Caribbean Women (Post) – Diaspora: African/Caribbean Interconnections

CONFERENCE

Caribbean Women (Post) – Diaspora: African/Caribbean Interconnections

12TH – 13TH JULY 2018

LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY, SOUTHWARK CAMPUS, LONDON SE1 0AA

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 11TH JULY 2-018 – PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Jilo: the Survivor

5.00 pm – 8.00 pm

Borough Road Gallery, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA.

Desrie Thomson-George, is a UK based visual artist, the Chair of Black Ink Legacy and Co-Founder of Black Ink Collective (1978-1987), the independent publishers which provided a platform for young Black Britons to write and be published. She has designed and produced children’s books and illustrations and created magazines including No Limits for girls (1997) and the first national Black History Month magazine – BHM Magazine (1999).

Her presentation (Thursday 12th July at 5.00 pm) will focus on the inspiration and motivation for her work, specifically her recent exhibition at the Art Academy, entitled ‘Liberated’ about Jilo – a Black woman living in the West – the narration of her struggles and her journey.

THURSDAY 12TH JULY 2018 – CONFERENCE DAY 1

Room K-806/7, Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street

8.30 am – 9.30 am

Registration, Coffee, Tea

9.30 am – 10.00 am

Welcome and Introduction to the Project

Suzanne Scafe

10.00 am – 10.45 am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS I – Chair: Suzanne Scafe

Gina Athena Ulysse: Rasanblaj Mobilities”  Wesleyan University, Hartford, USA

10.45 am – 11.00 am

Mid-morning Break

11.00 am – 12.30 pm

PRESENTATIONS I – Chair: Beverley Bryan

 Aisha T. Spencer:  Contesting Zones: Understanding female agency, migration and the complexities of home through a Caribbean poetics of childhood

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Nikoli Attai: “I Shall Return”: The problem of Queer Diaspora Human Rights Activism and Queer Modernity in the Anglophone Caribbean

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto, Canada

Laura Roldan-Sevillano: Reading The Effects Of (Post)Diaspora For Caribbean Daughters In Julia Álvarez’s How The García Girls Lost Their Accents And Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State

University of Zaragoza, Spain

12.30 pm – 1.30 pm

LUNCH

1.30 pm – 3.00 pm

PRESENTATIONS II – Chair: Pauline Muir

Charmaine Crawford: “Girl, call me when you get there”: African-Caribbean Women,

Migration and Social Networks in the Global Economy

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

Elaine Bauer: “She’s always the person with a very global vision”:  The Gender Dynamics of Migration, Narratives Interpretation and the Case of Jamaican Transnational Families

London South Bank University, UK

Funke Aladejebi:  (Post)-Diasporic Black Women in Canada and Rethinking Migratory Experiences

Trent University, Canada

3.00 pm – 3.15 pm

Mid-afternoon Break

3.15 pm – 4.45 pm

PRESENTATIONS III – Chair: Elaine Bauer

Gabriella Beckles Raymond: Re-Visiting the Home as a Site of Freedom and Resistance

Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Julia Siccardi: ‘There is such a shelter in each other’: Women looking for homes in Zadie Smith’s novels

Doctoral Student, Ecole Normal Superieure de Lyon, France

Amber Lascelles: Diaspora in a Neoliberal World: New Frontiers in Black Women’s Writing

PhD Researcher, University of Leeds, UK

Elisa Serna Martínez: Sexual Politics and Spiritual Practices in Opal Palmer Adisa’s Painting Away Regrets

Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

5.00 pm – 7.00 pm

PRESENTATIONS IV

ART PANEL AND EXHIBITION (Borough Road Gallery)

Chair: Pat Noxolo

Carol Ann Dixon: Four Women, For Women: Caribbean Diaspora Artists Reimag(in)ing the Fine Art Canon and Shifting Paradigms

University of Birmingham, UK

Marsha Pearce: ‘Picturing Theory’: Nicole Awai’s Black Ooze as Post Diaspora Expression

University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

Desrie Thomson-George: Introduction to the Exhibition, Jilo – the Survivor

Artist

7.15 pm

CONFERENCE DINNER

PALADAR, 4-5 London Road, SE1 6JZ

http://www.paladarlondon.com/

FRIDAY 13TH JULY 2018 – CONFERENCE DAY 2

Room K-806/7, Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street

8.30 am – 9.00 am

Registration, Coffee, Tea

9.00 am – 9.45 am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS II – Chair: Jenny Douglas

Jan Etienne: Windrush Sisters – in Search of Literary Voices inside Matriarchal Learning Hubs

Birkbeck, University of London, UK

9.45 am – 11.15 am

PRESENTATIONS V – Chair:  Denise Noble

Beverley Bryan: From migrant to settler and the making of a Black community: an autoethnographic account

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

  1. Chris Johnson: “The Courage to Continue”: Gerlin Bean’s Radical Itineraries

University of Toronto, Canada

Leith Dunn:  Cuba-Jamaica Migration: Memorialising Maternal Memories

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

11.15 am – 11.45 am

Mid-morning Break

11.45 am – 12.45 pm

PRESENTATIONS VI – Chair:  Aisha T. Spencer

Hiroko Shoji: ‘Le gens inconnu’ as a Strategy of Resistance – Post-Diasporic Identity in Michelle Cliff’s Free Enterprise

Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

Geraldine Skeete: Latitude and Long(ing)itude: Storifying Women at Home Going Abroad in “The Waiting Room”

University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

Karen Sanderson-Cole: “Killing Me Softly with His Words” – Female Characterization in Male Political Autobiography in the Caribbean 1960-2012

University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

12.45 pm – 1.30 pm

LUNCH

1.30 pm – 3.00 pm

PRESENTATIONS VII

ROUND TABLE – Locating Black British Women in the Archive, Creating Spaces for Black British Women in the Nation

Chair: Imaobong Umoren

Kennetta Hammond Perry: Black Beauty and the Archive: Studio Portraiture, Gender and the Image of Postcolonial Black Britain

East Carolina University, USA

Tanisha C. Ford: Black Feminist Archiving in the Digital Age

University of Delaware, USA

Monique Charles: Sifting through Grime: Examining Colourism in Grimy Garage and Grime Scenes

University of West London, UK

Azeezat Johnson: Intersectionality and the British Grammar of Race: Centering Black Muslim Women in Britain

Queen Mary, University of London, UK

3.00 pm – 3.15 pm

Mid- afternoon Break

3.15 pm – 4.15 pm

PRESENTATIONS VIII

HEALTH PANEL – Chair: Leith Dunn

Jenny Douglas – Black Women and Public Health in the UK: Organisation and Activism

Open University, UK

Dawn Edge – Caribbean Women and Dementia

University of Manchester, UK

BOOK STALL – NEW BEACON BOOKS

5.00 pm – 7.00 pm

READINGS AND WINE RECEPTION

Chair: Suzanne Scafe

Alecia McKenzie – author of the novel, Sweetheart (2011), awarded the Caribbean Book Prize and the Prix Carbet des Lycees, and the short story collections, Stories from Yard  (2005) and Satellite City ( 1992), winner of the Commonwealth Writers prize for best first book. Alecia has also published fiction for children and young adults: Doctor’s Orders (2005) and When the Rain Stopped in Natland (1995).

Diana Evans – author of 26a, winner of the Betty Trask award and awarded the Orange Prize for new fiction, The Wonder (2009) and Ordinary People (2018).

7.00 pm               

CLOSE

Publication of selected conference papers:

The investigators of the Research Network have been invited to co-edit a Special Issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal

See also https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-on-African-and-Black-Diaspora/book-series/RSABD

This is a peer-reviewed journal. Following the conference, participants will be invited to submit their abstracts as an expression of interest, followed by a 6,000-word article for peer review. Estimated publication date: December 2019.

Further details will follow, after the summer.

LONDON CONFERENCE – KEYNOTES AND BIOS

 

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