Latin American and Iberian Studies || IRGG

New Paradigms for the Caribbean in the Age of Globalization

1st Annual International Conference
November 10-11, 2005
Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), room 211
320 York Street, New Haven, CT

Schedule of Events

Thursday, November 10

4:30 - 4:45 p.m. Welcome Remarks

Hazel V. Carby
Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies,
Professor of American Studies at Yale University,
and Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization

4:45 - 6:00 p.m. Keynote Address

Nalo Hopkinson

“Island Girl: What You Wantin’ With De White Man’s World?”
(or, ‘What’s a Black Girl Like You Doing Writing Science Fiction?’)”

Nalo Hopkinson is the author of Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000),
Skin Folk (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003),
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004),
and numerous short stories.

Friday, November 11

9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

10:00 - 12:30 a.m Panel One: Politics and Culture

Tony Bogues
Brown University
“The Politics of Power and Violence: Rethinking the Political in the Caribbean”

Michelle A. Stephens
Mount Holyoke College
“Re-imagining Sovereignty in the Multiple Caribbean”

Deborah Thomas
Duke University
“Violence, Space, and Remapping Globality: New Frontiers in Jamaica”

1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Panel Two: Diasporic Fictions 

Belinda Edmondson
Rutgers University
“Caribbean Middlebrow: Global Popular Culture and the Caribbean Middle Class”

Rhonda Frederick
Boston College
“Migrating Fictions: Jamaican Culture and Globalization”

Nicole King
University of California, San Diego
TBA

4:00 - 4:30 p.m. Tea

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Closing Remarks

Naomi Pabst
Yale University

David Scott
Columbia University

Co-sponsored by The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies,
American Studies and African American Studies