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Decentred / Dissenting Connections: Envisioning Caribbean Film and Visual Cultures Newcastle University, 29-30 May 2018 We would like to invite you to attend Decentred / Dissenting Connections<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/news-events/events/item/decentreddissentingconnections.html>, a two-day conference co-convened by Dunja Fehimović and Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián with the support of the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), AHRC OWRI, and Newcastle University School of Modern Languages. Structured as a series of workshops, the event will bring together scholars interested in re-imagining the Caribbean through a visual lens. Our discussions will centre around three questions: * How can the visual help us to approach the Caribbean anew? * What does it mean to re-envision the Caribbean in times of global fragmentation and expanding inequalities? * How can we approach the Caribbean's multiple peripheries rigorously and creatively from the relative remoteness of the North-East of England? We are honoured to have Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) as our distinguished keynote speaker. We are also delighted to be able to show A Winter Tale, by one of the most influential protagonists in Caribbean diasporic cinema: director, writer and producer Frances-Anne Solomon, who will join us on skype for a conversation after the screening of her film. Attendance is free but registration<https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=1752954> is required. The deadline for registration is Monday 21 May. For more information, please contact Dunja Fehimović<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Programme 10.00 - 10.30: Registration and Coffee Armstrong Lounge / Bar, Ground Floor, Armstrong Building 10.30 - 11.00: Opening Remarks Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building 11.00 - 13.00: Tropes of the Caribbean in Film Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building 1. 'The country girl in the early cinema of Puerto Rico and Haiti' - Yarí Pérez Marín (Durham University) 2. 'Livity, trickery, madness: The other side of the tourist imaginary in three postcolonial Jamaican films' - Janelle Rodriques (Universität Bremen) 3. 'The Wall of Words: Non-verbal communication as a means to ending loneliness, solitude and isolation in Cuban film' - Olivia Cooke (Queens University Belfast) 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch Armstrong Lounge / Bar, Ground Floor, Armstrong Building 14.00 - 16.00: Ecologies, Landscapes & Environments Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building 1. 'Counterflows: Liquid Ecologies and the Landscape in the Dominican Republic' - Lisa Blackmore (University of Essex) 2. 'Disentangling the Mangrove: Violences Fast and Slow, and the Environmentalism of the Poor' - Rory O'Bryen (University of Cambridge) 3. 'Twin Peripheries: Colombia's Dos Mares and the Political Imaginary' - Nick Morgan (Newcastle University) 4. 'Conflicted Islandscapes of Recent Caribbean Cinema: Jeffrey (2016) by Yanillys Pérez, and Keyla (2017) by Viviana Gómez Echeverry' - Francisco-J. Hernández-Adrián (Durham University) 17.00 - 19.30: Screening and Discussion Tyneside Cinema, Digital Lounge Frances-Anne Solomon, A Winter Tale<https://caribbeantales-tv.com/product/a-winter-tale/> (2007), and Skype conversation with the director. Wednesday 30 May 10.00 - 10.30: Registration and Coffee Armstrong Lounge / Bar, Ground Floor, Armstrong Building 10.30 - 12.30: Connections Across, Within, and Beyond the Caribbean Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building 1. 'A Global-Moral Nexus: Contemporary Art and Caribbean Community' - Leon Wainwright (Open University) 2. '(In)Visibility in the Black Caribbean: The Cases of Cuba, Nicaragua and Colombia' - Julie Cupples, Charlotte Gleghorn and Raquel Ribeiro (University of Edinburgh) 3. 'Representations of the Mainland Caribbean: Dissidents from a Central American Ideal' - Luis Fallas (Newcastle University) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Armstrong Lounge / Bar, Ground Floor, Armstrong Building 13.30 - 14.30: Envisioning Alternative Knowledges Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building 1. 'See We Here: Caribbean Archives, Memory and Critical Aesthetics' - Roshini Kempadoo (University of Westminster, London) 2. 'Video Ethnography in Practice: An Introduction to Tambú' - Nanette de Jong (Newcastle University) 3. 'Repeating Islands' - Amanda Alfaro Córdoba (UCL) 4. 'Tropical Exposures: Early Film Histories of the Caribbean' - Dunja Fehimović (Newcastle University) 14.30 - 15.00: Coffee Armstrong Lounge / Bar, Ground Floor, Armstrong Building 15.00 - 16.30: Keynote and Discussion Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building 'Unthinkability, Unfilmability? The Haitian Revolution on Screen' - Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) 16.30: Closing Remarks Lecture Theatre 2.16, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building