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Draft Programme Honouring Miss Lou

Day 3 - Friday, Jan 11
TIME EVENT PRESENTER(S) VENUE
8:30-9:00 Registration    

9:00-10:00

Plenary 3: “What Miss Lou Never Knew: Language and Identity in the New Jamaica ”

Professor Hubert Devonish, Head, Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, UWI, Mona

Chair: Professor Emeritus Maureen Warner-Lewis, UWI 		Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)
10:00-10:30 Opening of Library Exhibition    
10:30-11:00 BREAK BREAK  
11:00-12:20 Panel 2: “ Louise Bennett and the Politics of Gender” Chair: Dr Kim Robinson Walcott, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)
12:30-2:00 LUNCH/Invited Readings

 

  
2:00-3:00 Plenary 4: “ Burying Miss Lou: Contested Rites of Passage in Contemporary Jamaica ”

Professor Carolyn Cooper, Director, Institute of Caribbean Studies; Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, UWI, Mona

Chair: Dr Velma Pollard, UWI, Mona 		Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)
3:00-4:20 Round Table 2: “Remembering Miss Lou” Fae Ellington, Easton Lee, Tony MacFarlane, Louis Marriott Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)
4:30-5:00 Book Launch: Ifeoma Nwankwo. Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth Century Americas (U of California Press, 2005). West Indies branch, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (WIACLALS) Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)
5:00-6:00 Video Presentation: a film by the Institute of Jamaica :   Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)
6:00-6:30 BREAK BREAK  
6:30-8:00 “Evening Time”: An evening of International Story Telling

Ntukuma : The Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica :

Shevannah Chisholm, A-dZiko Simba, Jean Small, Amina Blackwood Meeks and Gene Tagaban with Marjorie Whylie 		Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)