Friday, April 4th
PLENARY SESSION I
9:00 – 10:00 AM Chair, Prof. Timm Hackett
Presenter I: Seodial Frank Deena, PhD, Professor of Multicultural & Transnational Culture, Literature, & Criticism
“Caribbean Resistance to Cultural Colonialism”
Presenter II: S. Blackshear Joyner, Brody School of Medicine MPH & MAIS Candidate
“No Country For Newborns: The Health and Economic Implications of Statelessness for Haitian Children on the Island of Hispaniola”
SESSION II
10:00 – 11:30 AM Chair, Prof. Tatiana A. Tagirova
Presenter III: Bryant Scott, M.A. Candidate
“From One to an Other: Cross-Cultural Articulation and the Dissolution of the Self in Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea” Presenter IV: David Gall, PhD
“Reality on the Margins of Empire: Karl Broodhagen, an Artist Teacher Life” Presenter V: Luci Fernandes, PhD and Sylvie Debevec Henning, PhD “Los Pichy Boys: Carnivalesque Expatriate YouTube Videos”
SESSION III
FOLKLORE & MAYA PAST AND PRESENT
11:30 – 1:00 PM Chair, Prof. Seodial Frank Deena
Presenter VI: Jessica Joyce Christie, PhD
“Formative Maya Cities in the Mirador Basin: Observations about the Construction of Power and Cultural Space.”
Presenter VII: Tatiana A. Tagirova, PhD
“Patrick Chamoiseau’s Construction of Creoleness: Creole Folktales and School Days”
Presenter VIII: Therese Pennell, PhD Candidate
“What is in My Folklore: A Sociocultural Analysis of Tata Duende”
LUNCH 1—2 PM
FOLKLORE IN BELIZE
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Panel: Therese Pennell, PhD Candidate, Randy Marfield, PhD Candidate, Bronwen Forman, M.A Candidate, Rafael Gamero, M.A. Candidate
“Folklore and the American Experience of Belizean Students at East Carolina University”