Thursday, 01.12.2005
10:00 - 15:00 Registration at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (NIG, 4th floor)
16:00 - 18:00 Conference Opening: Werner Zips (University of Vienna/Großer Festsaal), Welcoming Speeches
Key Note Speech:
Verene E. Shepherd: Because They Lit a Fire: Completing the Process of Iconographic Decolonization in the Caribbean
20:00 Grand Opening in Vienna Town Hall
Friday, 02.12.2005
Panel: Music and Cultural Diaspora
09:00 Barbara Bush: African Echoes, Modern Fusions: Caribbean Music and Community Identity in Post-war Britain.
09:30 Birte Timm: Black pride - self help – selfdetermination”: The influence of Marcus Garvey on the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X.
10:00 Daniela Ciani Forza: American Insiles: Cuban Intellectual’s Visions of Identity Within and Without the Island’s Borders.
Panel: Historical Revisions, Local Experience and International Readership
09:00 Christina Horvath: Le vaudou et le processus de transculturation dans la formation d'une identite caribeenne.
09:30 Anja Bandau: The Haitian Revolution revisited.
10:00 León-Francois Hoffmann: L’érotisme dans la littérature haïtienne.
Panel: Distopic Imaginaries in Hispanic Caribbean Narrative.
09:00 E.A. Maguire: “Heavy-Mental”: Sex, Drugs and Simulacra in Raúl Aguiar’s La estrella bocarriba.
09:30 Vivian Nun Halloran: Unholy Quest: Language and Unmaking in Mayra Santos Febres’ Cualquier miércoles soy tuya.
10:00 Nestor E. Rodríguez: Dicción errante: Rita Indiana Hernández y la novísima literatura dominicana.
10.30 Coffee Break
Panel: Challenges of Diaspora and Intercultural Relations
11:00 Christian Cwik: Sephardic diaspora into Jamaica.
11:30 Martina Berg: Fire Inna Aotearoa.
12:00 Georges Voisset: Echos des littératures caribéenes en Asie du Sud-est: quelques repères francophones pour un dialogue des archipels.
Panel: Hybrid Images and Literature
11:00 Steppin Jesus: Survival of the FIT-TEST … abused and refused - the KHWEE/SAN of the Kgalagadi desert in the CKGR.
11:30 Kara Rabbitt: Living in the ‘Tout-Monde’: Lessons from Martinique.
12:00 Ayelevi Novivor: L’imaginaire dans le roman politique caribéen.
Panel: Literature and Life Stories
11:00 Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger: The emergence of pirate literature as a genre in Amsterdam De Americaensche Zee-Rovers (1678).
11:30 Rhona Hammond: The case of Superintendent Rowan Rodgers: Jeanne Wilson’s Jamaican detective novels.
12:00 Jef Van der Aa: Voicing Creole Selves Fictionally (Re) Considering Kamau Brathwaite's Life Story.
Panel: Film
11:00 Gloria Rolando: Eyes of the Rainbow, 50 min., engl. O
11:30 Gloria Rolando: Oggun – the Eternal Present, 45 min., span. O/engl. ST
12.30 Lunch Break
Panel: Post-Colonial Reasoning and Writing
14:00 Gesine Müller: Perspectivas caribenas sobre diferentes constelaciones (pos)coloniales: Sab de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Traversée de la Mangrove de Maryse Condé
14:30 Vincent Bruyere: Cartographie d’un « ethnoscape » caribéen : Histoire de la femme cannibale de Maryse Condé.
15:00 Arturo Rodríguez Bobb: El reino de la razón en el caribe colombiano y los afrodescendientes.
Panel: Places, Spaces and Representation
14:00 Midori Saito: Gendered Negritude and Creole Consciousness: Representations of Women in Calude McKay and Jean Rhys's Novels.
14:30 Maria Cristina Fumagalli: “My pen replaced a brush”: Derek Walcott’s Tiepolo’sHound and brushing history against the grain.
15:00 Stephen Glazier: 'Beyond A Boundary': Life, death, and cricket in trinidadian concepts of the afterlife.
Panel: Film
14:00 Thomas Haunschmid: Laguna Negra: Österreichischer Dokumentarfilm über die nicaraguanische Karbibikküste. 50
min.
Kathleen Gyssels: Le symbolisme solaire dans 'Palace of the Peacock' (Wilson Harris) et La Lézarde (Edouard Glissant).
Christa Stevens: Edouard Glissant, critique d'art.
15.30 Coffee Break
Key-Note-Speech
16:00 Edward Baugh: (University of Vienna/Großer Festsaal) The Caribbean Writer And The Global Positioning System Of Literature.
17:00 Book Presentation: (University of Vienna/Großer Festsaal) Werner Zips "Rastafari: A universal Philosophy for the Third Millenium"
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19:30 Concert Reigen: STEPPIN JESUS & BAND
Saturday, 03.12.2005
Panel: Representation and Creole Discourses
09:00 Bruce Jno-Baptiste: Le discours des anglophones de la Caraïbe sur la représentation de leur région.
09:30 Helke Kuhn: La créolisation et la pensée du rhizome dans l’œuvre d’Édouard Glissant.
10:00 Renee Gosson: “Colonial Theme Park Martinique: The Art and Politics of Commemoration in a French DOM.” Presentation in English.
Panel: Postcolonial World and Glocal Struggles
09:00 Gabriele Höbart: Endangered coastal resources along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama.
09:30 Carola Wala: “How do Caribbean Nation States Struggle in the Postcolonial World of Unilateral Internationalism?” Make Good Use of Good Things – Reflecting an Old “Culture” Song.
10:00 Iván H. Jiménez-Williams: Román Chalbaud, Rodolfo Santana y Ángel Palacios: Cine, culebrón, documental, teatro y entrevistas en la Revolución Bolivariana.
Panel: Social Memory in the Afro-Caribbean Religious Communities
09:00 Ute Rötschenthaler: Producing memory - history, ritual and knowledge in the Cross River area
09:30 Birgit Hähnel: Trauma & bodyimage. The Venus Negra of Ana Mendieta
10:00 Claudia Rauhut: "Lo africano" en la Santeria Cubana. Memoria y tradicion
10.30 Coffee Break
Panel: Art Politics and Resistance
11:00 Oliver Benoit: Elite politics and the underdevelopment of Contemporary Art and in Grenada.
11:30 Susan Mains: Visual art in the small island caribbean potential untapped.
12:00 Karina Smith: Resisting the “Cancer of Silence”: Sistren and its Cultural Work in the 1980s.
Panel: Visual and Representational Codes
11:00 Jörg Wenzel: How to be a hero in a Caribbean film.
11:30 Marika Preziuso: Historical heroines, national allegories or feminist icons? Julia Alvarez’s portrait of the Mirabal sisters in In the Time of the Butterflies.
12:00 Miguel D. Mena: La condición diaspórica de la literatura dominicana.
Panel: Social Memory in the Afro-Caribbean Religious Communities
11:00 Adelheid Pichler: Esclavitud y la memoria en los ritos de los Paleros Mayomberos (Cuba)
11:30 Immo Eulenberger: Orisha-Mythen als Form kollektiver Erinnerung und als Formung von Identität (Cuba)
12:00 Yvonne Schaffler: Morality and diseases in Dominican Republic
Panel: Films
11:00 Renée Gosson: Landscape and Memory: Martinican Land-People- History (Paysages et Mémoires: Terre-Peuple-Histoire martiniquais). 30 mn. média-stylo. In French with English subtitles.
11:30 Rupert Schwarz: Pintando Habana (Cuba/Austria, 2004, 48min, Spanish with English subtitles).
12:00 Ariel Garcia Diaz: Pintando Habana - Puntos de vistas y nuevas corrientes esteticas
12.30 Lunch Break
Panel: Visions and Dramas of Identity
14:00 Michael Hoenisch: Caribbean Carnival and ´the people´.
14:30 Julio Moracen Naranjo: Drama negro/teatro negro caribeño: un estudio en sombras.
15:00 Martina Mathe: History is given a new voice: samba-reggae.
Panel: Philosophy, Orality and Literature
14:00 Andrea Schwieger Hiepko: Polyrhythm and its Performance in the Caribbean. Antonio Benítez Rojo and Fernando Ortiz. Two forms of appropriation.
14:30 Luis O. Perez: Cuba: Crime & Crisis. The panoptic view ov Mario Conde, detective
15:00 Lucia Mennel: Radio Bemba, Hip Hop Culture and Rap Cubano.
14:00 Elisabeth Thiele: A Spanish Witch or a Congo Spirit? - The female Trickster figure in the Afro Brasilian Religions
Panel: Film
15:00 Gloria Rolando: Nosotros y el Jazz (2002), 45 min. span. O/engl. ST
15.30 Coffee Break
Panel: Music and Gender Dynamics
16:00 Susanna Regazzoni: Mestisaje y transculturación en Cuba. La ironía en los cuentos de Lydia Cabrera.
16:30 Irina Bajini: Mujeres “traviatas” cantando habaneras (Una investigación sobre la manipulación del canon operístico en ambiente cubano).
17:00 Ingrid Kummels: Cuban Son Music and Dance as an Arena of Female Empowerment and Gender Dynamics.
16.00 Thomas Haunschmid: Laguna Negra: Österreichischer Dokumentarfilm über die nicaraguanische Karbibikküste. 50 min.
20:00 OMAR BAR Party
Sunday, 04.12.2005
Key Note Speech:
10:00 Michael Hanchard: Transnational Black Politics,
Diaspora and the Question of Community 21st
Century
11:00 Round Table "Global Fire": Barbara Bush, Michael
Hanchard, Verene E. Sheperd, Werner Zips
12:00 Closing