ABSTRACTS BY PANELS
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Panel A
Title: Reading, Writing and
Revolution: St. Domingue/Haiti in the Imagination of Three Seminal Writers
Panel Chair: Marie-José
N’zengou-Tayo
Sunil Agnani
Marlene Daut
Matthew Smith
Panel B
Trans-Local and Transnational
Vistas: Multiple Diasporas
Panel Chair: Victor Chang
Susan Mains
Sharon Morgan –Beckford
Kezia Page
Panel C
Title: Imagining Caribbean
Space: Jamaican Vistas
Panel Chair: Anthea Morrison
Mary Hanna
Antonia McDonald-Smythe
Andrea Shaw
Nicole Cameron
Panel D
Title: Re-imagining National,
Gendered, and Migatory Spaces in the Caribbean
Consciousness
Panel Chair: Curdella Forbes
Kela Francis
Corey Lamont
Candice Pitts
Marie Sairsingh-Mills
Panel E
Title: Imagining Caribbean
Space: Pre-Twentieth Century Vistas
Panel Chair: Mervyn Morris
Rhonda Harrison
Candace Ward
Raphael Dalleo
Panel F
Title: Imagining Caribbean
Space: Ecological/Environmental Vistas
Panel Chair: Antonia
MacDonald-Smythe
Evelyn O’Callaghan
Lorna Down
Bénédicte Ledent
Thera Edwards
Panel G
Title: Diaspora Gender
Relations: The Vista of Agency, Progression and Migration
Panel Chair: Carolyn Cooper
Whitney Edwards
Ronda Henry
Jennifer Thorington Springer
Panel H
Title: The Visual and the
Scribal: Doubling the View
Panel Chair: Betty Wilson
Carlos Castellano
Kim Robinson – Walcott
Ian Bethel-Bennett
Friday, April 30, 2010
Panel I
Visual Economies: Cinematic
Vistas
Panel Chair: Jean Antoine
Dunne
James Robertson
Rachel Moseley-Wood
Patricia Saunders
Melissa Stephens
Panel J
Title: Caribbean Popular
Culture
Panel Chair: Earl McKenzie
Rhoda Bharath
Carolyn Cooper
Jane Bryce
Velma Pollard
Panel K
Title: Locating Language,
Literature, and Cultural Relations
Panel Chair: Claudette
Williams
Laurence Breiner
Harold McDermott
Robert Schmid
Philip Nanton
Panel L
Title: Imagining Caribbean
Space: Hybridity, Landscape, and Colonial Intimacies
Panel Chair: Edward Baugh
Nagihan Haliloglu
Karen King-Aribisala
Giselle Rampaul
Panel M
Title: Imagining Diaspora:
West Indian Front Rooms, Migrant Identities, and
Speculative Fiction
Panel Chair: Michael Bucknor
Michael McMillan
Myriam Moïse
Nicha Selvon – Ramkissoon
Panel N
Title: Spiritual and Psychic
Spaces: Vistas of Cultural Memory
Panel Chair: Paula Morgan
Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Jean Antoine Dunne
Kelly Josephs
Panel O
Title: Imagining Caribbean
Space: Naipaulian Vistas
Panel Chair: Evelyn
O’Callaghan
Ryan Durgasingh
Kaneesha Parsard
Andra Ramdeen
Panel P
Migrant Vistas, Repeating
Islands
Panel Chair: Antonio Tillis
Dawn Duke
Curdella Forbes
Paulette Ramsay
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Panel Q
Title: Queering the Nation,
Sexing the Popular
Panel Chair: Donna Hope
Marquis
Geraldine Skeete
Agostinho Pinnock
Charleston Thomas
Panel R
Title: Spaces of Otherness:
Women Rewriting Place, Nation, and Creolization
Panel Chair : Funso Aiyejina
Donald Cleary
Aisha Spencer
Paula Morgan
