Public Events : Conference in New York | Conference in Miami | Traveling exhibition Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination Thursday-Saturday, 17-19 March 2005 A Public Conference organized by Caribbean Literary Studies, University of Miami The Historical Museum of Southern Florida   Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination will examine the extensive connections between calypso and Caribbean fiction, poetry and drama, from the 1940s to the present. Discussions will focus on such topics as calypso as literature, the influence of calypso on other literary forms, and parallels between calypso and other Caribbean musical forms. Thursday, 17 March, 9:30 am - 9:00 pm Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 W. Flagler St. Downtown Miami

9:30 - 10:00 am
	Registration & opening breakfast Official conference welcome
10:00 - 11:00 am
	Keynote Address M. NourbeSe Philip Introduced by Patricia Saunders
11:10 am - 12:30 pm
	Session 1 -- Calypso: Evolutionary Keynotes 1. "Who Let The Dogs Out -- Soca's Impact on the International Music Industry in the 21st Century" Dr Dawn K Batson, Indiana State University   2. "'Bop Girl Goes Calypso': Containing Race and Youth Culture in Cold-War America" Dr Michael S. Eldridge, Humboldt State University   3. "Cultural Cousins: Tracing the Connections of Early Calypso and Jazz" Alicia Saldenha, Kobe University, Japan
12:30 - 1:00 pm
	Performance: Tribute to Sparrow Mike Olliverre, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
1:00 - 2:00 pm
	Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:20 pm
	Session 2 -- Women in Calypso Panel Chair: Dr. Joanne Hyppolite, Historical Museum of Southern Florida 1. "Women in Calypso: Social, Cultural, Political, Economic, and Gender Issues" Rudolph Ottley, Independent Scholar   2. "'Neither Lend Out Your Hole to Achieve Piece of Gold': Themes of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Soca" Dr Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Ryerson University, Toronto   3. "A Search for the Equitable Calypso: From Obeah to Common Sense to Professionalism" David Lizardi, University of Puerto Rico
3:30 - 4:50 pm
	Session 3 -- Calypso: Pressure Points Panel Chair: Dr. Andrea Shaw, University of Miami 1. "Xtatik: Soca Warriors Performing Carnival" Nicole Castor, University of Chicago   2. "'Carnival Woman' David Rudder, Women and Gender" Alison McLetchie, Benedict College   3. "The Intersection of Dancehall and Calypso" Dr Kezia Page, Colgate University
5:00 - 6:00 pm
	Keynote Address Gordon Rohlehr, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Introduced by Steve Stuempfle
6:00 - 7:00 pm
	Dinner Break
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
	Calypso on Film Presented by Judge Ray Funk, Fairbanks, Alaska Respondents: Dr Patricia Mohammad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad Dr. Patricia Saunders, University of Miami
Exhibitions on display: Calypso Music in Postwar America and Visions of the Caribbean.

Friday, 18 March, 8:30 am - 9:00 pm Whitten University Centre University of Miami Coral Gables 8:30 am - 9:00 am
	Registration (UC237) & Light Breakfast (UC241)
9:00 am - 10:20 am
	Session 4 -- Policy, Politics, and Promise in Calypso: The Eric Williams Era Flamingo AB Panel Chair: Dr. William Aho, Department of Sociology, Rhode Island College 1. "Dr. Eric Williams' Vision for the Development of Carnival" Dr. Hollis Liverpool (Chalkdust),University of the Virgin Islands.   2. "Reflections of a Legend" Dr. Louis Regis, Trinidad and Tobago   3. "Calypso in the Battle for Emergent Independence" Judge Ray Funk, Fairbanks, Alaska
10:30 am - 11:50 am
	Session 5 -- Literature of the Yard Flamingo AB Panel Chair: Jessica Damián, University of Miami 1. "The Realpolitik of Yard Fiction" Dr. Leah Rosenberg, University of Florida   2. "The Languages of the Steel Drums in George Lamming's Season of Adventure" Dr Dean E. Makuluni, University of Wisconsin-Madison   3. "Cricket and Calypso: Exploring Problematic Masculinities in Naipaul's Miguel Street (1959) and John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" Claire Westall, University of Warwick, UK
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
	Lunch Break UC241
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
	Keynote Address Flamingo AB Earl Lovelace Introduced by Funso Aiyejina
2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
	Session 6 -- The Body as Text Flamingo AB Panel Chair: Dr. Rhonda Frederick, Boston College 1. "The Body as Text: Calypso Rose, Miss Lou, and the Caribbean Drama Queen" Amanda Sammons, Texas A&M University   2. "'Big Fat Fish': The Hypersexualization of the Fat Female Body in Calypso and Dancehall Arenas" Dr Andrea Shaw, University of Miami   3. "'Lethal Batty': Representations of the Female Body in Calypso" Dr Jennifer Thorington-Springer, Indiana University
3:30 pm - 4:50 pm
	Session 7 -- Calypso Aesthetics Flamingo AB Panel Chair: Dr Faith Smith, Brandeis University 1. "Unmasking the Chantwell Narrator in Earl Lovelace's Fiction" Dr Funso Aiyejina, University of the West Indies, Trinidad   2. "The Calypso Aesthetic and Earl Lovelace's Salt" Dr Michelle Smith-Bermiss, James Madison University   3. "Women, Calypso and Literature: A Reading of The Dragon Can't Dance and Salt" Carol Bailey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 4. "The Calypsonian Returns: Rethinking Social Transformation in Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Cant Dance" Nadia Johnson, University of Miami
6:30 - 7:00 pm
	Dinner Flamingo AB
7:00 - 8:30 pm
	Reading Flamingo AB Earl Lovelace Introduced by Sandra Pouchet Paquet

Saturday, 19 March, 8:30 am - 3:00 pm Whitten University Centre University of Miami Coral Gables 8:30 - 9:00 am
	Registration (UC 237) & Light Breakfast (UC 241)
9:00 - 10:40 am
	Session 8 -- Calypso and Caribbean Literature Flamingo AB Panel Chair: Sheri-Marie Harrison, University of Miami 1. "'With a tassa blending': Calypso and Cultural Identity in Indo-Caribbean Fiction" Dr. Paula Morgan, University of the West Indies, Trinidad   2. "Omeros Derek Walcott's Greek Calypso: A Song of the Self-Healing Island" Joseph Ballantyne, Middle Tennessee State University   3. "(Not) Knowing the Difference: Calypso Overseas and the Sound of Belonging In selected Narratives of Migration" Dr. Jennifer Rahim, University of the West Indies, Trinidad   4. "Calypso and Carnival Influences ion the Works of Jean Rhys." Dr. Cynthia Davis, Barry University
10:50 am - 12:30 pm
	Session 9 -- Calypso: Language and Performance Flamingo AB Panel Chair: Dr. Sandra Pouchet Paquet, University of Miami 1. "Validity and Reliability of Measures of Linking of Works of Calypsonians" Dr Humphrey Regis, University of South Florida   2. "Cultural Confusion and Cultural Inequity in Steel band and Calypso" Dr Ajamu Nyomba, Clark Atlanta University   3. "Recognizing the Language of Calypso as 'Symbolic Action' in Resolving Conflict in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago" Dr Everald Phillips, The London School of Economics, and Political Science   4. "Calypso and the Church" Junior Campbell, University of the West Indies, Barbados

Associated Events Saturday, 19 March, 1:00 pm. Memories of Underdevelopment. A film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Cuba, 1968). Presented in association with the Miami International Film Festival. Cosford Cinema, Memorial Building. University of Miami. Monday, 21 March, 4:30 pm. Reading by M. NourbeSe Philip. Presented in association with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami. Location to be announced. More Information All programs are free and open to the public. Registration required for meals, transportation and official conference materials. Registration fees (payable to the University of Miami): $65 / $70 on site. Students: $45 / $50 on site. For more information about conference registration, hotel and transportation, visit scholar.library.miami.edu/cls/conference2005.html or contact Caribbean Literary Studies at the University of Miami: caribbeanlit.english@miami.edu or (305) 284-2114. For information about events and exhibitions at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, visit www.historical-museum.org or contact the museum at hasf@historical-museum.org or (305)375-1492. Related Exhibition Calypso Music in Postwar America Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 02/25/05 - 06/05/05 The conference and exhibition are free and open to the public.

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