Ecotones #5, Conference Program
All panels will take place in Brownson Hall, Room 109
Friday, June 21
9:00- 9:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast
9:30 a.m. -10 a.m. Introduction by Louise Feroe, Interim Provost & V.P. Academic Affairs, Manhattanville College.
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., Panel 1 - The Haitian Ecotone
Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak
Yann Kersaint, “(Un)planned Vulnerabilities – the Production of Vulnerability through Space in the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Case of Canaan.”
Arnaud Richard, “Le créole (haïtien) de Bombita en République dominicaine : de la vulnérabilité linguistique exploitée par le schibboleth jusqu'à la résilience dialectologique.”
Sara Fischer, “Diasporic Influences, Expansive Identities: Knowing Oneself in a Transatlantic Context in Which One? and Le Cri des oiseaux fous.”
Lena Taub Robles, "Life After Disaster: The Ordinary Caribbean in Yanick Lahens's Douces déroutes and Mara Pastor's Falsa heladería.
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 a.m. -1: 00 p.m., Panel 2 - Transnational Feminism and Women’s Ecopoetics
Chair: Nada Halloway
Nicole Ollier, “Women’s Ecopoetics: Building an Ecotone of Resilience and Resistance in Jamaica.”
Laura McGinnis, “Mother, Daughter, Slave, (Re)sist(e)r? Women and Femininity in Visual Commemoration in Martinique and Guadeloupe.”
Shirin Edwin, “Transnational Feminism in the Caribbean Short Story: Gisèle Pineau, Olive Senior and Maryse Conde”
Usha Rungoo, "The Antillean Morne as Resistance in Gisèle Pineau's Morne Câpresse.
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m., Lunch
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Panel 3- Performing Resistance in/through the Ecotone
Chair: Greg Swedberg
Rick Mitchell, “Performing Resistance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico.”
Nereida Segura-Rico “Who tells the story?”: Historical Revisionism and Caribbean Transgressions.”
John Paul Belk, “From Artificial Debt to Natural Disaster: Puerto Rico's Neoliberal Project.”
Coffee/Tea Break
4:00-5:30 p.m., Panel 4 - Ecotonic Effects of Climate Disasters
Chair: Binita Mehta
Nancy E. Todd, “Climate Change, Hurricanes and Human Disturbance: Their Combined Effects on Vegetation Communities on the Island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles.”
Wendy McFarlane, “Resiliency of Sea Turtle Nesting on the Island of Barbuda Following Repeated Climate Events.”
Brunilda Pizarro, “Unveiling Inequity through Climate Disaster: A Case Study of Displaced Puerto Rican Women in New Haven.”
Kasia Mika, “In Times of Disasters: Remaking the Caribbean Everyday.”
6:00-7:00 p.m., Keynote Speaker, Peggy Levitt, Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College
Title: "Decentering and Re-centering: Toward More Inclusive Ways of Producing, Disseminating, and Acting Upon Knowledge."
Chair: Thomas Lacroix
Berman Students' Center Auditorium
7:00-8:00 p.m., Reception/Dinner
Berman Students' Center Lobby
Saturday, June 22
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Panel 5 - Afropolitanism, Transculturation, and the Caribbean
Chair: Nada Halloway
Hannah Hjerpe-Schroeder, “That’s Me in Your Shell”: Conch Shell Poetics and the Caribbean Archive.”
David Shefferman, “Fernando Ortiz, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and the Roots of ‘Transculturation’.”
Markus Arnold, “The (French) Caribbean – An Essential Contribution to “Afropolitan Itineraries.”
Mamadou Moustapha Ly, “Redefining the Archipelagic Space in Edouard Glissant’s Poetics.”
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Film screening, One World in Relation (2010) followed by discussion with Manthia Diawara, filmmaker, scholar, cultural theorist, writer, and Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, moderated by Mohamed Mbodj. Followed by Q & A.
Closing Remarks