1:00pm Williams, Claudette UWI, Mona [email protected] 12H Thu 8:00am–9:30am Williams, Colin UWI, Mona [email protected] 15A Thu 8:00am–9:30am Williams, Horace UWI, Mona [email protected] 7F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Williams, Rohan College, Westerville [email protected] 9A Wed 4:00pm - 5:30pm Wilson Colwick Loma Linda University [email protected] 17A Fri 11:30am–1:00pm Wilson, Shakeisha & Thomas, Joan UWI, Mona. [email protected] 1F Mon 8:00am–9:30am Wilson, Basil John Jay College [email protected] 10G Wed 8:00am–9:30am Wilson, Colwick Loma Linda University [email protected] 7F Thu 2:30pm–3:45pm Wilson, Colwick M. Loma Linda University ______7F Tues 4:00pm - 5:30pm Wilson, Elizabeth Jamaica [email protected] 11E Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Wilson, Leon C. East Carolina University [email protected] 10D Wed 4:00pm–5:30pm Wint, Eleanor University of Northern British Columbia [email protected] 4A Mon 2:30pm–3:45pm Witter, Michael UWI, Mona [email protected] 11D Wed 2:30pm–3:45pm Witter, Michael UWI, Mona [email protected] 5E Tues 4:00pm–5:30pm Wood, Yolanda Caribe de Casa de las Americas [email protected] 2E Mon 8:00am–9:30am Wymer, Linda University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas [email protected] 17C Fri 9:45am–11:15am Yarimar, Bonilla University of Virginia [email protected] 11F Wed 8:00am–9:30am Zoila González, Maicas Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales [email protected] 1E Mon 4:00pm–5:30pm

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