The 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
University of Newcastle
Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July, 2005
Provisional Programme
Wednesday, 29 June, 1.00 pm
Landscape and Environment. Chair: David Howard.
Rivke Jaffe, Leiden University, ‘A View from the Concrete Jungle: Perceptions of Environment and Nature in Two Caribbean Cities.’
Terencia Kyneata Joseph, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, ‘Mountains and "Bottom Land" Valleys: The Indian Presence in St. Lucia, 1859 to 1900.’
Mimi Sheller, Lancaster University, ‘Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance.’
Children and Childhood in Caribbean Society and Literature. Chair: Cecily Jones.
J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Muhlenberg College, ‘The Quick and the Dead: Street Children, Violence, and Vodou in Haiti.’
Tracey Skelton, Loughborough University, ‘Caribbean Childhoods in the 21st Century: Setting a Research Agenda.’
Roberto Strongman, University of California Santa Barbara, ‘Barbadian and Puerto Rican Child Protagonists in the Caribbean Literature of New York City.’
Violet Showers Johnson, Agnes Scott College, Georgia, 'Negotiating a Past Not Lived: Children of West Indian Immigrants and the "Back Home" Factor'
Cuba and the Wider Caribbean: Migration and Imagination. Chair: tba.
Ethel Hazard, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ‘Living on the Edge of Empire and Colony: The 19th Century Cubans Exile Community of Temple Hall Jamaica.’
Elzbieta Sklodowska, Washington University, St. Louis, ‘Postcolonial (Br)Others: the Reinvention of Haiti in Cuban Literary Imaginary.’
Joanne Trim, ‘Dominican and Cuban migrants in the Leeward Islands.’
Posemancipation History in the Anglophone Caribbean. Chair: Christer Petley
Denise Challenger, York University, Toronto, ‘Marriage and the Making of a ‘Civilized’ Barbados, 1838-1868.’
Georgina Hague, The National Archives, and Kristy Warren, The National Archives, ‘Mental Health and Colonial Power.’
Gemma Romain, The National Archives, ‘Indian indentured labour in Grenada during the 1860s and 1870s.’
Space and Place in Caribbean Writing. Chair: Mimi Sheller.
Christine Chivallon, CEAN-CNRS, France, ‘Conceptions of the relationship between space and identity in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco.’
Liesbeth De Bleeker, K.U. Leuven, ‘The Notion of Space in Recent Crime Fiction from the French Antilles.’
David John Howard, University of Edinburgh, ‘Urban literary spaces through Jamaica letters.’
Historicizing Caribbean Childhoods. Chair: Henrice Altink
Tara Inniss, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, ‘Sexuality and Sexual Abuse during Slavery and the Apprenticeship Period.’
Cecily Jones, Warwick University, ‘Suffer Ye Little Children: children and Enslavement in the Colonial Caribbean.’
Maritza Maymí-Hernández, University of Puerto Rico, ‘From Títeres to Citizens: The representations of "street children", the ideal of a proper childhood and the desire to govern (Puerto Rico, 1870’s-1920’s).’
The Spiritual Imagination. Chair: Gad Heuman
Claudette A. Anderson, Emory University, ‘Of Spirit Messengers, Spirit Sickness and Spiritual Remedy: Healing and the Spiritual Imagination in Jamaican Revivalism.’
Michael N. Jagessar, Queens Theological Foundation, Birmingham, ‘Caribbean Literature: A Theo-logical Conversation.’
Tim Watson, Princeton University, ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Samuel Ringgold Ward.’
Comparative Approaches to Caribbean Literature. Chair: Sandra Courtman
Jennifer Terry, Durham University, ‘"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned": Circumatlantic Connections in the ‘Detective’ Fiction of Walter Mosley and Patrick Chamoiseau.’
Kerstin Dagmar Oloff, Warwick University, ‘"Block Functions" and Symbolic Violence in Wilson Harris’s Carnival and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco and Chemin-d’Ecole.’
Lieven D'Hulst, K.U. Leuven, ‘Interliterary relations in the Caribbean: much ado about something.’
Angela Brüning, Stirling University, ‘Literary Transformation of Caribbean Histories: Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau and Divina Trace by Robert Antoni.’
Education: Policy and History. Chair: Khitanya Petgrave.
Antonio Soto Carlo, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, ‘Americanization and Resistance in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940s.’
Jennifer Lavia, University of Sheffield, ‘Education Policy and the Creation of a New Nation State: a case study of education policy in Trinidad and Tobago in a period of Transition (1956-1966).’
Amanda Sives, W. John Morgan, and Simon Appleton, University of Nottingham, ‘Teacher Migration from Jamaica: Assessing the Impact.’
Lyla Brown, University of Bristol, ‘Scale and Partnership in Education Development: Implications for Small States with Reference to the Eastern Caribbean.’
The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues in the 21st Century. Chair: Colin Clarke
Kate Quinn, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, ‘Rethinking civil society in the contemporary Caribbean.’
Helen Hintjens, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (Netherlands), and Dorothea Hodge, Labour Party Central Office, ‘Extending statehood in the Caribbean? The comparative governance of the EU Caribbean territories over the past decade.’
Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, ‘Between a rock and a hard place": The marginalisation of Caribbean interests in the international trading economy.’
J. Martin Dalgleish, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, ‘Management in the Caribbean: Is it time for a change?’
The Epic and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature. Chair: Lynne Macedo
Anthony Kellman, Augusta State University, ‘Towards a National Caribbean Epic.’
Michael Niblett, University of Warwick, ‘Epic Voices, Carnival Masks: Memory and Narrative in the novels of Earl Lovelace and Raphaël Confiant.’
Helen Scott, University of Vermont, ‘Hawks over the Rupununi: Pauline Melville’s Fiction and United States Imperialism in Guyana.’
Official and Alternative Legalities in Caribbean History. Chair: Cecily Jones
Gunvor Simonsen, European University, ‘Obeah as conflict performance inside and outside the lower courts of the Danish West Indies in the late 18th century.’
Diana Paton, University of Newcastle, ‘"A dangerously prevalent superstition" or "quaint practices on the wane": Reading the Obeah Debates of the 1890s.’
Peter Hanoomansingh, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, ‘Colonial Knowledge and the Constituting of Ganja in Nineteenth Century Trinidad.’
Gendered Ideologies of ‘Race’ and ‘Colour’. Chair: Tracey Skelton
Stéphanie Mulot, ANRS, France, ‘From the myth of the original rape in the West Indian imagery to the matrifocal system: representations and racialisation of gender relationships in Guadeloupe and Martinique.’
Keisha Lindsay, University of Chicago, ‘Beauty Pageants and Jamaican National Identity: Back to Africa in a Creole Melting Pot?’
La Tasha Brown, Florida International University, ‘Yard-Hip Hop – Reggae and Hip-Hop Music: Commercialized Constructions of Blackness and Gender Identity in Jamaica and the United States, 1980-2002.’
Performance: Music, Carnival, Theatre. Chair: Ruth Minott Egglestone
Ezra Blondel, Independent Scholar, ‘Carnival folk forms – the case of Bann Mové Masquerade in Colihaut, Dominica, Eastern Caribbean’
Carlo A. Cubero, Manchester University, ‘Trans-Insular Identities in the North-Eastern Caribbean.’
Concepcíon Mengíbar-Rico, University of Jaen, ‘Afro-Caribbean Religions into Theatre: Vodou and Santeria in the ritualization of Medea’
Caribbean Aesthetics. Chair: Leon Wainright
Emiel Martens, University of Amsterdam, ‘Representing Caribbean Myths, Ideals and Realities: Articulations of Cultural Identity and Resistance in Postcolonial Jamaican Film.’
Nadia Lie, K.U. Leuven, ‘Cuba and postcolonialism. Rewriting strategies in the discourse of "Casa de las Américas" (1990-2004).’
Gemma Robinson, University of Newcastle, ‘Prizing the Caribbean: Aesthetic values in the Guyana Prize for Literature.’
Democracy in Crisis in the Caribbean? Chair: Peter Clegg
Anne Fuller, Independent Scholar, ‘Human rights violations of the Duvalier era revealed through oral history: the 1969 Terror in Grand Bois.’
Yasmine Shamsie, Wilfred Laurier University, ‘Democracy Promotion Efforts in Haiti post-1994: Downsizing the Democratic Promise.’
Dennis Compton Canterbury, Eastern Connecticut State University, ‘New Authoritarianism in the Caribbean.’
Carlyle G. Corbin, Independent Scholar, ‘Democratic Transformation or New Millennium Colonialism in the Non-Independent Caribbean.’
Politics and Belonging in Caribbean Literature. Chair: Gemma Robinson
Sheree Mack, University of Newcastle, ‘Black women writers in Britain maintain two faces in more than one way or another.’
Marika Preziuzo, Birkbeck College, University of London, ‘Uses (and abuses) of Mestizaje between Cuba and Martinique: Marta Rojas’s Santa Lujuria or Papeles de Blanco.’
Elvira Pulitano, Geneva University, ‘"I am of, and not of, this place": Caribbean Dis/locations in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid and Caryl Phillips.’
Dancehall Culture and the Politics of Masculinity. Chair: Sandra Courtman
Sonjah Nadine Stanley Niaah, University of the West Indies, Mona, ‘'Mapping' Black/Atlantic Performance Geographies: Continuities from Slave Ship to Ghetto.’
Donna Hope, George Mason University, ‘Chi Chi Man Vibes: Policing Jamaican Masculinity in Dancehall Culture.’
Paula Morgan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, ‘A Caribbean Manhood Mosaic.’
Archives, Museums, and Public History. Chair: Diana Paton
David Clover, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, University of London, ‘The West Indian Students Union – Searching for the past.’
Danny Millum, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, University of London, ‘Caribbean Political Ephemera at the the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS).’
Raymond Ramcharitar, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, ‘Corrupting the source: the media and the creation of a false public history in Trinidad.’
David Lambert, Royal Holloway University of London, ‘Creating a National Hero: Surrogacy, history and memory in postcolonial Barbados.’
Urban Economies and Communities: Chair: Peter Clegg
Colin Clarke, Oxford University, and David John Howard, Edinburgh University, ‘Stratification and Pluralism in Kingston, Jamaica.’
Lucy Robertson, University of Glasgow, ‘Childhood, morality and transition in urban Jamaican families.’
Hebe Verrest, University of Amsterdam, and Johan Post, University of Amsterdam ‘Home based economic activities as situated practices: experiences in Paramaribo, Surinam.’
Note sur l'illustration: ALTHEA McNish, Hurricane, dyes on cotton velvet, 1990 from 'Caribbean Connection 2', Islington Arts Factory, 13 September
- 11 October 1996 © Althea McNish 1996.