Recreating the Caribbean in A Small Place and Poems from Guantánamo
25 March-6 April 2010
Conference participants are encouraged to invite family and friends to attend any of these sessions.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Moderator: Marco Katz
Panel I
Can the Colonized Communicate?: Speaking from the Ground Up
Mat Simpson “The Power of Language”
Brittne Tink “‘Anything he is not accustomed
to’:The Caribbean and Michel de Montaigne versis Charlotte Brontë and Orientalism”
Zach Peters “Articulation: The Role of Language in Colonized People Groups”
Panel II
Whitewashing the World: Histories of White Imperialism
Lauren Gagatek “Our Way is the Only Way”
Chris Melik “Superiorly Inferior”
Elyse Salpeter “Revealing the Irony in the White Man’s Quest”
Panel III
Learning from the Caribbean: What the Spread of Culture Can Teach the World
Saima Zamir “The Healing Power of Poetry”
Lindsay Caron “Untitled”
20 Minute Break for Evaluation
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Moderator: Anna Moore
Panel IV
Seeing the Unseen: Looking Beyond Surface Impressions in the Caribbean
Areej Alqishawi “Rest and Relaxation or Guilt and Poverty?”
Travis Metzger “The Many Cases of Tourism”
Katherine Pohoreski “Breaking Through the Facade of the Caribbean”
Panel V
Held Captive in the Caribbean: Texts in Search of Freedom
Kristian Stec “Being Passive Objects of History, Rther than Active Makers in It”
Camille Enero “Caribbean Captives”
Simron Gill “The Capability of Perspective”
Panel VI
“You Taught Me Language”: Contemporary Caribbean Calibans Curse the Colonizers
Cole McNamee “The Song of Suffering”
Terra Kipps “Tourism is Ugly”
Ashley O'Neill “Put it in Writing: The Perspective of Victims through Literature”
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Moderator: Mario García
Panel VII
Sometimes Human: How Portrayals Make and Remake Groups and Individuals
Kaylee-Rose Rudiger “Focus the Recreation: A Response to Poems of Guantánamo”
Stephanie Wilson “Aliens”
Marc Parsons “Take a Closer Look at the Map: A Short Essay on the Imagined Caribbean Identity”
Panel VIII
Failed Pygmalions I: Failed Recreations of the Caribbean
Graham Blyth “Modern Imperialism”
Matthew Lamoureux “Consider This a Warning. Stay Out Next Time”
Priya Dua “In Their Shoes”
Panel IX
Failed Pygmalions II: Recreating the Worst of Europe in the Caribbean
Lucas Bell “Re-Defining the Caribbean”
Kaylee A. L. Galipeau “Knowledge is Power”
Heather Curtis “The Colonizers Effect on The Colonized”
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Moderator: Andrea Kuczynski
Panel X
Can Anything Be Done?: Seeking Solutions to Continuing Caribbean Concerns
Joseph Levesque “A Small Utopia”
Darby Brox “Untitled”
Mathieu Maillet “Untitled”
Panel XI
Bending Language and Time: Other Understandings of the Caribbean
Meagan Dyck “The Concept of Time in A Small Place”
Marie Barabash “Untitled”
Sam Davidson “Untitled”
Panel XII
Pushing Back Against the Reading List: Finding Caribbean Voices in Caribbean Texts
Justin Wu “Untitled”
Aliyah Gauri “Untitled"
Carson Mayer “Untitled”
