Transcultural Communication and Migrations in the Indian Ocean Rim and the Caribbean

March 23-24, 2012

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Keynote speakers:

Oonya Kempadoo, novelist, writer and social development researcher, Grenada
 “Wait nuh, I know you.” Caribbean perspectives of douglarization and cultural recognition

Aisha Khan, Associate Professor, Anthropology, New York University 
Transoceanic Migrations: Of Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Habitus

David Vine, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, American University Islands of Imperialism, Islands of Shame: Displacement and Dispossession across Time and Space 

Schedule:

Friday, March 23

10:00 a.m. - Opening of the Convocation

Roberta Marvin, Associate Dean of International Programs

Professor Paul Greenough, Crossing Borders Director
Introduction by the organizers Professors Anny Curtius, French and Italian and Sujatha Sosale, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

10:15 -11:15 a.m. - Session 1 

Chair: Professor Paul Greenough, History

Pauline Remy, French & Italian
“The Kala Pani and the Black Atlantic: Points of (Dis)-location, Trauma and Entanglements”

Sujatha Sosale, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
“Modernizing Communication in the Colonies: The Telegraph in the Indian Ocean Rim”

11:30- 12:30 p.m. - Film Screening 
Barcha Bauer, & Gérard César. The Indians of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Kala pani, the Spell of the Black Waters (Part 1), 2004.

2:15- 3:15 p.m. - Keynote 1

Oonya Kempadoo, novelist, writer and social development researcher, Grenada
“’Wait nuh, I know you.’ Caribbean perspectives of douglarization and cultural recognition”

3:30- 5:00 p.m. - Session 2 

Chair: Marie Kruger, Associate Professor, English

James Boucher, French & Italian
“Beggar Kings: Mimicry and Migration in Haiti”

Samuel P. Fitzpatrick, English
“We Jammin in Jamaica and Jaffna, from Bob Marley to M.I.A.: Rasta in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean Rim.”

Anny D. Curtius, Associate Professor, French & Italian
“Diasporizing Gandhi”

5:15- 6:15 p.m. - Film Screening 
John Pilger, Stealing a Nation (2004), 56 minutes

Saturday, March 24

8:30 - 9:30 a.m. - Keynote 2 

Aisha Khan, Associate Professor, Anthropology, New York University
“Transoceanic Migrations: Of Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Habitus”

10:00 -11:30 a.m. - Session 3 

Chair: Professor Frederick M. Smith, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures

P.J. Johnston, Religious Studies
“Convergence and Differentiation in Tamil Réunionnais Religion” *Crossing Borders Fellow*

Vanessa Borilot, French & Italian 
“The Migration of the Poto-Mitan Paradigm: From Haiti to the Indian Ocean Rim (via Guadeloupe and Martinique)” *Crossing Borders Fellow*

Angela Watkins, English
“Haiti Noir: The Literary Imagination of Haiti in Times of Disaster”

1:15-2:15 p.m. - Keynote 3

David Vine, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, American University
“Islands of Imperialism, Islands of Shame: Displacement and Dispossession across Time and Space”

2:30-3:30 p.m. - Session 4

Chair: Professor Paul Greenough, History

Jess Issacharoff, English 
“An Anti-Exhibition: Jewishness and Belonging in Good Morning Midnight” *Crossing Borders Fellow*

Youlia Tzenova, History
“Nu Pogodi!: a Window into Soviet Life During the Brezhnev Era” Crossing Borders Fellow*

4:00-5:00 p.m. - Keynote speakers converse

5:15-6:15 p.m. - Film Screening 
Barcha Bauer, & Gérard César. The Indians of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Kali Mai & Mariamin: the Quest for Identity (Part 2), 2004.