MONA ACADEMIC CONFERENCE 2003
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, MONA CAMPUS

Gender in the 21st Century: Perspectives, Visions and Possibilities
August 29-31, 2003

Programme

Day 1: Friday, 29th August:	

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  Opening Ceremony (Undercroft)

Day 2: Saturday, 30th August:  

8:00 – 4:00   Registration: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)

Theme I:  Gender in the 21st Century: Perspectives & Visions
(Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, SSLT)

Sub-theme : Feminist Scholarship and Society

9:00 - 10:30 	Chair:  Dr. Marjorie Thorpe (Former Trinidad & Tobago's Ambassador to      			the United Nations)
Plenary Presenter:  Dr. Joycelin Massiah (Former Regional Programme    	Director, UNIFEM, Caribbean):
Feminist Scholarship & Society
Plenary Presenter:  Dr. Peggy Antrobus (Former Tutor/Coordinator, Women and Development Unit - WAND):  
Feminist Activism & Society

10:30 – 11:00		Break

11:00 - 1:00 	Panel 1:  Pushing the Boundaries:  Redefining Masculinities &  Femininities       
11:00  1:00 	Panel 1:  Feminist Scholarship & Society:00  1:00 	Panel 1:  Feminist Scholarship & Society:00  1:00 	Panel 1:  Feminist Scholarship & Society
Chair: Prof. Bridget Brereton (UWI, St. Augustine)
Panellists: 

#	Prof. Verene A. Shepherd (UWI, Mona): Gender, History Education and Development in Jamaica
#	Dr. Jeanette Morris: (UWI, St. Augustine): Gender and Schooling: Implications for Teacher Education
#	Prof. Errol Miller (UWI, Mona):  The Male Marginalisation  
            Thesis Revisited
#	Dr. Mark Figueroa (UWI, Mona): Challenging Gender Privileging: A Caribbean Experience
#	Prof. Wilma Bailey (UWI, Mona): Fatherhood in Risk Environments
#	Prof. Christine Barrow (UWI, Cave Hill): Men and Women in Love, Marriage and Divorce: A Changing Conjugality in Barbados?

1:00 – 2:00		Lunch Break

2:00 – 4:00   Panel 2:  Pushing the Boundaries:  Images, Representations and    
 				Identities

Chair:  Prof. Barry Chevannes (UWI, Mona)
Panellists: 

#	Prof. Rhoda Reddock (UWI, St. Augustine): Caribbean Masculinities and Femininities:  The Impact of Globalisation on Cultural Representations
#	Drs. Marjan de Bruin (UWI, Mona):  Gender, Politics and Media Production
#	Dr. Linden Lewis (Bucknell University): Masculinity, the Political Economy of the Body, and Patriarchal Power in the Caribbean 
#	Prof. Carolyn Cooper (UWI, Mona): “Mama, Is That You?”: Erotic Disguise in the Films Dancehall Queen and Babymother
#	Ms. June Ann Castello (UWI, Mona):  Shake that ‘Booty’ in Jesus’ Name: The Possibilities of a Liberation Theology of the Body for the Body of Christ in Jamaica

4:00 – 4:15		Presentation of Erna Brodber's book, Standing Tall: Affirmation of the Jamaican Male - 24 Self Portraits by Professor Neville Duncan, Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Mona. The author will be  available to sign copies of the book.

4:15 - 6:15	Panel 3:  Pushing the Boundaries:  New and Emerging Issues

Chair: Mrs. Hilary Robertson-Hickling  (UWI, Mona)
Panellists: 

#	Mrs. Faith Innerarity (UWI, Mona): Gender Dimensions of Social Capital in the Caribbean.	
#	Prof. Pauline Gardiner-Barber (Dalhousie University): Gender, Equity and Livelihoods Across Cultures
#	Dr. Leith Dunn (Development Consultant): Women and Work:  Policy Implications of ILO Conventions 
#	Dr. Orville Taylor (UWI, Mona): The Challenge of Gender and the
Labour Market after 30 years of Caricom
#	Mrs. Winsome Townsend (UWI, Mona):  The Environment:  Prospects for a Gender Responsive Approach to Policy and Programmes	
#	Dr. Velma Pollard (UWI, Mona - Retired): Female Emancipation and the Sewing Machine

Day 3: Sunday, 31st August: 

8:00 – 3:00	Registration: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT)

Theme II:  Gender in the 21st Century:  Possibilities
(Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, SSLT)

Sub-theme :  Bridging Epistemologies 

9:00 - 10:15	Chair:  Prof. Marlene Hamilton (UWI, Mona)
:00  10:15	Chair:  Mrs. Hermione McKenzie :00  10:15	Chair:  Mrs. Hermione McKenzie :00  10:15	Chair:  Mrs. Hermione McKenzie 	Plenary Presenter:  Dr. Saskia Wieringa (Institute of Social Studies -ISS - The Hague):  Women and Development Studies at the ISS in The Hague
	Plenary Presenter:  Mrs. Hermione McKenzie (UWI, Mona):  Shifting Centres and Moving Margins:  The UWI Experience

10:15 – 10:30		Break

10:30 - 12:30	Panel 4:  Bridging Epistemologies, Constructing New Paradigms 
:30  12:30	Panel 4:  Bridging Epistemologies    Constructing New Paradigms :30  12:30	Panel 4:  Bridging Epistemologies    Constructing New Paradigms :30  12:30	Panel 4:  Bridging Epistemologies    Constructing New Paradigms 
Chair:  Dr. Jessica Byron (UWI, Mona)
Panellists:

#	Prof. Elsa Leo-Rhynie (UWI, Mona):  Gender Studies:  Inter-disciplinary and Pedagogical Challenges
#	Dr. Eudine Barriteau (UWI, Cave Hill): Constructing Feminist Knowledge in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the Era of Globalisation 
#	Prof. Fay Durrant (UWI, Mona): Gender, Information Technology and Connectivity in the Caribbean.

#	Dr. Grace Sirju-Charran (UWI, St. Augustine):  Shifting, Dismantling, Erecting and Re-erecting Boundaries: Case Studies from the Scientific World
#	Dr. Pat Mohammed (UWI, St. Augustine):  A Different Imagination:  Documentary Film (15 mins)

12:30 – 1:30		Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:15	Panel 5: Setting New Agendas: The Scholarship of a New Generation
1:30  3:15	Panel 5:  Setting New Agendas:   The Scholarship of a New Generation:30  3:15	Panel 5:  Setting New Agendas:   The Scholarship of a New Generation:30  3:15	Panel 5:  Setting New Agendas:   The Scholarship of a New Generation
Chair: Ms. Jenese Dawson (UWI, Mona)
Panellists: 

#	Ms. Shakira Maxwell (UWI, Mona):  Reflections in the Looking Glass: Old or New? 21st Century Historical Epistemology and Methodology 
#	Dr. John Campbell: (UWI, Mona): “Not Without Meh Man”:  Notes towards the Creation of a 21st Century Caribbean Feminist Methodology
#	Ms. Suzanne Charles (UWI, Mona): Mirror Mirror: A feminist examination of the construction of beauty and body image. 
#	Ms. Gabrielle Hosein (University College, London):
           Ambivalent Aspirations: Assertion and Accommodation in Indo-
           Trinidadian Girls' Lives
#	Ms. Michelle Davis (UWI, Mona):  Gender and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in the Caribbean	

3:15 - 5:00	Panel 6:  Setting New Agendas:  Within and Beyond the Academy
		Chair: Mrs. Beverley Anderson-Manley (Political Scientist, Broadcaster, 
			Gender Trainer)
Panellists:

#	Hon. Maxine Henry-Wilson (Minister of Education, Youth and Culture): Governance, Leadership & Decision-making: Prospects for Caribbean Women	
#	Ms. Tracy Robinson (UWI, Cave Hill):  Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean:  Gender Imperatives in the 21st Century
#	Prof. Barbara Bailey (UWI, Mona): The Caribbean Experience in the International Women’s Movement: Issues, Process, Constraints, Opportunities
#	Dr. Michelle Rowley (UWI, Cave Hill): When The Post-Colonial State Bureaucratizes Gender: Charting Trinidadian Women’s Centrality Within The Margins 
#	Mrs. Linnette Vassell (NGO): Feminisms, Gender Studies, Activism:  The Elusive Triad

5.00 - 5:15		Break

5:15 – 6:15		Closing Ceremony & Presentation of Awards