PROGRAMME
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THURSDAY 21st MAY 2009
8.00-8.30 am REGISTRATION
8.30-9.00 am Welcome
Prof. Funso Aiyejina
Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Education
UWI St Augustine
Opening Remarks
Dr.
Coordinator, Cultural Studies
Head of Department, Liberal Arts
UWI St Augustine
9.00-10.30 am PANEL
1A: Figuring the Child
Chair: Prof. Valerie Youssef
“The Child as Progenitor: Trauma and the (Un)making of the Self”
Dr.
“’Always In the Distance’: Enlisting the Child as Transformative Signifier”
Dr.
“Child’s ‘I’ and Other in Olive Senior’s Narratives of Self-Invention”
Prof.
PANEL
1B: Behaviour and Learning Environments
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Mohammed
“Beyond
the Rugrats: Child Behaviour, Teacher Response and Behaviour Change in Three
Morvant Schools”
Ms. Sabeerah Abdul-Majied (UWI, St Augustine)
“Children Learn Best When the Learning Environment is Fun and the Content of Learning Relevant”
Dr. Rawatee Maharaj-Sharma (UWI, SA)
“’We suppose to have fun…’: Voice and
Resistance in the Primary Classroom”
Rowena Kalloo (UTT,
“Parental and Societal Perspectives on Children: Socio-cultural Influences on Quality Early Childhood Education”
Dr. Carol Logie
10.30-11.00 am BREAK
11.00-12.30 pm PANEL
2A: Carnival Children: Performance and Industry
Chair: Rawle Gibbons
“Children
of
Soca”
Dr. Louis Regis (UWI,
“Play
in Disney-Carni-Land!! The Disneyland Culture of Experience and the Trini
Children’s Carnival Product: Exploring Niki-Land”
Jo-anne Tull (UWI,
“Dey Say Ah Too Young to Soca: Examining Machel Montano from Child Star to Cultural Entrepreneur”
“Children’s Mass and the Notion of Being and
Becoming – Claiming the Imagination and Presenting Notions of Identity within
the
Keynwyn
Murray
PANEL
2B: Troubling Sex and Sexuality
Chair: Dr Brader Brathwaite
“Troubled
Children: Violence and Illicit Sexual Behaviour”
Dr.
“An
Ethnographic View of Adolescent Female Sexuality in
Marissa Thomas (
“What
Child is This?”: Same-Sex Desire among Children in the Anglophone Caribbean
Short Story”
Dr. Geraldine Skeete (UWI,
12.30-2.00 pm LUNCH
(
2.00-3.30 pm ROUNDTABLE:
“The Child in Focus – Rights and Issues”
Panelists: Dr. Jacqueline
Sharpe, Dr.
Chair:
Dr Wayne Kublalsingh
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
3.30-5.00 pm PANEL
3A: Nation, Migration and Belonging
Chair: Dr Sharayna Jayawickrama
“’What if the Baker Won’t Let Me Feel the Bread’:
Alternative Ways of Belonging to the Nationscape for Marginalised Women in
Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography”
Michelle Ramlagan (University of Miami)
“Growing
up and Moving Away: Identity, Migration, and Gender in
Josune Urbistondo (
“Trauma
and Exile: A Torturous Journey to Selfhood in Lucy, and
Breath,
Eyes, Memory”
Caryn Rae Adams (UWI, Cave Hill)
“Memory
and Desire: A Future Visualized in the Intersections of History”
Yi Huang (
PANEL
3B: (Re) Shaping Children – From Problem to Solution
Chair: Fr. Stephen Geofroy
“Predicators of Behavioural Problems in Primary Schools within the Laventille
East District in Trinidad”
Marian Taylor (UWI,
“Corporal
Punishment in the
Charrise Clarke (UWI)
“Residential
Institutions as ‘parents’ for vulnerable children: References to selected
studies with emphasis on
Dr. Innette Cambridge (UWI,
“Using
Critical Literacy to Teach Character Development in
Merle
Hodge’s For the Life of Laetitia”
Karen Sanderson Cole (UWI,
PANEL
3C: Citizenship, Violation and Responsibility
Chair: Dr Shilpa Venkatachalam
“First They Must be Defined: A Caribbean View of the Child and Childhood”
Betsy Ann Lambert Peterson (
“Parallels
Between Adolescent Male Sodomy in The Kite Runner and
Trinidad
Realities”
Krissy Luke (UWI,
“The
Potential Child and
Keino Senior (UWI, Mona)
7.00-9.00 pm READING
and KEYNOTE ADDRESS
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Olive Senior
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Towards a Poetics of Childhood”
Prof. Sandra Pouchet Paquet
FRIDAY 22nd MAY
8.30-10.00 am PANEL
4A: Literary Fathers: A Dialogue on Kamau Brathwaite
Chair: Dr Louis Regis
“’But Heroes Were in Books:’ Representing the Absent Father in
Brathwaite’s Barabajan Poems”
Rhonda Cobham-Sander (
Respondent
Prof. Gordon Rohlehr (UWI,
PANEL
4B: Centering the Child: Need and Agency in the Education Process
Chair: Dr June George
“Schooling
the Poor Child: Learning Experiences of Primary School Children in Institutions
in the Context of Challenge”
Jerome De Lisle el tal (UWI,
“The
Sisterhood of the Exam: Secondary school choice and the centrality of 11+ in
the emotional and social lives of female 11+ students”
“The
Child as Consumer: Understanding the Role of Children in the Family Dynamics of
Secondary School Choice in
10.00-10.30 am BREAK
10.30- 12 noon PANEL
5A: Visual and Media Representations
Chair: Dr Christiana Abraham
“Visual Representation and the Child”
Dr. Jean Antoine-Dunne (UWI, St Augustine)
“Crimes Against Children: Challenging their Media Representations”
Prof. Valerie Youssef (UWI, St Augustine)
“Videogames and Violence: Impact in Children and Adolescents”
Luis
Alberto Notario (
PANEL
5B: History, Trauma and Transmission
Chair: Dr Tia Cooper
“Even little black children cannot be reared like the lambs and calves of the
field”: Children, Family and Community in Plantation Society, 1790-1838”
Tara Inniss (UWI, Cave Hill)
“The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma”
Paige L. Parker (Pacific Oaks College)
“Brother and sister, with a common pin”
Rose-Ann Walker (UWI, St Augustine)
PANEL 5C: Voicing the Child: Making Stories
Chair: Dr
“Voices of Children, Visions of Adults: The Child Narrator as Interpreter and
Interrogator of his Environment”
Rhoda Bharath (UWI, St Augustine)
“'The Thing Without a Name': The Child as Narrative Strategy in
Ryan Durgasingh (UWI,
“The Influence of Children on the Structure of Pronoun Systems in Young Caribbean Languages”
Benjamin Braithwaite (UWI,
12 noon-2.00 pm LUNCH
(
2.00-3.30 pm ROUNDTABLE: “Writing the Child”
Olive Senior, Merle Hodge,
Chair: Professor Barbara Lalla
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
3.30-5.00 pm PANEL
6A: Perspectives on Stories, Fairytales and (re) education
Chair: Dr Geraldine Skeete
“Black
Heart/White Heart: The Chronicles of Narnia as Literary
Text
in a Creole Space”
Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon (UWI, St Augustine)
“’Restoring
Jim to his White Parents and Repositioning His Blackness’: A Critical Discourse
Approach to Jim the Boatman (1845)”
Reneè Figuera (UWI, St Augustine)
“’How the Mirror Broke’: Deconstructing Colonial Fairytales in Joyce Gittens’ I
Remember Pampalam”
Dr Giselle Rampaul (UWI, St Augustine)
PANEL
6B: Interventions: Nature/Creative Expressions
Chair: Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne
“Landscaping and Expressing the Inexpressible”
Dr. Dani Lyndersay (UWI, St Augustine)
“Children
and Nature: The Link to a Healthier Planet”
Doreen Jodhan (UWI, St Augustine)
Arts-in-Action
7.00-9.00 pm SPECIAL EVENT and CLOSING RECEPTION
