2018 CSA Conference Program – First Draft
Dear CSA members:
Here you are, the first version of the 43rd Program Conference in Havana. We appreciate your review. please the data that may be missing or have error, communicate it by email to program.chair@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org
BEFORE FRIDAY, APRIL 27. AFTER THAT DATE, MODIFICATIONS CAN NOT BE ATTENDED. THE DOCUMENT GOES TO THE PRINT. Many Thanks.
Estimados miembros de AEC:
A continuación, la primera versión del Programa de la 43ra. Conferencia en La Habana. Agradecemos su revisión. por favor los datos que puedan faltar o tengan error, comunicarlo por correo electrónico a program.chair@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org
ANTES DEL VIERNES 27 DE ABRIL. DESPUES DE ESA FECHA NO SE PODRAN ATENDER MODIFICACIONES.EL DOCUMENTO VA A LA IMPRENTA. Muchas gracias
Chers membres de l’AEC,
Ensuite, la première version du 43ème programme. Conférence à La Havane. Nous apprécions votre révision. s’il vous plaît les données qui peuvent être manquantes ou ont des erreur, communiquez-le par courriel à program.chair@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org
AVANT LE VENDREDI 27 AVRIL APRES CETTE DATE, LES MODIFICATIONS NE PEUVENT PAS ETRE ASSISTÉES. LE DOCUMENT VA Á L´IMPRIMERIE. Merci beaucoup.
The panels should be as follows. Example
Los paneles deben quedar del siguiente modo. Ejemplo
Les panneaux devraient être comme suit. Exemple
Which traduction for the Caribbean? Literature, foreign languages and decolonization of the mind
Chair: Laura Ruiz Montes, Escritora y traductora
Descolonizar y enseñar el Caribe a través de la traducción literaria
Katharine H. West, Universidad de los Andes
Bilingüismo Inglés, Estudiantes Indígenas, Universidades Colombianas
Nina Grahek Kriznar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
The problems of translating Caribbean literature into Slovene
Martha Luisa Corbett-Baugh, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Jamaica
Foreign Languages Teaching-Jamaica: 2001-2017. Plural, Diverse, Better
Stéphane Douailler, Université Paris 8
Universels et fragments. Le paradigme de la traduction
Workshop, Example, ejemplo exemple:
There is no future without a past: critical gaps in Caribbean Education
Facilitator: Isabel Dennis, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Jamaica
Plenarys, Plenarias, Example, Ejemplo, exemple:
José Martí: del Caribe, de América, del orbe
Chair: Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, Centro de Estudios Martianos
Armando García de la Torre, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Martí y el Gran Caribe
María Caridad Pacheco, Centro de Estudios Martianos
El primer viaje de Martí a República Dominicana, consideraciones estratégicas y gestiones políticas del Delegado
David Leyva González, Centro de Estudios Martianos
El cuadro de Menocal admirado por Martí, una mirada al Caribe desde la crítica de arte
José Antonio Bedia Pulido, Centro de Estudios Martianos
Identidad y trascendencia del antillanismo de José Martí
Marlene Vázquez Pérez, Centro de Estudios Martianos
Las Escenas norteamericanas de José Martí y su alerta a las “islas dolorosas del mar”
43.era Conferencia Anual de la Asociación de Estudios del Caribe (AEC)
Educación, cultura y pensamiento emancipador en el Caribe
La Habana, Cuba, 4 al 8 de junio de 2018
43rd Annual Conference, Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
Education, Culture and Emancipatory thought in the Caribbean
Havana, Cuba, 4th to 8th of June 2018
43ème Conférence annuelle de l’Association d’Études des Caraïbes (AEC).
Education, culture et pensée émancipatrice dans les Caraïbes.
La Havane, Cuba, du 4 au 8 juin 2018.
Hotel Habana Libre Trip
Programa / Program/ Programme
Sábado-Domingo /Saturday-Sunday/Samedi-Dimanche/, Junio /June/Juin 2-3
Llegada y alojamiento /Arrival and Accommodation / Arrivée et hébergement
Lunes/ Monday/Lundi/. Junio/June/Juin/ 4
8:00 a.m. Registro/ Registration/Inscription/
Secretariado /Secretariat/ Secrétariat
9:00 a.m. Sesión de apertura/ Opening Plenary/Séance d’ouverture
Salón de Embajadores, Habana Libre
10:45 a.m. Receso matutino/ Morning Break /Pause du matin
11:00 a.m. Conferencia/Conference/Conférence
Nelson Maldonado Torres
Salón de Embajadores, Habana Libre
1:00-6:00 p.m. Feria del libro “El Caribe en ediciones cubanas” / Book Fair “The Caribbean in Cuban editions” /Foire du livre “Les Caraïbes dans les éditions cubaines/
Biblioteca Central de la Universidad de La Habana/ Central Library of the University of Havana/ /Bibliothèque centrale de l’ Université de La Havane
Sesiones/ Sessions/Sessions
- 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
A1- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Mi Deh Ya, Too: Caribbean students navigate bicultural identity
Chair: Nathara Bailey, Columbia University, Graduate Student
Kat Stephens, Columbia University, Graduate Student
Stephanie Bent, University of Maryland, College Park, Graduate Student
Abigail Smith, Pace University
Juontel White, Columbia University, Graduate Student
A2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Which traduction for the Caribbean? Literature, foreign languages and decolonization of the mind
Chair: Laura Ruiz Montes, Escritora y traductora
Descolonizar y enseñar el Caribe a través de la traducción literaria
Katharine H. West, Universidad de los Andes
Bilingüismo Inglés, Estudiantes Indígenas, Universidades Colombianas
Nina Grahek Kriznar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
The problems of translating Caribbean literature into Slovene
Martha Luisa Corbett-Baugh, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Jamaica
Foreign Languages Teaching-Jamaica: 2001-2017. Plural, Diverse, Better
Stéphane Douailler, Université Paris 8
Universels et fragments. Le paradigme de la traduction
A3- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
A Caribbean Challenge to the Inherited Canon of Arts Education
Chair: Katy Gainham, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, The Academy for the Performing Arts
Edwin Erminy, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, The Academy for the Performing Arts
Kela Francis, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, The Academy of Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs
Calypso Poetics: Teaching Composition
Florence Louis-Edouard, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, International Office and Grant Funding
A4- Los espejos. Habana Libre
Sexualities, Narratives and Social Movements
Chair: Tiffany Austin, University of The Bahamas
Raking the Saw: Cadence in the Works of Three Bahamian Writers
Natalia Affonso, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
(Ac)cursed Affections: Lesbian Existence in Here Comes the Sun (2016)
Isabel Carolina Caballero, Tulane University
Masculinity and Migrations in the Works of Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Juanita Diaz-Cotto, State University of New York, Binghamton
Organizing & Documenting Latina Lesbians in the U.S. & Latin America
A5- Internacional, Habana Libre
2013-16 Short Term Cuba and Canada Study Abroad Programs
Chair: Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State University
Lauren Plaza, Oregon State University
Kathleen Stanley, Oregon State University
A6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
The Asia-Caribbean relationship
Chair: Helene Zamor, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
The Hmong People in French Guyana
Daniel Erikson, Blue Star Strategies, LLC
China’s Educational Impact in the Caribbean
Ping Su, Sun Yat-sen University
Chinese Caribbean identity and Diaspora in the Fiction of Meiling Jin
Martin Tsang, University of Miami
Afro-Asian Religion in Cuba from Indenture to the Present
A7- Primavera, Habana Libre
Silencios en la historia silenciada: mujeres en la Revolución Haitiana
Chair: Susana Martínez Martínez, Universidade de Brasília
Anna Luiza Pessato Pena L. Hyppolite, Universidade de Brasília
Simone Rodrigues Pinto, Universidade de Brasília
A8- Salón 250. Universidad de La Habana
Mobility, imagination and integration within the Circum-Caribbean
Chair: Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Tivia Collins, University of the West Indies, Institute for Gender and Development Studies
Xenophobic Integration: Understanding Caribbean regionalism through Guyanese migrant women
Camille Huggins, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Return migration of older adults in Trinidad and Tobago
Sabia McCoy-Torres, Tulane University
Queer Diasporic Mobilities
Levi Gahman, University of the West Indies
A9- Salón 300. Universidad de La Habana
Workshop
There is no future without a past: critical gaps in Caribbean Education
Facilitator: Isabel Dennis, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Jamaica
- 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
AA1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Cuba en el curso y discurso americano
Chair: Anita Waters, Denison University
Representing Cuba in post-Obama U.S. political discourse
James Buckwalter-Arias, Hanover College
¿Qué cosa es la normalización? Reflexiones sobre el deshielo cubano
SophieBrudey, Independent
Les relations partisanes entre la Guadeloupe et Cuba de 1960 à 2001
Kristen Mahlis, California State University, Chico
The Haitian Revolution in the Margins: Ti Noel in Cuba
AA2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Memory, Social Justice and Survival
Chair: Lianne Mulder, Western University
Education for Social Justice: Venezuela’s Education Missions
Giuseppe Sofo, Université d’Avignon/Università di Roma, La Sapienza
(Re)Constructing Caribbean Memory
Nicole Plummer, University of the West Indies, Institute of Caribbean Studies
Teaching Cultural Studies using Stories: An Assessment on Methodology
AA3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Roots and Routes to Social Emancipation & Liberation-based Education
Chair: Nixon Cleophat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ganja & Muddy Rituals: Vodou, Rastafarianism & Cultural Emancipation
Espelencia Baptiste, Kalamazoo College
Children of the Ancestors: Vodou as historical Memory
Felix Rodriguez, The Pennsylvania State University
Drawing and Manual Work in Hostos’ Modern Education
Damali Britton, Carleton College
Class Making in Jamaica’s Education System, 1834-1898
AA4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Online Education and Bridging the Gap for the Future Knowledge Economy
Chair: Dwight Elliott, Hillsborough Community College
Online Education and Success in the Digital Era
Okama Ekpe Brook, AsombrosoX, Inc.
Bridging the Gap for the Future Knowledge Economy through Online Education
Godfrey St. Bernard, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Preparing Latin America and Caribbean Students and Professionals
AA5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Looking for identity in Puerto Rico
Chair: Brenda Domínguez-Rosado, University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón
Forced Transculturation: The ‘Americanization Campaign’ in Puerto Rico
Rosa GuzzardoTamargo, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Examining Puerto Rican Identity Through Language Attitudes
Gema Ortega, Dominican University
In Memoriam: Rosario Ferré’s Poliphonic Caribbean in MalditoAmor
Anna Elena Torres, University of Chicago
Puerto Ricans in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
AA6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Encuentro con la Asociación Caribeña de Cuba.
AA7- Internacional, Habana Libre
Cultural Landscape and Public Discussion: How we see ourselves in the 21st Century
Chair: Juliette Storr, Pennsylvania State University
Public Service Broadcasting, Caribbean Development in the 21st Century
Antonia McDonald, St. George’s University
An Analysis of the State Funeral of Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott
Moriah Ray and Jasmine Hall, The African Diaspora Alliance
Youth of the Diaspora Transnational Solidarity through Education
AA8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Religious Pluralism in the Caribbean
Chair: Lisa Outar, Independent Scholar
“Turning Christian”: Religion and Decolonization in Indo-Caribbean Literature
- Fadeke Castor, Texas A&M University
The Machete’s Edge: African Diasporic Religions and Social JusticeReligious Pluralism in the Caribbean
Brendan Jamal Thornton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
What is a Christian? Hegemony, Essentialism, and Christian Variation in the Southern Caribbean
Donette Francis, University of Miami
Anglicanism in Anglophone Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
- 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
B1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Contemporary Issues in Puerto Rican Migration to the United States
Chair: Xavier Totti, City University of New York, Lehman College
Jorge Duany, Florida International University
La ‘puertorriqueñización’ de la Florida: Identidades culturales y prácticas transnacionales
Edgardo Meléndez, City University of New York, Hunter College
Citizenship, Migration and the Puerto Rican Question in the United States
Carlos Vargas Ramos, City University of New York, Hunter College
Political Crisis, Migration and Electoral Behavior in Puerto Rico
B2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Identity and emancipatory practices in the Caribbean
Chair: Camille Nakhid, Auckland University of Technology
Cultural practices in developing Caribbean research methodologies
Eliana Vagalau, Loyola University Chicago
Caribbean and French Postmodern Thought: Intersections and Reception
Mahadevi Ramakrishnan, Colgate University
French Caribbean identity and the paradigm of interdisciplinarity
Pauline Vermeren, Université Paris 7, Denis Diderot
Décoloniser la nation française: question noire et outre-mer
B3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Educación y nacionalismo en las ocupaciones militares de las Antillas
Chair: Yoel Cordoví Nuñez, Instituto de Historia de Cuba
Lisa Jarvinen, La Salle University
Educación e identidad religiosa durante las ocupaciones militares
Juan Alfonseca, Instituto Superior de Ciencias de la Educación del Estado de México
A Public School System. Un concepto en las políticas de ocupación en las Antillas
Neici Zeller, Universidad William Paterson
De Apostolado a Profesión: Debates sobre el Magisterio Dominicano
Yoana Hernández Suárez, Instituto de Historia de Cuba
Colegios protestantes en Cuba: entre el imaginario y la norma
B4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Exchanges and engagement through Caribbean islands and beyond
Chair: Ian Craig, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Cuba en el imaginario del Caribe anglófono en la educación superior
Jordi Halfman, University of Amsterdam
Teaching belonging: Transnationalism and migration on Sint Maarten
Merle Collins
Grenadian Students on Education, Culture and the Cuba-Grenada Story
Deborah Hickling, University of the West Indies, Mona
Cuban Cornerstone: Culture and Education, CCI Lessons for CARICOM?
Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Arriaga, African Studies Center Leiden
La interculturalidad entre cubanos y mozambiqueños
B5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Approaching to Jamaica
Chair: Lloyd Waller, Department of Government
Strengthening Governance in Jamaica through the Governance Society
Oneil Hall, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
The Decline and Fall of studying and teaching History in Jamaica
Beverley Josephs, University of the West Indies, Institute for Gender & Development Studies
Brand Jamaica–Gender & Identity in a sample of Tourism Ads
Nadine Wedderburn, State University of New York, Empire State College
Education for survival in Jamaica
William Tantam, University of London, Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research
The Football Pitch as a Site for Resistance in Jamaica
B6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
The Decolonizing Power of Languages
Chair: Keisha Wiel, Temple University
Linguistic Markers Identity Education Role Papiamentu/o in Education
Guido Rojer, University of Curaçao
Creolization and Economic Development
Emma Crowley, University of Bristol
The Audiopolitics of Créolité in the Work of Marlon James
Janique Dennis, University of the West Indies
The Oraliterature of Pataki: Key to Socio-cultural Transformation
B7 Internacional -, Habana Libre
Hurricanes and human disasters
Chair: Tami Navarro, Barnard College
After the Hurricanes: St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John and the US
Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, Bristol
UKOTs, hurricane reconstruction, and the shadow of Brexit
Justin Daniel, UAG-CRPLC
The French territories of the Caribbean faced with natural disasters
Orlando Harris, University of California, San Francisco
Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and HIV: Challenges in the Caribbean
B8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Theather and narratives in the Caribbeand and beyond
Chair: Leslie Wingard, College of Wooster
As Seen Through Documentary Theater: Anna Deavere Smith’s Caribbean
Bretton White, Colby College
Sellouts: Failure Tactics in New Cuban Theater
Medha Nirody Karmarkar, Rutgers University
Kala Pani Crossings and Mauritian narratives
Amrita Mishra, University of Texas
Shipsisters: Reincarnations of Indenture in the Indo-Caribbean Novel
- 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
BB1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
The U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay: Freedom, Emancipation, Possibility
Chair: Don E. Walicek, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
José Sánchez Guerra, Casa de Historia, Guantánamo
Cuba, Guantánamo Bay and U.S. Imperialism
Jessica Adams
Guantánamo and the Limits of Circum-Caribbean Emancipation
José Ramón Sánchez Leyva, Casa de Cultura
Caribe/camello/ poemas
Diana Murtaugh Coleman
After the Bay: A Phobia of Hope
BB2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Teaching, learning and Innovative Culture
Chair: Marcelo Cabarcas, Unicolombo Internacional
Interculturalidad para el cambio: qué enseñar en el aula cartagenera
Karen Dubinsky, Queen’s University
Between Solidarity and Development? Canadian Teachers in 1970’s Cuba
Snezhina Gulubova, University of London, Royal Holloway
Learning from Tradition and Innovation in Cuba’s New Music Scene
BB3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Investigating Select Latin American and Caribbean Educational Approach
Chair: Keisha McIntyre-McCullough, Miami Dade County Public Schools
Alicia Edwards, Miami Dade County Public Schools
Natalia Romero, Miami Dade County Public Schools
Reishma Seupersad, Miami Dade County Public Schools
Nicole Warmington-Granston, Governer State University
BB4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Education and culture to change our realities
Chair: Charles Do Rego, Foundation NAAM, Curaçao
Culture, livelihood and education in the process of inclusion
Elizabeth Taveras Rivera, City University of New York, Hunter College
Female Puerto Rican Teachers’ Testimonios on Retention and Culture
Emilie van Heydoorn, Utrecht University
The reproducton of coloniality in primary education on Curaçao
Lamprini Chartofylaka, Université des Antilles, Centre de Recherches et de Ressources en Education et Formation
Elaborating a context-based learning approach in Guadeloupe
BB5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Rescatando Tradición con el Cabildo de Regla
Chair: Alexandra P. Gelbard, Michigan State University
Raisa Fornaguera, Museo de Regla
Juan Dionisio Lozano Gomez, Museo de Regla/Omo Ochun, Dueño de Ile Olorun
Andrés Baláiz Echenike, Director de Conjunto Güiros de San Cristóbal de Regla
José Manuel González Cruz, Universidade de Brasília
BB6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Decolonizing Political Thinking and Educational Practices in the Americas
Chair: Jane Anna Gordon, UCONN
Claudia Jones and the Radicalizing of Indigenous Politics
Derefe Kimarley Chevannes, UCONN, Ph.D Student in Political Science
Authoritarian Ecologies, the Colombian State, and Afro-Political Ecologies/Pedagogies of Emancipation
Stephen Nathan Haymes, DePaul University
Creolizing the White Spaces of U.S. Teacher Education: Possibilities and Tensions of a Mestizaje in the Crossroads Pedagogy within one Hispanic Serving Institution
Mia Sosa-Provencio, University of New Mexico
The Emancipation of Thought and Knowledge through the Centering of Afro-Brazilian Literary Texts in Brazilian Educational Contexts
Rosemere Ferreira da Silva, Universidade do Estado da Bahia
BB7- Internacional, Habana Libre
Migration, connections and memory in the Caribbean
Chair: Rose Mary Allen, University of Curaçao
Organic connectivity through Intra-Caribbean labor migrations
Jessica Roitman, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
Worlds Apart: (Dutch) Colonial legacies and inter-island connections
Yra Van Dijk, Leiden University
Multi-directional memory in Dutch Caribbean literature
Brantuo Nana, University of Maryland, College Park
The Migration of African & Caribbean Students in the Global North
BB8- Primavera, Habana Libre
“Look to Africa”: Rastafari Outside of Jamaica
Chair: David Aarons, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
Ethiopians Connecting to Rastafari through Reggae
Omar Ramadan-Santiago, City University of New York
Rastafari and Embodying Blackness in Puerto Rico
Tyehimba Salandy, University of the West Indies
History as Revolution: Rasta Memory & the Amnesia of Western Modernity
Christopher Duncanson-Hales, University of Sudbury
Echoes of the Memories: A Hermeneutical Investigation of Rastafari
6:00 p.m. Univeridad de La Habana, 290 aniversario /University of Havana, 290 anniversary/Université de L´Havane, 290 anniversaire
Aula Magna, Universidad de la Habana (Por invitación/ By invitation /Sur invitation)
8:00 p.m. Bienvenidos a La Habana /Welcome to Havana/Bienvenues à La Havane
La Habana Vieja, Centro Histórico/ Old Havana, Historic Center/La Vielle Havane, Centre Historique/ Ómnibus desde el Habana Libre a las 7:30 p.m. solo ida, libre/ Buses from Havana Libre at 7:30 p.m., one way, free/ Omnibus de La Havane Libre à 19h30, aller simple, gratuit.
Martes /Thursday/Mardi. Junio, June/Juin/5
8:00 a.m. Registro/Registration/Inscription
Secretariado/Secretariat/Secrétariat
9:00 a.m.-11 a.m. Desayuno de estudiantes y jóvenes investigadores/ Students and Junior Scholars Breakfast /Dejeuner d´étudiants et Jeunes chercheurs
Salón Sierra Maestra, Habana Libre
10.00 a.m.- 6.00 p.m. Feria del libro “El Caribe en ediciones cubanas” / Book Fair “The Caribbean in Cuban editions” /Foire du livre “Les Caraïbes dans les éditions cubaines
Biblioteca Central de la Universidad de La Habana/ Central Library of the University of Havana/ / Bibliothèque Centrale de l’Université de La Havane
Sesiones/ Sessions/Sesssions
- 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
C1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
History and culture to understand the Caribbean education
Chair: Luz Amparo Sanabria James, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe
Factores histórico-culturales asociados a desempeños escolares
Anne Ulentin, College of The Bahamas
Prison Education in The Bahamas: A Historical Overview
Julien Merion, Université des Antilles
Eduquer aux risques un défi majeur pour les sociétés de la Caraïbe
Latoya Lazarus, University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies
Religionisation and Comprehensive Sex Education in Barbados
C2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Culture, Identity & Reciprocity: Training teachers to be students
Chair: Linda A. Spears-Bunton, Florida International University
Carolyn Reid-Brown, Bloomsburg University
Stephanie Delgado, Florida International University
Yvonne Weekes, University of the West Indies
Making Schools Safe: Student Voice, Engagement and Leadership
Camisha Sibblis, York University
Effacement and Immobility of Excluded Black Students
C3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Afro-American and Caribbean Engagement: Building Connections through Leadership, Culture and Scholarship
Chair: Ralph Godbladt, Pennsylvania State University
Mindy Andino, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Carolyn Reid-Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Kristin Austin, Immaculata College
C4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
The Caribbean and its others: diverse is better
Chair: Benedicte Ledent, University of Liege
The Caribbean and its Others in Jean Rhys and Caryl Phillips’s work
Inés Rivera, University of Maryland
Angie Cruz’s Ciguapeo as a Method of Inclusion
Alexis Samuels, The University of the West Indies
The Communal Binary in Brown Girl, Brownstones and Kincaid’s Lucy
Treviene Harris, University of Pittsburgh
Sonic Epistemologies in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant
C5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Health and disease in the Caribbean and its diaspora
Chair: Dexter Voisin, University of Chicago
Help-seeking attitudes about mental health services in Jamaicans
Savitri Persaud, York University
Mental Health, Madness and Identity in Toronto’s Caribbean Community
Edge Dawn, Institución Manhester University
Faith Organisations & social re-production of mental health stigma
Ayana April-Sanders, Columbia University
Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in the Caribbean: A focus on Guyana
C6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Political and Aesthetic Coordinates of the Circum-Caribbean
Chair: Lucas de Lima, University of Pennsylvania
Ana Mendieta and the Brown Spatialization of Blackness
Jorge Lefevre Tavárez, University of Chicago and Jackqueline Frost, Cornell University
Tragedy of the Possible: Césaire in Cuba, 1968
Jennifer Tamayo, University of California, Berkeley
Queering Wor(l)ds: Fragments & Utopia in Brathwaite’s Rights of Passage
C7- Internacional, Habana Libre
Religion, Race, and the Secular in the (Post)Colonial Caribbean
Chair: Alexander Rocklin, Willamette University
Religion before the Law: the Politics of Religious Freedom in Trinidad
Emily Crews, University of Chicago
Jew or Not Jew: Debates over Belonging
Rupa Pillai, Brandeis University
Becoming American through Religion: Caribbean Hinduism in Little Guyana
- Brent Crosson, University of Texas, Austin
Tolerant but (not) Secular?
C8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Trials and Tribulations of Revolutionary Consciousness in Haiti & Cuba
Chair: Navid Farnia, Ohio State University
Empire as the Nexus of Struggle in Revolutionary Cuba
Leslie Alexander, University of Oregon
A United and Valiant People: Black Visions of Haiti in 1804
Sarajaneé Davis, Ohio State University
Curtis Austin, University of Oregon
Toussaint’s Tactics: The Black Panther Party and the Uses of History
- 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
D1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Afro-Cubans and African-Americans: Deliberate Interactions, Movements
Chair: Giselita Morales, Scholar and Cuban Activist
Jeremy Levitt, Florida A&M University College of Law
Pan-African solutions for Pan-American Problems: Black Civil Society in the Transformation of Afro-Cuban/African-American Relations
Esteban Morales Domínguez, Universidad de La Habana
Mis-Education, Cultural Appropriation & Economic Isolation in Cuban/African-American Relations
Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba
Sisterhoods: Women, Race, Color and Transformational Histories Across Boundaries
Rosemari Mealy, City University of New York, Center of Worker Education
Black Power and Cuban/African-American Relations: A Way Forward
D2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Author Celebration
Chair: Kamille Gentles-Peart, Roger Williams University
Interin Co-chairs: Karen Flynn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sheri Lewis
Jose Antonio Villarán, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Album of Fences (El Álbum de las Rejas, Omar Pimienta), translated from the Spanish
Presented by: Cathy Thomas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies, Mona
The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective
Presented by: Jahlani Niaah, University of the West Indies, Mona
Rosana Baeninger, Universitiy of Campinas
Adriana Fernandes, Federal University of Paraiba
Migracao Sul-Sul” (South-South migration)
Presented by: Sophie Brudey, United Nations University
Natalie Hopkinson, Howard University
A Mouth Is Always Muzzled
Presented by: Michele L. Simms-Burton, Howard University
D3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Debt, Education, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
Chair: Jason Wozniak, LAPES
Sugeily Rodríguez Lebrón, Papel Machete
Conor Tomás Reed, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Paul Dill, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Utuado
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Columbia University
D4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Ganja and the Development of Rastafari Diasporas
Chair: Jahlani Niaah, University of the West Indies, Mona
JakesHomiak, University of the West Indies, Mona
Oral Taylor, University of the West Indies, Mona
Asante Amen, University of the West Indies, Mona
Alana Griffith, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill and Peter Wickham, Caribbean Development Research Services
Marijuana: Conflicting Knowledge, Public Attitudes & Drug Policy
Nekeisha Spencer, University of the West Indies, Binghamton University
Impact of Decriminalization on the Marijuana and Alcohol Consumption
D5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Prácticas artísticas e imaginarios visuales para construir la identidad cubana
Chair: Kenia Dorta, Casa del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba
Imaginarios visuales en el Caribe: la obra de Alberto Lescay Merencio
Mayte Velázquez Santiago, CELA, FFyL, Universidad Autónoma de México
La importancia de Amelia Peláez en “Orígenes” o la “Vanguardia Cubana”
Cassandra Guan, Brown University
Leave Your World: Displaced Subjects in “De Cierta Manera”
Lisandra Leyva Ramírez, Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano/Asociación Hermanos Saíz
La Televisión Serrana, una fuente digna para la Historia
D6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Epistemology, Genealogy, and Identity: Caribbean Diasporic Modes
Chair: Tzarina Prater, Bentley University
Rachel L. Mordecai, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Genealogy and Epistemological Uncertainty in Caribbean Family Sagas
Ronald Cummings, Brock University
Dub Intergenerationality
Isabel Espinal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Genealogy: Healing & Emancipatory Method in Dominican Women Authors
D7- Internacional, Habana Libre
La diáspora haitiana en América Latina: tendencias recientes
Chair: Cedric Audebert, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Handerson Joseph, Universidade Federal do Amapá
Redes y dinámica de la movilidad haitiana en Brasil, en Guyana Francesa y en Surinam
Leonardo Cavalcanti, Universidade de Brasília
Inmigración haitiana en Brasil. Desafios para políticas migratorias
Iréri Ceja Cárdenas, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro
De Haití a la mitad del mundo: irregularidad y exclusión
Marta Fernández Patallo, African Leadership University
Políticas locales y acceso a derechos de migrantes haitianos en Argentina y Chile
D8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Shadow Archives: Hidden Photographic Histories in the Caribbean
Chair: Krista Thompson, Northwestern University
Paul Bogle and Photographically Fugitive Histories
Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Sight and affect: visual registers of recognition
Faith Smith, Brandeis University
Shadow Archives, 1900-1910
Leniqueca Welcome, University of Pennsylvania
Viewing bodies: violent feeling to un-feel violence within Trinidad
Harvey Neptune, Temple University
D9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Curating the Virtual Caribbean: Digital Memory and Cultural Legacies
Chair: Adrienne Harmer, Georgia Gwinnett College
Jo Anne Harris, Georgia Gwinnett College
Structuring Technology: Enhanced Service, and Experiential Learning
Rolando Márquez, Georgia Gwinnett College
Bethany Havas, Georgia Gwinnett College
Information Literacy & the Virtual Caribbean: Partnership & Pedagogy
D10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Machel Montano and the Politics of Culture and Industry in Soca Music
Chair: Kai Barratt, University of Technology, Jamaica
Sean Samad, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
On my Way: Soca as a Transnational Product
Keegan Taylor, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The Creative Process of Machel Montano
Meagan Sylvester, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
In we Blood: Soca and Diasporic Identities
Sue-Ann Barratt, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
“It In He Blood”: Machel Montano and the Performance of Cultural Intelligence
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
DD 1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Plenary session: José Martí: del Caribe, de América, del orbe
Chair: Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, Centro de Estudios Martianos
Armando García de la Torre, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Martí y el Gran Caribe
María Caridad Pacheco, Centro de Estudios Martianos
El primer viaje de Martí a República Dominicana, consideraciones estratégicas y gestiones políticas del Delegado
David Leyva González, Centro de Estudios Martianos
El cuadro de Menocal admirado por Martí, una mirada al Caribe desde la crítica de arte
José Antonio Bedia Pulido, Centro de Estudios Martianos
Identidad y trascendencia del antillanismo de José Martí
Marlene Vázquez Pérez, Centro de Estudios Martianos
Las Escenas norteamericanas de José Martí y su alerta a las “islas dolorosas del mar”
DD2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Decolonizing Education via Family Histories
Chair: Dannielle Joy Davis, Saint Louis University
Ikechi Akwara, Aya Education Institute
Ndahye Aziz, Aya Education Institute
Aille Brown, Aya Education Institute
Dream Lumpkin, Aya Education Institute
DD3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
La España que emigraba y la España receptora de emigrantes
Chair: Elda Evangelina González Martínez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Emilio Redondo Carrero, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
La recepción del exilio cubano en España, 1959-1969
Concepción Navarro Azcue, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Emigración española a Cuba, Uruguay y Brasil: notas comparativas
María Dolores Domingo Acebrón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
La prensa pro-españolista de la emigración en Cuba, 1868-1898
Emelina Martín Acosta, Universidad de Burgos
Emigración y prensa: los canarios en Cuba
DD4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Transnational Interrogations of Student Leadership, Gender & Self-Care
Chair: Dalea Bean, University of the West Indies, Institute for Gender and Development Studies
Natasha Mortley, University of the West Indies, Institute for Gender and Development Studies
Andrea Baldwin, Connecticut College
Nadeen Spence, Mary Seacole Hall
Factors which Inhibit and Enable the Development of Women’s leadership at UWI Mona
DD5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
The Creation of Spaces of Meaning in Haiti
Chair: Hadassah St. Hubert, University of Miami
Claire Payton, Duke University
Nathalie Jolivert, JOLIVERT Designs
Sophonie Milande Joseph, Columbia University
DD6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Literature to resist and connect the past and present
Chair: Priscilla Figueiredo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Literature to Resist Historical Silence
Donald Morales, Mercy College
Recovering Excluded Spaces through Literatures of the Caribbean/Africa
Kelsyn Delaney, University of Leicester
A New Form of Dialogue: Hybridity and Multiple Form Poetry
Alison Donnell, University of East Anglia
Connecting past and present to safeguard the future: Literary Heritage
Francoise Simasotchi-Brones
Ecologie et écopoétique dans le roman caraïbéen francophone
DD7- Internacional, Habana Libre
Who are we to me? The diaspora returns
Chair: Tatiana Benjamin, University of Maryland, College Park
The Diaspora Returns “Home”
Brieanne Berry-Crossfield, University of Toronto
“Who Are We To Me? The Black Diaspora(s) and the Road to Solidarities”
Anthony Salandy, ICAHN School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System
Return visits of Trinbagonian people and changes to self-efficacy
Hilary Robertson-Hickling, University of the West Indies, Mona
That Time In Foreign – Were they All deported?
DD8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Toward a renewed approach to global engagement for CARICOM Development Chair: Kimberly Louis, Government of Saint Lucia
Melissa Boissiere, Florida International University
CARICOM and Trade Liberalization: What prevents the benefits?
Farrah Brown, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Debt, disaster and sustainable development
Sheree Chambers, Government of Jamaica
A culture of peace in the Caribbean: The path to achieving the SDG’s
Rueanna Haynes, Georgetown University Law Centre
- 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
E1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Nuevos y viejos actores en la Geopolítica caribeña
Chair: José F. Piedra, Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe “Norman Girvan”
Andrés Serbin, CRIES
Las narrativas geopolíticas sobre el Caribe
Jessica Byron, University of the West Indies, Institute of International Relations
¿Existe una política de la administración Trump hacia el Caribe de CARICOM?
Mark Kirton, University of the West Indies, Institut of International Relations
The Caribbean in a changing hemispheric enviroment
Santiago Pérez Benítez, Centro de Investigaciones de Política Internacionl
Los BRICS y el Caribe
Carlos Quenan, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine
Las relaciones internacionales del Caribe: entre nuevos y viejos actores
E2- 1, F2-1, G2-1, H2- 1, Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Film Track
Chair: Thalia Díaz Vieta, Universidad de La Habana
Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Ambiguities in Documentary film (Panel and filmscreening)
Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University
Patricia Mohammed
Marika Preziuso, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Robert Ramesar, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Decolonisation strategies of ethnicity and gender Yao Ramesar’s films
Emmanuella Turenne, Occidental College
Soup Joumou (20 min)
Sonja Dumas
Julia and Joyce: Two Stories of Two Dance Pioneers
Falta Afifa
E3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Paradiplomacia caribeña: Puerto Rico, IVB y el Caribe francés
Caribbean Paradiplomacy: Puerto Rico, BVI, and the French Caribbean
Chair: Raymond Laureano-Ortiz, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
Puerto Rico, paradiplomacia identitaria e Iberoamérica en los 80 y 90
Jean Yves Lacascade, Independet Scholar
La diplomacia territorial de Martinica y Guayana Francesa
Najan Christopher, Independent Scholar
Paradiplomacia en Islas Vírgenes Británicas (IVB)
Fred Reno, Université des Antilles
E4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Créolité, Françité and Hispanidad: Role of language in the Caribbean memory in Cuba
Chair: Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus, Independent researcher
Joseph Vladimir Casseus, Carthographer/Agronomist and Morgan Dalphinis, Urban Learning Foundation
Cutlure and the resurrection of ancestors through tongue
Hilario Félix Batista, Radio Havana Cuba
Le créole, une culture de résistance à Cuba et dans la Caraïbe
Ruth Myrtho Casseus, Université Quisqueya
E5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Women and Power
Chair: Melanie White, Brown University
Creole Women’s Art, Life Histories, & Visions of Emancipatory Futures
Erika Serrato, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anacaona as Amerindian Paradigm: Edifying History
Janice Anderson, York University
Black Women’s Spirituality: the Quest for Being, Knowledge and Power
Laurephile Desrosiers, Ochsner Medical Center Louisiana
Education Health Disparities among Caribbean Populations
Michelle Springer, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Erotic Cartographies: Afro-Caribbean Women’s Spiritual Autonomy
E6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture: One Love
Chair: Irline Francois, Goucher College
Jeanie Murphy, Goucher College
Poetics of an Unmitigated Memory: Nancy Morejón’s Moorings and Motherings
Regine Jean-Charles, Boston College
Of Memories and Men
Patricia DeRocher, Champlain College
Flower Songs and Moon Monologues: Pluralizing Desire in Mayotte’s Capécia’s I am a Martinican woman
Paula Sato, Kent State University
Wifredo Lam’s transcultural imagination
E7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Jamaican Struggles for Rights and Freedoms, 1968 – 2018: From the Rodney ‘Riots’ to the present
Chair: Jesse Benjamin, Kennesaw State University
Groundings with My Brothers @ 50: Work of the Walter Rodney Foundation
Bradley Gardner, Kennesaw State University
Understanding Coloniality: A look at the Post Colonial Institution in Jamaica
Keesha Hernderson, Kennesaw State University
Mama P: The revolutionary act of a Jamaican woman leadership
Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University
Race and the Diasporic Imagination in Cuba: A. Salkey’s Havana Journal
E8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Encuentro con CSA Past Presidents
E-9 Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Africana Religions & Emancipatory Thought in the Caribbean & Beyond
Chair: Funlayo E. Wood, Harvard University
Not So Black Magic: Obeah, Agency, and Sexuality in Belize
Rachel Cantave, Fairfield University
Relearning through Rituals
Lisa Beckley Roberts, Jackson State University
Remembering Ourselves through Ritual Music and Dance
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College
- 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
F1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
El Gran Caribe: perspectivas geopolíticas y proyectos emancipatorios
Chair: Nayar López, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dimensión geopolítica, intervencionismo y alternativas emancipatorias en el Gran Caribe
Pablo Maríñez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Colonización y controversias territoriales en el Gran Caribe
Luis Suárez, Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales “Raúl Roa”
Las utopías de la Revolución Cubana: una mirada a sus aportes a los proyectos de emancipación del Gran Caribe
Juana Tania García, Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural “Juan Marinello”
La integración del Gran Caribe: ¿un desafío a la geopolítica imperial?
F3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Working Group Meeting
Transnational Hispaniola
F4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
The need for new theoretical perspectives on Caribbean development in the face of new world dynamics
Chair: Monica Gordon, Retired
The need for new theorical perspectrives on Caribbean development in the face of new world dynamics
Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg, Independent Scholar
Chinafication
Clara Rachel Eybalin Casséus, Independent researcher
Framing an operational south-south cooperation with China: Post-earthquake Haiti
F5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Grupo Nuevo Mundo: presente y futuro
Chair: Graciella Chailloux, Universidad de La Habana
Humberto García-Muñiz, Instituto de Estudios del Cribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Pedro Rivera Guzmán, Ex-director del Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico/Ex presidente de la Asociaciòn de Economistas del Caribe
Michael Witter, University of the West Indies, Mona
Claremont Kirton, University of the West Indies, Mona
F6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Workshop
Digital Decolonization: Exhibit Building in the Classroom
Facilitators: Elizabeth Polcha
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Nicole Aljoe
Alanna Prince
Sarah Payne
F7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Moving In and Standing Out: How Caribbean Nationals Acclimate to New, But Familiar Surroundings
Chair: Hyacinth Miller, Rutgers University
Contesting and Belonging in New Spaces: A Review of Caribbean Latino Immigrant Political Incorporation
Karen Flynn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
I felt very lost within the system: Caribbean-Canadians Teaching English as Foreign Language in East Asia
Eliezer Marcellus, Rutgers University
High Achieving Immigrant Born-Black Males in Higher Education
Carol Archer
Homeownership in Reverse: An Examination of the rate of homeownership among Returning Residents to the Caribbean
F8- Primavera, Habana Libre
The Impact of Socio-economic Status and Participation on Student Academic Performance
Chair: Presella Young-A-Fat, FHR School of Business
Astrid Runs, FHR School of Business
Transmission of Decolonial-intersectional resilience
Simone Koole, Anton de Kom University
F9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Les enjeux de la reforme des curricula à l’ENS
Chair: Nadève Ménard, École Normale Supérieure/Université d’État d’Haïti
Claude Calixte, École Normale Supérieure/Université d’État d’Haïti
Louis Alvares, École Normale Supérieure/Université d’État d’Haïti
Thomas Rodrigues, École Normale Supérieure/Université d’État d’Haïti
F10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Cultural Studies for Transformational Caribbean Education Practices
Chair: Joan Webley, Nanook Enterprises Ltd.
Learning outside the (school) box
Owen Ellis, University of the West Indies, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Mona
Enviroment as curriculum
Shantal Cover, University of the West Indies, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Mona
Kirt Henry, University of the West Indies, Mona
Core-periphery model: Negotiating revival dressknowledge in Jamaica
- 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
G1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Haití: imperialismo estadounidense y migración haitiana en México
Chair: Margarita Vargas, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe
Edith Aurora Rebolledo Garrido, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Las bases del pensamiento anticolonial en el Caribe Insular francófono
Aída Chacón Castellanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma México
Migración, cultura e imperialismo: una visión desde el contexto histórico social haitiano
Marcela Landazábal Mora, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Trace-mémoire en disonancia: la diáspora haitiana en el Sur de América
Pierre Louviot, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Tradición y cultura en migrantes haitianos. Perspectivas e impactos
G3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Anti-Haitianism: A Social Ailment Propagated through State and History
Chair: Rafael Gomez, University at Albany, State University of New York/City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Paradoenunapata (Standing on one Leg): The Insidious Discourse of Race and Nation in the Dominican Republic following TC 168-13
Daly Guilamo, Borough of Manhattan Community College/Center for Ethnic Studies
Tumultuous Narrative of Haiti: Philipe Girard’s Haitian History
Altagracia Jean Joseph, Fundación Código Humano
Actualidades, desafío, y nuevos temores para los inmigrantes Haitianos y sus familias en la Repuúlica Dominicana
G4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Resilient Citizenship: Belonging in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic
Chair: Jacqueline Lyon, Bates College
Amarilys Estrella, New York University
Between dead and living: Human Rights in anti-racist movement
Ana María Belique, Universida Autónoma de Santo Domingo
El poder de resistencia de una población civilmente aniquilada
Dana Muñiz Pacheco, Temple University
Between life and death : Citizenship and Belonging in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic
Louisa J. Rollins Castillo, University of Illinois at Chicago
Precarious belonging and nationalism in the Dominican Southwest
G5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Epistemologies for the Caribbean
Chair: Agustín Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts at Amhers
Afro-Epistemologías: Entre la Razón de Caliban y la Razón Cimarrona de Exu-Elegguá
Viranjini Munasinghe, Cornell University
History, Hypercoloniality and the Caribbean Exception
Sebastien Nicolas, Sciences Po Bordeaux-Les Afriques dans le Monde
The invention of Haiti by colonial powers
G6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Motivity: individual stories of urges and movements
Chair: Huon Wardle, University of St. Andrews
Motivity, Culture, World-Making and the Process of Self-Education
Molly Rosenbaum, University of St. Andrews
Inspiration and la página blanca: motivity of writers in Havana, Cuba
Guiseppe Troccoli, University of St. Andrews
Catch and Kill: Belize City (Belize) hunters’ moves to make a living
Pablo Herrera, University of St. Andrews
Mi Raza: From Afro-Cuban New Men to Diasporic Citizens
Alysa Ghose, University of Edinburgh
Solidarity in knowledge, action from advice
G7-Sevillano, Habana Libre
Education en Haïti
Chair: Jhon Picard Byron, Université d’État d’Haïti
Corinne Bossé, Maastricht University
Les Défis du Développement de l’Université haïtienne au 21è siècle
Mislor Dexai, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne/Université d’État d’Haïti
Les universités haïtiennes et les rapports sociaux sexués inégalitaires
Ronald Jean Jacques, Université d’État d’Haïti
Education formelle en Haiti, Réalités et perspectives
Darline Alexis, Université d’État d’Haïti
G8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Emancipatory Sovereignty?
Chair: Amber Rose Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Deconstructing the Sovereign Self in Contemporary Caribbean Poetics
Hanna Garth, UC San Diego
Struggling against Imperialism: Food and Social Justice in Cuba
David Chavannes, University of Pennsylvania
Ideological Influences on Jamaica’s Gay Freedom Movement, 1977-1980
Amber Henry, University of Pennsylvania
Charlotte Henay, York University
A Long Line: Story & Witness as Afro-Indigenous Futurities
G9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Stigmatization and Discrimination from Sexual Orientation and HIV Infection: Case of the Men who have Sex with Men in Haiti
Chair: Willy Dunbar, École de Santé Publique/Université Libre de Bruxelles
Nancy Sohler, City University of New York
School of Medicine and Haiti Medical Education
Christian Raccurt, Université Quisqueya
Yves Coppieter’s, École de Santé Publique/Université Libre de Bruxelles
Nathalie Maulet, Université Catholique de Louvain, Institute of Health and Society
G10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Pedagogy, and Perspective: Centering Fiction in Teaching the Caribbean
Chair: Kathleen Phillips Lewis, Spelman College
- Nicole Smith, Spelman College
Georgene Montgomery, Clark Atlanta University
- 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
H1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Emancipatory Remembering: Rescue Work in Gloria Rolando’s Film
Chair: Andrea Queeley (aqueeley@fiu.edu), Florida International University
Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College
Shattering Stereotypes about Black Cuban Women in Gloria Rolando’s documentary Diálogo con mi abuela (2015)
Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Amberly Ellis Alene, Film for The People
H3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Culture, identity and migration to understanding Haiti: realities and opportunities
Chair: Russell Stockard Jr., California Lutheran University
‘Sh*thole Countries’ Controversy as Rebranding Opportunity for Haiti
Carlo Charles, York University
Culture, Identity and Belonging in the Haitian Transnational State
Elinet Daniel Casimir, Université d’État d’Haïti
La ayitianidad y la dominicanidad: dos miradas cruzadas en torno a la problemática de la identidad cultural isleña y caribeña
Cecile Accilien, University of Kansas
Connecting Haitians in Haiti & the Diaspora through Haitian Hollywood
Darlene Dubuisson, Columbia University
Haitian Academic Diaspora Returnees: Rupture, Return and Reintegration
H4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Récupérer la mémoire: Socio-poétique des écrivaines antillaises
Chair: Jack A. Yeager, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Sarah Davies Cordova, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Lieux de passages et seuils de la mémoire
Micheline Rice-Maximin, Swarthmore College
Poétique recadrée et h/Histoires d’îles: Ina Césaire et ses consoeurs
Antoinette Sol, University of Texas Arlington
Identitéet culture dans les contes d’Ina Césaire
H5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
América Latina y el Caribe: zona de paz vs agresiones estadounidenses
Chair: Nayar López, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Obama y Trump: la política compartida de la agresión a Cuba
Lohania Josefina Aruca, Sección de Estudios Internacionales de la Unión de Historiadores de Cuba
La Proclama de Zona de Paz para America Latina y el Caribe: su valor histórico y estratégico
Tatiana Coll Lebedef, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
Los Halcones de nuevo sobre Cuba
H6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Motivity: individual stories of urges and movements (II)
Chair: Adom Philogene Heron, Goldsmiths, University of London
Charles V. Carnegie, Bates College
Arful Insurgencies
Kezia A. Page, Colgate University
Smile Jamaica, for the Camera: Performance and Surveillance in 1970’s Jamaica
Cristina Basso
“Great things are coming!”: exploring perceptions and experiences of social change in the Bay of Cartagena de Indias through the categories of “grounded-ness” and “movement”
Laura Jan Obermuller, University of the West Indies, Mona
In limbo: Charting the experiences of failed asylum appeals and deportees fron the United Kingdom to Jamaica
H7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Emancipatory legacies of marronage: politics and (re)presentation
Chair: Marcus Nevius, University of Rhode Island
Plurinationality and the contemporary politics of Surinamese Maroon autonomy
Mario Nisbett, Susquehanna University
Emancipatory Politics: Jamaican Maroons and Collective Consciousness
Robert Connell, University of California, Berkeley
Plurinationality and the politics of Surinamese Maroon autonomy
Alex Moulton, Clark University
Maroonage and the Politics of Environmental Governance in Jamaica
Sarah Johnson, University of California, Berkeley
Statues of Solitude
H8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Citoyenneté, révolution et État-Nation: L’archéologie d’une tension
Chair: Jean Alix Rene, Université d’État d’Haïti
Révolution Servile, État-nation et citoyenneté en Haïti 1791-1805
Jean Waddimir Gustinvil, Université d’État d’Haïti
Révolution Servile, État-nation et citoyenneté
Edelyn Dorismond, Université d’État d’Haïti
Haïti, État sans frontiers: Une citoyenneté par-delà la citoyenneté
Pierre-Louis Odonel, Université d’État d’Haïti
La compétence citoyenne entre indépendence et politique du sentiment
8:00 p.m. Concierto/Concert/Concert/
Sala Che Guevara, Casa de las Américas (3era y G, Vedado/3rd and G/3ème et G)
Miércoles/Wednesday/Mercredi. Junio, June/Juin 6
8:00 a.m. Registro/Registration/Inscription
Secretariado/Secretariat/Secrétariat
10:00-6:00 p.m. Feria del libro “El Caribe enediciones cubanas”/Book Fair “The Caribbean in Cuban editions” /Foire du livre “Les Caraïbesdans les éditionscubaines/
Biblioteca Central de la Universidad de La Habana/ Central Library of the University of Havana/ Bibliothèque centrale de l’Université de La Havane
3.00 p.m. Muestra de cine del Caribe/ Caribbean movie show/Cinéma des Caraïbes/ Cine Infanta/ Cinema Infanta/Cinema Infanta/ (Infanta entre San Miguel et Neptuno/ Infanta between San Miguel and Neptuno/ /Infanta entre San Miguel y Neptuno)
Sesiones/Sessions/Sessions/
- 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
I1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Cruces culturales y resistencias populares a través de la música
Chair: Ángel Rodriguez-Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Resistencias Populares a través de la música urbana en Puerto Rico
Johanna Hernández-Pérez, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship/University of Puerto Rico
La resignificación de la negritud en grupos de Bomba Puertorriqueña
Allison Skerrett, The University of Texas at Austin
Negotiating Musical Cultures of the Caribbean and the United States
Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University
Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie’s Afro-Cuban Cultural Education
I2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Conexiones músico-instrumentales entre Cuba y otros países caribeños
Chair: Lino Arturo Neira Betancourt
Heidy Cepero Recoder, Filial de Música de la Universidad de las Artes
Nisleidys Flores Carmona
Leannelis Cárdenas Díaz, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música Cubana
I3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Sovereignty, Abjection, and the State in Caribbean Law and Poetics
Chair: Mónica Jiménez, University of Texas
Roger Reeves, University of Texas
Sublime Césaire: Opacity, Abjection, Subverting the Logics of Sovereignty
Minkah Makalani, University of Texas at Austin
Emancipate the World: CLR James & Decolonizing Black Power
Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University
I4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Prácticas filosóficas y sonidos caribeños
Chair: Pedro Lebrón, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Cimarronería y libertad en Latinoamérica: un análisis filosófico
Kadiri Vaquer Fernández, Vanderbilt University
Provocaciones políticas: La insurrección de Calle 13 y Miguel Piñero
Henry Wallice Charles and Madgerie Jameson-Charles, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Calling Rastafari: The forgotten voice in the Caribbean youth movement
I5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Revisiting the Caribbean Thought
Chair: Sayan Bhattacharyya, University of Pennsylvania
Revolution and race in C.L.R. James’s writing with text analysis tools
April Louis, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
An Integrative Analysis of Emancipatory Thought in the Caribbean
Maurice St. Pierre, Morgan State University, Retired
Caribbean Intellectuals: Towards a Theoretical Understanding
Matthew Allen, University of Warwick
Anténor Firmin: networks of opposition and the hemispheric tradition
Merve Fejzula, University of Cambridge
Madame Jean Price-Mars: Negritude and its Unknown “Woman of Culture”
I6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Thinking the Caribbean Education
Chair: Margaret (Maggie) Shrimpton Masson, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Defining the Caribbean through Teaching in the Mainland Caribbean
Jerome Branche, University of Pittsburgh
Ground(n)ation Education: Brathwaite, Rodney, and the Alter(N)ative
Tavis D. Jules, Loyola University, Chicago
Educational Regionalism in the age of Postnationalism
Elvira Abrica, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Post-Racial Contract in Education
I7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
El Caribe desde la literatura
Chair: Marilyn Rivera, BMCC
Poesía, masculinidades y la construcción genérica en Puerto Rico
Jennifer Donahue, University of Arizona
No Trespassing: Bodies and Beaches for Sale in Caribbean Literature
Maria I Tamargo, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico
Dos cuentos puertorriqueños: historia, discurso y ventriloquia
Maria Giulianna Zambrano, USFQ-Ecuador
Elizam Escobar: la mirada emancipatoria desde la celda
Amanda Fleites, Tulane University
La identidad diaspórica en dos novelas de Edwidge Danticat e Ibi Zoboi
I8- Prmavera, Habana Libre
Philosophies and Ecopoetics
Chair: Keja Valens, Salem State University
Decolonial Ecopoetics and human animals in the Caribbean environment
Rhyesa Joseph, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Emancipation and Indigenous Philosophy: An Investigation of Koudmen
Tohru Nakamura, University of the West Indies
“Conscience in Time and Being”: Chronopolitics in Wilson Harris
Russell McDougall, University of New England and Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong
Emancipatory Relations: Refiguring the Human
- 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
J1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Cultura y Desarrollo en el Caribe desde las industrias culturales
Chair: Milagros Martinez Reinosa, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba/Universidad de La Habana, Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe Norman Girvan
Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez, University of the West Indies, Institute of International Relations
Industrias culturales en el Caribe: oportunidades para el desarrollo
Antonio Herrada Hidalgo, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Programa Cuba
Cartografías culturales: localizando coordenadas para el desarrollo cultural y la integración en el Caribe
Jorge Alfredo Carballo Concepción, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Programa Cuba
La relación Cultura-Economía en la Cuba contemporánea
Juana Tania García Lorenzo, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba
Industrias creativas y desarrollo cultural en Cuba: condicionamientos recíprocos
J2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Investigaciones académicas sobre cultura caribeña
Chair: Kirenia Rodríguez Puerto, Universidad de La Habana
La fotografía artística en el Caribe hispano insular
Thalía Díaz Vieta, Universidad de La Habana
Espacio, tiempo y lenguaje de la memoria en la obra de Gloria Rolando
Sindy Martínez Lemes, Universidad de La Habana
Instalaciones de arte en el caribe: retos de producción y circulación
Ariel Camejo Vento, Universidad de La Habana
Por un pensamiento “archipiélago”. Nuevas epistemologías para entender el Caribe y su(s) cultura(s)
Haydée Arango, Universidad de La Habana
Pensar y narrar la historia caribeña: la propuesta de Antonio Benítez Rojo
J3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Digital activism and media
Chair: Danielle Roper , The University of Chicago
The Role of the Digital in Feminist Activism in the Caribbean
Traci-Ann Wint, University of Texas at Austin
#Rape&Respectability: The Digital in Caribbean Feminist Activism
Sarah Lauro, University of Tampa
Performing Slavery and Resistance in Digital media
J4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Literatures and Caribbean realities
Chair: Miranda Campbell
A Dying Trinidadian Culture in Stewart’s “The Old Men Used to Dance”
Nicole Fadellin
Infraestructura y crisis en la literatura contemporánea de Puerto Rico
Normelia Parise, Université Paris 8
La chapelle ardente: l’âgon de Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Jaime Hanneken, University of Minnesota
La naturaleza lezamiana y la lógica de extracción
Ramírez Gröbli, University of Bern
Cosmografías inéditas en la poesía y la literatura caribeñas
J5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Interrogating the Caribbean Moving Image Industry
Chair: David Soutar, Caribbean School of Media and Communication/University of the West Indies, Mona
Policy, Promise and Perils: Towards a Jamaican Animation Industry
Alpha Obika, Caribbean School of Media and Communication/University of the West Indies, Mona
Chutney Bacchanal: The Impact of Bollywood on popular culture in Trinidad and Tobago
Raeann Smith, Caribbean School of Media and Communication/University of the West Indies, Mona
Toward a Caribbean Aesthetic: A Filmmaker’s Singular Experience–Through the lens of Franklyn St. Juste
Yvette Rowe, Caribbean School of Media and Communication/University of the West Indies, Mona
Rewind-Reimagine: Media technology and local TV production in Jamaica
J6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Fundadores del Grupo Nuevo Mundo
Chair: Graciela Chailloux-Laffita, Universidad de La Habana
Kari Polanyi-Levitt, McGuill University, Emeritus Professor
The Role of Montreal in the New World Movement
James Millette, Oberlin College, Emeritus Professor
J7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Twenty-first century reflections on Caribbean development
Chair: Dalea Bean, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office
Opal Palmer-Adisa, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office
Telling Someone Else’s Story: My Haiti Project
Lauren Marsh, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office
The Impact of Social Media Usage on Employee Performance in Jamaica
Beverly Josephs, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office
Brand Jamaica-Gender & Identity in a sample of Tourism Ads
J8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Here and Elsewhere: Global Circulations of Caribbean Emancipatory Thought
Chair: Carole Boyce Davis, Cornell University
Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn, Yale University
Counterinsurgent Masquerade: Israel in the Caribbean
Shamara Alhassan, Brown University
Simone Stewart, Johns Hopkins University
A Jew Under the Tricolored Flag and the Marseillaise in Reggae: Serge Gainsbourg and the Negotiation of “Difference” Between Jamaica, Israel, and Africa in Late 1970s France
Zifeng Liu, Cornell University
Confronting the Bomb: Claudia Jones, Antinuclearism, and Afro-Asian Solidarity
Agata Joanna Lagiewka, National University of Ireland
Ruth Behar: An Island Called Home-Jewish Memory in Cuba
J9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Embodied Subjects: Historical Hauntings, Memory, & Melancholy
Chair: Simone Alexander, Seton Hall University
Daphne Lamothe, Smith College
From Zong to After the Dance
Asligul Berktay, New York University Shanghai
Postcolonial Hauntings: Ghostly Presence in Caribbean Women’s Writing
J10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Global education and vocational training
Chair: Hossana Solomon, University of the Virgin Islands
Lonely Continental Traveler and Observer from ‘Zion’ to ‘Babylon’
Nadia Grant-Reid, and Nekeisha O. Spencer, University of the West Indies
Effect of Vocational Training on Employment and Wage Premium
Everton Ellis, University of Toronto
Unintended consequences of global education agendas in rural Jamaica
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
JJ1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Plenary session: Education for social and cultural transformation in praxis: Caribbean realities
Chair: Meagan Sylvester, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
David Hinds, Arizona State University
Caribbean Popular Music as Political Expression
Chenzira Davis Kahina, Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center (VICCC)/
University of the Virgin Islands
Ay Ay VI Caribbean Creative Industries: Bamboula Infusions in Contemporary CHE
JJ2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Model Economies
Chair: Ryan Jobson, Chicago University
Downstream Citizenship: The Trinidad and Tobago Model and its Malcontents
Christien Tompkins, UCLA
Modeling Reconstruction: Post-Katrina New Orleans and Puerto Rico
Louis Romer, Vassar College
The discursive construction of political futures in Curaçao
Adriana Garriga-Lopez, Kalamazoo College
No se puede comer aire: Resistencia agroecológica en Puerto Rico
JJ3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Le territoire caribéen au temps du néolibéralisme
Chair: Georges Eddy Lucien, École Normale Superieure (Port-au-Prince), Université d’État d’Haïti
Le Nord-est d’Haïti, un territoire identifié, référencé et instrumentalisé
Walner Osna, Université d’État d’Haïti
Jean Bernard Louis, Université d’État d’Haïti
Rebeca Cadeau, Université Paris 8
JJ4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Climatic justice and the capitalism of disaster
Chair: Kevon Rhiney, Rutgers University
Climate as existential threat? Global imperialism, justice & hegemony
Rick Mitchell, California State University, Northridge
Caribbean Hurricanes: In Myth, History, and Contemporary Puerto Rico
Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Climate Justice, Disaster Capitalism, and the Selling of Barbuda
JJ5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Literature, transnacionalism and creolité
Chair: Maggie Desgranges, Stony Brook University
Caribbean Connections: Creolité, Communauté and Condé
Camille Banks, Daley College/City Colleges of Chicago
The ‘Healer:’ A Literary Balm for Diasporic African People
Elizabeth Russ, Southern Methodist University
Aída Cartagena Portalatín’s Evolving Transnationalism ,
Njeri Githire, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Cuban Imprint on Africa’s Political Landscape: A Literary Perspective
Marlisha Marcellin, Indiana University
Challenging Haiti’s One-Story Narrative in Danticat’s BID and CD
JJ6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Teorizing in-Relation
Chair: Rhonda Cobham, Amherst College
Rero(o/u)ting the Rhizome: Theorizing Relationality in Caribbean Lit
Iona Wynter Parks, Oglethorpe University
Derek Walcott and Patrick Chamoiseau: An Interlanguage of Becoming
Jean Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reconciliation in Relation: Glissant and Adorno
Kerstin Schmidt, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Édouard Glissant’s Emancipatory Poetics of Relation in Film
JJ7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Thinking the Caribbean independence and sovereignty
Chair: Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Gettysburg College
Nationality as Ruse: Uniting the Margins toward a Culture of Peace
Hadiya Sewer, Brown University
Colonialism & the Search for Ontological Sovereignty
Carlyle G. Corbin, The Dependency Studies Project
Colonial Reform or Genuine Decolonisation of Caribbean Dependencies?
JJ8-K-8 Primavera, Habana Libre
Performing
JJ9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Poetry and representation
Chair: Lydie Moudileno, University of Southern California
Poetry as Emancipatory Practice: Monchoachi’s Caribbean Ecopoetics
Adam Edelman, University of Illinois at Chicago
A Poetics of “Dwelling”: Atopic Spatiality in Cesaire’s “Dwelling I” ,
Stéphane Martelly, COHDS-Concordia University
L’incertaine trace. Représentations vodou chez Frankétienne et Deren
Andrew Kendall
The Female Body in Lorna Goodison Poetry
- 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
K1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
La Hispaniola: tensiones, relaciones y resistencias
Chair: Delia Blanco, FUNGLODE
La haitianidad y la dominicanidad, complejidades de dos identidades
Mariana Past, Dickinson College
La Hispaniola: tensiones fronterizas y culturales
Christina Desert, Harvard
Pour Faire Echo à l’Indicible: Violence et Resistance en Haïti
Crystal Felima, University of Florida
Digital Humanities and Social Justice Pedagogy in Haitian Studies
K2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Machel Montano: Power, Performance and Soca Music
Chair: Sue-Ann Barratt, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
- Fadeke Castor, Texas A&M University
Holivay: Buss Head, Soca, and the Performance of Social Change
Alpha Obika, University of the West Indies, Mona
Take me back to Africa: Machel Montano and the Search for identity in Song
Agostinho Pinnock, University of the West Indies, Mona
“I Come Out to Live Mi Life…!”: Carnival, Trinidadian National Identity and the Politics of Escapism in Machel Montano’s Work
Kai Barrat, University of Technology, Jamaica
Monke Monté: Social Media and the Machel Montano Brand
K3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
From resilience to decolonial attitude: Resisting coloniality of power in post María’s Puerto Rico
Chair: Luis Beltrán- Álvarez, University of Connecticut
Stephanie Mercado-Irizarry, University of Connecticut
Narratives and decolonial resistance in Puerto Rico’s hurricane crisis
Shariana Ferrer-Nuñez, Purdue University
Juan Dávila, University of California
Katsí Rodríguez Velázquez, Brown University
K4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Historias del Saqueo en el Caribe Occidental: Miradas Decoloniales
Chair: Catalina Toro Perez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia/Grupo de Trabajo Ecología Política CLACSO
Antonio Ortega Santos y Chiara Olvieri, Universidad de Granada
Aprendido desde el saqueo. Miradas decoloniales a la historia ambiental de Baja California sur (México) siglos XVIII-XX
Mina Kleiche-Dray, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Paris V Descartes
Généalogies intellectuelles et globalisation des savoirs depuis les Caraïbes
Ginneth Pulido Gómez, Universidade de São Paulo
Geopolítica y petróleo en el mar caribe: la tensión entre Colombia y Nicaragua Niyireth Fernanda Gutiérrez Montenegro, Candidata a Magíster en Estudios Políticos-Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Pensamiento emancipatorio en el Caribe colombiano: Territorialidad y cultura de la paz en la región
Aida Sofia Rivera Sotelo, University of California
Conservación de corales: cultivo, dragado y pesca artesanal en Colombia
K5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Expresiones del pensamiento emancipador
Chair: Neris Rodríguez Matos, Universidad de Oriente
Temprano pensamiento integracionista de Fidel Castro
Juan Pablo Carrillo Ramos, Asociación Cultural José Martí
Las raíces republicanas del anticolonialismo de Eugenio María de Hostos
Laneydi Martínez Alfonso, Universidad de La Habana
Economía política caribeña: revisitando George Beckford hoy
Mariel Chagoya, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Subdesarrollo y dependencia en las obras de W. Rodney y N. Girvan
K6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Literacy, Education, Social Justice Pedagogy and the Transformative Power of Education
Chair: Isabel Espinal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Transnational Social Justice Literary/Library Projects
Carol Bailey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
On Your Marks: Literary Studies as the Starting Points for Community Engagement
Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
Service Learning and Social Justice via an Undergraduate Conference
Amorella Lamount, College of Agriculture, Science and Education
Action Research in Literary Education: Social Justice Interventions
K7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Education, Identity, and Suicide Risk in Guyana
Chair: Maria De Jesus, American University
David Williams, Harvard University
Ethnic differences in suicide ideation and attempts in Guyana
OnishaEtkins, Harvard University
Gender differences in suicide ideation and attempts in Guyana
Colwik Wilson, Oakwood University
Education and Suicide Risk in Guyana
K8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Performing arts
K9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
What happened in the British Atlantic?
Chair: Onur Alptekin, Koc University
Emmanuel Appadocca: Blighted Life Be Lighted
Michael Dickinson, Virginia Commonwealth University
A Feast of Grief: Captive Lives in the Urban Atlantic
Brenna Casey, Duke University
Sui Sin Far’s Interracial Solidarities
- 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
L1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
El proceso de construcción de la imagen del Caribe en la obra de Alejo Carpentier
Chair: Marilé Ruiz Prado, Universidad de La Habana/Fundación Alejo Carpentier
Mitología de los orígenes: el Caribe en un guión inédito para ópera
Analay Medero Álvarez, Fundación Alejo Carpentier
El Caribe en la poesía de Alejo Carpentier
Armando Raggi, Fundación Alejo Carpentier
Visión de Haití en El clan disperso, un proyecto de novela
Yuri Rodríguez González, Fundación Alejo Carpentier
La imagen del Caribe en crónicas de Alejo Carpentier
Rafael Rodríguez Beltrán, Fundación Alejo Carpentier
El discurso descolonizador en Concierto barroco
L2- 1, M2-1, Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Literary Saloon
Chair: Haydee Arango Milián, Universidad de La Habana
Enjuiciando el oficio de escritora/diálogo performance
Aurora Arias, Escritora y fotógrafa amateur
Zaida Corniel, Stony Brook University
Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks
Zahra Gordon, Individual/Poet
The Countries between Us
Cathy Thomas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Burnt Shugar
Karin Lachmising, Independent Writer
Theatre Play ‘Breathing’, about Women Rights
Stéphane Martelly, Concordia University, Theatre Department
L3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Working Group Meeting
Masculinities
L4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
GT CLACSO Afrodescendencia, racismo y resistencias en el Caribe
Chair: Elissa Lister, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín
Década de 1990 en La Española: el racismo contra el liderazgo alternativo negro
Simone Rodrigues Pinto, Universidade de Brasília
Categorías raciales en la socio-historia de Brasil y de la República Dominicana
Zuleica Romay, Casa de las Américas
Aquí no los queremos porque… las coartadas antiinmigrantes en el Caribe
Catherine Bourgeois, Université Libre de Bruxelles
La nacionalidad para existir y moverse: implicaciones en la frontera dominicana
Bridget Wooding, OBMICA
Interrogando temas de migración forzada en la frontera dominico-haitiana
L5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Sub-cultures, Popular Music and Social Change. Responses from below
Chair: Meagan Sylvester, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Unpacking the anguage in use of Calypso and Soca using a Gender Perspective
Jade Nixon, The University of Toronto
We Jammin’ Sgill: Meditations on Black Noise and Black Joy in Toronto’s Caribbean Caribana Festival
Alexandra P. Gelbard, Michigan State University
“The Streets” and the Socio-Interactive Musical Experience in Santiago de Cuba: From Cabildo Processionals to Conga
David Hinds, The University of Arizona
The Calypso as Political History
L6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Workshop
Decolonizing the Caribbean History Classroom: Transnational Dialogues
Facilitators: Koni Benson, University of the Western Cape
Ponni Arasu, Universityof Toronto
L7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Landscape Interrupted: Photography, Black Bodies & Aesthetics of Space
Chair: Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Princeton University
Neither Travelers nor Tourists: Ingrid Pollard and the Aesthetics of Interruption
Grace Aneiza Ali
Reclaiming Space
Andil Gosine
Cane Portraiture performance
Nalini Mohabir
Deathscapes and Shadow Worlds in Caribbean Portraiture
L8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Pensadores críticos y “núcleos problémicos” del mundo insular
Critical thinkers and nodal problems in the insular world
Chair: Félix Valdés García, Instituto de Filosofía
Simone Rodrigues Pinto, Universidade de Brasília
Pâmela Marconatto Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Ana Catarina Zema de Resende, Universidade de Brasília
Aristinete Bernardes Oliveira Neto, Doctorante del Departamento de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Brasilia
L9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
El trabajo de salud pública de Ana Livia Cordero en Puerto Rico y Cuba
Chair: Sandy Plácido, Oberlin College
Nelly Rosario, Williams College
Camilo Romero, ReGeneración Colombia
L10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
The appropriations and new ways to unlearning and relearning
Chair: Sofia Aatkar, Nottingham Trent University
Unlearning and Relearning: Counter-mapping in Caribbean Travelogues
Arianne Richardson, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Graduate Student
Junkanoo Carnival as an Appropriation of Bahamian Junkanoo
Hannah Rogers, University of Chicago
Narrating Caribbeanness at a Jazz and Heritage Festival
- 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
M1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
El legado de Fidel Castro en el Gran Caribe
Chair: Milagros Martínez Reinosa, Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe “Norman Girvan”
Alberto Prieto, Universidad de La Habana
Fidel Castro y el Gran Caribe
Luis Suárez, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba
Fiedel Castro en Nuestra América: el internacionalimso anónimo
Jacqueline Laguardia Martínez, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies
La cooperación entre Cuba y el Caribe como ejemplo de cooperación Sur-Sur: el caso de la Asociación de Estados del Caribe
Hassan Pérez Casabona, Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos sobre Estados Unidos
La relación deportiva entre Cuba y el Caribe: expresión del pensamiento solidario de Fidel
Nancy Morejón, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba/Casa de las Américas
Impronta de Fidel en las relaciones culturales de Cuba y el Caribe
M3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Reclaiming Artistic Representations of Caribbean Identity
Chair: Johelys Urena, Bridgewater State University
Celia Cruz and Social Diversity
Amaryllis Lopez, Bridgewater State University
Poetry: the Language of Resistance
Monique Sheppard, Bridgewater State University
The Rhythm of Recuperation
Eustace Walker, Bridgewater State University
Re-appropriating the Photographic Narrative of Black Identity
M4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Revisiter et refonder la pensée émancipatrice dans la Caraïbe
Chair: Joris Sylvie, Université des Antilles
Sainte-Croix Rauzduel, Université des Antilles
Frantz Fanon: Une penséeoubliée
Sarah Haughn, University of California, Davis
Thinking Dereliction in the Time of Pedagogy with Fanon and Brand
Natalie Melas, Cornell University
Fanon’s Césaire
Julien Mérion, Université des Antilles
Penser la Libération sans Nation
Fred Renó, Université des Antilles
L’ignorance partagée obstacle à la construction de la Caraïbe
M5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Public Intellectual Work: Challenges of Newspaper Columnists
Chair: Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto
Decentring the Newspaper Columnist: Feminist Perspectives
Carolyn Cooper, University of the West Indies, Mona
Handing Down Opinions: Newspaper Columnists as ‘Public Intellectuals’ in the Caribbean
Tennyson Joseph, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Gabrielle Hosein, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Decolonising Caribbean Feminist Thought
Schuyler K. Esprit, Dominica State College
Sanne Rotmeijer (rotmeijer@kitlv.nl ), Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
News beyond Journalism in Caribbean Island Communities
M6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Rethinking the borders between critical and applied: NGOs and social movements
Chair: Mamyrah Prosper (mamyrahp@gmail.com), City University of New York
Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house?
Mark Schuller, Northern Illinois University
From Haiti to Cuba: NGO’s as contrapunteo
Nixon Boumba, American Jewish World Services
Les ONG entre la solidarité et la charité burgeoise
M7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Small islands? Ways to grow up
Chair: Katsyris Rivera-Kientz, Umass Boston
Distance means so little when my island means so much
Lia Bascomb, Georgia State University
Barbadian Royalty, Independence, and Celebration
Miguel Goede
Curaçao: Smart Nation for Dummies from Smart city to Sage society
Ayanna Frederick
The impact of entrepreneurship on well-being in Trinidad and Tobago
M8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Music, arts and memory through integration in educational practices
Chair: Winston Benons Jr., Brooklyn Friends School
Educating Art: Integration of Arts as an Academic Modality
Colin Harte, New York City Department of Education
Drumbeats in the Boogie Down Bronx: Ethnomusicology in the Classroom
Lisa Betty, Fordham University
Afro-Latin Soul from Jazz to Hip Hop
Njelle Hamilton, University of Virginia
Phonographic Memories: Music & Cubanía in Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings
M9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Memorias y legado de la esclavitud: entre el discurso y lo contemporáneo
Chair: Francis Agbemade, Universidad de Arizona
La contradicción entre esclavitud y ciudadanía en Sab de la Avellaneda
Alejandra Carreño Calderon y Andrea Fredddi, Liceo Cientifico M. Canela Lázaro
Esclavos y migrantes: Imaginarios juveniles y alteridad en el Caribe
Kimberley McKinson
Race and the Geo-Politics of Policing in the Caribbean and America
Horace Bartilow
Private Security and Repression in Latin America and the Caribbean
M10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Tourism: a challenge for Caribbean territories
Chair: Evelyn Callaghan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Travel Writing, Tourism and the Archive
Kathryn Grant
Gringolandia: Expat integration in tourist area vs. inland in México
Kent Mathewson, Department of Geography & Anthropology
Afro-Caribbean Cultural Historical Contexts of the Castor Plant
Tiffany Gill, University of Delaware
Guide to the Tropics: African American Leisure Travel to the Caribbean
- 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
N1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
Chair: Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Education under Occupation: Palestine, Pedagogies of Resistance, and the Indivisibility of Justice
Mamyrah Prosper, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Occupations in Haiti and Palestine: Empire-making across time and space
Jaime Veve, Transport Workers Union, Local 100, Retired
Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Resistance from Puerto Rico to Palestine
Nanea Ranteria, San Francisco State Univesity
Rooted pedagogies: Land, Indigeneity, and Ocupation at San Francisco State University
Enrico Doan, University of Washington
Surveillance, Censorship, and Punishment: Selective Free Speech and the Suppresion of Palestine on University Campuses
Saliem Shehadeh, University of California-Los Ángeles
Anti-Colonial Knowledge, General Union of Palestin Students and Palestinian Diasporic Praxis
N2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Interrogating the State of Caribbean Politics, Democracy and Governance
Chair: David Hinds, Arizona State University
The Caribbean Contradiction and the decline of Caribbean Independence
Wendy Grenade, University of the West Indies
An Assessment of Political Leadership and Caribbean Regionalism
Tennyson Joseph, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Maziki Thame, Clark Atlanta University
Karen Sanderson Cole, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The Heart of a Nation, Leading Tobagonians: A. Robinson and K. Rowley
N3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Cuba, U.S. Black Radicalism, and Transnational Emancipatory Thought
Chair: Winston James, University of California, Irvine
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College
Embodying the Tricontinental: Shirley Graham DuBois, Vicki Garvin, and “Third World” Black Radicalism in the 1960’s
Teishan Latner, Thomas Jefferson University
The Socialist Palenque: U.S. Political Exiles in Cuba from the Tricontinental era to the War on Terror
Henry Louis Taylor, State University of New York, Buffalo
Nehanda Isoke Abiodun: Fugitive from Justice or Political Refugee?
N4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Art and Resistance in the Contemporary Guyanese Diaspora (4)
Chair: Natalie Hopkinson, Howard University
Bernadette Persaud
Ruel Johnson
Grace Aneiza Ali
N5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Media, disaster videos and decolonial process
Chair: Yarí Elisa Cruz Ríos, IU Bloomington
“Pirtirriquisilivinti”: Decolonization through Participatory Culture after Hurricane María
Vivian Halloran, Indiana University Bloomington
@ChefVentura leading a Sustainable Food Revolution in PR
Eric Strobl, University of Bern
Cross-Country Hurricane Insurance in the Caribbean: A Fool’s Gold?
Gretchen O’Dell, Colorado State University
How (Not) To Help: Representing Caribbean peoples in disaster aid videos
N6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Performance of languages and literatures: teaching the Caribbean diversity
Chair: Anne V. Adams, Cornell University/State University of New York, Cortland
Pan-African Fiction as Performance
Bernard Delpeche, Acadia University
Creolization and Bilingualism within the Caribbean Identities
Isis Semaj-Hall, University of the West Indies, Mona
‘Jane Irie’ and ‘Wild Thoughts’: Teaching Brontë and Rhys in Jamaica
N7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Retos, desafíos y educación patrimonial en el Museo Casa de África
Chair: Inaury Portuondo, Museo Casa de África
Alberto Granado, Museo Casa de África
Adriana Pérez, Museo Casa de África
Julia C. Amorós, Escuela Primaria Ángela Landa
N8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Dismantling the Master’s House: Caribbean Feminist Radical Pedagogies
Chair: Tao Leigh Goffe, New York University
Sonya Posmentier, New York University
Of Generations and Survival: Audre Lorde’s Black Feminist Pedagogy
Laurie Lambert, Fordham University
8:00 p.m. Noche cubana/ Cuban night / Nuitcubaine
Teatro Mella (Línea entre A y B, Vedado/Línea between A and B/Línea entre A et B)
Jueves/Thursday/Jeudi. Junio,June/Juin 7
8:00 a.m. Registro/Registration / Inscription
Secretariado/Secretariat/Secrétariat
10:00-6:00 p.m. Feria del libro “El Caribe enedicionescubanas”/Book Fair “The Caribbean in Cuban editions” /Foire du livre “Les Caraïbes dans les éditions cubaines.
Biblioteca Central de la Universidad de La Habana/ Central Library of the University of Havana/ Bibliothèque centrale de l’Université de La Havane
3:00 p.m. Muestra de cine del Caribe/Caribbean movie show/Cinéma des Caraïbes/
Cine Infanta/ Cinema Infanta/Cinema Infanta/ (Infanta entre San Miguel et Neptuno/ Infanta between San Miguel and Neptuno/ /Infanta entre San Miguel y Neptuno)
Sesiones /Sessions/Sessions
- 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
O1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Emancipatory art and cultural practices as decolonisation
Chair: Clinton Hutton, University of the West Indies
LeRoy Clarke & Manuel Mendive’s Art, an Episteme of Decolonisation
Alexander Alberro, Columbia University, Barnard College
Wifredo Lam’s El Tercer Mundo and the Tricontinental Movement
Arnaldo James, I Am One
I Am One, They so, they a artist
Sonja Gandert, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Tattooing, Seriality, and Emancipation in Puerto Rican Art
Fernando Pichardo Ríos, Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México
El cuerpo reprimido de Carlos Martiel: nueva performatividad cubana
O2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Women on Fire: Transcending the Historical Effects of Trauma
Chair: Karen Watkins, Georgia State University
Understanding the Effects of Trauma on Physical and Behavioral Health
Valerie Quarles, Walden University
Historical Trauma, Gender, and Criminality
Carol Collard, Kennesaw State University
Intersectionality of Chronic Poverty and Trauma
Kathy Goodridge-Purnell, Walden University
Identifying the Manifestations of Trauma
Camille Huggins, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Implications for Building Resiliency among Afro-Caribbean and African American
Women
O3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Race, gender and fight agaisnt the human trafficking
Chair: Audra Diptee
Radical Caribbean Thought & 21st Century Human Trafficking Discourses
Gabriela Godinez
Colorism and Opression among Latina Women in the United States
Nicole Cameron
Increasing bystander behaviors with media: Future Directions
O4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
La Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba por la preservación de la memoria histórica del Caribe
Chair: Vilma Ponce
Osdiel Ramírez, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Cuba
Mabiel Hidalgo, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Cuba
Hilda Pérez Souza, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Cuba
Vilma Ponce, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Cuba
O5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Archiving the Archipelago
Chair: Cathy Thomas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sophie Pappenheim, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Body as Archival Assemblage in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal
Ruth McHugh-Dillon, University of Melbourne
O6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Slavery, Literature and Pedagogies: Social Justice
Chair: Patrick Taylor, York University
Whiteness, Life Writing and Emancipation from Mental Slavery
Christine Chivallon, National Center of Scientific Research
Narrating memories of slavery: the case of Martinique
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Denis
Writing in Writing Out: Some Notes on Caribbean literary Recompositions
Marie Larose, Brown University
The Mis-Education of Claire: epidermalization in Chauvet’s Love
O7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Visibility and Agency: decolonizing knowledges
Chair: Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette, Université des Antilles-LC2S
Marronner Par l’Amour: Réparations et Education
Camila Belliard Quiroga, Rutgers University
Decolonial ways of healing as resistance and agency from the Caribbean
Kwakiutl Dreher, University of Nebraska
The Quest for Spiritual Reconciliation in When Rocks Dance
O8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Black Performance, Gender and Transnational Emancipatory Thought
Chair: Nicosia Shakes, The College of Wooster
Honor Ford-Smith, York University
The queer, urban marronage of d’bi young anitafrika
Camille Turner, York University
Afrofuturist Performance as Emancipatory Ontology
- 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
P1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Body Maneuvers: Radical Shifts in Caribbean Transnational Identities
Chair: Dasha Chapman, Hampshire College
Body Maneuvers: Radical Shifts in Caribbean Transnational Identities
Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois-Chicago
The Politics of Queerness and Tolerance at a Haitian Vodou Ceremony
Georgy Lundy, Independent Author/Journalist Espace FM
L’arc en ciel endeuillé: un récit de manoeuvres homosexuels en Haiti
Adanna Jones, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Show Meh Yuh Worst Behavior!: Playing Savage as a Strategy for Freedom
Yon Tande, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
The Body of Essence: A Phenomenological and Ontological Path
P2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
My body My politics: Exploring body image & health in sex. min. women
Chair: Karen Naidoo, York University
Lipstick & heels are NOT my only politics: investigating how the state sexually inscribes the woman’s minoritized body
Nastassia Rambarran
Telling their stories for the first time: Presenting the methodological approach and results of the first qualitative study on body image in Barbadian sexual minority women
Skye Maule-O’Brien, York University
I’ll tell you what I like: Erotic agency as colonial resistance
Raiza Khan, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
I am not your baby!: Social & psychological constructs of LB women
P3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Boundary Crossings: Afro-Caribbean Women and Transnational Feminism
Chair: Adanna Jones, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Channon S. Miller, University of San Diego
Nneka D. Dennie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jallicia Jolly, University of Michigan
P4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Centro de Estudios del Caribe: Gestión cultural y educación
Chair: Camila Valdés, Casa de las Américas
Archivos y gestión de la memoria: los fondos del CEC
Haydee Arango Milián, Universidad de La Habana
La gestión editorial del CEC: historia y proyección
Gabriela Ramos Ruiz, Universidad de La Habana
El arte para sentir, para educar, para crecer
Kirenia Rodríguez Puerto, Universidad de La Habana
Arte y educación desde la gestión del Centro de Estudios del Caribe
Flavia Valladares Más, Universidad de La Habana
El arte caribeño en las investigaciones de la Universidad de La Habana
P5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Gender equality in the Caribbean–global framework regional realities
Chair: Susanne Zwingel, Florida International University
Caribbean states’ engagement with global gender equality norms
Marion Bethel, Independent
CEDAW in The Bahamas
Melissa Boissiere, Florida International University
Gender Based Violence: Culture and Contradictions
Tamanisha John, Florida International University
Understanding Gendered Economic Inequalities in Caribbean States
P6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Territorialidad y Justicia Ambiental en el Archipiélago de San Andrés, Porvidencia y SantaCatlina
Chair: Fady Ortiz Roca, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe
El pueblo Raizal del Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Colombia-Caribe Occidental: Hacia un Estatuto Autonómico de protección
Carolina Velásquez Calderón, University of Delaware, Disaster Research Center
Water justice in small islands: The case of San Andres Island, Colombian Caribbean
Luciana de Souza Ramos, Facultade de Direito da UNB
Orum e Aiyê: territórios de luta, (re)construção da justiça e construção de uma epistemologia jurídica da ancestralidade: Estudo sobre a dimensão político-jurídica dos processos de resistência e luta por direitos de comunidades negras no Brasil e Colômbia
Graybern Livingston Forbes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Movilizaciones y Resistencias por el maritorio y el territorio del pueblo raizal 1953-2016
Aixa Tatiana Cordero Romero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Fetichismo legal en San Andrés Providencia y Santa Catalina
P7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Decolonizing Exchanges between Cuba & U.S.: FLACSO-Dominican U. Model
Chair: Elena Díaz, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Cuba/Universidad de la Habana
Gil Cook, Dominican University
Gema Ortega, Dominican University
Christina Pérez, Dominican University
P8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Sacred Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Dance, and Ritual Arts
Chair: Kyrah M. Daniels, Boston College
Healing Arts & Ritual Forests: the Art of María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Marie Maude Evans, Sosyete Nago
Dance, Divination, and Dreams as Sacred Knowledge
Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire, Afrik Ayiti Project
Sacred Connections of Haitian Dance: Global Expressions of Negritude
P9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Exchanges, internationalization and partnership in education
Monique Pierre, Spelman College and Marie Léticée, University of Central Florida
Cultural exchanges as emancipatory practices
Edna Cruz, Universidade Estadual da Região Tocantina do Maranhão-UEMASUL
The internationalization of Brazilian education
Keisha Lynne Ellis, Independent
Social Transformation through Intellectual Access to Information
Aura Jirau Arroyo, University of Pittsburgh
General Education at the University of Puerto Rico (1942-1966)
P10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Mobilidad y Estrategias Anti-Hegemónicas de Rrepresentación Caribeñas
Andrea Morris, Louisiana State University
Im/mobility and Anti-Hegemonic Strategies in Contemporary Culture
Ana Liberato, University of Kentucky
Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex
Cristo Rey (2013) and the representation of diversity in Dominican Republic
Danielle Boaz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dreadlocks and Discrimination: Rastafari Students in Africa
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
PP1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Plenary session: Decolonizing and reshaping Sexual Diversity and LGBTI discourses in the Caribbean
Chair: Angelique V. Nixon
Kamala Kempadoo, York University
Jafari Allen, University of Miami
Mario Lamothe, University of Illinois
Mariela Castro, CENESEX
Jacqui Alexander, Emerita, University of Toronto
PP2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Emancipation and Reparations in the Caribbean
Chair: Tyesha Maddox, Fordham University
Political Significance of Friendly Societies Post Emancipation
Chevy Eugene
The Radical Creative Imagination: Towards Caribbean Reparations
Jose Atiles
CARICOM Mobilisation for Decolonial Justice and Reparations
- Adlai Murdoch
The Globalized Caribbean: Emancipation Myth vs. Neoliberal Reality
PP3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Poscolonial theory and emancipation in the Caribbean
Chair: Maria Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltrán, Rutgers University
Religion, Incest, and Decolonial Love in Land of Love and Drowning
Mary Reading
History through Emancipation: Fiction & Biography through Jean Rhys
Michael Grafals
Iris M. Zavala and Subjectivization in Postcolonial Caribbean Theory
PP4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Disable people in the Caribbean
Chair: Paul Van Trigt
Emancipation of disabled people in the Dutch Caribbean since the 1970’s
Zachary Morris
Climate risk for people with disabilities in the Caribbean
Anna Hayward
Yamirelis Oteri
PP5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
A posible road for Haiti: resistence and reconstruction
Chair: Nakita Joseph
Deconstructing white supremacy in Haiti: beyond “republic of NGOs”
Victoria Koski-Karell
Making Water in Haiti: Relations of resistance and contradiction
Louis-Marc PIERRE
La vulnérabilité de Port-au-Prince et de Cap-Haitien vue à travers la reconstruction d`Haïti
PP6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Creating curricula for medical education and nursing programs in Haiti
Chair: Mary Clisbee
Sterman Toussaint
Donaldson Conserve
Michelle Morse
Marc Julmisse
PP7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Youth Acces to the Work and the Justice in the Caribbean
Chair: Corin Bailey, University of the West Indies
Predicting delinquency among Caribbean youth
Keisha April, Drexel University
The changing face of juvenile justice in the Caribbean
Anthony Briggs, University of Toronto/ OISE
A Counter narrative on Black Male Youth Responses to Work Pathways
Nigel Brisset, Clark University
Emigration and Education in the Knowledge Ecomomy
Winnifred Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey
Embodied Subjects: Historical Hauntings, Memory, and Melancholy
PP8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Visual Art
PP9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
From access to education to the classroom, what and how is it taught?
Chair: Aris Clemons, Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Creating Bridges: Afro-Caribbean discourses in a U.S High School
- Cristine Arce, University of Miami
We didn’t know”: Race and Radical Pedagogy in US Caribbean Classroom
Rosa Chávez and Greses A. Perez, Stanford University
Access to Science, Engineering and Mathematics for Haitian-Dominicans
- 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Q1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Bodies, Sexualities and Human Rights
Chair: Angelina Tallaj, City University of New York
Reading the Queer and the Black in Dominican Popular Music
Kerry White, University of Florida
OREMI’s Hope: Black/Lesbian Emancipatory Politics in a Precarious Cuba
Malika Imhotep, University of California, Berkeley
‘Atlantic Is A Sea of Bones’ Black Diasporic Femmeinism & (Re)membrance
Leo Wilton, Binghamton University
Theorizing Black Queer Sexualities Research, HIV, and Human Rights
Q2- Embajadores1, Habana Libre
Arts Education as a Tool for Decolonization
Chair: Genevieve Hyacinthe, MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Manhattan
StephanieJohnson-Cunningham, Museum Hue
Arts Education as a Tool for Decolonization
Allyson Ferrante, Bridgewater State University
“The Unity is Submarine”: What an Art Exhibition Brings to the Surface
Anne Hickling-Hudson, Queensland University of Technology
Cuban internationalism and educational decolonization in the Caribbean
Marika Preziuso, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Intercultural Understanding: Teaching Caribbean texts across Differences
Q3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Queer and Female Kinship Networks in the Caribbean and its Diasporas
Chair: Ryan Joyce and Marina Magloire, Tulane University
In Search of Queer Kin: Jean-Euphèle Milcé’s “l’Alphabet des nuits”
Marina Magloire, Harvard University
We Pursue Our Magic: Audre Lorde and the Roots of Black Girl Magic
Todne Thomas, Harvard Divinity School
The Sacred Kinwork of Afro Caribbean Evangelical Women
Kesewa John, University of Chichester
Tais-Toi et Sois Belle or don’t: Caribbean Women & Interwar Nationalism
Q4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Desire, Art and Diversity
Chair: Celine Gibbons-Taylor, Queen’s University
Diasporic Desires and Emancipatory Futures
Sarah Smith, Bridgewater State University
That’s Art, Folks: Embracing Diversity through Alebrijes
Nicole Ramsey, University of California Berkeley
Rethinking Culture & Identity through Visual Representation in Belize
Leslie Ann Toney, Judiciary of Trinidad & Tobago
Using culture to Transform Mental Health Landscape in Communities
Steffon Campbell, University of the West Indies, Mona
In-equality: Using IBPA and PNI to create a youth policy creation guide
Q5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Diasporic engagements, education and culture
Chair: Beverley Mullings, Queen’s University
Towards insurgent modes of diasporic engagement
Naomi A. Watson, The Open University
Supporting educational resilience of Caribbean women in the diaspora
Gwen Bergner, West Virginia University
Lòtbòdlo and the Spatial Relations of Dyaspora
Denize LeDeatte, Peach Mango Maverick
Continuing the internal de-colonial discourse…Artistically!
Ana Isabel Aguera Plaza, Université Paris 8
Vers une Science Joyeuse
Q6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Pedagogies, decolonization and societies in the Caribbean
Chair: Chenzira Davis Kahina, Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center, University of the Virgin Islands
Decolonization, Self-Determination and VI Caribbean Civilization
Marky Jean-Pierre, Tulane University/Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen
Language, Education and Development: Post Colonial Societies and Neoliberalism
Ariana González Stokas, Bard College
Centros de Apoyo Mutuales: A decolonial pedagogy of relation?
Q7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Procesos educativos, resistencia cimarrona y dignidad del ser caribeño
Chair: Maydi Estrada, Universidad de La Habana
Cuerpo y Educación Intercultural. Cultura de Paz en Educación Caribeña
Aurora Elisa González Valmaseda, Universidad de La Habana
El cuerpo femenino en la fotografía caribeña realizada por mujeres
Yoelxy Pilliner, Casa de la Diversidad Cultural, Camagüey
La mujer haitiana en Camagüey: educación familiar, cultural y racial
Yusmidia Solano Suárez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe
Educación indígena: Significados en el tejido de mochilas Kankuamas
Raquel Sanmiguel Ardila, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe
Resistencia Creole en el Caribe occidental: lenguas y educación
Q8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Visual Art
Q9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Spiritual Pedagogy: Teaching and Practicing African Religions
Chair: Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Ryerson University
Four Voices from the Diasporic Classroom: Teaching on African Religious Traditions in North America
Nixon Cleophat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Terrible Split in my Soul: Being a Practitioner-Scholar in Academia
Jenny Pantoja Torres, InstitutoCubano de Antropología.
Yaniela Morales Cortina, Instituto Cubano de Antropología
- 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
R1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Media, Gender & Racial Identity Formation in Cuba, Haiti and Brazil
Chair: Tanya Saunders, University of Florida
Sabine Lamour, University of Paris VIII/Université d’État d’Haïti
La couple hétérosexuel: une communauté impossible en Haïti
Alexandra Cenatus, University of Florida
Thinking colorism through two Haitian Vodou deities: Freda and Dantò
Monica Pessoa, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
De África a la diáspora: el papel de Djelis en la contemporaneidad
Ana Luiza Monteiro Alvez, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Racial relations in Cuba: an approach to the reception of Brazilian telenovelas
R2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Caribbean Rastafari: Intersection and Contestation with the Left
Chair: Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies, Mona
Samuel Furé Davis, Universidad de La Habana
Rastafari and the utopia of the Left
Tyehimba Salandy, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Contesting Visions of Liberation and Development: Rastafari, Western Capitalism and the Coloniality of the Nation-State
Charles Price, University of North Carolina
Rastafari in a Revolutionary Context-Grenada
Ennis Edmonds, Kenyon College
Full Circle: from Christianity to Rastafari and Back
R3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Working Group Meeting
Sexualities
R4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Going back home: Return Migration or Remigration?
Chair: Elaine Douglas-Harrison, City University of New York, Medgar Evers College
Emigrant Jamaican Wives and Remigration
Lystra Huggins, City University of New York, Medgar Evers College
Mala Jokhan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Parent-child Reunification as a Consequence of Remigration among Trinidadian Transnational Families
Norissa Williams, City University of New York, Medgar Evers College
R5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Ellos y ellas piensan el Caribe
Chair: Andres Serbin, CRIES
Antonio Romero, Universidad de La Habana/Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe “Norman Girvan”
Aportes de la obra de Norman Girvan
Armando Fernández, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba
Aportes de la obra de Gérard Pierre-Charles
Félix Valdés, Instituto de Filosofía
Aportes de la obra de New World Group
Milagros Martínez Reinosa, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba/Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe “Norman Girvan”
Aportes de la obra de Suzy Castor
R6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Workshop
Mind Decolonization via Self-Actualization: Reconnecting the African Diaspora through the Caribbean
Facilitators:
Crystal Martin, University of Memphis, Memphis
Tiffany Chimaroke, Midwest College of Oriental Medicine
Carlita Bradley, Neuromuscular Therapy & Aesthetics, Oakland, CA
R7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Intersecciones discursivas y subversivas: caribeñizando las miradas
Chair: Luciana Salazar Plata, PPELA-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Lamming y Glissant pintando diálogos antillanos
Roberto Almanza, PPELA-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
La historia y la política según Walter Rodney
Roxana Ponce, PPELA-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
La influencia del movimiento de la Negritud en la trayectoria intelectual de manuel Zapata Olivella
Josué David Ku Gallegos, Western Michigan University
WI bareblack T(S)ext(S)ual del autor Manuel Ramos Otero y su experiencia frente al VIH/SIDA
R8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Gender as a critically way to understanding the Caribbean identity
Chair: Zakiya R. Adair, The College of New Jersey
CaraïbesFrançaises: Race, Gender and Diaspora in Beyonce’s Lemonade
Rosana Herrero, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Tantra Orisha o la integración de polaridades femenina y masculina
Therese James and Mahalia Jackman, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Attitudes towards transgender
Joan Phillips, University of the West Indies
Post-Colonial discourse and sex work
R9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Geopolítica y administración de justicia para los pueblos del Caribe
Jorge Castañeda Zavala, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora
Comercio y geopolítica en el Caribe, 1945-1948
Jaime Rodríguez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Capitalismo vs. Imperialismo una mirada desde la Escuela de Regulación
John Omar Silva Cala, Universidad de los Andes
Los Pueblos Indígenas y sus Derechos del Mar en la Cuenca del Caribe
Gabriela Muskus, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Oralidad en la administración de justicia en San Andrés y Providencia
R10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
The emancipatory power of books and reviews
Chair: Aurora Santiago Ortiz, University of Massachusetts
Libros Libres: Decolonial Resistence through Community Solidary Wealth
William Tringali, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Caribbean Libraries as Cultural Memory Institutions
Marlyn Maldonado
Revista La Azucena: voces de integración dirigidas a la mujer
- 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
S1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Radical Intellectual Traditions: Black Life, Hegemony, Revolution
Chair: Laurie Lambert, Fordham University
New Humans: Haiti, the Marvelous, and the Limits of Decolonial Thought
Aaron Kamugisha, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Natalie Léger, City University of New York, Queens College
Brian Meeks, Brown University
S2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
The nation and belongings in the 21st Century
Chair: Annie Paul, The University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Louis Institute of Social and Economic Studies
Nation Aroused and Open for Business? Jamaica circa early 21st Century
Allison Bailey Wedderburn, University of the West Indies, Mona
Internal Migration in Jamaica
Tracian Meikle, Jamaica University of Amsterdam
Memorial Murals and the Politics of Difference in Kingston
Ryan O’Connor, Bridgewater State University
Why the Novel Yardie Belongs in the British Canon
S3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Narrativas e imágenes femeninas
Chair: Yolanda Ricardo, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba
Narrativa caribeña: personajes femeninos de expresión emancipatoria
Christopher A. McGrath, Hope College
Memoria cultural dominicana y subjetividad en la obra de Rita Indiana
Yairamaren Román Maldonado, University of California, Berkeley
Imaginario caribeño en La mucama de Omniculé de Rita Indiana
Karen Flynn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Resurrecting Gloria Baylis: A Caribbean Civil Rights Heroine in Canada
S4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Conversation with our Griots
S5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Literature, imaginaire and education
Chair: Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex
Derek Walcott’s early years in St. Lucia
Jannelle Rodrigues, Bremen University
Education as pathogen in The Schoolmaster and Myal
Normelia Parise, Université Paris 8
La chapelle ardent: l’âgon de Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Jessica Womack, Princeton University
Illustrating a return: Wifredo Lam and Retorno al País Natal
Margaret Love, Tufts University
Not “that sacred gang”: Lamming & Emancipatin fron Colonial Education
S6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Cultural Industries
Chair: Suzanne Burke, University of the West Indies
The cultural industry as an Emancipatory Space
Zaira Zarza, University of Alberta
Pedagogical projects in Cuba’s creative industries
Carla W. Springer, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Commercialisation, Caribbean Cultural Practice and Frankfurt School
Michelle Springer, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Oral History Research in Developing the Cultural and Creative Sectors
S7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Education: Teaching and Learning Resistance
Chair: Maxine Wood, York University
Nikita Pardesi, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies
Human Trafficking and Labour Exploitation in the Caribbean
Akua Benjamin, Ryerson University and Maxine Wood, York University
Teaching and Learning Resistance
Rogene Reid, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto
Impacts of Racial Trauma and Anti-Black Racism on Students Learning
S8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Cuba, U.S. Black Radicalism, and Transnational Emancipatory Thought
Chair: Henry Taylor Jr., University at Buffalo
Cuba, U.S. Black Radicalism, and Transnational Emancipatory Thought
Rita Keresztesi, University of Oklahoma
Caribbean 1968: Writing Black Power
Eziaku Nwokocha, University of Pennsylvania
Divining Dreams: Black Atlantic Fashion in Haitian Vodou
Cristina Basso
Brujeria, sub-version and memory-making in the Colombian Caribbean
S9- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Emancipation, autonomy and social justice education
Chair: Sally Ann García Taylor
Redes sociales y luchas por la autonomía en el Caribe Suroccidental
David González, Universidad Nacional
¿Emanciapar o reprimir? Reflexión de la educación en centros penales
Wazir Jefferson, The University of Utah
Furthering the Conversation: Understanding Social Justice Education
Tabatha Robinson, Student
We Fund Ourselves: Susu, the Black Market and Chinese Investments
S10- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
The (re)counted and the (re)pressed
Chair: Zophia Edwards (zedwards@providence.edu), Providence College
Re-examining labor dispute tribunals in British colonies
Andrea Baldwin, Connecticut College
Whither their Generation: Attitudes, Expectations and Aspirations
Chair: Balford Lewis, University of Technology, Jamaica
Kenisha Nelson, University of Technology, Jamaica
- 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
T1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Research in Practice: Social and Cultural Transformation in the Caribbean
Chair: Meagan Sylvester, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Keri Mary Johnson, The University of Trinidad and Tobago
Kambule: A commemoration of education, emancipation and social justice
Chenzira Davis Kahina, Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands
Heritage Education & Arts Legacy: HEAL365 VI Caribbean Innovatives Perspectives
Gregory Richardson, Instituto Pedagógico Arubano
Calypso music, globalization and plurilingualism in the Dutch Caribbean
T2- Embajadores 1, Habana Libre
Memory and narratives: the production of power
Chair: Rhonda Frederick, Boston College
Decolonizing Racial Narratives through Caribbean Speculative Fiction
Maria Teresa Sánchez Alcolea, Northern Caribbean University
A Cartography of Narratives around Jamaican Creole
Angela Watkins, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
The Miseducation of the Colonized in the Rainmaker’s Mistak.
Arthur J. Hughes, Ohio University
Agency, History, and Epistemology: Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
T3- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Decolonial Curriculum and Education for Development
Chair: Robert Millette, Lincoln University
Education for Development in SIDS Countries
Camilla Stevens, Rutgers University
Education and Decolonization in the Theatre of Trevor Rhone
Greg Thomas, Tufts University
Education ‘Put to School with the People’: FANON, Cuba and Palestine.
Kimberly Todd, OISE University of Toronto and Valerie Robert, Ontario College of Teachers
Reviving the Spirit by Making the Case for a Decolonial Curriculum
T4- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Carnival, Theater and Spirituality
Chair: Irline Francois, Goucher College
Contrapuntal Visions and Dimensions of Afro-Caribbean Spirituality
Lydia Bailey, Bridgewater State University, Student
Spicemas and Ole Mas Afro Caribbean Spirituality
Camille Quamina, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts
Making Mas with Theatre-Making Theatre with Mas
T5- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Enseigner (dans) la Caraïbe: pour une revision des référentiels objets
Fred Reno, Université des Antilles
L’ignorancepartagée obstacle à la construction de la Caraïbe
Thierry Tassius, Université des Antilles.
Stéphanie Mulot, Université de Toulouse
Julien Merion, Université des Antilles
Myriam Moïse
T6- Internacional, Habana Libre
Conjuring Sacred Pedagogies in the Margins and across Boundaries: The Circum-Atlantic Religious Lives and Spaces of Healing, Markets, and Spirits
Martin Tsang, University of Miami
Residual Transcriptions in Archives of Conjure
Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University
Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies
Alexander Fernández, Florida International University
Narratives of Transnational Afro-Cuban Lukumi Veiled Economies
T7- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Caribbean Art: Knowledge, Networks, and Emancipation
Chair: Kenwyn Crichlow, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine
Memory and the affirmation of expression in recent Guyanese Art
Ewart C. Skinner, Bowling Green State University, School of Media & Communication
Arts, Technology and Emancipation in the Black Hemisphere
Rebecca L. Skinner, Bowling Green State University
Wendy Nanan: Art as Transmission of Knowledge
Therese Hadchity, University of the West Indies/Barbados Community College
Hello world. We’ve been waiting for you: The Caribbean artist, the creative network and the (new) public sphere.
Mariah Morales, Bowling Green State University
Firelie Báez: Road Map Symbols
T8- Primavera, Habana Libre
Popular Theatre and film as a form of decolonization in the Caribbean
Chair: Concepción Mengíbar, Universidad de Jaén/ EscuelaOficial de Idiomas
Shakespeare y lo popular en Cuba como herramienta de descolonización
Karina Smith, University of Melbourne, Victoria University Collective Creations: the 1985 Caribbean Popular Theatre Exchange
Jude Ulysse, Independent scholar
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Last Supper: Excision of the Haitian Revolution
7 :30 p.m. Asamblea de miembros de la AEC / CSA Business Meeting/AEC Assemblée Générale
Salón Solidaridad
Viernes/ Friday/Vendredi. Junio/June/Juin 8
8:00 a.m. Registro/ Registration / Inscription
Secretariado/Secretariat/Secrétariat
10:00-6:00 p.m. Feria del libro “El Caribe en ediciones cubanas”/Book Fair “The Caribbean in Cuban editions” /Foire du livre “Les Caraïbes dans les editions cubaines/
Biblioteca Central de la Universidad de La Habana/Central Library of the University of Havana/ / Bibliothèque centrale de l’Université de La Havane
3:00 p.m. Muestra de cine del Caribe/ Caribbean movie show/Cinéma des Caraïbes/
Cine Infanta/Cinema Infanta/Cinéma Infanta/ (Infanta entre San Miguel y Neptuno/Infanta between San Miguel and Neptuno/Infanta entre San Miguel et Neptuno/)
Sesiones/ Sessions/Sessions
- 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
U1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Le concept de décolonisation: enjeux historiques et idéologiques
Chair: Didier Destouches, Université des Antilles
Le concept de décolonisation: enjeux historiques et idéologiques
Pamela Obertan, Université des Antilles
Re -penser la décolonisation dans un contexte de transition écologique.
Brigitte Facorat-Gaspard, Université des Antilles
Responsabilité vers les générations futures et société post-coloniale
Murielle Vairac, Université des Antilles
Les sociétés ultramarines au défis des processus d’evolution
Loïc Vatna, Université des Antilles
La dignité humaine instrument des mutations des sociétés de la Caraïbe
U2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Jamaica, education, activism and heritage
Chair: Lisa Del Sol, Graduate Student/Teaching Assistant
Age of Dis Distress & Disrespect in a Brief History of 7 Killings
Janelle Mroz-Gondre, Bridgewater State University Student
The Neocolonialism of the Jamaican Skin Bleaching Epidemic
Nicole Plummer, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of the West Indies
Keep d’ fire blazin’: Rastafari CGBS &activism through education
U3- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Justicia y tierra
Chair: Martha Arguello, University of California, Irvine
The Symbolism of Adolfina and Mama Tingo in “Rescate de tierras” and ecological and land rights movements
Jeanette Charles, Independent Scholar/Chiapas Support Committee
Theorizing Black Solidarity Models in Haiti and Venezuela, Perspectives across Time
Cindy Forster, Scripps College, Claremont
Reflections on ‘la comuna’ and twenty-first-century socialism
Pambana Basset, University of the West Indies, Mona
Envisioning Reparations: Belize, Honduras, Jamaica
U4- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Citizenship and Anti-Colonial Feminist Pedagogies in the Caribbean: Inter-disciplinary Conversations
Chair: Tami Navarro, Barnard College
Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Teaching and Building Community in Troubled Times
Halimah DeShong, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Caribbean Feminist Pedagogies for Interrogating Violence
Tonya Haynes, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Women’s Studies after Wynter
Kristina Hinds , University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Exorcising Citizenship
U5- Internacional, Habana Libre
Sexual and Gendered Praxes of Resistance and Refusal in the Caribbean
Chair: Nicole Charles, University of Toronto Mississauga
Nikoli Attai, University of Toronto
Judy Grant, University of Toronto
Lahoma Thomas, University of Toronto
U6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Breaking Bad: Understanding violence at the intersection between transnational organised crime, community, and masculinities in Port of Spain, Trinidad
Chair: Adam Baird, Coventry University
Breaking Bad: Understanding violence and masculinity in Port of Spain
Matthew Bishop, University of Sheffield
DylanKerrigan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Resilience, empowerment and spoken word poetry
U7- Primavera, Habana Libre
Enseigner dans la Caraïbe: pour des politiques éducatives innovantes
Stéphanie Mulot, Université de Toulouse
Bernard Phipps et SallySteiner, Université des Antilles
Enseigner le plurilinguisme comme compétence en territoires non-souverains
Florence Louis-Edouard, Université des Antilles
L’entreprise créative objet éducatif innovant dans la Caraïbe
Yves Montouroy, Université des Antilles et Amandine Montagut, Science po Bordeaux
L’enseignement de la science politique pour penser le développement économique des territoires insulaires
Sarah Jno Baptiste
L’expérience des programmes scolaires associés à l’Unesco
U8- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Transnational Un/Fastenings of Indo-Caribbean Masculinities
Chair: R. Cassandra Lord
Darrell Baksh, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
“We Bring Back De Ole T’ing, So Leh Mih Hear Yuh Sing”: Retro Revivals in Trinidad’s Chutney Soca
Ryan Persadie, University of Toronto
The Challenges of the Queer Fête: The Affects of (Indo) Absence and the Politics of Belonging in the Trinidad Diaspora
Jillian Ollivierre Fernandes, York University
Fashioning Indo-Trinidadian Masculinities, or the Curious Case of the Jama Jora
U9-Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Douze: Narrating Disaster & Persistence
Chair: Myriam J. A. Chancy, Scripps College
“Disaster Relief”: Emancipatory Novels by Caribbean Women Writers Trans-linguistically
Ifeona H. Fulani, New York University
The Stone Thrower
Karin Lachmising, Independent Writer
Breathe, theatre, couragous women of Suriname, claiming women rights
Nelly Rosario, Williams College
How the Medicines Go Down
- 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
V1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Pensamiento ambiental y emancipación de los saberes desde el Caribe
Chair: Mina Kleiche Dray, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)–Université Paris V Descartes
Guillermo Castro, Universidad del Saber-Panamá
El aporte de José Martí a la formación de una cultura ambiental latinoamericana
Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre/Universidad de La Habana
La idea de “La Conquista de los Trópicos” en la formación del Gran Caribe
Adler Camilus, Docteur en Philosophie/Chercheur Associé
Prolégomènes à une écologie ontologique à partir de la Caraïbe
Armando Fernández, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre
El pensamiento de Fernando Ortiz en el surgimiento de una conciencia social de los desposeídos
Catalina Toro Perez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia/Grupo de Trabajo Ecología Política CLACSO
Descolonizando saberes y prácticas subalternizadas en el Caribe Occidental. Colonialidad de la Naturaleza, Extractivismo y Racismo Ambiental en el Caribe Occidental
V2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Religious & material aspects for creative education and expression
Chair: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Haitian Studies Association
LeGrace Benson, Haitian Studies Association
Claudine Michel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moral and Cultural Implications of the African-Haitian Religious Tradition: A Holistic Approach to the Education of Youth
Charlene Désir, Nova Southeastern University
Vodou Epistemology Supports Comprehensive Development of Haitian-US Youth
V3- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Emigration and imagined identity
Chair: Tatianna Rodrigues, University College London
Regional integration through migration? Indo-Guyanese in Barbados
- Scott Smith, Utica College
The Caribs in Guadeloupe: Psychological Factors and Cultural Evolution
Suzanne Narain, University of Toronto
Political Participation of Indo-Caribbean Women in the Diaspora
Stacy Hope, Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS)
From Guyanese to Amerindian: Finding ‘Place’ through Imagined Identity
V4- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Diversity through literature
Chair: Josue David Ku Gallegos, Western Michigan University
Poesía y precariedad: la experiencia literaria de Víctor Fragoso
Robin Brooks, University of Pittsburgh
Genuine or Opportunistic Relationships in Oonya Kempadoo’s Fiction
Homero Quezada Pacheco, Asociación Mexicana de Estudios del Caribe
Identidad y tema del doble en Sirena Selena vestida de pena
Holly Stanley, Bridgewater State University
The Evolution of Creole Identification
V5- Internacional, Habana Libre
Pedagogies and sexualities in the Caribbean
Chair: Beverly Bain, University of Toronto
“Wakefulness” in the Teaching of Caribbean Feminisms and Sexualities
Diego Ubiera, Fitchburg State University
Critical Pedagogy and Caribbean Feminisms in the Neoliberal University
Fatimah Jackson-Best, University of Ottawa
A Review of Intersectionality & Stigma: Implications for the Caribbean
Orlando Harris, University of California, San Francisco
Post-Colonial Perspective on Masculinity and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
Kedon Willis, University of Florida
Charting a Queer Black Epistemology in the Hispanic Caribbean
V6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
“They have understood the relativity of all things:” Black Women’s Emancipatory Theories and Practices
Chair: Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech
Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee and World Revolutions
Claire Oberon García, Colorado College
Marsha Jean-Charles, Cornell University
Reading to Catalyze: Haitian Coming of Age Novels & Politization
Daveisha Gibson, Virginia Tech
V7- Primavera, Habana Libre
The eye of the storm: the need for collective natural disaster preparedness planning in the Caribbean
Chair: Okama Ekpe Brook, AsombrosoX, Inc.
The need for collective natural disaster preparedness in the Caribbean
Sharine Allamby-Duncan, Africa Caribbean Heritage Alliance
Godfrey St. Bernard, University of the West Indies, St. Agustine
Measuring Resilience in Natural Disasters in Caribbean States
Farah Nibbs, State University of New York, School of Environmental Sciences and Forestry Climate
Change education for improved resiliency for households
V8- Salón 250, Universidad de la Habana
Women from emancipation and reparations
Chair: Sean M. Kennedy
On Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Gender, and Reparations
Jewel Amoah, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The Revolution Must be Gendered
Patrice Allen
Pan-African Emancipatory thought and progress for Women of the UNIA
Norell Martínez
Rituals of Resistance and Afro-Caribbean Women: Hexing the Ruling Class
V9- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Diasporic Literature and the Black identity
Chair: Walter Cruz Caminha, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) / CNPq
Displacement and (non) belonging in A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid
David Dulceany, Duke University
The Haitian Revolution as Political Theology in the novel Stella
Dan Castilow, Tulane University
Trini Black: Blackness and Creole Identity in Trinidad and Miami
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
VV1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Plenary session: Cambio Climático en el Caribe: la amenaza constante
Chair: Catalina Toro Pérez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Gilberto Cabrera Trimiño, Universidad de La Habana
Universidad, cambio climático, administración pública y educación ambiental en el Caribe
José Luis Juanes
¿Podrá contar el Caribe con sus playas en los futuros escenarios del Cambio Climático?
Ramón Pichs
Economía y cambio climático en el Caribe
José Rubiera, Instituto de Meteorología
Perspectivas de los huracanes en el Caribe en un entorno de Cambio Climático
Rudy Montero Mata
La Tarea Vida. Experiencia de política cubana para los estudios de peligro, vulnerabilidad y riesgos, y la adaptación al cambio climático
VV2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Diaspora, rituals, languages and music
Chair: Allison Bailey, Wedderburn
Internal Migration in Jamaica
Khytie Brown, Harvard University
Florida Water: Profane Perfume to Sacred Caribbean Elixir
Winston C. Campbell, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Perfoming Arts
Millennials, Christian Worship Sites and Aesthetic Liberation
Dexter Gabriel
Expedition for Freedom: Peck and Price in Trinidad & Guiana 1839-1840
VV3-Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Theorizing about the Fathering and Mothering
Chair: Patricia Anderson, Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, Mona
Julian Devonish, Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, Mona
Fathering the “Outside” Child: Differences and Shortfalls in Jamaican
Chimine Arfuso, California Institute of Integral Studies
A Case for a Cubana Mothering Epistemology
VV4- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Epistemologies, culture and critically views about learning and education
Chair: Michel Bangou, Regional Economic and Social Council (CESR)
Identité, culture et développement
Talia Esnard, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Learning to Move beyond the Acriticality of my Graduate Education
Isabel GuzzardoTamargo, Rutgers University- New Brunswick
Epistemologies of Neo-Marronage in Dionne Brand’s Fiction
Owen Ellis
Cultural studies for transformational Caribbean educational practices
Erold K. Bailey, Westfield State University
Constructivist Pedagogy for Learner Empowerment in the Postcolonial Context of the Caribbean
VV5- Internacional, Habana Libre
Sexualities and reproductive justice in the Caribbean
Chair: Patricia Saunders, University of Miami
Sex Outta Road: Performing Power, Politics & Sexuality in Jamaica
James Wadley, Lincoln University
Sexuality Education and Leadership at HBCUs
Anna Hayward, Stony Brook University and Jallicia Jolly, University of Michigan
Organizing for environmental & reproductive justice in the Caribbean
VV6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Effective system for prevention and education
Jenny Douglas, The Open University
The role of family and community in preventing cigarette smoking
Braam Rust, Friend
A fair and effective system when screening M & D students
Rithodel Cadet, ISTEAH, Haïti and Carlo Prévil, UQAT, Canada
Considérations sur des approches éducatives à prioriser pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques et la réduction des risques de catastrophe en Haïti
VV7- Primavera, Habana Libre
Afro-Caribbean Legacies: U.S. Histories and Multicultural Education
Chair: Lori West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Caribbean and U.S. Histories: Museums, Memory & Educational Legacies
Dinah Armstead, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Intercultural Competences? African Americans Visit the Caribbean
Roblyn P. Lexter, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Education, Culture and the Global Discrimination of People of Color
Ted Ingram, Bronx Community College and James Coaxum, Rowan Universtiy
Foreign is the new Black
VV8- Salón 250, Universidad de La Habana
Subjetividades alternativas en República Dominicana y Cuba
Chair: Christopher A. McGrath, Hope College
Subjetividades alternativas en República Dominicana y Cuba
Zaida. Corniel, Stony Brook University
Ciudades paralelas: CaribbeanFantasy, contra-postal de Santo Domingo
Jacqueline Herranz Brooks, City University of New York, Graduate Center/York College
Cuquitas y Viaje en Almendrón: en gira por La Habana a pie y en taxi
Milagros Ricourt, City University of New York, Lehman College
VV9- Salón 300, Universidad de La Habana
Education, religion and voices
Chair: Orlando Harris, University of California, San Francisco
Young Jamaican MSM Experiences with Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault
Anita Baksh, LaGuardia Community College
Religion as Informal Education in Elizabeth Jaikaran’s Trauma
Vieann Ragoonanan Maharaj, University of the West Indies St Augustine
Ritual Power: Kali Mai Puja in Trinidad
Linsey Sainte-Claire, Davidson College
Les voix des femmes sur l’éducation dans les Caraïbes françaises
- 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
W1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Nierika: el arte y el cuerpo en el Caribe
Chair: Yolanda Wood, Universidad de La Habana
Thalia Díaz Vieta, Universidad de La Habana
Memoria-Performance-Cine: tríada en la obra de Gloria Rolando
Sophia Kitlinski, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re-Reading Anthropological Photographs of Black Cubans
Marcela Landázabal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Escotomas: orpaillage, prostitución y otras sintomatologías en el Caribe amazónico
Ian Bethell Bennett, University of the Bahamas
What’s in the frame: tourism, art, installation and rebuilding the oldwhore of a body
W2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
3T and Home: Tourism, Travel, Transformation and Academic Ecology
Chair: Angeletta Kim Mar Gourdine, Louisiana State University
Traveling Beyond Tourist Boundaries
Felipe Mejía and Marion Madrigal, The Secret Costa Rica
The Secret Costa Rica: The new way to connect cultures
W3- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Social statue of Language and policies
Chair: Mackenzie Brennan, Bridgewater State University
Speaking to Power: Examining colonial tendencies through Syntax
Louis Romer, Vassar College
Language ideology and the social status of Papiamentu
Shane Dougherty, Bridgewater State University
The Power of Language
Priscilla Stilwell-Previl, Université Providence d’Haïti
Spoken Like a Native: French Language in Haitian University Settings
W4- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Exploring Transnational Caribbean Sexual Politics
Chair: Matthew Chin, Fordham University
Sexing Mr. Chin: Afro-Asian homo intimacies in post 1970s
Jallicia Jolly, University of Michigan
Sexual Desire & Self-making Among HIV-Positive Jamaican Women
Carla Moore, University of the West Indies, Mona, Institute of Gender and Development Studies
“Weak to Yu”: Vulnerability and Masculine Sexuality in the Dancehall
Brandon Callendar, Berkeley University
Melvin Dixon: Echoes that Come
W5- Internacional, Habana Libre
Social Media and Behavioral Attributes in the Caribbean
Chair: Victoria Rampersad, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Nicole Thwaites, University of the West Indies, Mona
Andrea Woolcock, University of Technology, Jamaica
Godfrey St. Bernard, University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies
Adolescents, Young Adults and Social Media in Jamaica
Arlene Bailey, University of the West Indies, Mona
W6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
GWI customer satisfaction: the role of education, SES and health
Chair: Melissa Benjamin, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI)
Richard Van West Charles, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI)
Dwayne Shako, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI)
Marlon Daniels, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI)
W7- Primavera, Habana Libre
Emancipation in the Undercommons: Punishment, War, Finance
Chair: Michael Ralph (mr404@nyu.edu), New York University
Dina Asfaha, University of Pennsylvania
Rachel Laryea, Yale University
- 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
X1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Caribbean territories, sovereignty and climate change
Chair: Russell Stockard Jr., California Lutheran University
Amid Climate Change, Gentrification in Miami’s Little Haiti
Samuel Jouault, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
El Caribe Continental: aproximación desde la geografía del turismo
Wouter Veenendaal, Malcolm Ferdinand and Gert Oostindie, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
Non-Sovereign Territories: A Global Comparison
X2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Culture and Violence/Impact of Violence in Rap and Dancehall
Chair: Christopher Charles, University of the West Indies
A Psychotherapeutic Intervention for Violent Behaviour and Academic Problems in Schools: Conceptualization to Implementation
Dennis Howard, Institute of Cultural Policy and Innovation
The Impact of the Rhetoric of Violence in Rap and Dancehall on Youth Culture
Basil Wilson, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Culture and Violence/Reggae-Dancehall, Grassroots and Criminality
X3- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
Working Group Meeting
Environmental
X4- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Coloniality, Crisis and Climate Disaster: Critical Perspectives
Chair: Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University
The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the politics of recovery
Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto
Maya Trotz, University of South Florida
Infrastructurality and gender, money and post disaster recovery
Natasha Lightfoot, Dominica State College
Schuyler Esprit, Dominica State College
X5- Internacional, Habana Libre
Appropriate pedagogies and methodologies for students
Chair: Kim Finch-Kareem, Florida Memorial University
College Persistence of Black Female Students on Welfare at a HBCU
Stephanie Mulot, CAGI Laboratoirecaribéen de sciences socials
Les violencesdansl’éducation des enfants: justifications culturelles
Anthony Browne, Hunter College
The Other Achievement Gap: Caribbean Students in NY and Their Peers
X6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Workshop
Las destrezasorales en una L2 a través de unaprendizajemixto
Facilitator: Paula González, University of West Indies, Cave Hill
X7- Primavera, Habana Libre
Significance and Outcome of the Post-Duvalierist regimes in Haiti
Chair: Carolle Charles, Ciry University of New York, Baruch College
Robert Fatton, University of Virginia
Of Trump, Shi..oles, and Haiti
Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University
The limit of the “Democratic Revolution” in Haiti
- 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Y1- Solidaridad, Habana Libre
Emancipatory Spaces, Performance and Gender Identity in the Caribbean
Chair: Angelique Nixon, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Institute for Gender and Development Studies
Nikoli Attai, University of Toronto
Knowledge Production and Queer Modernity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Krystal Ghisyawan, Unaffiliated scholar
Femme-ing up d’ place: Re-gendering the ‘Public’ through Performance
Charlene Roach, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Cultural Impacts on Performance in Caribbean Public Organizations
Daly Richianne, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
The Language of Gender Identity: Mechanisms of Othering
King Rosamond, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Whose Transgression, Whose Emancipation? Cross-dressing in Cape Town and Caribbean Festivals
Y2- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Clim-Arte, conflictos socio-ambientales y humanismo emancipador en el Caribe
Chair: Yolanda Wood, Universidad de La Habana
El Caribe, imagen visual y pensamiento emancipador en clave ambiental
Guillermo Castro, Universidad del Saber-Panamá
Transitismo y Conflictos en las Sociedades Hidráulicas: El Caso de Panamá
Joan Martinez Alier, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Conflictos socio-ambientales en el Caribe y Alternativas desde la Ecología Popular
Camille Chalmers, University professor/Executive Director of Civil Society organization network at PAPDA
La ofensiva de las Empresas transnacionales en Haití para establecer extracciones de minas metálicas a gran escala
Silvia Juliana Tello Solano, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Defensa de los derechos territoriales en San Andrés Providencia y Santa Catalina
Y3- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
POSTING FOR PEACE: Youth, Social Media and Violence in the Caribbean
Chair: Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Ryerson University
The Posting for Peace Project-Trinidadian youth and social media
Godfrey St. Bernard, University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies
Kate Tilleczek, Young Lives Research Laboratory
Youth, Social Media & Cultural Identity in Trinidad
Y4- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Erotic Islands: Art & Activism in the Queer Caribbean
Chair: Lyndon K. Gill, The University of Texas at Austin
Emancipatory Erotics: On the Uses of Erotic Islands
Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University
Faith Smith, Brandeis University
Shadows Archives: Hidden Photographic Histories in the Caribbean
Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto
Y5- Internacional, Habana Libre
China in the Caribbean, The Caribbean in China
Chair: Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Angelique Nixon, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Tao Goffe, New York University
Yan Liu, Syracuse University
Cecilia Green, Syracuse University
Y6- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Decolonial Quisqueya: Reimagining Pedagogy, Epistemology, and Practice
Chair: Alexandra Demshock, Rutgers University
Fritznel Mede, Université D’État d’Haïti
Decolonizing Data and Praxis in Léogâne, Haïti
Edward Paulino, City University of New York, John Jay College
Educating through Eddie’s Perejil: De-colonizing Dominican history and the 1937 massacre through performance
Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Rutegers University-New Brunswick
Caribbean Built Environments from the Inside
Y7- Primavera, Habana Libre
Human righths and politics of education
Chair: Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesús, Bloomsburg University
Educando al joven universitario de origen caribeño en Pensilvania
Lisenne Delgado
Human rights education and racism, University of Curaçao
Tassius Thierry, Université des Antilles-CAGI
Le rapport à la Nature dans le référentiel des politiques d’éducation
Karina Bautista, Fitchburg State University
Re-educando el silencio: activismo, multiculturalismo y educación.
- 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Z1- Embajadores 2, Habana Libre
Reorienting Hegemonic Discourses on Unfree Labour in the 21st Century Caribbean
Chair: Kamala Kempadoo
Rethinking Human Trafficking: An Emancipatory Caribbean Framework
Audra Diptee
Radical Caribbean Thought and 21 st Century Human Trafficking Discourses
Avekadavie Parasramsingh Mano
Challenging Sex Trade Stereotypes: Migratory Sex Workers in Belize
Pere DeRoy
Deconstructing Global Anti-trafficking Initiatives in Guyana
Akilah Jardine
What’s in a name? That which we call slavery: Exploring the analogy between Modern Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Z2- Embajadores 3, Habana Libre
New sources for climate justice
Chair: Iliana Rosales Figueroa, Northern Kentucky University
Finding a new source of inspiration through water
Tyrone Hall
Dialectics of Climate Justice: Evidence from Belize
Agustin Perez-Barahona, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Legislating Nightlight Pollution and Sea-Turtle Nesting
Z3- Los espejos, Habana Libre
Education formelle en Haiti, Réalités et perspectives
Chair: Ronald Jean Jacques, Université d’Etat d’Haïti
De l’obligation de l’Etat Haïtien à garantir l’éducation fondamentale
Mislor Dexai, Université d’Etat d’Haiti
Les inégalités sexuées dans l’enseignement secondaire haïtien
Darline Alexis, Université d’Etat d’Haiti
Z4- Internacional, Habana Libre
Caribbean migration to Canada
Chair: Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State University
Dwaine Plaza and Lauren Plaza, Oregon State University
Cuban Migration to Canada 1959-2017
Carlo Handy Charles, York University
The homemaking Experience in Canada of Haitian International Students
Z5- Sevillano, Habana Libre
Cultural identity, diaspora and dialogues
Chair: Diana Grullón García, Illinois College
Diálogo metafórico contrapuntístico: la négritude y la transculturación
Afef Benessaieh
Questioning Cultural Identity: Caribbean standpoints
Renee Baron, The Juilliard School
Technology and Diasporic Imaginings in Lynn Nottage’s Plays
Z6- Primavera, Habana Libre
Our History as a Tool of Decolonization
Chair: Keith Green, Rutgers University-Camden
The Slave and the Bishop: Briton Hammon in Cuban Historiography
Yesenia Fernández, New York University
José Antonio Aponte and the genealogy of Caribbean blackface
Alisha Gaines, Florida State University
Playing a Slave: Transatlantic Empathetic Performance
Vernee Sobers , University of the West Indies
History Has Its Eyes on You
Olson Dimanche, University of Florida
Decolonization through editorial cartoon in Haiti
8 :00 p.m. Sesión de clausura/Closing Session/Séance de clôture/Sesión de clausura
Noche CSA (evento pago) /CSA Night (ticketed event) /Soirée CSA, (entrée payante) /
Salón de Embajadores
