The RITA Group Seminar Series #4 2013 – 14:
Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces
| The University of Birmingham, Friday 31st October, 2014Our fourth in a four-seminar series, funded by the Institute for Latin American Studies and with the generous support of the University of Birmingham is ‘Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces’.“[W]e need imaginations that are sensitive to inner-city decay and the lungs of the globe orchestrated into forests and rivers and skies. We need to build afresh through the brokenness of our world….” (Wilson Harris). This one-day symposium looks at the ways in which the Caribbean and the future are imagined together. How has the future of the Caribbean been imagined and how is it being re-imagined at a time of environmental change and global insecurity? How does the future look when we imagine it in and through the Caribbean – is the Caribbean a space to imagine the future differently? Race in the Americas (RITA) 2013-14 Regional Seminar Series #4:
Imagining Caribbean Future Spaces – Friday 31st October, 2014 – University of Birmingham, Room 311, Geography Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
PROGRAMME 9:00am-9:30am: Arrivals and Registration
9:30am-10:15am: Welcoming Remarks Dr Patricia Noxolo Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
10:15am-11:00am: Panel 1 – Future spaces of freedom Dr Louise Hardwick, University of Birmingham ‘Youth dispossession, general strikes and alternative economies in the French Caribbean? From the film Nèg maron (2005) to the “Manifesto for the ‘products’ of great necessity” (2009)’
11:00am – 11:15am: Break
11:15am – 12:45pm: Panel 2 – Future Spaces of Memory Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex ‘”The dream of creating one people from two lands mixed together”: Hispaniola before and after the 1937 massacre’ Dr Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK ‘Spatial Choreographies of the History of Slavery in Martinique and Guadeloupe: from the Courtroom to the Museum’
12:45pm-1:45pm: Lunch
1:45pm – 3:15pm: Panel 3 – Future Spaces of Sexuality Professor Thomas Glave, 2014 Leverhulme Visiting Professor (Hispanic Studies), University of Warwick ‘Future Queer: Enough of the “Bitches”’ Dr Patricia Noxolo, University of Birmingham ‘Future Caribbeans: Sun, sex and speculative fiction?
3:15pm-3:30pm – Break
3:30pm-5:00pm: Panel 4 – Future Environmental Spaces Professor Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair, Vassar University, USA ‘Cuba’s Agonizing Seashore Resorts: Atelier Morales’s Adrift Patrimony (The Baths) and the Future of the Caribbean’s Shores’ Dr Angela Last, University of Glasgow, UK ‘Apostropher L’Apocalypse: Caribbean geopoetics and the Anthropocene’
5.00pm–5:15pm: Closing Remarks and Thanks – Race in the Americas (RITA) group For further information, see https://sites.google.com/a/raceintheamericas.com/race-in-the-americas/home/rita-events-and-projects/the-impact-of-race-on-music, or contact Dr Pat Noxolo – p.e.p.noxolo@bham.ac.uk |