Symposium
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
African, Asian, European, Indigenous, and Latin American cultural forms are entwined through power, embodiment, and play both within and outside the Caribbean region. In this interdisciplinary symposium we will be exploring, through the lens of Carnival and (mas)querade, subversive displays of power, the politics of racialized, sexualized & nationalized bodies, and the trickster energy of play.
Join us in discourse and dance!
UC Santa Barbara in partnership with Leeds Beckett University.
This is a hybrid program, webinar and in-person.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 – 9:45 AM–6:00 PM PST (Time Zone Key)
Program
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 – 9:45 AM–6:00 PM PST (Click here for Time Zone Key)
UCSB University Center – State Street Room
- 9:45 AM–10:00 AM Welcome
Adeola Dewis, Cathy Thomas, and Emily Zobel Marshall
- 10:00 AM– 11:00 AM Keynote: "Those Kinds of Women": How the New Orleans Baby Dolls Used "Women's Rites" to Move Beyond Respectability Politics and Create Visibility
Kim Vaz-Deville (Xavier University of Louisiana)
- 11:00 AM–11:15 AM Morning break
- 11:15 AM–12:15 PM Roundtable: Wining & Twerking, On a Genealogy of Hips
Adanna Kai Jones (Bowdoin College) and Ra/Malika Imhotep (UC Berkeley)
moderated by Dr. Mireille Miller-Young (UCSB Feminist Studies) - 12:15 PM–1:00 PM Women in Carnival Overview and Research Ethics
Cathy Thomas (UCSB English), Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University, Reader in Postcolonial Literature) and Adeola Dewis (University of South Wales, Diaspora Artist
- 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Lunch break (catered, please RSVP)
- 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Roundtable: Women in Trinidad Carnival
Renella Alfred (Whip Princess), Dr. Adanna Kai Jones (on spectators/performers), Amanda McIntyre.(Baby Doll and writer), and Eintou Springer (Trinidad & Tobago Poet Laureate, Kambulé)
- 3:00 PM–3:15 PM Afternoon break
- 3:15 PM–4:15 PM Roundtable: AfroLatinidad's Festival Culture and Dance in California
Nadia Calmet (Afro-Peruvian folk dance/festival artist & activist) and Cheryl L. Noralez ((on masking traditions, Garifuna. American Heritage Foundation United)
- 4:15 PM–5:00 PM Dance Demo & Experience with Nadia Calmet
- 5:00 PM–6:00 PM Roundtable: Undergraduate Creative Critical Exploration of Carnival Art and Literature
moderated by Maria Zazzarino (Graduate Student, UCSB Comparative Literature)
Refreshments and lunch served at event
