Conference Announcement: Visual Cultures of the Caribbean
One-day Conference, 17th March
Institute of Advanced Study
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green
University of Durham
This one-day conference aims to explore the central importance of visual cultures to colonial and postcolonial Caribbean societies. Bringing together some of the most important scholars in the field, with a range of different interests and specialisms, it seeks to provoke debate on a series of issues around the visual arts in the Caribbean and the role different visual media have played in, for example, colonial ideology, forms of resistance, and political iconography. The conference touches on visual cultural forms from across the pan-Caribbean, including television in Puerto Rico, Columbian cinema, representations of Vodou in Haitian art, and the work of Indo-Caribbean artists in the context of the uneven relations between Rotterdam and Paramaribo. By exploring the visual cultures of the Caribbean, the conference aims to contribute to the ongoing interrogation of the Eurocentric tendency still often evident in visual cultures studies, despite the claims made for its increasingly globalized perspective.
This conference is sponsored by the University of Durham and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick
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Registration is free; refreshments will be provided, but delegates will have to make their own arrangements for lunch. Places are limited, so please let us know in advance that you will be attending.
Visual Cultures of the Caribbean
Conference Programme:
10.00 - 10-15 Opening remarks
10.15 - 11.00 Session 1: Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London): TBC
11.00 - 11.45 Session 2: Leon Wainwright (Open University): "Atlantic movement in art of the Indo-Caribbean: Casting shadows and throwing light in Surinam and the Netherlands"
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Break
13.15 - 14.00 Session 3: María del Pilar Blanco (UCL): "Ethnology, Transnationalism, and Post/colonial Modernity: Broadcasting Puerto Rican Identity in the Early Days of Television (1954-1960)"
14.00 - 14.45 Session 4: Juana Suárez (University of Kentucky): "Tropical Goth: Cinematic Dislocations of the Caribbean Imaginary in South West Colombia"
14.45 - 15.00 Tea Break
15.00 - 15.45 Session 5: Louise Fenton (University of Wolverhampton): "Representations Vodou in Haitian Art since 1945"
15.45 - 16.00 Tea Break
16.00 - 16.45 Roundtable
16.45 - 17.00 Closing Remarks
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