Administrative Contact: Dr.

Curdella Forbes, Director, The

Caribbean Studies Program of Howard University, Locke 214,
ceforbes@howard.edu.
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Parking at Howard University:

Hourly paid parking is available from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the
Howard Center Parking Lot, which is located across from the Howard
University Bookstore on Georgia Avenuethe entrance is on 8th
Street. Open parking is available on campus after 5:00 p.m. For the
Culturefest at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, parking is available adjacent to
the Lewis K. Downing Auditorium of the College of Engineering at
the Mackey Parking Lot, which is located between the College of
Engineering and the School of Architecture.
Acknowledgements:
The Caribbean Studies Program of Howard University wishes to thank
the Globalization Fund of Howard University for their financial
sponsorship, which made this conference possible. We would also like
to thank the Department of English of Howard University for financial
support, Mrs Marie Sairsingh for her donation, and the embassies of
Jamaica and Barbados for donations in kind. We thank the Arts and
Humanities Center for Synergy of the University of Maryland, the
Creative Writing Program of the University of Maryland, and the
Department of English at the University of Maryland for sponsoring
the opening event of the conference, and Mrs. Tanya Hardy of the
Department of English at Howard University for her generous
administrative support.

A GLOBAL
CROSSROADS?:
CARIBBEAN
STUDIES
BEYOND THE
DISCIPLINES
A conference hosted by the Caribbean Studies
Program of Howard University
with support from the University of Maryland

September 9-10, 2015

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

OPENING SESSION:

Lecture and Reading

by

Mervyn Morris
Poet Laureate of Jamaica and
Professor Emeritus of the University of
the West Indies, Mona
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
VENUE: Ulrich Recital Hall, 2119 Tawes Hall,
University of Maryland

Howard University

PANELS AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

(To be held in the School of Social Work Auditorium)
TIME
8:30
a.m.9:00
a.m.
9:00
a.m.9:15
a.m.

PRESENTATION
Registrationheld in the ante-room to the auditorium in the School
of Social Work

9:15
a.m.10:15
a.m.

Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Professor Yvette White, Howard

University
Opening Keynote Address: Interchange of Disciplines: Placing
Louise Bennett by Professor Emeritus Mervyn Morris, University of
the West Indies, Mona
BREAK

10:15
a.m.10:30
a.m.
10:30
a.m.5:00
p.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks:

Dr. Curdella Forbes, Director, Caribbean Studies Program, Howard
University
Dr. Merle Collins, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of
Maryland

Poster Presentation
Kirstie Grant and Janelle Burke: Summary of Caribbean Collections
Held at the Howard University Herbariumdisplay located outside
the auditorium in the School of Social Work

By public transportation: Take the Green Line train from Shaw-Howard Metro Station
to College Park Metro Station. Then take the free UMD shuttle to university campus.
Driving: From University Boulevard and Adelphi Road, enter Campus Drive. At the
roundabout, take the 3rd exit. Parking is on your left (Lot JJ), and the back of Tawes
Hall is on your right. Parking is free at this time. Walk around to enter on the other
side of Tawes Hall.
This event is supported by the University of Marylands Arts and Humanities Center for
Synergy, the Creative Writing Program, and the Department of English.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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10:30
a.m.11:45
a.m.

Panel 1: A Global Crossroads: Transnational Perspectives

Shauna Morgan-Kirlew, Howard University: A Trilogy of Cultural
Mapping: Cartographies of Identity in the Poetry of Kei Miller.

1:50
p.m.3:05
p.m.

Elena Machado Sez, Bucknell University: La Bodega Goes to

Broadway: In the Heights and Transcultural Latinidad

Nigel Brissett, Clark University: Does Size Matter?: State-Response

to Transnational Education (TNE)

Quito Swan, Howard University: At Home and Abroad: Black Power,

West Indians and Radical Diasporas

11:45
a.m.1:00
p.m.

Grace Virtue, Independent Scholar: The Class of 2030: Education for

Social Transformation in Jamaica.

Chair: Raphael Dalleo

PRESENTATION

Chair: Shauna Morgan-Kirlew

Panel 2: Global Roots: The African Connection

Carol Bailey, Westfield State University: Negritude: Blackness, the
City, and Fiction
Orrieann Florius, Howard University: Resisting Spirit Thievery: The
Performance of Kinopoetics in Erna Brodbers Myal
DeAnna Miller, University of North Dakota: Triangular Discourse:
Between Kamau Brathwaites Odales Choice and Sophocles
Antigone
Marie Sairsingh, Howard University: Yam Roots and Routes:
Festivals as Ontological Reclamation in Erna Brodbers The
Rainmakers Mistake.
Chair: Tanya Shields

1:00
p.m.1:50
p.m.

Clment Animan-Akassi, Howard University: Deconstructing the

Cuban Revolutions Politics of Race in the Non-Canonical Discourse:
The Crisis of the Nation for All Except African Descendants
Erold Bailey, Westfield State University: I am studying in the USA
but: Observations and Insights from Caribbean College Students

April Shemak: Narrating the Structures of Global Health in Oonya

Kempadoos All Decent Animals

TIME

Panel 3: Questioning Globality

LUNCH

TIME

PRESENTATION

3:05

Panel 4: Global Metaphors: Imagining Haiti, Imagining Caribbean

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4:20
p.m.

Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University: A romance of the race, just

down there by Panama: Claude McKay, Eric Walrond and the
Occupation of Haiti
Corey Lamont, Howard University: The Immigrant Artist at Work:
Transnational Negotiations of Citizenship in Edwidge Danticats
Brother Im Dying
Tanya Shields, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The Devils Wanga:
Race Films Narratives of Caribbean Spirituality and Female Power
Kate Simpkins, Northeastern University: The Absent Agronomist
and the Lord of Poison: New Shapes of Modernity in Transatlantic
Literature
Chair: Erold Bailey

4:20
p.m.4:40
p.m.

BREAK AND BOOK LAUNCHES: to be held in the ante-room to the

Social Work Auditorium
Elena Machado Sez. Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in
Caribbean Diasporic Fiction
Tanya Shields. Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining
Caribbean Belonging

4:40
p.m.5:30
p.m.

Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Dr. Patrick Ymele-Leki, Howard

University
Closing Keynote Address: Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Development: Real or Fantasy? by Dr. John Tharakan,
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Howard University
BREAK

5:30
p.m.6:30
p.m.
6:30
p.m.8:00
p.m.

Readings and performances:

Merle Collins, Mervyn Morris, Shauna
Morgan-Kirlew, Shanique Campbell,
Carmin Wong

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

VENUE: Lewis K. Downing Auditorium, College
of Engineering, Architecture and Computer
Sciences

Culturefestheld in the Lewis K. Downing Auditorium of the College

of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences.
See the next two pages for information on Culturefest.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Thursday, September 10, 2015

CLOSING EVENT:

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CULTUREFEST
Documentary Screening:
Saracca and Nation: African Memory and
Recreation in Grenada and Carriacou
Directed by

Merle Collins
Poet, Novelist and Professor of Comparative Literature,
University of Maryland

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