Wednesday 3/28

18:15 - 20:15 

• Pre-Conference Registration (In front of the Auditorium)
• Pre-Conference Film: The Agronomist directed by Jonathan Demme. Original score by Wyclef Jean. In English.  (Auditorium)
• Introduction by Jarett Gilbert, President of the Franklin College Student Assembly & former President of the Franklin College Literary Society

Thursday, March 29th

16:00 - 18:00 

• Pre-Conference Registration

18:00 - 19:00

• Opening Ceremonies  “The Caribbean Unbound III” (Auditorium) as a part of  the Franklin College Lecture Series
• Presentation of the Keynote Speaker by Robert H. McCormick, Jr., Franklin College
• Keynote address by Maryse Condé: “Itinerary of a Caribbean Writer”

19:00 - 20: 15

• Reception in honor of Maryse Condé and Richard Philcox in Holman Hall

20:15 - 22:15

• Film showing: Quilombo directed by Carlos Diegues.   Music by Gilberto Gil.  Portuguese with English subtitles.   (Auditorium)

Friday, March 30th

8:30 - 9:20

• Conference Registration (In front of Auditorium)

8:30 - 9:20  

• Title:  “The Caribbean in New York” - Franklin College Literary Society Student Panel (Auditorium)
  Moderator, Nichole Rousseau-McAllister, President of the Franklin College Literary Society
  • Alexandrova, Bobby,  Franklin College, student
  • Marston, Alex, Franklin College alum, former President of “The Literary Society”
  • Wade, Scott, Franklin College alum, former President of “The Literary Society”

9:40 - 11:40

• Title: “The Caribbean Conceived by Caryl Phillips” (The Conference Room)
  Moderator, John McLeod, University of Leeds
  • Gunning, Dave, University of Leeds, “Affiliation and Alienation in Caryl Phillips’ Caribbean”
  • Harris, Ena A, Bard College, “Never Quite White: Critical Perspectives on White Female Subjectivities as Portrayed in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge.”
  • McLeod, John, University of Leeds, “Naipaul, Phillips and the Legacy of Pain” 
  • Otto, Melanie, Trinity College Dublin, “The Seduction of Walking Away: Marginality and Belonging in Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound and Eavan Boland’s Object Lessons.”
  • Ward, Abigail, Nottingham Trent University, “Connecting to Survive: Caryl Phillips’ Crossing the River (1993)”     
    

9:40 to 10:30  

• Title: “Creolization as a Reading Strategy”:  Student Panel (Auditorium)
   Moderator, Kevin Meehan, University of Central Florida.
  • Glover, Jonathan D., University of Central Florida, “Kamau Brathwaite, Creolization and Post-9/11 Poetics”
  • Hould, Kelly, University of Central Florida, “Creolization, Fragmentation, and Unity in Jean Breeze’s ‘Riddym Ravings’ (The Mad Woman’s Lament)”
  • Moore, Andy, University of Central Florida, “Reggae and Son: Caribbean Music in Poems by Michael Smith and Nicolás Guillén”
  • Nicholas, Agnes D., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, “Literary Elements in Calypsonians’ Social Commentary.”

10:50 - 11:40

• Title: “Creative Writing & Creative Reading” (Room 5, Kaletsch Campus)
  • Laforest,  Marie-Hélène, University of Naples “L’Orientale,” a reading from her collection of short stories, Foreign Shores)
  • Matthews, Christopher, Franklin College Switzerland, a reading from Walcott’s 1984 volume, Midsummer, and reflections on its impact on Dr. Matthews’ own poetry.

10:50 - 11:40

• Title, “On the Benefits of Colonialism.  It’s a Good Thing.”:  Student Faculty Panel (Auditorium )
  Moderator, Marie Léticée, University of Central Florida
  • Glenn, Brittany, University of Central Florida, Student
  • Léticée, Marie, University of Central Florida

12:10 - 14:00

• Title:  “Maryse Condé:  Beyond Borders”  (Auditorium)
   Moderator,   Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University
  • Lindo,  Karen U., UCLA,  “Slashing ‘la logique et la raison’ in Maryse Condé’s Célanire cou-coupé”
  • Malena, Anne,   University of Alberta, “The Caribbean Unbound by Cultural Translation”
  • Mullen-Hohl, Anne, Seton Hall University, “Maryse Condé: Perspectives on Creolization and Globalization”
  • Randall, Catharine, Fordham University, “’History is Written by Winners’:  The Last of the African Kings.”

12:00 - 12:50

• Creative Writing Panel - (Room 5,  Kaletsch Campus)
  • Chancy, Myriam J. A.,  Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, a reading from her work, The Loneliness of Angels
  • Harris, Laura A.,  Pitzer College, a reading from her work, “Memoirs of Alice B. Jones (aka Mrs. Rhinelander)” 

 13:10 - 14:00

• Title:  “V.S. Naipaul:  Fiction and History” (Room 5,  Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator, Floyd Parsons, Franklin College Switzerland
  • Fu, Chun, “Trinidad In-betweenity: Naipaul’s The Loss of El Dorado,” Ching Yun University,  Taiwan.
  • Picarelli, Enrica, University of Naples “L’Orientale,” “The island’s mine’: Drifting and Insularity in Naipaul’s fiction”         

12:10 - 14:00  

• Title: “Haïti/Sexualité” (Francophone panel - Conference Room)
  Moderator, Léon-François Hoffmann, Princeton University
  • Hoffmann, Léon-François,  Princeton University,  “L’érotisme dans la littérature haïtienne”
  • Tesan, Kélinan, Université de Strasbourg,   “Mutilations et inhibitions sexuelles: Une expression de la réalité et de l’imagologie afro-caribéenne.”
  • Trudel, Benoît, University of Western Ontario/La Sorbonne - Paris III, “Le Spiralisme de Mur à crever ou la genèse haïtienne de la voix informée”

14:20 - 15:20

• Philcox, Richard, Translator,  “Translating Fanon: Retrieving a Lost Voice”  (Conference Room)

14:20 -15:25  

• Title:  “La Littérature et L’Art (Francophone panel - Auditorium)
  Moderator, Martine Guyot-Bender, Hamilton College, U.S.A.
  • Gyssels, Kathleen, University of Antwerp,  “Damas, Dali, Dada: La persistance de la mémoire”
  • Sooriamoorthy, Anouchka, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, “Personnages rêvés, personnages réels: Papa Longoué et Paul Gauguin”       

14:20 - 15:20

• Title: “Racial and Sexual Ambiguities” (Room 5,  Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator, Caroline Wiedmer, Franklin College
  • Lee, Jade Tsui-yu, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan, “Against Historical Amnesia: Re-collecting History in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven.
  • Sarnelli, Laura,  University of Naples “L’Orientale,”  “Queer Genealogies in Dionne Brand’s Writing”

15:30 - 16:45

• Boni-Filippini, Giusi, RTSI,  Lugano, Presentation of her short documentary film “Les couleurs de Midou, ou l’orchestration des ‘moi” (Orchestrating the ‘Egos’)  (In French in the auditorium)
  • Ciprut, Marie-Andrée, Geneva, Commentary/discussion after the projection of the film of which she is the subject.

 15:30 - 16:45 

• “Conceptualizing  Haiti” (Conference Room)
  Moderator, Sämi Ludwig, Université de Haute-Alsace
  • Ludwig, Sämi,  Université de Haute-Alsace,  “Ishmael Reed: Caribbean Theorist”     
  • Kaussen, Valerie, University of Missouri, Columbia, “The Marcellins’ Haitian‘Auto-ethnographies’ and the Prehistory of Contemporary Haitian-American Immigrant Literature”

18:00

• Maryse Condé, “Literary Encounters in the French Caribbean,”  Plenary Session (Auditorium)

Around 19:15

• Caribbean Meal (North Campus) prepared by Franklin College Students  and staff Franklin College Student Organizers: Ximena Benavente, Claudia Lasprilla &  Alejandra Santa
• After dessert, live Cuban music provided  by the Cuban ensemble, “Havana Open.” (The Grotto)

Saturday, March 31st (Venue of all Saturday events - The Kaletsch Campus)  

8:45 - 10:45   

• Title: “The Fiction of Edwidge Danticat” (Auditorium)
  Moderator, Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University
  • Aull, Laura L., University of Michigan, “Bearing the Mark of Otherness: The Disabling Forces of Ablism and Colonial Violence in Danticat’s The Farming of Bones”
  • Dufault, Roseanna, Ohio Northern University, “Angoisse haïtienne: The Treatment of Women’s Suffering as Portrayed by Marie-Célie Agnant and Edwidge Danticat”
  • Misrahi-Barak, Judith, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, “Fred D’Aguiar, Denise Harris and Edwidge Danticat: Emancipation through the Unbinding of Voices”
  • Rossi, Jennifer, St. John Fisher College, “Pathways to Hope: The Dew Breaker and In the Time of Butterflies as Prisms to Understanding and Resisting Oppression”

8:45 - 10:45

• Title:  Comparative Caribbean Literature (Conference Room)
  Moderator - TBA
  • Brüning, Angela., University of Antwerp, “ Uncovering Trauma in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and Gisèle Pineau’s L’Espérance-macadam” 
  • Coppola, Manuela, University of Calabria,  “Travelling Voices: Questioning the Book in Anglophone Poetry from Louise Bennett to Lorna Goodison”
  •  Stauder, Thomas, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, “The Difficulty of Exporting a Revolution to the Caribbean: Alejo Carpentier, El siglo de las luces”
  • Zangari, Sostene Massimo, University of Milan, “The Caribbean in Graham Green’s Fiction ”

11:00 - 12:45

• Title: “Theorising the Creole Text” (Auditorium)
  Moderator, Joan Anim-Adoo, Goldsmiths, University of London - Caribbean Studies Center
  • Anim-Addo, Joan, Goldsmiths,  University of London - Caribbean Studies Center, “Theorising the Creole Text: African-Caribbean Women’s Writing, Critical Silences and Complex Challenges”
  • Bonnelame, Natasha, Goldsmiths, University of London - Caribbean Studies Center, “The Emergence of the Creole Writer as a Textual Figure”
  • Edwin, Marlene, Goldsmiths, University of London - Caribbean Studies Center, “The Creole Voice: Issues of Identity and Virtual Reclaimings”
  • Powell, Gemma, Goldsmiths, University of London - Caribbean Studies Center, “Reading Liminality in the Writing of Alba Ambert: Overlapping Discourses and Some Theoretical Implications”
  • Saito, Midori, Goldsmiths, University of London - Caribbean Studies Center, “Caribbean Writers Re-Writing the Canon: An Exploration of Rhys, Harris and Condé”

11:00 - 12:45

• Title: Caribbean Literary Texts and Social Contexts (Student Panel)
  Moderator, Marie Léticée, University of Central Florida  (Room 5)                    
  • Dass, Vindra, University of Central Florida, “Creole Language and Protest”
  • Korsvik, Cassandra, University of Central Florida, “Carpentier, Alexis, Marvelous Realism, and Recent Political Transformation in the Americas”
  • Remkellawan, Reshma, University of Central Florida, “‘Interpreter of Maladies’: Indo–Caribbean Literature and State of Florida Secondary Language Arts Curricula

11:00-12:45 

• Title:  “Globalization & the Caribbean Self: V.S. Naipaul” (Conference Room)
  Moderator - Wasiq Khan, Franklin College Dayal, Samir, Bentley College (Boston), “Unbinding Identity: Caribbean South Asians in Cinema”
  • Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea, University of Heidelberg, “‘A vaster geography’:  V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival and Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book):”
  • Mottale, Morris, Franklin College,  “Naipaul and the Islamic World”

12:45- 13:15 - Lunch break

13:15 - 14:45

• Title: “The Legacy of the Caribbean Plantation” (Auditorium)
  Moderator, Clara Juncker, University of Southern Denmark
  • Cox, Margaret, Touro College, “The Caribbean Plantation”
  • Harris, Jo Anne, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras,  “Plantation Justice (1702) - A Model of Justice in the 18th century?”
  • Juncker, Clara, University of Southern Denmark, “Tropical Denmark: Thorkild Hansen’s The Slaves’ Islands (1970) and the Danish West Indian Past”

13:15 - 14:45

• - Title: “Chamoiseau/Confiant” (Francophone panel in The Conference Room)
    Moderator, Kahiudi Claver Mabana, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
  • Berardi, Aurelio, Université de Genève,  “Turquoise,  fantasme de la 3ème République”
  • Mabana, Kahiudi Claver, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, “Le roman de Patrick Chamoiseau et son contexte oral.”
  • Pilorget, Jean-Paul, Lycée d’Orsay, Paris, “Le Compagnonnage souverain de M. Balthazar Bodule-Jules: polyphonie et intertextualité dans  Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau.”
  • Veldwachter, Nadège, Purdue University, “Raphaël Confiant par Raphaël Confiant: traduction dans le monde des belles lettres.”

13:15 - 14:45

• Title:  “Revisiting Salem: I, Tituba... and The Scarlet Letter” (Student panel in Room 5)
  Moderator, Sarah Mosher, The University of Arizona
  • Kellogg, Sarah,  Franklin College
  • Kulzer, Katie,  Franklin College
  • Nelsen, Emily,  Franklin College

15:00 - 16:15  

• Title “A travers l’enfance: Tracing Childhood” (Conference Room)
  Moderator, Sara Steinert-Borella, Franklin College
  • Chancy,  Myriam, J.A.  University of California at Santa Barbara, “Nostalgie d’Amour: Early Childhood in Haiti, circa 1970"
  •  Jones, Christa, Washington University in St. Louis,  “Representations of Childhood in Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia and Chair Piment”
  • Mosher, Sarah, The University of Arizona, “Framing the Fragmented Self and Other(s): Maryse Condé’s Le coeur à rire et à pleurer”

15:00 - 16:15

• Title: “Variations:  Derek Walcott” (Auditorium)
  Co-Moderators: Maria Christina Fumagalli, University of Essex & Thomas  Austenfeld, University of Fribourg
  •  Austenfeld, Thomas, University of Fribourg,  “Playing the Prodigal:  Walcott’s Variations on a Biblical Parable”
  • Fumagalli, Maria Christina, University of Essex, “Visible Syntax: Derek Walcott’s Watercolors”
  • Leer, Martin, Université of Genève, “Three Modes of Creolization in the Caribbean:  Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, and Erna Brodber”
  • MacDonald-Smythe, Antonia, St. George’s University (Grenada), “‘The enclosing harmony that we call home.’:   Homecoming in The Prodigal”

15:00 - 16:15

• Title   -  The Franklin College Creative Writing Panel (Room 5)
  Moderator, Bobby Alexandrova, Editor of the College’s Literary Magazine,  “Creating Re/Views”
  • Alexandrova, Bobby
  • Marston, Alex,  Franklin College alum
  • Neidich, Evan
  • Nichols, Christina        
  • Wade, Scott, Franklin College alum

16:30 - 18:00

• Caribbean Music Spun by “The Franklin College Reggae Society” (In the  Auditorium)

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