Memory, Politics and Performance in the Trinidad Carnival Complex
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The conference seeks to interrogate the myriad ways the Trinidad Carnival is represented both home and abroad through its signifying practices & displays.
Memory, Politics and Performance in the Trinidad Carnival Complex
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”
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 Competition"
• Dr. Aurelie Helmlinger (Fyssen Foundation - Paris) "Pan-epidia: An observatory of the steelpan’s style across space and time"
• Messiah, G., Sanchez, J., Regis,C. (UTT) "The Importance of education in the preservation of carnival histories"
Break: 2.45 – 3.00 p.m.
4. Panel: Carnival and Memory: 3 – 4.45 p.m.
• 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"
• Tony Hall (Trinity College, Connecticut) "Mas as a Living Museum: An exploration of the work of Peter Minshall"
• Jarula Wegner (Goethe University, Frankfurt) "Constellations of Memory: Derek Walcott’s The Last Carnival"
Closure
CONTACT:
Email: [email protected]
Dept. Literary, Cultural & Communication Studies
UWI, St. Augustine
Phone: 662 2002 ext 84458
17/02/2017
