PANEL 1A — Chair Person: Dr. Ian Boxill
Religion, Culture and Resistance
| Presenter |
Title |
| Mr Peter Harding |
Values and Norms within Sub-cultures: A cultural studies perspective, the Jamaican experience |
| Ms. Doreen Gordon |
Religion, Black Culture and Identity in Bahia, Brazil |
| Dr. Veront Satchell |
Colonial Injustice: The Crown vs Bedwardites, 27 April 1920 |
| Prof. Yoshiko Shibata |
Hydridizing Afro-Jamaican Culture, Repositioning Ethnic Minority: Christian Chinese and Traditions |
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PANEL 1B — Chair Person: Dr. Clinton Hutton
Religion in the Caribbean and Diaspora
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr. Harold Jap–A–Joe |
“Wisi” and the Acceptance of Christianity in Suriname |
| Ms. Christine McVay |
Remembering the Homeland: The Role of Pentecostalism in a Haitian Diaspora |
| Mr. Stanley Griffin |
“Hay Esperanza!”: The Role of Spanish- speaking Church Communities in Present day Antigua. |
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PANEL 1C — Chair Person: Prof. Diane Austin-Broos
Religion and Worldview
| Presenter |
Title |
| Mr. Kenichi Ninomiya |
Between Secular World and Church: Rethinking Masculinity of Young Pentecostal males |
| Mr. Francio Guadeloupe |
Looks at Capitalism and Christianity in the Caribbean |
| Ms. Maria Smith |
The Revival Cosmology |
| Dr. Clinton Hutton |
Ritualizing Ancestral Memory in Becoming: The Aesthetic Grandeur of Revival |
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PANEL 2A — Chair Person: Mr. Cecil Gutzmore
Interrogating Violence I
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr. Corin Bailey |
Fear and Policing Violent Inner City Communities |
| Prof. Brenda Vollman |
Beyond Strain Theory: Homicide in Jamaica as a micro-level response to structural effects of Globalization and Development |
| Mr. Herbert Gayle |
Feuds: Why some inner city communities cannot end the war |
| Dr. Lorna Down & Dr. Clement Lambert |
Analysing Key Stakeholders’ Perspectives on School Violence and an Innovative Intervention Programme – The Change From Within Project |
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PANEL 2B — Chair Person: Mr Herbert Gayle
Interrogating Violence II
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr. Jonothan Dalby |
Murder in the House: Domestic Homicide in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1835-99 |
| Mrs. Shakira Maxwell |
Methodical Predator or Victim of Circumstance? Women who kill–Jamaica at the turn of the twentieth century |
| Dr. Diana Thorburn |
Male Identity, Hyper-Masculinity and Violence in Jamaica |
| Ms. Carolyn Graham |
‘Why Man Tan So’: A revisionist Approach to Domestic Violence |
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PANEL 3A – Chair Person: Dr. Kingsley Stewart
Music as a Social and Cultural Force
| Presenter |
Title |
Mrs. Desmalee Holder – Nevins
Prof. Denise Eldemire-Shearer
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Music and Sexual Health Promotion in Jamaica |
| Mr. Daniel Neely |
Tourism is our Business: the Changed Role of Calypso in Jamaica |
| Prof. Linda Sturtz |
African Jamaican Popular Music in the Eighteenth Century |
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PANEL 3B — Chair Person: Mr Jalani Niaah
Caribbean Music: Case Studies
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr Kim Johnson |
When Yuh Iron Good You Is King: Perspectives on Pan |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Watson |
He Came, He Sang, He Conquered: Jackie Opel’s Contribution to the Jamaican Music Scene |
| Mr. Colin Leslie |
The Caribbean Dragon: Byron Lee and the Dragonaires- 50 years on the road blazing the trail for Caribbean sound |
| Mr. Herbie Miller |
Don Drummond, Just How Good Was He? |
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PANEL 4 — Chair Person: Prof. Carolyn Cooper
Language and Identity
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr Beatrice Boufoy–Bastick |
Creoles as Linguistic Makers of National Identity: Examples from Jamaica and Guyana |
| Ms. Celia Brown–Blake |
The Jamaican Creole Speaker in the UK Criminal Justice System |
| Prof. Hubert Devonish |
The Role of the Jamaican Language Unit |
| Dr. Kathhryn Sheilds–Brodber |
Social Integration and the Culture of Linguistic Politeness in Contemporary Jamaica |
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PANEL 5 — Chair Person: Dr. John Bewaji
The Search for Caribbean Philosophy
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr. Lawrence Bamikole |
Rastafarianism as Philosophy and Praxis |
| Mr. Kamau Chionesu |
Uniqueness and Scientific Explanation: Can there be a Caribbean Way of Knowing? |
| Prof. Carolyn Cooper |
“What The Backside All You Want?”: Interrogating Rastafari in Derek Walcott’s O’Babylon! |
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PANEL 6A — Chair Person: Mr Clement Branche
Identity: Psychological Aspects
| Presenter |
Title |
| Dr. Christine Chivallion |
Difficulties of the memory of slavery in the French Caribbean or how to make the popular Caribbean past visible and knowable through the European machinery of memory? |
| Mr. Christopher Charles |
Skin Bleaching in Jamaica: Self-Esteem, Racial Self-Esteem and Black Identity Transactions |
| Mr. Bernard Jankee |
Jamaican Journeys |
| Prof. Frederick Hickling |
The European-American Psychosis: A Psycho-historiographic Perspective of Contemporary Western Civilization |
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PANEL 6B — Chair Person: Prof. Brian Meeks
Identity: Race and Activism
| Presenter |
Title |
| Ms. Khitanya Petgrave |
Education: Racial Identity and Respectability in Jamaica: The case of the 1938 riots |
| Mr. Julian Cresser |
Jamaican Cricket and Apartheid |
| Ms. Annie Paul |
No Space for Race: The Bleaching of the Nation in Postcolonial Jamaica |
| Mr. Allan Bernard & Ms. Nadeen Spence |
Black Student Movements/ Activism on the UWI, Mona Campus: An Impeded Trajectory |
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PANEL 7 — Chair Person: Dr David Dodman
Worldview and Folk Ecology
| Presenters |
Title |
| Dr. Anna Perkins |
Blak up! Blak up!: Afro-Caribbean Worldview and Identity in the Liturgical Hymns of Barry Chevannes |
| Ms. Beverly Shirley |
Changing Times: Women's Activism in Guyana and Barbados in the 1970s |
| Ms. Rivke Jaffe |
“Every Flower in the Garden Represents a Living Person” Perceptions of Environment and Nature in Two Caribbean Cities |
| Prof. Patricia Mohammed |
Documentary Film: “The Colour of Darkness: An Interview with Barry Chevannes.” (20 mins.) |
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PANEL 8A — Chair Person: Prof. Ted Chamberlin
The Rastafari: Case Studies I
| Presenters |
Title |
| Ms. Glenda–Alicia Leung |
The Politics of Dreadlocks: The Kalifa Logan Case |
| Mr. Jalani Niaah and Sonjah Stanley Niaah |
‘Reflection’ from the Margin: Jah Cure, Rastafari Identity and the New Leadership Through Stardom in Contemporary Jamaica |
| Ajamu Nangwaya |
Rastafari and the Economic Question: Towards an Economic Practice of Liberation |
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PANEL 8B — Chair Person: Prof. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
The Rastafari: Case Studies II
| Presenters |
Title |
| Mrs. Jeanne Christensen |
National Exiles or Global Citizens |
| Sharon Chacko |
Imaging History/Inscribing Space: Rastafari Symbolism in Contemporary Street Art |
| Dr. Michael Barnett |
The Rastafari Movement as an Afro-centric Expression of Identity |
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PANEL 9A — Chair Person: Prof. A. Lynn Bolles
Masculinity and Fatherhood
| Presenters |
Title |
| Prof. Patricia Anderson |
Masculinity and Fatherhood: Changing Perspectives in Jamaica |
| Mrs. Hilary Wehby |
Father Involvement and Its Impact on Academic Achievement Among Grade Six Students in Kingston, Jamaica |
| Prof. Chukwudum Uche |
Impact of Parental Living Arrangements on Adolescents’ Behaviour Outcomes |
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PANEL 9B — Chair Person: Dr. Mark Figueroa
Masculinity, Identities and Beyond?
| Presenters |
Title |
| Dr. Annecka Marshall |
Beyond Tying in Bull or Breaking in the Stud: Debunking the Pimpology of Male Sexuality in the Caribbean |
| Ms. Donna Hope |
Chi Chi Man Vibes: Policing Jamaica Masculinity in Dancehall Culture |
| Ms. Allison Ramsay |
Cementing the Masculine Ideal Through (Masonic) Lodges in Barbados |
| Dr. Noel Cowell |
Sexuality and Work: The Attitude of Jamaican “Knowledge Workers” towards Alternative Sexuality |
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PANEL 10 — Chair Person: Dr. Jean Besson
Community, Organisation and Social Integration
| Presenters |
Title |
| Dr. David Dodman |
The Creation of Community? Citizens Action, Social Movements and the Portmore Toll Controversy |
| Prof. Don Robotham |
The Jamaican Crisis Reconsidered |
| Dr Elizabeth Ward & DeMario McDowell |
Violence Free Day |
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PANEL 11 — Chair Person: Prof Don Robotham
Dialogues with Chevannes
| Presenters |
Title |
| Rev. Stephen Jennings |
“Losing Life…To Find It”: The Gospel According to St. Barry |
| Dr. Jean Besson |
Myal, Revival and Rastafari in the Making of Western Jamaica: Dialogues with Chevannes |
| Mrs. Hilary Robertson–Hickling |
Barrington Chevannes – A Rhetorician for Recovery of “Africaribbeans” |
| Mr. Arthur Newland |
Rastafari and the Imperative of African- Caribbean Family Unit |
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PANEL 12 — Chair Person: Ms. Deborah Hickling
(In) Forming the Youths
| Presenters |
Title |
| Dr. Jane Dodman |
Learning to Be: Shaping the Future of an Inner–City Community by Forming Positive Attitudes to Industry |
| Ms. Dianne McIntosh |
Waiting to be Called Man: Providing Care, Wellness, Therapy and Training for Adolescent Boys on the Streets of Kingston |
| Prof. Peter Figueroa |
Understanding Sexual Behaviour among Jamaicans |
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