Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:30

Reconceptualizing Sexuality

11:30- 1:00

Decolonial Feminisms and Global South Sites of Resistance

Dr. Chipo Dendere; Dr. Kanika Batra, Amherst College, Texas Tech University

A Linguistic Turn in Decolonial Feminism or Feminist A Linguistic Turn in Decolonial Feminism or Feminist Postproverbials as Decolonizing Method,

Olayinka Oyeleye, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Workers, Women, and Women Workers in Jamaican: Magazines from the 1960s to 1980s,

Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University

Global Feminisms and Decolonizing Currents at Makerere University,

Anneeth Kaur Hundle, University of California at Merced

We Like Our Women Pretty, We Don’t Like to hear them Speak: Women in Zimbabwean Politics,

Chipo Dendere, Amherst College

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK OF PROF EUDINE BARRITEAU

1:30-3:00

Revisiting the Scholarship of Eudine Barriteau: deconstruction of Gendered Power Relations in the Post-Colonial Caribbean State

Angélica Rodríguez-Bencosme

Sitting on artifacts of gender: how furniture reinforces gender power  relations, Angélica Rodríguez-Bencosme, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo
      Domingo

Reflecting on a Revolution - Gender and Power in Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Intersections of Power and Identity: The Gendered Construction of Food Producers in the Post-Colonial State of Trinidad and Tobago,

Merisa Thompson, Research Fellow, University of Sheffield

Gendered 'Entrepreneurialism' in the Caribbean,

Tami Navarro, Barnard College

3:00-4:30

Gender and Migration

Shelene Gomes

When the Queer Native Expert Returns "Home." Queer Diaspora Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean,

Nikoli Attai, University of Toronto

Notes Toward Tribal Futurism: The Post-Apocalypse,

Lisa Sánchez González, University of Connecticut, English & Comp. Lit.

The impact of migration on gender relations in households of Jamaicans in Canada,

Jacqueline Coore-Hall, University of the West Indies, Mona

Searching for Home in the Master's House,

Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, Canterbury Christ Church University

4:30-5:30

CiWIL Panel

Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK OF PROFS EUDINE BARRITEAU, PATRICIA MOHAMMED AND RHODA REDDOCK

10:00-11:30

Confronting Difference through Gender Studies: Reflections from Graduate Students

Sue Ann Barratt

Crossing Difference Through Caribbean Feminist Scholarship: Tracing Thoughts from Patricia Mohammed,

Asha Maharaj, MSc student, IGDS, St. Augustine

Cinematic Engagement of race/ethnicity, class and gender difference in the Caribbean region through music and ritual, Rachel Taylor, PhD Candidate, IGDS, St. Augustine

Navigating the State: Implications for Caribbean women,

Tivia Collins, PhD Candidate, IGDS, St. Augustine

Revisiting Gender Difference: Nonconforming embodiments and their Muddling of Caribbean Gender Systems,

Richie Daly, MPhil Candidate, IGDS, St. Augustine

11:30- 1:00

Disability, Mental Health, and Disablement in the Caribbean (Part 1)

Savitri Persaud, York University 

Mad Indian Woman: Co-constructing Madness, Race, and Femininity in Guyana,

Savitri Persaud, York University 

Sharing Secrets: What can Migration Stories tell us about Mental Health and Treatment, Karen Naidoo, York University

“Deh Say I’s Ah Madman”: Sounding Madness and Mental Health Stigma in Soca Music, Ryan Persadie, University of Toronto

The Wild Blue Yonder, Melanie Bratcher, Independent Researcher

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30-3:00

Decoloniality and Anti-Colonial Feminist Research Methodology

Andrea Baldwin, Virginia Tech University

Barriteau, love power and the radical potential of care,

Andrea Baldwin, Virginia Tech University

The Personal, Political, and Professional: Pan-Africanism, Feminisms/Womanism, and Transgressing the Boundaries of the Academy, Nana Brantuo, University of Maryland, College Park

Gender and Generation at Play: Practicing Jamaican Nationality in an   Immigrant Cultural Organisation,

Marcelle M. Medford, Bates College

Feminism and the Decolonizing of Praxis: The Intricacies of Co-creating Change in the Caribbean,

Leslie Ann Robertson Toney, Judiciary of Trinidad & Tobago - The Children Court

3:00-4:30

Pan African Feminist Perspectives promoting Matriarchy: Pre-Colonial Linguistic Confirmation.

Gertrude Fester-Wicomb, Hon Professor, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Women in Ankole, Uganda: Reclaiming Power,

Donah Asiimire, Bishop Stuart University, Uganda

Reflections On Motherhood and Womanhood from A Setswana  Indigenous Perspective,

Palesa Seleke and Shole Shole, Sol Plaatje and North Western Universities, South Africa

Agaciro (Dignity) Asserted: Women raped in Rwanda during 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis,

Kansanga, Ndahiro Marie Odette, SRIA International Rwanda

Amplifying Aboriginal Voices and Reviving Matriarchy in Southern Africa,

Gertrude Fester-Wicomb, Hon Professor, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

4:30-5:30

UN WOMEN Roundtable

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:30

Confronting Key Challenges for the Caribbean: Policy Implications

Sweeping Changes Needed,

Adeola Young, UWI

What is all this nonsense about men making abortion decisions? Keino Senior, Edna Manley College

Gender quota legislation? A look at the gender composition of Trinidad and Tobago's publicly listed companies' boards for the past 10 years,

Jeanelle Baron

Constructions of Survival: Exploration Domestic Violence Social Support Work in Trinidad and Tobago,

Kendra-Ann Pitt

11:30- 1:00

The Gendered Politics of Policing in Neoliberal Africa

Alicia C. Decker, Penn State University

Militarism and the Gendered Politics of Policing in Contemporary Uganda,

Alicia C. Decker, Penn State University

“Post-Military Rule” and AFRICOM: Continuities of Militarism and Militarization on the African Continent,

Margo Okazawa-Rey, Fielding Graduate University

From Freedom Fighters to Feminists,

Amina Mama, University of California at Davis

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30-3:00

Decolonizing Pedagogies and Practices

Centering Solidarities with Indigenous Struggles and Decolonising Caribbean Feminisms,

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, IGDS SAU

The Pedagogy of Difference and Dissent: Co-producing consciousness across borders,

Patricia Mohammed, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Southern Feminism at the Crossroads of Development and Neoliberalism: The Case of DAWN,

Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, New York University

Feminist Social Work Education as an Anti-colonial strategy in a Canadian Inner City BSW program, Eveline Milliken, Professor of Social Work

3:00-4:30

 Vulnerability in African and African-Diasporic Feminist and Queer Imaginaries

Ashley Currier, University of Cincinnati

Sugar-coating: Migratory Labor and the Vulnerable Female Body in Rural Western Kenya,

Selina Makana, Columbia University

Transnational LGBT Rights Activism and the Erasure of the Queer Afro-Diaspora,

SM Rodriguez, Hofstra University

Rethinking “Feminization” in Accounts of Sexual Violence in Southern African Prisons,

Ashley Currier, University of Cincinnati

4:30-6:00

Pan-Africanism & Feminism: Marginalization, Conflict and GBV

Pan-Africanism and Black Feminism: Gender Justice and the Liberation of Black Women in Britain,

Annecka Leolyn Marshall, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

How women of African descent transcend geographic and temporal boundaries with the help of ICTs,

Kamra Sadia Hakim, Center for Global Affairs, School of Professional Studies

Complicating Transnational Discourses of Gender Justice: The “Located-ness” of African Feminisms, Oceane Jasor, Concordia University

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:00

UN WOMEN Roundtable 2

11:00-12:00

UN WOMEN  Roundtable  3

12:00 – 1:00

UN WOMEN  Roundtable  4

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30-3:00

Caribbean Sexualities: Notes from the Field

FILM: Many Loves, One Heart: Stories of Courage and Resilience, Diana J Fox, Professor and Chairperson, Anthropology Department, Bridgewater State University

An exploration of body image and health in Barbadian sexual minority women, 

Nastassia Rambarran, EQUALS Barbados/SASOD Guyana

Schooling and building the LGBT self: View of activists from Trinidad & Tobago,

Deosaran Seelal, Secondary School Teacher

Interrogating Michel Foucault's history of sexuality: Jamaican realities of masculinities and sexualities,

Natasha Mortley and Keino Senior

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK OF PROF PATRICIA MOHAMMED

3:00-4:30

Patricia Mohammed: A Different Imagination

Nalini Mohabir, Concordia University

New Directions for Visual Studies in the work of Patricia Mohammed,

Joy Mahabir, SUNY - Suffolk

Imaging & Imagining the Caribbean: Coolie Coolie Viens,

Nalini Mohabir, Concordia University

Alison Donnell, University of East Anglia

Gender Negotiations, Feminist Navigations and the Silver Lining Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago,

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, IGDS SAU

4:30-5:30

Activist Roundtable:  Transformative Feminist Education: Using African Canadian and Indigenous Histories to Decolonizing the Classroom

Billie Allan, PhD School of Social Work University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Amoaba Gooden, PhD Department of Pan-African Studies Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Rhonda Hackett, PhD School of Social Work University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Karen Flynn, PhD Departments of Gender and Women's Studies and African-American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:30

Interrogating Violence, Love and Nation in Post-conflict and Postcolonial Societies

What will take women’s rights to restore the dignity of Rwandan women?

Regine King, University of Calgary

Cultures of Violence and Rituals of Love,

Althea-Maria Rivas, University of Sussex

Gender & Decolonisation in Guyana: Nation’s Interests vs. Women’s Interests,

Salima Bacchus-Hinds, Creative Associates International

The Waters of Sexual Exploitation: Understanding the World of Sexually Exploited Youth,

Cathy Rocke

11:30-1:00

Race, Reparations and Decolonization

The Identity Politics of the Contemporary Reparations Movement in the Caribbean: An Intersectional Approach to Mixed Race Identities,

Gina Marie Granado, Student

Revolutionising Gender in post-Apartheid South Africa and post-Colonial Commonwealth Caribbean,

Jewel Amoah

Slow Uprisings & Unearthing Voices: A conversation with Annalee Davis on intimate learning from the land

Skye Maule-O'Brien, PhD Candidate, York University, Education: Language, Culture & Teaching

Discourses in Black Canadian Feminist thought: The diasporic transatlantic movement and the construction of black guilt,

Dilesha Stelmach, Founder/CEO of Oui STEM Academy, Student at York University

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30-3:00

Reconsidering Eco-Feminism

Towards a Caribbean Ecofeminist Aesthetics: When Land and Body Intersect,

Myriam Moïse, Associate Professor, Université des Antilles, Martinique

Women and Nature: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in the Global South,

Erum Muzaffar, Lecturer, Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Indigeneity and Ecological Justice,

Asia

3:00-4:30

Consciousness: Women, Worldviews  and Agency

Agency and Bodies within Conflicting Fields: The visibility of women's bodies in the resistance to transformation in South African Universities,

Grace Ese-osa Idahosa, University of Johannesburg

The Pedagogy of Difference and Dissent: Co-producing Consciousness across borders,

Patricia Mohammed

Women, Worldviews and Governance in Indigenous Social Service Agencies,

Gwendolyn Gosek, Evelyn (Lyn) Ferguson, Darla Gosek, BSW

Anti-Feminist Perceptions of Women in Pentecostal Charismatic Evangelical Churches in South Africa,

Maria Frahm-Arp, University of Johannesburg

4:30-5:30

Activist Roundtable: ‘Revolutionary Demand for Happiness’: A Creative Conversation on Art, Creativity & Pop Culture in Decolonial Feminist & LGBTQI Activism, Teaching & Scholarship

Roundtable Presenters:

Tonya Haynes, IGDS:NBU

Ewan Atkinson, Visual Artist

Angelique V. Nixon, IGDS: SAU

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:30

Gender, Health, Race and Reproduction

Cross Border Repro-Flows and the Reproduction of White Desirability,

Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town

Is it possible to create a gendered-specific model of rehabilitation for women in Jamaican Prisons? Exploring opportunities for Jamaican women after    
    incarceration,

Chirysh Dupie, York University

Gender Performativity and Performing Arts: A clue to women's health in Africa?

Abidemi Omolara Fasanmi, Emory University

11:30-1:00

Interrogating Feminisms

She is a woman, but she is a killer,

Elaine P. Rocha, University of the West Indies Cave Hill

Keeping Ralphie in Check and Going Home to My Man’s Arms: Does Feminism Offer it All.

Marsha Hinds-Layne, National Organization of Women, Barbados

Reimaging Self Help in 2018 – Recapturing Female Ways of Living in Barbados,  Abeda Adam, Our Own Change

Female Leadership in the Church: Intersecting Power, Gender and Feminism, Sonia Sandra J. Hinds, Anglican priest

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK OF PROFS EUDINE BARRITEAU, PATRICIA MOHAMMED AND RHODA REDDOCK

1:30-3:00

Caribbean Epistemological Entanglements

The View from the Shoulders on which I Stand,

J. Vijay Maharaj, The University of the West Indies St Augustine

Caribbean Affects: Love, Intimacy, Ambivalence,

Carla Freeman, Emory University

Critical Engagement with the work of Eudine Barriteau, Patricia Mohammed, Rhoda Reddock,

Deadranne Baston Morrison, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies

3:00-4:30

Caribbean Feminisms: Activism, Soca, Sexuality

Rape & Respectability: Tambourine Army and the Role of the Digital in Feminist Activism in the Caribbean,

Danielle M Roper, University of Chicago

Chutney Soca Feminisms: Then to Now,

Darrell G. Baksh, PhD Cultural Studies Candidate, The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad

Food, Fiction and Caribbean Feminisms, Robyn Cope, Binghamton University

HIV-Positive Jamaican Women’s Sexual Praxis & The Radical Potential of Global Feminism,

Jallicia Jolly, University of Michigan

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:30

Towards an Inter Guyanas Feminism

Kamala Kempadoo

Framing the InterGuyanas Gender Studies project: On the significance of intersectionality,

Kamala Kempadoo, York University

Reinvigorating Women, Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Guyana,

Pauline Bullen, University of Guyana

Teaching gender and sexuality at the IWGDS, Suriname,

Carla Bakbood, Renuka Biharie, Julia Terborg, Anton de Kom

Remapping feminisms through the Guyanas: Reflections on possibilities and challenges,

D. Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto

11:30-1:00

Disability, Mental Health, and Disablement in the Caribbean Double-Panel (Part 2)

Fatimah Jackson-Best

“We Cannot Let Her Walk Away; We Got to Deal with it”: Addressing Women’s Access to Formal and Informal Supportive Resources for Maternal Depression in Barbados, Fatimah Jackson-Best

“Finding Your Anchor”: Navigating Mental Illness and Academic  Achievement, Sue-Ann Barratt, University of the West Indies.

F.J. Genus, TransWave Jamaica

Addressing gender equality in the context of disability in the Caribbean,

Teadra Morris, Women's Empowerment for Change (WE-Change) Jamaica

Eliminating GBV in the Deaf Community in Jamaica: A Preliminary Assessment of the Signing Safe Futures Jamaica Project, Dalea Bean and Abby Gayle Clarke, IGDS Regional Coordinating Unit

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30- 2:30

UN WOMEN Roundtable 5

2:30-3:30

UN WOMEN Roundtable 6

3:30-4:30

Advancing the Debate on Gender and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Roots of Firm Productivity Gaps,

Jonathan Lashley, SALISES

Variability of Business Constraints by Growth Stage: A Qualitative Analysis on Women-Led Firms in the Caribbean,

Katrine Smith; Jonathan Lashley; Luwayne Thomas  

Reducing the Gender Gap in Firm Productivity in the Caribbean: Insights from Exemplary Afro- Caribbean Female Entrepreneurs,

Mark A. Thomas; Judith Mendes, The Cropper Foundation

Time

Panel Title and Chair

Papers

10:00-11:30

Cosmological Disruptions of the Feminine

Catherine John

Insurgent Attitude: The Shifting Ground of the Black Feminine. Catherine John, Associate Professor

University of Oklahoma

Cholita Embodied Rhetorics in The Lucha Libre.

Gabriela Rios, Associate Professor University of Oklahoma

“Well, we are not British anymore”: Examining the role of feminism and intersectionality in Jamaica's social justice movements. Taitu Heron, Women and Development Unit

Native Aliens: The Poetics of Reversibility in Afrofuturist Feminist Science Fiction.

Amit Baishya, Assistant Professor

University of Oklahoma

11:30-1:00

IGDS: NBU Panel

1:00-1:30

LUNCH

1:30- 2:30

Performance

YANGA GODDESS. - My Love Is a Verb. Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, Ankara Queen

2:30-2:45

Poetry

Crossroads.  Carissa Rodulfo, The 2 Cents Movement

2:45-3:30

Performance

Bathroom Graffiti, Opal Palmer Adisa, Yvonne Weekes

3:30-4:00

Performance

Sisters Outside, with Bridges for Backs, Still Searching for our Gardens, Asantewa Sunni-Ali,

Kent State University, Department of Pan-African Studies

4:00-4:30

Performance

Talking feminism: Nuff Talking,  Margaret D. Gill with Shari