Conference Schedule
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Rainey Auditorium, The Penn Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology 4:00-4:15 pm: Opening Remarks: Donette Francis 4:15-4:30 pm: Opening Remarks: Deborah A. Thomas 4:40-5:30 pm: The Question of Politics Keisha Lindsay, Jamaica in the 1950s: Amy Bailey, Black Ladyhood, and the Art of Resistance Michael Hanchard, Comments 5:30-6:45 pm: Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston Exhibit & Reception Friday, 5 April 2019
Widener Auditorium, The Penn Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology 9:00-10:30 am: The Question of Gender O'Neil Lawrence, Through Archie Lindo's Lens: Uncovering the Queer Subtext in Nationalist Jamaican Art Linette Vassell, The Jamaican 1950s: Decolonization and the Jamaica Federation of Women Dorothy Roberts, Comments 11:00-12:30 pm: The Question of Disciplines Matthew Chin, In the Shadows of Kinship: Revisiting Sexual Politics in 1950s Jamaica Doreen Gordon, The University of the West Indies and the Elaboration of Social Scientific Baselines in the 1950s Peter Hudson, Comments 1:00-3:00 pm: The Question of a Canon Ronald Cummings, Caribbean Literary Historiography and the Making of the Jamaican Literary 1950s Hazel Carby, Imperial Intimacies: Fictions of Racial Logic in Postwar Britain Donette Francis, Comments 3:30-5:00 pm: The Question of the "Folk" Tracy Robinson, Mass Marriages in Jamaica and Academic Folk Knowledge in the 1950s Tao Goffe, Bigger than Sound: The Aesthetic and Capital Infrastructure of Jamaican Chinese Soundmen in the 1950s Deborah A. Thomas, Comments 5:00-5:30 pm: Closing Remarks David Scott Saturday, 6 April 2019
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 10:00-2:30 pm: Project Discussion and Lunch (By Invitation Only) |