Day 3 Saturday, October 18
9:30 – 11:00 SESSION 7 A: “Oral Histories of the Rodney Protests”
Assembly Hall
Chair: Donna McFarlane
Ras Historian
“My Memories of the Rodney Period”
April Bernard and Kaydeen Denton
Department of Government, Sociology & Social Work
UWI, Cave Hill
“Memories of Resistance: Filling the Void in the Collective Consciousness”
Beverley Hamilton
Independent Journalist, Jamaica
“Women and Black Consciousness in Jamaica”
9:30 – 11:00 SESSION 7 B: “Language, Literature and Popular Culture”
Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1),
Faculty of Humanities and Education
Chair: Velma Pollard
Al Creighton
School of Education
University of Guyana
“The Walter Rodney Factor in Caribbean Literature”
Ida Tafari
Departments of Anthropology & African and African American Studies
Florida International University
“From Strength to Strength: The Power of the Narrative and Popular Culture in Resistance”
Hubert Devonish and Karen Carpenter
Jamaican Language Unit,
Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy
UWI, Mona
“Race, Language and National Identity: Jamaica 40 Years Later”
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 1:00 SESSION 8: “Rastafari and Political Activism in Jamaica”
Assembly Hall
Chair: Angela Heron
Michael Barnett
Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
UWI, Mona
“An Examination of Walter Rodney’s Impact on the Rastafari Movement in Jamaica during the late Sixties”
Cadence Wynter
Columbia College Chicago
“Rodney and Rastafari Cultural Identity in 1960’s Jamaica”
Frederick Hickling
Section of Psychiatry
UWI, Mona
“Rastafari as an African Diaspora National Liberation Movement”
1:00 – 2:30 LUNCH & Film screening: In the Sky’s Wild Noise and a rough cut of Clairmont Chung’s Walter Rodney documentary
Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1)
Faculty of Humanities & Education
2:30 – 4:30 SESSION 9: “Sustaining Walter Rodney’s Legacy”
Chair: Richard Small
Latoya West
Ian Randle Publishers
“‘Assassins of Conversation’: ‘Grassroots’ Publishing as an Attack on the Dialogue of the Philistines”
Jessica Huntley and Eric Huntley
Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, London
“Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications and the Huntleys’ Contribution to the Rodney Legacy”
Karen Jefferson
Head, Archives & Special Collections
Robert W. Woodruff Library of the
Atlanta University Center
“Preserving the Legacy: Documenting the Life and Contributions of Walter Rodney”
4:30 – 5:00 BREAK
5:00 – 6:30 SESSION 10: “Student and Youth Activism Past and Present”
Chair: Claremont Kirton
Jerry Small
Public Intellectual, Jamaica
“The Conscious Youth of the 1960s”
Robert Davis
Department of Government
UWI, Mona
“Reading History Backwards: The UWI Heads of Government, the Rodney Affair and its Student Impact”
Roger Bent
Guild President, UWI, Mona 2008
“New Forms of Student Activism at Mona in the 21st Century”
6:00 – 6:30 SESSION 11: Closing Ceremony of the Academic Conference
Chair: Brian Meeks
BREAK: 6:30 – 8:00
8:00-2:00 SESSION 12: “Eras: Reunion at the Union”
Retro Dance
Students’ Union
Admission $500; students with ID $300
Code Red & Guest Selectors:
Bunny Goodison
Mikey Thompson from Kool FM & Merritone
King Patrick/Rocktone
