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2-3 March 2017, Trinidad and Tobago
Thursday, 2 March 2017, Government Campus Plaza, Auditorium, Lower Richmond Street, Port of Spain 6-8 p.m.
Public keynote lecture and Discussion. 6- 8 p.m.
• Dr. Keith Nurse (UWI Cave Hill) “Bacchanalia and the Political Economy of Governance in the T&T Carnival”
• Roundtable “Envisioning the Future of the Trinidad Carnival Complex”: Wendell Manwarren, Indera Sagewan-Alli, Kim Johnson
Friday, 3 March 2017, UWI, Daaga Auditorium 9-5 p.m.
9.00 – 9.10: Welcome Remarks
1. Panel: Carnival, Politics and Identity, 9.10 – 10:30 a.m.
• Dr. Louis Regis (UWI, St. Augustine) The Canboulay Riots and the Hamilton Report
• Nestor Sullivan (UTT) The Construction of Identity in the Steelband Movement of Trinidad and Tobago
• Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh (UWI, St. Augustine) Glimpses of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago and among the Diaspora
Break – 10.30 -11.00
2. Panel: Gender Performativity and Sexuality in Carnival, 11 – 12:30 a.m.
• Dr. Sue Ann Barratt (UWI, St. Augustine) Tief ah Wine: Masculine
Entitlement and Rape Culture in the Trinidad and Tobago Masquerade
•
Dr. Kai Barratt (University of Technology, Jamaica) Making a Stage: Fay
Ann Lyons-Alvarez’s Presentation of Self on Instagram
• Nikoli
Attai (University of Toronto) Queering Resistance: Queer(in) Carnival
City: Gay Caribbean men’s sexuality on de road, in de band and in de
fete
• Dr. Angelique Nixon (UWI , St. Augustine) Take Back de Wine: Women’s Sexual Agency and Erotic Subjectivity in Carnival Space
Lunch: 12.30 – 1.30 p.m.
3. Panel: Pedagogical Approaches to Carnival Arts Performance. 1.30 – 2.45 p.m.
• Dr. Kela Francis (UTT) A Pedagogical Approach to Calypso Composition
• Messiah, G., Sanchez, J., Regis,C. – The Importance of Education in the Preservation of Carnival Histories
• Dr. Aurelie Helmlinger (Fyssen Foundation - Paris) Pan-epidia: An observatory of the Steelpan’s Style Across Space and Time
Break: 2.45 – 3.00 p.m.
4. Panel: Carnival and Memory: 3 – 4.45 p.m.
• Tony Hall (Trinity College, Connecticut) Mas as a Living Museum: An exploration of the work of Peter Minshall
• Candice Hughes-Bengochea (Administrator, PLU) From Ritual to
Spectacle: The exploration of memory in the Canboulay re-enactment
• Dr. Kevin Browne (UWI, St. Augustine) Deliberative Daemonic: Carnival and the Imaging of Emancipatory Practice
• Jarula Wegner (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Constellations of Memory: Derek Walcott’s The Last Carnival
Closing Remarks