CONFERENCE SESSIONS
SESSION: A1
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
SESSION: A3
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
Panel Title: Poverty Reduction
Panel Title: "So, yu playin woman?": Public spaces and public
discourse in contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, and
mothering in the Caribbean.
Chair: PHILLIP OSEI, University of the West Indies
Chair: WINIFRED BROWN-GLAUDE, Bowdin College
PHILLIP OSEI, University of the West Indies
Title: The Decline of Poor Relief in Jamaica
Presenters:
WINNIFRED BROWN-GLAUDE, Bowdin College
Title: Cleaning up the Streets: Race/Color, Gender and Public
Space in Jamaica
MICHELLE ROWLEY, Clark University
Title: Matrifocality as a Historical-Present: Questioning the Double
Bind
PAULA MORGAN, University of the West Indies
Title: Shaping Women for a Brave New World
PATRICIA SAUNDERS, Bowdin College
Title: Unruly Barrack Yard Women: The Political Economy of
Gender & Sexuality in Short Fiction of the Beacon
Presenters:
ALDRIE HENRY-LEE, University of the West Indies
Title: Policy Implications of the Measurement of Poverty in
Jamaica
PATRICIA NORTHOVER, University of the West Indies
Title: Poverty Reduction, Rural Development and a Re-vitalised
Sugar Industry in Jamaica
JIMMY TIMDIGARUKAYO, University of the West Indies
Title: Evaluation of Policies on Squatter Settlements in Jamaica
Discussant: PATSY LEWIS
Discussant:
SESSION: A4
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
SESSION: A2
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Panel Title: The Practical, Economic and Social Aspects of Casino
Gaming in Selected Countries in the Caribbean
Panel Title: Labor Migration and the Caribbean Literary
Imagination
Chair: MARIE-JOSE N’ZENGOU-TAYO, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
MARIE-JOSE N’ZENGOU-TAYO, University of the West Indies, Mona
Title: The Viejo and the Congo: Haitian Cane Workers in some
Haitian fictions
VELMA POLLARD, University of the West Indies
Title: Imagination and Reality – the Profile of the Colon-man in
Jamaican lore and literature
ELIZABETH WILSON, University of the West Indies
Title: Migration and Marronage: Caribbean Communities in
Literature and Film
MARY-ANN GOSSER, Florida Atlantic University
Title: Esmeralda Santiago’s America’s Dream and the
Representation of a Puerto Rican Woman Labour Worker
Discussant: CAROLYN ALLEN, University of the West Indies
Chair: RONAN OLIVER DAVID, U. S. Virgin Islands, Casino Control
Commission
Presenters:
RONAN OLIVER DAVID, USVI, Casino Control Commission
Title: Casino Gaming and Regulations in the United States Virgin
Islands
NEREIDA GONZALEZ, Aruba, N.A.
Title: The social aspect of Casinos on local residents
SB JONES-HENDRICKSEN, University of the Virgin Islands
Title: The economic aspects of casino gambling
NOREEN MICHAELS, Department of Education, U.S.V.I
Title: Social reality of gambling in St. Croix, United States Virgin
Islands
Discussant:
SESSION: A5
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
Panel Title: Education: Challenge and Change
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Chair: SYLVESTER, MEAGAN, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
OWOLABI M. BAKRE, University of the West Indies
Title: Imperialism and the Integration of the Accountancy
Profession in the Commonwealth Caribbean
AKUA BENJAMIN, Reyerson Polytechnic University
Title: Are you Jamaican? Meaning and Saliency for Caribbean
Peoples of African Ancestry in Canada
MINABERE IBELEMA, University of Alabama
Title: Are you in the band? Race, Space and the Law in Carnival
SURENDRA ARJOON, University of the West Indies
Title: Moral Development: A case for character education
SIMBOONATH SINGH, Reyerson Polytechnic University
Title: Is This a Religion? Double Resistance and Oppression in the
Shouter Baptists Faith in Trinidad and Tobago
MEAGAN SYLVESTER, University of the West Indies
Title: The globalization of higher education: Assessing the
response of the University of the West Indies
JEFFREY OGBONNA GREEN OGBAR, University of Connecticut
Title: “Yele, Yele”: Caribbean Identity and the Rubric of Race in
U.S.-Based Hip-Hop
BRUNILDA COTTO-IBARRA, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Humanities 3011-3012 in the School of Architecture: A
Different Approach
Discussant:
Discussant: LIONEL SEWPERSHAD, Department of Education, U.S.
Virgin Islands
SESSION: A6
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
SESSION: A8
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 207
Panel Title: Health and Human Development
Chair: PRINCE RAMSEY
Panel Title: Gender Ideologies and Changing Relations of Gender
in the Caribbean
Presenters:
GILBERTO J. CABRERA TRIMINO, University of Havana
Chair: EUDINE V. BARRITEAU, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
EUDINE V. BARRITEAU, University of the West Indies
Title: Requiem for the Male Marginalization Thesis in the
Caribbean: The death of a Non-Theory
CARMEN HUTCHINSON MILLER, University of the West Indies
Title: Change in Gender Relations in the Caribbean: “Comparative
analysis of the gender relations of different generations of AfroCaribbean Descendants in Port Limon, Costa Rica”
ANN DENIS, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Title: A Gendered Analysis of the Impact of Changing State
Policies on Work in Barbados
DAPHNE JAYASINGHE, University of the West Indies
Title: Changing skill demands in Manufacturing and the Impact on
Caribbean Female Workers
Discussant:
SESSION: A7
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
Panel Title: Caribbean Cultural Consciousness: Reflections of
Diasporic Experiences
Chair: SIMBOONATH SINGH, Ryerson Polytechnic University
Presenters:
Title: Desarrollo Humano, Ambiente y Salud: Santa Maria del
Rosario Aspira a Comunidad Saluable
DR. RAFA DIMITRI HALLEY, Aruba, N.A.
Title: Ecological Medicine: Self in Physical Disease
G. RITA DUDLEY-GRANT, Virgin Islands Behavioral Services
Title: Substance abuse in the Caribbean: A Buddhist Approach to
Recovery
CAROLINE F. ALLEN, University of Warwick
Interdependencies in Health Conditions Between the Caribbean
and Britain: A World-Systems Perspective
Discussant: PRINCE RAMSEY, Antigua, W.I.
SESSION: A9
Monday, May 28, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Nationalism: A Resurgence
Chair: LILLIAN COTTO MORALES, University of Puerto Rico
Presenters:
JOSE LUIS GALLANI-CUBARRUBIA, Instituto Universitario,
Venezuela
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Title: Proyeccion de Venezuela en Caribe: Cambios y
Perspectivas.
LILLIAN COTTO MORALES, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Protocolos de empoderamiento: experiencias de
participacion organizada en el Caribe: Vieques, P.R., y el Valle
del Rio Belize, Belize
JUAN GARCIA-PASSALACQUA, Centro de Estudios Avanzados
de Puerto Rico Caribe
Title: Caribbean Ethnicity after the Cold War: The Resurgence of
Nationalism
Chair: MICHAEL SANCHEZ, Southwest Texas State University
Presenters:
STEPHEN G. COBB, Messiah College
Title: Being and Identity on Bahamian Out-Islands: Will the Real
Bahamian Please Stand
MICHAEL SANCHEZ, Southwest Texas State University
Title: Cultural Resistance and Citizenship in Puerto Rico
RUBEN J. DE HOYOS, University of Wisconsin
Title: Yesterday, Panama Canal, Tomorrow: Guantanamo Bay?
Discussant: PATRICK TAYLOR,
Discussant: EMILIO PANTOJAS-GARCA, University of Puerto Rico
SESSION: B1
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: Population Prospects and Issues for the Caribbean in
the 21st century
Chair: CHUKWUDUM UCHE, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
SESSION: B3
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Panel Title: Caribbean Economic, Social and Development Issues
of the 21st Century
Chair: IVELAW GRIFFITH, Florida International University
Presenters:
PATRICIA ANDERSEN, University of the West Indies
Title: Youth and the Labour Market in Jamaica
DAVID K. TWIGG, Florida International University
Title: Development of Caribbean Human Capital: To Build or to
Bug
CHUKWUDUM UCHE, University of the West Indies
Title: Youth Sexual Behaviour and Reproductive Health in the
Caribbean
ISABEL DAVILA, Florida International University
Title: Regional Integration: The Caribbean Court of Justice
JULIAN DEVONISH, University of the West Indies
Title: Growing Old in the Caribbean: An Analysis of Population
Aging in Jamaica and Barbados
LISA R. NORMAN, University of the West Indies
Title: HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: Small Islands, Large Epidemic
SHARON PRIESTLEY, University of the West Indies
Title: Urbanisation and Spatial Development in the Caribbean:
Recent Trends and Issues
Discussant:
HEATHER ROBERTSON, Florida International University
Title: The Caribbean and World Economy: Revisiting Patterns of
Insertion, Deepening and Structural Development
Discussant: IVELAW GRIFFITH, Florida International University
SESSION: B4
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
Panel Title: “Black and Latino?”: Rethinking the Racial Borders of
the Spanish Caribbean and Its Diaspora
Chair: IFEOMA C.K. NWANKWO, University of Michigan
SESSION: B2
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
Presenters:
IFEOMA C.K. NWANKWO, University of Michigan
Title: Our Brothers(?) in Chains: Cuban and U.S. Black Views of
Racial Solidarity During Slavery
Panel Title: Transnational Caribbean Identity
JEROME BRANCHE, University of Pittsburgh
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Title: The Semantics of Enslavement: Racial Labeling and Social
Domination in Colonial Latin America
LESLIE GRAY, Santa Clara University
Title: The Political Ecology of Ecotourism in Trinidad & Tobago
MICHELLE WILKINSON, Bard College
Title: “Latin Soul Brothers: Puerto Rican Writers Within the
African American Grain
CARISSA KUEMPEL, Santa Clara University
Title: Wastewater Management and Ecotourism: A case study of
Charlotteville, Tobago
LESLEY FERACHO, University of Georgia
Title: Black Latino: Melting Pot or Salad Bowl: Negotiations of
Identity in Piri Thomas’ Down These Mean Streets and Loida
Maritza Perez’s Geographies of Home
Discussants: AMY SCHECTER, Environment Tobago
GERARD RAMSWAK, Trinidad and Trinidad
Discussant:
SESSION: B5
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
SESSION: B7
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Public Administration
Panel Title: Tropical Tropes: The Power and Politics of Popular
Caribbean Images
Chair: DONNA P. HOPE, University of the West Indies
Chair: KARLA SLOCUM, University of North Carolina
Presenters:
Presenters:
FAYE V. HARRISON, University of South Carolina
Title: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the Cultural Politics of
(Mis) Representation
PAULETTE WILSON, University of the West Indies
Title: The Jamaican Civil Service – Facing the 21st Century
CAROLLE CHARLES, CUNY, Baruch College
Title: From Savages and Barbarians to Boat-People and Aids
Carriers: Plus Ca Change Plus C’est le Meme
ROBIN VANDER, University of North Carolina
Title: The Trace of History: Memory and Desire in AfricanAmerican and Caribbean Literature
ROSALYN HOWARD, University of Central Florida
Title: The Seduction was Complete
Discussant: KARLA SLOCUM, University of North Carolina
SESSION: B6
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Panel Title: The Promise and Perils of Ecotourism in the
Caribbean
Chair: DENNIS R. GORDON, Santa Clara University
LIVINGSTON SMITH, University of the West Indies
Title: Crown Colony and Independence: Politics in the Cayman
Islands
DONNA P. HOPE, University of the West Indies
Title: The Politics of Identity in Jamaican DanceHall Culture
CHARLENE SHARPE-PRYCE, University of the West Indies
Title: Intellectualism & Political Development in Jamaica
Discussant:
SESSION: B8
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Panel Title: Literature: Caribbean Issues
Chair: DAVID EDGECOMBE, University of the Virgin Islands
Presenters:
Presenters:
FRANK BIRBALSINGH, York University
Title: Austin Clarke's Short Story Technique
WILLIAM EISINGER, Santa Clara University
Contributors: GREGORY GOUVEIA, BRIAN CROWLEY, KELLY
WARREN
Title: Agroecology in Brasso Seco, Trinidad
AARON KAMUGISHA, University of the West Indies
Title: We must learn to sit down and critique Euro-Class Centrism
: Reflections on Sylvia Wynter’s epistemic turn
DENNIS R. GORDON, Santa Clara University
Title: The Politics of Ecotourism in Trinidad & Tobago and the
Caribbean
DAVID EDGECOMBE, University of the Virgin Islands
Title: Drama in the Caribbean
Discussant:
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Presenters:
SESSION: B9
Tuesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 207
HILARY BROWN, University of the West Indies
Title: Reggae Sunsplash: Ritual, Resistance, Roots Reggae to
Dancehall
Round Table Title: The Use of Information Technology in Diaspora
Studies
STANLEY LOWRIE, University of the West Indies
Title: Dressing Loud and Proud: Bashment Semiotics in the Dance
hall
Presenter:
SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH, University of the West Indies
Title: Disembodied Body or Urban Psychocultural Synthesis in
Caribbean Identity
GLENN ROBERTSON, University of California at Berkeley
KAM-AU AMEN, University of the West Indies
Title: In Search of the Jamaican Narrative: Stereotype
construction in the Jamaican film versus the cultural narrative
SESSION: C1
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
Discussant:
Panel Title: Contribuciones al Estudio del Espanol del Caribe
Contemporaneo
Chair: LUIS A. ORTIZ LOPEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Presenters:
LUIS A. ORTIZ LOPEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Contacto y cambio de lenguas en la frontera DominicoHaitiana: Actitudes y creencias sociolinguisticos
CARMEN HERNANDEZ TORRES, University of Puerto Rico
Title: La Expresion de Futuridad en el Espanol de Puerto Rico
SUNNY CABRERA SALCEDO, University of Puerto Rico
Title: La toponimia del Puerto Rico Contemporaneo
DORIS MARTINEZ VIZCARRONDO, University of Puerto Rico
Title: La alternancia de codigos, los prestamos linguisticos como
procedimientos de construccion de identidad en la lirica del rap
puertoriqueno
Discussant:
SESSION: C2
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: Film, Dancehall and festival: Jamaican Identity and
Popular Culture
SESSION: C3
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Panel Title: Second Generation Caribbeans in Canada Pursuing
the Mobility Dream
Chair: DWAINE PLAZA, Oregon State University
Presenters:
CLIFFORD J. JANSEN, York University
Title: Caribbeans in Toronto
DWAINE PLAZA, Oregon State University
Title: Examining Ethnicity and Gender Differences Among
Caribbeans in Canada
CARL JAMES, York University
Title: Theorizing the Experiences of Second Generation Caribbean
MAXINE BRAMBLE, York University
Title: Black Canadian Girls and Schooling: What's Happening?
Discussant:
Chair: HILARY BROWN, University of the West Indies
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SESSION: C4
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
Round Table: Caribbean Feminism at the turn of the Century
Panel Title: Religion and Roots of Black Caribbeans
Chair: RHODA REDDOCK, University of the West Indies
Chair: MICHAEL BARNETT, Florida International University
Presenters:
Presenters:
RHODA REDDOCK, University of the West Indies
MICHAEL BARNETT & DEAN WAGSTAFFE, Florida International
University
Title: The Religious Choices of Black Caribbeans in the United
States and the Corresponding Effect it has on their Identities
GABRIELLE HOSEIN, Trinidad & Tobago
EUDINE BARRITEAU, University of the West Indies
CARLA BAKBOORD, CAFRA, Suriname Women’s Movement
BENNIE OSBORNE, Florida International University
Title: Clash of Identities in South Florida: An explanation of the
complexity of racial and national identity and its impact on ethnic
solidarity between Black Americans and Jamaicans
FRANCES HENRY, York University
Title: Reclaiming African Religion in Trinidad: The Orisha and
Spiritual Baptist Faith
ILEANA SANZ CABRERA, Universidad de Habana
Title: Raices africanes en la filmografia de Gloria Rolando
Discussant:
SESSION: C5
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
Panel Title: Strategies for Caribbean Tourism: Promises and
Pitfalls
Chair: EVE STODDARD, St. Lawrence University
Presenters:
EVE STODDARD, St. Lawrence University
Title: Tourism and the Commodification of Culture in the
Caribbean
GRANT CORNWALL, St. Lawrence University
Title: Sugar and Tourism in St. Kitts and Nevis
KEITH NURSE, University of the West Indies
Title: Festival Tourism in the Caribbean
KEN GOULD, St. Lawrence University
Title: Caribbean Tourism and the Environment
Discussant:
SESSION: C6
SESSION: C7
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
Panel Title: Education – Direction and Purpose
Chair: SIDONIA HODGE, University of the Virgin Islands
Presenters:
KEITH HOLMES, University of Bristol
Title: Whose direction and purpose for education in the 21st
Century Caribbean? Research Development Initiatives in Small
States: A Case Study of St. Lucia
MEAGAN SYLVESTER, University of the West Indies
Title: Implications of Educational Expansion in a Developing
Society
SIDONIA HODGE, University of the Virgin Islands
Title: Prediction of Academic Achievement Among Preadolescents
on the Island of St. Maarten
TREVOR PARRIS, University of the Virgin Islands
The British Caribbean Student at the University of the Virgin
Islands
Discussant:
SESSION: C8
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Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Culture and Management Caribbean Style: Experience
of Practitioners
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: Sint-Maarten: Finding its Place and Identity in the
Caribbean
Chair: RUBYA MADURO, Lero Corporate Communication
Chair: FABIAN ADEKUNLE BADEJO, University of Sint Maarten
Presenters:
LUUD HAKKENS, Hakkens & Emmanuel, Consultancy & Training
Title: Leadership styles in St. Maarten
RUBYA MADURO, Lero Corporate Communication
Title: Discrepancy between TQM assumptions and organizational
cultures in Curacao
JOHN PILGRIM, National Productivity Council
Title: Measuring productivity in the Public Sector
LIONEL REMY, Development Support Specialist Group
Title: Culture, Management and Change
Discussant:
SESSION: C9
Tuesday, May 29, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Panel Title: Governance and Elections
Chair: SELWYN RYAN, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
RUPERT SILBERIE, University of the Netherlands Antilles
Title: Putting Sound Politics in the Driver’s Seat At Last
SELWYN RYAN, University of the West Indies
Title: Models in Conflict: Elections & Ethnicity in Guyana,
Trinidad, and Suriname
Presenters:
FABIAN ADEKUNLE BADEJO, University of Sint Maarten
Title: Publish and be Blessed
MARIA VAN ENCKEVORT, University of Sint Maarten
Title: Cultural Imperialism
RHODA ARRINDELL, University of Sint Maarten
Title: Being and Identity in Caribbean Literature with Special
ALEX RICHARDS, University of Sint Maarten
Title: Identity, Culture, Policitical Discussion and Economics
Discussant:
SESSION: D2
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Panel Title: Tourism, Eco-Tourism and Caribbean Development
Chair: BERT J. THOMAS, Brooklyn College
Presenters:
BERT J. THOMAS, Brooklyn College
Title: Eco-Tourism as a panacea: the Dominican case
IBRAHIM ALADEUSI AJAGUNNA, Excelsior Community College
Title: The Environmental Impact of Tourism in Jamaica
THOMAS ABEL, University of Florida
Title: The Nature of Development: Using Ecological Economics to
Evaluate the Impacts of Ecotourism on Bonaire, N.A
Discussant:
EDEDET INIAMA, University of the Virgin Islands
Title: An analysis of the 2000 Senatorial Election in the U.S. Virgin
Islands and the Factors Influencing Election Success
AMANDA SIVES, University of London
Title: International Election Observers in Guyana: Contributing to
a Democratic Process or Imposing Sovereignty?
SESSION: D3
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
Panel Title: Crime, Drugs and Violence in the Caribbean
Discussant:
Chair: ALEX KLEIN,
SESSION: D1
Presenters:
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ALEX KLEIN,
Title: Containing an Epidemic of Exporting Crises: International
HORACE HENRIQUES, University of Toronto
Title: Caribana: Re-routing the Uprooted
GISCARD GEORGES GUILLOTEAU,
Title: A Caribbean Connection: Haitian and Jamaican Crime
AMANDA ZAVITZ & ANTON ALLAHAR, University of Western Ontario
Title: Trinidad's Carnival: A New Arena of Ethnic Contestation?
DION PHILLIPS, University of the Virgin Islands
Title: Barbados Military, Drug Prevention and other Roles
Discussant: RHODA REDDOCK, University of the West Indies
Discussant:
SESSION: D4
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
Panel Title: Caribbean Women in Politics: Representation, Quotas
and the Press
SESSION: D6
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 207
Panel Title: Society Stimuli and Partner Violence
Chair: LUZ DEL ALBA ACEVEDO, University of Puerto Rico
Presenters:
Chair: MARCIA E. SUTHERLAND, State University of New York at
Albany
JACQUELINE JIMENEZ POLANCO, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice
Title: Women's access to Politics in the Caribbean: Quotas and
Appointments
Presenters:
MARIELY RIVERA HERNANDEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Title: El manejo de la informacion politica y el genero en Puerto
Rico desde la perspectiva de la prensa escrita no tradicional
MARCIA E. SUTHERLAND, State University of New York at Albany
Title: Domestic violence and Caribbean Underdevelopment
DONALD C. PETERS, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Title: The Challenge for Black Males in the Caribbean
LUZ DEL ALBA ACEVEDO, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Puerto Rico's Legislature and Women's Political
Representation
Discussant:
Discussant: ELIZABETH ROMAN, Roman Carrion & Associates
SESSION: D5
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Panel Title: Caribbean Carnival: Aesthetics, Culture and Ethnicity
SESSION: D7
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Ecos de oralidad en la ficcion del Caribe: Modernidad
musical, historis alternativa y escritura de autoafirmacion
Chair: CARLOS PACHECO, Universidad Simon Bolivar
Presenters:
Chair: JAN De COSMO, Florida A&M University
Presenters:
CARLOS PACHECO, Universidad Simon Bolivar
Title: Hachas-hachas-hachas!: Oralidad y escritura en Celestino
antes del alba
JAN De COSMO, Florida A&M University
Title: Who Owns Carnival?
CHRISTINE HO, Colgate University
Title: The Caribbean Aesthetic and Cultures of Exile in a
Globalized World
MIGDALIA FERNANDEZ QUINONES, Universidad Central, Venezuela
Title: Insercion y reelaboracion de la oralidad musical en la
narrativa caribena
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Title: Moving Into the Light
LUZ MARINA RIVAS De WESOLOWSKY, Universidad Central,
Venezuela
Title: La oralidad como historiografia alternativa; Un acercamiento
a las novelas intrahistoricas de Ana Teresa Torres
Discussant:
Discussant:
SESSION: D8
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
Round Table: The Challenges of Attracting, Leading and Retaining
a Dynamic Teaching Force in Caribbean Schools in the 21st
Century
SESSION: E
Tuesday, May 29, 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Panel Title: Combing through the Literary Hieroglyphic: Barbara
Christian Reading Us REAL
Chair: OPAL ADISSA PALMER, California
Presenters:
Chair: RUBY SIMMONDS, Department of Education, U.S. Virgin
Islands
Presenters:
SUZETTE SPENCER, University of California, Berkeley
Title: What are we trying to do anyway: Musings on the joy in
struggle, diasporic literary theories and Black Feminism
RUBY SIMMONDS, Department of Education, U.S. Virgin Islands
ALSCESS LEWIS BROWN, U. S. Virgin Islands, Department of
Education
LINDA THOMAS, University of the Virgin Islands
CLAUDIA MAY, St. Thomas University
Title: Reading Texts as (Our) selves; Reading Texts as (My)
selves. Knowing Self, Knowing Text: An Examination of Dr.
Barbara Christian’s Readings of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
GLENN ROBERTSON, University of California at Berkeley
Images and Reflections on Barbara Christian
Discussant: DONNA WEIR SOLEY, Florida International University
SESSION: D9
Tuesday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Panel Title: Globalization and Problems Throughout the Caribbean
Chair: ARMANDO LAMPE, Universidad de Quintana Roo
SESSION: F
Wednesday, May 30, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Plenary: Round Table on the Guyana Situation
Presenters:
Chair: PERCY HINTZEN, University of California Berkeley
ARMANDO LAMPE, Universidad de Quintana Roo
Title: Caribbean Integration versus globalization
Presenters:
GAIL TEXEIRA, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Guyana
MEAGAN SYLVESTER, University of the West Indies
Title: Interpreting the response of UWI to globalisation of higher
DERYCK BERNARD, University of Guyana
DORCETA E. TAYLOR, University of Michigan
Title: Environmental Racism: Why Should People in the Caribbean
Care?
RUPERT ROOPNARAINE, WPA, Guyana
JEAN La ROSE, Amerindian People’s Association, Guyana
EINTOU SPRINGER,
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JOYCELYN DOW, Red Thread and Women Against Racism, Guyana
SESSION: G3
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
SESSION: G1
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Panel Title: Themes in Caribbean Literature
Chair: PEDRO PEREZ-SARDUY, London, UK
Presenters:
Panel Title: Responding to Globalisation: The Domestic Political
Context
Chair: JUDITH SOARES, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
JUDITH SOARES, University of the West Indies
Title: Globalisation: The Politics of Exclusion
GEORGE BELLE, University of the West Indies
Title: Barbados, The Politics of Inclusion
PEDRO PEREZ-SARDUY, London, UK
Title: The Making of the Maids of Cuba: History and Fiction in
Literary Reconstruction
MIRIAM M. GONZALEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Crisis Social en Cuentos Para Perturbar el Alma de Loreina
Santos Silva
LINDA M. RODRIGUEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Breaking Down the Wall: The Perilous Obscurity of Love and
Writing in Antonieta Villamil’s Poetry Book, Lashing Moon
PETER WICKHAM, University of the West Indies
Title: Caribbean Responses to Trade Liberalisation: The
Contribution of Caribbean Civil Society
Discussant: ANGELITA REYES, University of Minnesota
TENNYSON JOSEPH, Cambridge University
Title: Globaliization: The St. Lucia context
SESSION: G4
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
Discussant:
Panel Title: Political Change in the Caribbean
SESSION: G2
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Chair: CARLYLE CORBIN, U. S. Virgin Islands, Office of the Governor
Presenters:
Panel Title: Business & Investment: The New Profile
Chair: THOMAS KLAK, Miami University
Presenters:
THOMAS KLAK, Miami University
Title: Recent Caribbean Efforts to Attract Investment Capital and
to Industrialize: How Successful?
TAIMOON STEWART, University of the West Indies
Title: The introduction of competition law: implications for
business practices and competition in Trinidad and Tobago
VIRGIL HENRY STORR, George Mason University
Title: Escaping our Pirate Past: Bahamian Economic Development
Discussant:
NALINI PERSRAM, University of Dublin
Title: Guerrilla Governmentality
EDGARDO MELENDEZ VELEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Transnational Theory and Puerto Rican Transnational
Politics
CARLYLE CORBIN, U. S. Virgin Islands, Office of the Governor
Title: Governance, Dependency and Future Political Development
in the Non-Independent Caribbean
Discussant: PERRY MARS
SESSION: G5
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
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Panel Title: Caribbean Identity: Influence and Impact
Panel Title: Music: The Influence on Caribbean Politics
Chair: MIKE ALLEYNE, Middle Tennessee State University
Presenters:
MIKE ALLEYNE, Middle Tennessee State University
Title: The Barbados Recording Industry: A Critical History
SAMUEL FURE DAVIS, University of Havana
Title: At the Crossroad between Reggae and Popular Music:
Active Afro-Caribbean Influence in Havana
JOYCELYNE GUIBAULT, University of California, Berkeley
Title: National Identity and State Power: The Work of Musical
Arrangers in Caribbean Calypso
HELEN-ANN E. WILKINSON, University of the West Indies
Title: In Spite of the Ocean…God Goes Shopping and Speaks
Jamaican Creole…GeeZam!
Chair: LOUIS LINDSAY, University of the West Indies
Presenter:
NICOSIA SHAKES, University of the West Indies
Title: A Commentary on Regionalism and Caribbean Identity
ANDREA FRAZER, University of the West Indies
Title: African Retentions in Caribbean Identity … (The Martinician
Perspective)
SEYON HANSON & SUZETTE WHITTINGHAM, University of the
West Indies,
Title: The Caribbean as a Melting Pot
Discussant: LOUIS LINDSAY, University of the Virgin Islands
Discussant:
SESSION: G6
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
Panel Title: Caribbean Women and Economic Survival
Chair: ADDINGTON COPPIN, Oakland University
Presenters:
CHERYL LEWIS, University of the West Indies
Title: Lifelong Learning, Gender and the Market: Learning
Outcomes for Low Income Women in Trinidad, Tobago, and
Jamaica, UWI
ADDINGTON COPPIN, Oakland University
Title: Does Marriage Matter in the Labour Market? Evidence from
the Caribbean Economy
SESSION: G8
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
Workshop: Writing for Your Life: A workshop on Writing in the
Academy
Chair: IRMA McCLAURIN, University of Florida
SESSION: G9
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: Poverty and Poverty Eradication in the Caribbean
Chair: SONIA CUALES, UNECLAC, Trinidad & Tobago
ALOMA MENDOZA, Georgia
Title: Friendship Patterns of Caribbean Women in Canada
Presenters:
DAVID A YEBOAH, University of the West Indies
Title: Strategies adopted by Caribbean family planning
associations
RALPH HENRY, UNECLAC, Trinidad & Tobago
Title: Caribbean Poverty: Can We Break Its Persistence
Discussant:
SONIA CUALES, UNECLAC, Trinidad & Tobago
Title: New Notions on Poverty: the OECD/DAC Poor Countries
SESSION: G7
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 207
Discussant:
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Presenters:
SESSION: G10
Wednesday, May 30, 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: The Importance of an Incomes Policy as it Pertains to
Wages, Prices, Employment and Productivity
HORACE BARTILOW, University of Kentucky
Title: Bargaining Domains: Caribbean Diplomatic Leverage in the
21st Century
CEDRIC GRANT, Clark Atlanta University
Title: Unilateralism and Negotiations in United States-Caribbean
Relations
Presenter: EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK
NIKOLAOS KARAGIANNIS, ISER, University of the West Indies
Title: The Potential and Feasibility of the Tobin Financial
Transactions Tax: An Overview
SESSION: H1
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: The Various Dimensions of Rastafari
Chair: MICHAEL BARNETT, Florida International University
Presenters:
MICHAEL BARNETT, Florida International University
Title: Rastafari Dialectism: the Epistemological Individualism and
Collectivism of Rastafari
TREESEY WEAVER, Florida International University
Title: Herstory: the History of Rastafari Women within the
Rastafari Movement
Discussant:
SESSION: H3
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Panel Title: New and Historical Perspectives on Race, Class,
Gender and Social Inequality in the Caribbean (A)
Chair: PEDRO NOGUERA, Harvard University
Presenters:
ANTWI AKOM, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Rethinking “High Stakes Testing”: Lessons from the United
States and the Caribbean
NADINE PIERRE, Florida International University
Title: Dawtas of Zion: Gender and Nationalism within Rasta
JOANNA S. SANBORN, Harvard University
Title: Boys in Belize: Following the Trends of the Caribbean Men
IDA TAFARI, Florida International University
Title: Rastafari: Health Promotion and Public Policy
BENJAMIN LESTER, Florida International University
Title: God, Prophet and Magician in Rastafari
RAMONA I.R. COATES, Wayne State University
Title: Double consciousness and black stereotyping: Intraracial
Prejudice and Intergroup Tension in Social Interactions between
African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans of the English-Speaking
Caribbean in Metropolitan New York
Discussant:
Discussant:
SESSION: H4
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 207
SESSION: H2
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
Panel Title: Caribbean Philosophy
Panel Title: Commerce and Trade: Diplomatic Implications
Chair: LINDSAY LOUIS, University of the West Indies
Chair: NIKOLAOS KARAGIANNIS, ISER, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
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AYODEJI BERNARD, University of the West Indies
Title: Caribbean Philosophy and the Case for Reparation
TANYA SHIELDS, University of Maryland
Title: This Bridge Called NGO
NADEEN SPENCE, University of the West Indies
Title: Toward the development of a Caribbean philosophy
GIA HAREWOOD, University of Maryland
Title: Black Immigrant Privilege: Reflections from a Six-Week
Dialogue Among African, African American, and Caribbean U.S.
Residents
DAVID WALTERS, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Title: The Hon. Louis Albert Dewitt Lynch: Biography of an
Educator and His Role in Pre and Post Era Barbadian
Independence
Discussant: LOUIS LINDSAY, University of the West Indies
SESSION: H5
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
Discussant: DORITH GRANT-WISDOM, University of Maryland
SESSION: H7
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Panel Title: Authenticity and Contemporary Globalization
Chair: EDDY SOUFFRANT, Marquette University
Panel Title: Culture, Creativity and Innovation
Presenters:
Chair: MARIE-AGNES SOURIEAU, Fairfield University
Presenters:
MARIE-AGNES SOURIEAU, Fairfield University
Title: La Creolisation Dans les Arts Plastiques Antillais
(Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane)
SARAH DAVIES CORDOVA, Marquette University
Title: Creative, Purposeful Memories: Re/writings for the Present
Future
MAURICE ST. PIERRE, Morgan State University
Title: West Indian Intellectuals and the Production of Knowledge
LINDEN LEWIS, Bucknell University
Title: Global capitalism and the rise of the importance of
intellectual property
GLYNE GRIFFITH, Bucknell University
Title: Voice and print: radio's role in the development of West
Indian Literariness
PATRICK GASTON, Verizon, USA
Title: International Digital Divides versus Economic Development
EDDY SOUFFRANT, Marquette University
Title: Caribbean Ontology and Global integration
RUSSELL J. FOOTE, University of the West Indies
Title: Body-based Technological Innovations for Carnival
Discussant: HILBOURNE WATSON, Bucknell University
Discussant:
SESSION: H8
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
SESSION: H6
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Living Between Worlds: Women’s Narratives of
Migration and Exile
Panel Title: From the Academic to the Everyday in Caribbean
Studies
Chair: BARBARA SHAW PERRY, University of Maryland
Presenters:
Chair: GIA HAREWOOD, University of Maryland
Presenters:
APRIL SHEMAK, University of Maryland
Title: Solidarity or Sovereignty? Testimonial Discourse and the
Caribbean
BARBARA SHAW PERRY, University of Maryland
Title: Living in Exile: Seeking Home: Memory, Identity and
Performativity in Women’s African-Caribbean/British Literature
BELINDA DENEEN WALLACE, University of Maryland
Title: Migrations of the Home: An Examination of Exile, Migration
and Nation in Caribbean Women’s Writing
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Presenters:
CLAUDIA BARBOSA NOGUEIRA, University of Maryland
Title: Between Shores: The Road and the Nation in Guantanamera
Discussant: LYNN BOLLES, University of Maryland
SESSION: H9
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
KATHERINE E. BROWNE, Colorado State University
Title: Female Entrepreneurship: Early Findings from Pilot
Research in Martinique, Barbados and Puerto Rico
A. LYNN BOLLES, University of Maryland
Title: “Grassroots MBAs”: Women Craft vendors in Negril,
Jamaica
DEBORAH THOMAS, Wesleyan University
Title: Seasonal Labor, Seasonal Leisure: The Gruntwork, Goals,
and Gains of Jamaican Hotel Workers in the United States
Panel Title: Globalization, Power and Identity in the Urban
Caribbean
Chair: BRIAN MEEKS, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
GINA ULYSSE, Bates College
Title: “Me no Higgler…I’m an ICI”: Agency, Duty and Tax
Collecting and the Unmaking of the Modern Market Woman
Discussants: DORITH GRANT-WISDOM, University of Maryland &
EUDINE BARRITEAU, University of the West Indies
OBIKA GRAY, University of Wisconsin
Title: The Theory and Practice of Badness-Honor in Jamaica
CHARLES GREEN, CUNY, Hunter College
Title: Globalization, Urbanization and Powerlessness in the
Contemporary Caribbean
ANTHONY BOGUES, Brown University
Title: The Politics of Dread
SESSION: I2
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point A
Panel Title: Impacto Medioambientales en las Ecomias
Emergentes del Caribe: Fronteras, Conflictos, y Soluciones
MONICA H. GORDON, Walden University
Title: Issues of Democracy and Civil Society Building in PostColonial Societies
Chair: MIRIAM ARCIA RODRIQUEZ, Centro De Inspeccion y Control
Ambiental de Cuba
Discussant:
SESSION: H10
Wednesday, May 30, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
Panel Title: Round Table on Development Policy: Toward a New
Vision of Policy Making at USAID
Chair: IRMA McCLAURIN, University of Florida
SESSION: I1
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: Globalization and New Economic Strategies: Women
Working the System
Presenters:
MIRIAM ARCIA RODRIQUEZ Centro De Inspeccion y Control
Ambiental de Cuba & & LEON CUATTHEMOC, El Colegio de Mexico
Title: Delimitaciones del Caribe y Retos Ambientales:
Implicaciones Institucionales
JOSE SEGUINOT BARBOSA, University of Puerto Rico
Title: El Concepto Juridico de Caribe y sus fronteras
MAIRA CELEIRO CHAPLE & JOSE RAMON HERNANDEZ
SANTANA, Instituto de Geografia Tropical
Title: Turismo y mineria en el Caribe: Desafios para el desarrollo
Sostenible
SESSION: I3
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Chair: DEBORAH THOMAS, Wesleyan University
Panel Title: The Public Service and Development in the English-
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Speaking Caribbean
Chair: ROBERT E. MILLETTE, Lincoln University
Presenters:
ROBERT E. MILLETTE, Lincoln University
Title: Political Tug of War Between Public Servants and Politicians
LEVI NWACHUKU, Lincoln University
Title: The History of the Caribbean Community Civil Service
GANGA RAMDAS, Lincoln University
Title: The Public Sector and Economic Development
CARLSTON BOUCHER, Former Ambassador of Barbados to UN
Title: Staffing the Overseas Missions and Embassies
Discussant:
SESSION: I5
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
Panel Title: Identity
Chair: DAVID D. HERNANDEZ, University of Puerto Rico
Presenters:
TIFFANY LIGHTBOURN, Vassar College
Title: You are not wanted here: Identity, threat & anti-Haitian
Sentiment in the Bahamas
KENNETH COOK, Universite Antilles-Guyane
Title: St. Maarten's right to self-determination
DAVID D. HERNANDEZ, University of Puerto Rico, & JANET
SCHEFF, University of Puerto Rico
Title:The Dialectic of US Citizenship and Puerto Rican Nationality
Discussant:
SESSION: I4
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
SESSION: I6
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 207
Panel Title: Resistance and Transformation in Contemporary
Caribbean Women’s Literature
Panel Title: Emerging Technology: Information and
Communication
Chair: SIMONE A. JAMES ALEXANDER, Pratt Institute
Chair: AURELIO CASTRO, Geographic Mapping Technologies
Presenters:
Presenters:
RUSSELL L. STOCKARD, California Lutheran University
Title: Defining Difference in Cyberspace: Discourse on the Digital
Divide
AUGUSTO F. GANDIA OJEDA, Municipio Autonomo de Carolina,
Puerto Rico
Title: El rol de las tecnologias de informacion geografica en los
municipios autonomos de Puerto Rico
AURELIO CASTRO, Geographic Mapping Technologies
Title: Pavement Condition and Traffic Accidents location over a
Street Network: the Puerto Rican Highway and Transportation
Authority Experience
Discussant:
SIMONE A. JAMES ALEXANDER, Pratt Institute
Title: Mouthing a New Beginning: Celebrating Self and Presence in
the works of Afro-Caribbean Women
JUNE BOBB, Queens College, CUNY
Title: Red Blood Blossoms at my Feet: Landscapes of Redemption
and Reconciliation in Contemporary Caribbean Women Poetry
BARBARA WEBB, Hunter College, CUNY
Title: Repossessing Time and Place in Michelle Cliff’s Free
Enterprise and Erna Brodber’s Louisiana
Discussant:
SESSION: I7
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
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Panel Title: The Challenges of Competitiveness in the Caribbean
Tourism Industry I: Managing Intellectual Capital
SURENDRA ARJOON, University of the West Indies
Title: Philosophy, Scientific Method and Implications for
Explaining Human Behavior
Chair: MICHAEL HAYWOOD, University of Guelph
Presenters:
MICHAEL HAYWOOD, University of Guelph
Title: Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management in the
Caribbean Tourism Industry
DONALD SINCLAIR, University of Guyana
Title: Utilizing Communty Knowledge: Reinventing the Past as a
Tourism Growth Strategy
SESSION: I9
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m.– 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Work Culture & Labor Management in the Caribbean
from Past to Present
Chair: GLEN RICHARDS, University of the West Indies
CHANDI JAYAWARDENA, University of the West Indies
Title: Achieving sustainable Tourism Through the Discovery and
Leveraging of ‘Working Knowledge” for Tourism Managers
Presenters:
AINSLEY O’REILLY, University of the West Indies
Title: Improving Tourism Effectiveness: A Human Resource
Challenge
JOHN CAMPBELL, University of the West Indies
Title: Patronage and Pleasure: The Concealed Strategies of
Labour Management on Eighteenth Century British West Indian
Sugar Plantations
Discussant:
SESSION: I8
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
GLEN RICHARDS, University of the West Indies
Title: The Plantation Labour Elite and the Evolution of Labour
Bargaining Techniques in Slavery and Freedom: The Case of St.
Kitts-Nevis, 1810-1935
ANN CRICK, University of the West Indies
Title: Work Culture and Labour Relations in the Jamaican Service
Industry
Round Table: Emerging Controversies in Caribbean Data
PETER HALL, Denoes and Geddes, Jamaica Ltd.
Title: Transformations in Workplace Culture and LabourManagement Relations in the Caribbean: The Case of Desnoes &
Geddes, 1980-2000
Discussant:
Chair: GODFREY C. ST. BERNARD, University of the West Indies
SESSION: I10
Thursday, May 31, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Presenters:
GODFREY C. ST. BERNARD, University of the West Indies
Title: Optimal Considerations and Census-Taking in Caribbean
Societies: A Critical Review of Emergent Paradigms
Panel Title: The Intersection of Religion, Culture and Politics in the
Caribbean
Chair: PATRICIA HARKINS-PIERRE, University of the Virgin Islands
ROGER MCLEAN, University of the West Indies
Title: Toward an Assessment of HIV/AIDS and Other STIs in
Caribbean Societies: Critical Methodologies for Examining SocioCultural and Behavioral Factors
SONIA CUALES, UNECLAC, Trinidad & Tobago
Title: Re-Conceptualizing Social Indicators in the Caribbean: A
Review and Discussion
Presenters:
STEPHANIE SADRE-ORAFAI, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Cultural Imperialism Rhetoric and Consumption: Examining
the Role of the ‘Popular’ in Rapso Discourses
HOWARD FERGUS, University of the West Indies
Title: The Commodification of Caribbean Culture: Possibilities and
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Challenges
Presenters:
PATRICIA HARKINS-PIERRE, University of the Virgin Islands
Title: “Religion Bridge”: Transforming the Secular into the Sacred
in Contemporary Caribbean Gospel Music
BRENDA BERRIAN, University of Pittsburgh
JACQUELINE BRICE-FINCH, James Madison University
LYNETTE LASHLEY, American University of Sharjah
Title: The Calypso as ‘Political Football’ in Trinidad and Tobago:
The Status of Contemporary Political Commentary
ANTONIA MacDONALD SMYTHE, St. George’s University
Discussant:
SESSION: K3
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 107
SESSION: J
Thursday, May 31, 10:15a.m- 12:00 noon
LOCATION: Maho Room
BUSINESS MEETING
Panel Title: Sociological Issues for the Caribbean
Chair: PETRONELLA BREINBURG, Goldsmiths College London
University
Important Constitutional changes will be discussed and voted on.
Presenters:
SESSION: K1
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: The Point B
Panel Title: L'environnement, facteur emergent de conflit ou de
cooperation dans la Caraibe
Chair: THERESA SAINTE SUZANNE DeLAVIGNE, Universite AntillesGuyane
ANDREW GRANT,
Title: Studying the Inner-city: Methodological Implications
RICARDO CAMUNAS MADERA, University of Puerto Rico
Title: Sexualidad y cultura en el caribe: la moralidad en Cuba,
Puerto Rico y Santo Domingo
PETRONELLA BREINBURG, Goldsmiths College London University
Title: Neger engels is Nigger talk: A study of Sranan narrative
1863-1869
Presenters:
THERESA SAINTE SUZANNE DeLAVIGNE, Universite AntillesGuyane
DAVID A. YEBOAH, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic
Studies, UWI
Title: A Demographic Profile of the Caribbean
SAMANTHA SAINTE SUZANNE DeLAVIGNE, Universite AntillesGuyane
Discussant:
YVAN CINIERI, Universite Antilles-Guyane
Discussant:
SESSION: K2
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Pavilion
SESSION: K4
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander A
Panel Title: Literature and Popular Culture: Re-Defining Identity
through Oral Tradition
Round Table: Body Talk – Narrativity and the Female Self in
Caribbean Women’s Writing
Chair: RHONDA FREDERICK, Boston College
Chair: ANTONIA MacDONALD SMYTHE, St. George’s University
Presenters:
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Title: An Applied Learning and Leadership Process to Develop the
Intellectual Capital to Sustain a Strong Tourism Brand Strategy
GISELLE LIZA ANATOL, University of Kansas
Title: Rethinking ‘Skin White as Snow’: African-Caribbean
Revisions of Fairy Tale ‘Classics’
RHONDA FREDERICK, Boston College
Title: “Gone a Colon”: Lyrical Narratives of Panama Canal
Migration
CAROLYN COOPER, University of the West Indies, Mona
Title: More Fire: Chanting Down Babylon From Bob Marley to
Capleton
KIM ROBINSON WALCOTT, Boston College
Title: Carnival Meets Dancehall: Anthony C. Winkler’s Novels, The
Lunatic and The Duppy, and their Relation to Popular Culture
TONY ARTHUR, University of the West Indies
Title: A Private Sector View of Managing Knowledge as a Means of
Enhancing Tourism’s Competitive Performance
MARCIA TAYLOR, University of Technology, Jamaica
Title: Making Jamaica’s Tourism Industry Competitive Through
the Use of Knowledge Management
SESSION: K7
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
WORKSHOP: Writing to Survive Graduate School
Presenter: IRMA McCLAURIN, University of Florida
Discussant: WINNIFRED BROWN—GLAUDE, Bowdin College
SESSION: K5
Thursday, May 31, 12:000 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Royal Islander B
SESSION: K8
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 407
Panel Title: Mexico Frente al Caribe: Visiones, Problemas y
Propuestas de Trabajo
Panel Title: The Future of the Regional Financial Services Industry
Chair: LAURA MUNOZ, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Chair: GLENN A. KHAN, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, UWI
Presenters:
Presenters:
GLENN A. KHAN, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, UWI
Title: The future of the Caribbean Financial Services Industry:
Retrospective and Prospects for Institutions
RONALD RAMKISSOON
KELVIN SARGEANT, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studie, UWI
Title: Cheque Fraud and Banking response-the increasing use of
credit cards and other plastics: the case of Trinidad & Tobago
LESTER HENRY & NICOLE BISSESSAR,
Title: Challenges facing the Caribbean’s financial services sector
in the 21st Century
YOLANDA JUAREZ HERNANDEZ, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Title: Migracion y cultura del Golfo-Caribe en Veracruz, siglo XIX
LAURA MUNOZ, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Title: La Politica Mexicana en el Caribe, de la Diplomacia de
Principios a la Diplomacia Pragmatica
JOHANNA VON GRAFENSTEIN, Instituto de Investigactiones Dr.
Jose Maria Luis Mora, Mexico
Title: La Defensa del Golfo-Caribe en la primera mitad del siglo
XVIII u su vinaculacion con la Nueva Espana
JOSE RONZON, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Title: Agravios y desafios al proyecto de modernidad urbana en el
puerto de Veracruz en los inicios del siglo XX
Discussant:
Discussant:
SESSION: K6
Thursday, May 31, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Maho Room
Panel Title: The Challenges of Competitiveness in the Caribbean
Tourism Industry II: Managing Intellectual Capital
Chair: MICHAEL HAYWOOD, University of Guelph
Presenters:
MICHAEL COX, University of Guelph
SESSION: K9
Thursday, May 29, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Room 307
Panel Title: Compatibility of Culture and Development
Chair: CLAUDINE BLACKWOOD, University of the West Indies
Presenters:
CLAUDINE BLACKWOOD, University of the West Indies
Title: Ensuring political rights and civil liberties, and reforming
social policies
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JUDITH REID, University of the West Indies
Title: Strengthening cultural capacities: a proactive strategy for
capping emergency problems
ETHNIE MILLER,
Title: A case of cultural security: the impact of neoliberalism on
state-society relations
KEVIN JONES,
Title: Questioning societal capacity: obstacles to Caribbean
economic and technological development
Discussant:
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