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
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
- 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