Society for Caribbean Studies 32nd Annual Conference
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32nd Annual Conference Wednesday 2nd - Friday 4th July, 2008 Institute of Geography University of Edinburgh Programme =
Wednesday 2nd July 3.15: Scottish Caribbean Connections (Chair: David Howard) Eric Graham (University of Edinburgh) The Early Scottish planters on the Leeward Islands 1644-1735 Stuart Nisbet (University of West Scotland) Early Scottish colonial trade and St Kitts 1700-1730 Alex Robinson (University of Liverpool) The shaping of an abolitionist Martin E. D. Henry (University of Technology, Jamaica) Sir John Pringle: From the Outer Hebrides to wealth and leadership in Jamaica Literary Landscapes (Chair: Sandra Courtman ) Joanna Johnson (University of Miami) Jean Rhys and the English Countryside: A Caribbean Perspective Lucy Evans (University of Leeds) Guyana as a ‘multi-layered canvas’ in Mark McWatt’s Suspended Sentences Patricia Noxolo (Loughborogh University) Wilson Harris: eco-fractitioner in a “living text” landscape Nation, Migration and Belonging (Chair: Kate Quinn) Charles Gullick (Durham University) Conflict, Politics and Belief in Hiroona Ronald Cummings (University of Hull) What is Your Nation? Maroon Identity and Discourses of (Trans)Nationalism in the Jamaican Context David Lafevor (Vanderbilt University) Jack Johnson Meets El Arte de los Puños: Race, Boxing, and National Identity in Cuba, 1910-1920. Laurie Jacklin (McMaster University) Indentured East Indians in the Caribbean (1838-1882): Race, Gender, and Imperial Ideas of Migrant Health Thursday 3rd July 9.30: Caribbean performance (Chair: Ruth Minott Egglestone) Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Metropolitan University) Matthew Lewis’ Record of Trickery: Performing Anansi in Plantation Jamaica Rochelle Rowe (University of the West Indies) Parading the “Crème de la Crème” in Caribbean beauty contests: A case study of Barbados in the early 1960s Karina Smith (Victoria University) The contradictions of collectivity: The tensions within Sistren Theatre Collective Marcia Elizabeth Sutherland (SUNY, Albany) Nonverbal Behaviour among African Caribbeans The Politics of Autonomy (Chair: David Clover) Gary Williams (University of Essex) 'Murderers, outlaws and illegitimate renegades': Grenada under the Revolutionary Military Council Nick Nesbitt (Centre for Modern Thought) The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment Robert Goddard (Emory University) Sugar as Stranger: Sugar, Caribbean Nationalism and Transatlantic Studies F. S. J. Ledgister (Clark Atlanta University) Racist Rantings, Travellers’ Tales, and a Creole Counterblast: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, Charles Kingsley and J.J. Thomas on British Rule in the West Indies Paul Sutton Autonomy as Decolonisation in the Caribbean Religion and the Secular (Chair: Michael Jagessar) Carla Freeman (Emory University) Soothing the soul: The Pentecostal ethic and the spirit of neo-liberalism among Barbadian entrepreneurs Lara Putnam (University of Pittsburgh) Routes to salvation in the greater Garibbean: Interregional migration and religious enthusiasm, 1890-1930 Angelica Laura Lucia Wehrli (University of Berne) The Rising Demand for Afro-Cuban Religion in Cuba 11.30: Language and linguistics (Chair: Sandra Courtman) Liesbeth De Bleeker (New York University) Multilingualism & cultural identities in the Francophone Caribbean novel - outline for a research project Marlene Edwin (Goldsmiths College, London) ‘Yu tink I mad, miss?’ The language of madness and the post-slavery text with particular reference to Olive Senior’s Discerner of Hearts and Other Stories Kei Miller Wherever I hang mi knickers: The Problematic of Where and Underwear Visual Art and Culture (Chair: Kate Quinn) Claudia Christine Hucke (Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts) “Emerging from the Palm Groves and Sugar Cane Fields” – Jamaican Art Abroad in the 1960s Gillian Forrester (Yale University) Oppression and Resistance in the Jamaican Metropole: Isaac Mendes Belisario’s “Cries of Kingston” Cheryl White (Santa Fe Community College) Saramaka Maroon Artifacts: Ritual Practice in the Archaeological Record Slave Resistance in Practice and in Memory (Chair: Christer Petley) David Clover (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) “This horably wicked action”: Abortion and resistance on a Jamaican slave plantation Gordon Gill (Oberlin College) Insolence as slave resistance in the Guianas Geoffrey Cubitt (University of York) Representations of Caribbean resistance and rebellion in British museum exhibitions marking the 2007 Bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade 2.00: Religion and Society in the Colonial Caribbean (Chair: Christer Petley) Iain Whyte (University of Edinburgh) Poodles of the planters? Scottish missionaries in Jamaica during the 1831 uprising Edmond Schnitker (University College, London) The role of religion in shaping elite identity in the Dutch West Indies, 1790-1850 Erik R. Seeman (SUNY, Buffalo) Cross-cultural encounters with death in the colonial Caribbean: Jews, Christians, and Africans Literature, Form and Representation (Chair: Yvonne Slater) Lorna Burns (University of Glasgow) Uncovering the Marvellous: Surrealism and the Novels of Wilson Harris Karina Williamson (University of Edinburgh) Representing Slavery Jennifer Jahn (Cambridge University) ‘La comédie martiniquaise’ or ‘Literary Representations of Martinican Women’s Realities’ Maeve Tynan (University of Limerick) Fire the Canon! Postcolonial Odysseys through shifting Archipelagos Commodities of Empire (Chair: Clare Newstead) Jean Stubbs (London Metropolitan University) “An Awkward History”: Revisiting Puerto Rican Tobacco, 1870-1970 Miguel Suárez Bosa (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) La conexión Atlántica: Intercambios entre los puertos canarios y los puertos del caribe insular en el siglo XIX Humberto García-Muñiz (Universidad de Puerto Rico) La plantación que no se repite: las historias azucareras de la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, 1870-1930 Jonathan Curry-Machado (London Metropolitan University) “That sweet space between empires”: the transnational networks of Cuban sugar in the mid-nineteenth century 4.00: Caribbean Religious Practices (Chair: Diana Paton) Bettina E. Schmidt (Bangor University) Women and spirit possession in Caribbean religions Patrick Bellegrade-Smith (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Vodou religion and national identity in Haiti Uyilawa Usuanlele (SUNY, Oswego) Tracing the African origin of Obeah: Etymological inferences and historical evidence from Benin Kingdom, Nigeria Art and Politics (Chair: Paul Twinn) Jerry Philogene (Dickinson College) Traveling Diasporically, the Haitian Flâneur: Jean Ulrick Desert and Negerhosen2000 Susan Mains (St Georges University) Vienna Actionist—Caribbean Jouvert Abigail McEwen (New York University) The Politics of Cuban Abstraction Gender and Sexuality (Chair: Henrice Altink) Sandra Courtman (University of Sheffield) Changing the world versus writing stories: The case of Claudia Jones Amanda Sives (University of Liverpool) “Woman Time Now”? Assessing the Portia factor in the 2007 Jamaican general election Amar Wahab (York University) The Drag Princesses: Mapping Transgendered Culture in Queer Trinidad Friday 4th July 9.30: Sound, Vision and Transculturation (Chair: Paul Twinn) Wendy Knepper (Brunel University) Migrating Media and the Global Imaginary in Benjamin Zephaniah’s Gangsta Rap and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty Elspeth Kydd (University of the West of England) Looking for “Home” in “Home Movies”: Family Images in Caribbean and Diaspora First Person Film and Video Atticus Decaires Narain Weddings, Migration and Indian Films: Contesting Notions of Locality in Guyana Sheree Mack (Newcastle University) The Black Woman in the Painting- Reflections on the Visual in the Writings of Contemporary Black British Women Poets. Literary Identities (Ruth Minott Egglestone) Faith Pullen (University of Edinburgh) Identity and Exile in the Writing of Cristina Garcia Ileana Sanz Cabrera (University of the West Indies) Interrogating Métis sage from a Caribbean perspective: its representation in the literary discourse. Maite Villoria Nolla (University of the West Indies) Unraveling “inconvenient” truths: Detective Fiction and the quest for Cuban identity Economics and Development (Chair: Clare Newstead) Matthew Bishop (University of Sheffield) From Green Gold to Palme d’Or: Tourism and Post-Banana Development Strategy in St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines Brian Pollitt (University of Glasgow) The Economic Transformation of Cuba Dale Matthews (University of Puerto Rico) The Caribbean Clothing Assembly Industry and the Chinese Competition Howard Johnson (University of Delaware) The Foundations of Chinese Commercial Success in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Jamaica 1.30: Heritage and Memory (Chair: Michael Jagessar) Bridget Brereton (University of the West Indies) “Our Cross to Bear”: National Symbols and Observations, Heritage and Identity in Trinidad and Tobago Christabelle Peters (University of Nottingham) Remains of Africa: Commemoration & Recollection of the Cuban Engagement in Angola Chris Bongie (Queen’s University) Mercenary Scribes: Colombel, Vastey, and the Double Memory of Post/Colonial Haiti Directory: downloads downloads -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations downloads -> Dynatest 3031 lwd light Weight Deflectometer downloads -> Forth coming competitive exams downloads -> Brush High School Morning Announcements Friday, September 05, 2014 all school downloads -> Year 9 The Arts — Music downloads -> Years 7 and 8 standard elaborations — Australian Curriculum: Music draft downloads -> Chris Young sets 2016 “I’m Comin’ Over” Tour headlining dates downloads -> Slavery and Abolition: the Plymouth Connection Introduction downloads -> Summer Assignment Download 64.58 Kb. 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