2007 Schedule
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
4:30 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. Registration
5:30 p.m. — 6:30 p.m. Keynote Address
- “Despite and Because of: Legacies of Slavery”
Alston “Barry” Chevannes, Mona School of Business, University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
6:30 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. Reception
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
8:15 a.m. — 9:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m. — 11.00 a.m. Panel 1: Legacies of Slavery in Jamaica
- Wayne Modest, Museum of History and Ethnography, Institute of Jamaica
“(Un)Silencing the Past: Slavery and Repair in Contemporary Jamaica” - Edward Rugemer, Yale University
“Transatlantic Infuence: First of August Celebrations in the Antebellum United States” - Petrine Archer-Straw, Cornell University
“Accessory/Accessories: Or What’s in Your closet?”Moderator: Verene Shepherd, University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
11:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. Coffee Break with Pastries
11.30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. Break Out Sessions
12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. Lunch on own; time to tour exhibition
2.00 p.m. — 4.00 p.m. Panel 2: Legacies of Jamaican Slavery in the United Kingdom
- Eddie Chambers, Independent artist and scholar
“Remembering the Crack of the Whip: Some Images of Slavery in the Recent Work of Black British Artists” - Catherine Hall, University College, London
“Britain 2007: Problematizing Histories” - Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London
“Remembering Jamaica”Moderator: David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University
4:00 p.m. — 4.30 p.m. Tea and Cookies
4:30 p.m. — 6: 30 p.m. Film Screening and Discussion
FILM: Life and Debt (90 min) Stephanie Black, Film-maker and director of Life and Debt
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3
8:30 a.m. — 9:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. Panel 3: Labor and the Legacies of Slavery
- Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
“The Legacy of Slavery: The World of the Jamaican Apprentices” - Anthony Bogues, Brown University
“The slaves dem work and so do we, so weh the difference: Reflections on Labor and Freedom in post-Emancipation Jamaica” - Krista Thompson, Northwestern University
“Postcards to Slavery: Photography, History, (Re)Memory”Moderator: David Brion Davis, Yale University
11.00 a.m. — 11.30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries
11:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. Break Out Sessions
12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. Lunch on own; time to tour exhibition
2:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. Panel 4: Music and the Legacies of Slavery
- Kenneth Bilby, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago
“Masking the Spirit in the South Atlantic World: Jankunu’s Partially-Hidden History” - Garnette Cadogan, Independent Author
“Redemption Songs: The Legacy of Anti-Slavery in Jamaican Popular Music” - Carolyn Cooper, University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
“Erotic Maroonage: Embodying Emancipation in Jamaican Dancehall Culture”Moderator: Professor James Miller (New School)
4:00 p.m. — 6:30 p.m. Reception and Musical Performance by Inity Reggae Band
Note: This event will be held at the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Center (GPSCY), 204 York Street
“Breakout” sessions (same sessions to run on November 2 AND 3)
All sessions to take place at Yale Center for British Art unless otherwise stated
- The Middle Passage and Iconography of the Slave Ship
Cheryl Finley, Cornell University
Location: Beinecke Library Mezzanine - Visual Perspectives on Emancipation and the Plantation
Tim Barringer, Yale University
Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University
Location: Art and Emancipation exhibition - Jamaican Masquerade and Africa
Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Stanford University
Location: Art and Emancipation exhibition - Matters of Perception — Self as the Other
Joy Gregory, independent artist
Courtney Martin, Yale University
Location: Yale Center for British Art Study Room - Caribbean History in Digital Art: Roshini Kempadoo’s Ghosting
Roshini Kempadoo, independent artist
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
Location: Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall - Slave Gardens in Artistic Imagery
Catherine Benoit, Connecticut College
Stephane Roy, Yale Center for British Art
Location: Yale Center for British Art Second Floor Classroom - Hidden Bonds: Revealing the Legacy of Slavery in American Art
Graham Boettcher, Birmingham Museum of Art
Location: Yale University Art Gallery, American galleries - Mapping a New Kingston: Belisario’s Sketches of Character
Gillian Forrester, Yale Center for British Art
Location: Art and Emancipation exhibition - Agostino Brunias: Plantocracy’s Painter
Geoff Quilley, University of Sussex
Location: Yale Center for British Art, fourth floor galleries