Programme - The College of The Bahamas

Women's Suffrage Symposium
March 6-9, 2012
Performing Arts Centre, The College of The Bahamas
Theme: “Commemorating the Past, Reflecting on the Present, Envisioning the Future: 1962 and Beyond”
Programme
Tuesday, March 6th
10:00 a.m.‐1:00 p.m. Session 1: Student Session
Session I Moderator: Ms. Christine Campbell, First Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Women's Affairs,
Ministry of Labour and Social Development
Prayer
Keynote Speaker
Student Christian Movement, COB
Hon. Janet Bostwick, Former Member of The Legacy of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Reflections
Parliament, Attorney General & Minister
of Foreign Affairs
Juliette Barnwell — daughter of Mabel Walker
Andrew Maynard — son of Georgianna Symonette
Alice Musgrove‐Rolle — daughter of Mary Ingraham
Questions & Answers
Wallis Carey — daughter of Eugenia Lockhart
Shirley Cooper — sister of Dame Doris Johnson
11:15 a.m. ‐ 11:30 a.m. Break
Dramatization Dr. Darlene D. Rolle‐Cargill, School of
Social Sciences
COB Students
12:00 p.m.
Student Presentations Group 1
Keturah Babb, Robin Cartwright,
Amanda Bethell, Alexandria Russell,
Heidi Plunke, Dawn McKenzie
Group 2
Waylon McCardy, Shaneiker Andrews,
Deandra Ferguson, Shannae Newbold,
Carolyn Lewis Clarke, Kellie Brown
12:30 p.m.
Readings Winners of high school essay and poetry
competitions
Dame Dr. Doris Johnson's January 19, 1959 speech
to Members of the House of Assembly
The Struggle for Women's Rights
Commemorating the Past, Reflecting on the
Present, Envisioning the Future: 1962 and Beyond
6:30 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. Session II ‐ Part A: Opening Ceremony
The Legacy of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Prayer Canon Dr. Kirkley Sands, School of Social Sciences
National Anthem Mr. Chris Justilien and COB Band
Welcome Dr. Marjorie Brooks‐Jones, Dean, Faculty of Liberal and Fine Arts, Acting Dean, Social Sciences
Introduction Dr. Christopher Curry
Head, History, Religion and Philosophy Department, School of Social Sciences
Chair, Women's Suffrage Committee
Dramatization Dr. Darlene D. Rolle‐Cargill, School of
Social Sciences
COB Students
Documentary Trailer The Women's Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas
Produced by Ms. Marion Bethel
Remarks Hon. Loretta Butler Turner
Minister of State, Labour and Social Development
Musical Selection Mr. Chris Justilien and COB Band
Remarks Hon. Desmond Bannister
Minister of Education
Recessional Song Mr. Chris Justilien and COB Band
Dame Dr. Doris Johnson's January 19, 1959 speech
to Members of the House of Assembly

Wednesday, March 7th
10:00 a.m.‐1:00 p.m. Session II ‐ Part B: Panel Discussion
Session II Moderator: Ms. Marion Bethel
Panelists Dr. Christopher Curry, School of Social
Sciences
Mrs. Ruth Bowe‐Darville
Student Presentation Keturah Babb, Robin Cartwright,
Amanda Bethell, Alexandria Russell,
Heidi Plunke, Dawn McKenzie
Readings Winning COB essay and poetry submissions
Questions & Answers
Reception in main foyer
6:30 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. Session III ‐ Part B: Panel Discussion
Gender equality in The Bahamas
Session III Moderator: Jessica Minnis, School of Social Sciences
Panelists Ms. E'thegra Symonette, School of Social
Sciences
Questions & Answers
Ms. Margo Blackwell, School of
Education
Dr. Nicolette Bethel, School of Social
Sciences
Dr. Ian Strachan, School of English
Studies
“The Deep Roots of the Movement”
“The Dream Deferred: The Challenges of the
Movement”
The Struggle for Women's Rights
Domestic Violence
Gender Equality in Education
Gender and National Identity
Gender and Masculinity in The Bahamas
Thursday, March 8 th
6:30 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. Session IV ‐ Part B: Panel Discussion
Envisioning the Future: Tools for Transformations
Session IV Moderator: Dr. Christopher Curry, School of Social Sciences
Panelists Mr. Michael Stevenson, COB‐UWI Law
Programme
Questions & Answers
Ms. Aneesah Abdullah, School of Social
Sciences
Dr. Ian Bethel‐Bennett, School of English
Studies
Law, Gender and Institutional Structures
Envisioning the future: A Youth perspective on
Gender
Gender Discourses

Friday, March 9th
9:00 a.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. Session V: Panel Discussion
Gender Transformation: Moving Beyond Boundaries
9:00 a.m.‐10:30 a.m.
Panel One: Gender Negotiations: Public Spaces, Performance Paradigms and the Black Female
Body
Moderator: Dr. Michael Bucknor, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Panelists Dr. Jennifer Thorington‐Springer,
Indiana University, USA
Dr. Michael Bucknor, University of the
West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Mr. Kyle Dorsett, McGill University,
Canada
Exploring Struggles for Caribbean Citizenship: Black
Masculinity in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
Conceptualizing the Discursive Performance of
Afro‐Caribbean Masculinities in Austin Clarke’s The
Origin of Waves
Fragile Identities, (Un) Limited Power: Afro‐
Caribbean Masculinity and Spatial Constraints in
Earl Lovelace's Novels (Skype Presentation TBC)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Panel Two: Intimacy and Representations of Black Masculinities: Film, Story and Memoir
Moderator: Dr. Ian Strachan, School of English Studies, The College of The Bahamas
Panelists Dr. Craig Smith, School of English
Studies, The College of The Bahamas
Mr. Jarrett Brown, College of the Holy
Cross, USA
Mr. Darius Bost, (University of
Maryland, USA)
Black, White, the Silence in Between and the
Anxiety of Black Male Intimacy in Kareem
Mortimer’s Children of God
The Shadow of Intimacy: Male Bonding and
Improvised Masculinity in Claude McKay’s Banjo: A
Story Without a Plot
Traumatizing Black Masculinities: Bearing Witness
to Sexual Abuse in the African Diaspora (Skype
Presentation TBC)
1:45 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m.
Panel Three: Traversing Cultural Boundaries: Challenging Traditional Genders and the Re‐
conceptualization of Black Masculinities
Moderator: Dr. Toni Francis, School of English Studies, The College of The Bahamas
Panelists Dr. Keithley Woolward, (School of
English Studies, The College of The
Bahamas)
Dr. Ronda Henry, (Indiana University,
USA)
Mr. Ronald Cummings, University of
Leeds, UK
Reconstructing the Black Masculine: Mariam
Chancy’s Spirit of Haiti
Thinking Like a “New Black Man”: Womanist
Interventions and Progressive Black Masculinities
within the Gendered Terms of Créolité and Marie‐
Sophie Laborieux in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco
Masculinities Without Men: Nanny of the Maroons
and the Genealogy of the Man‐Royal (Skype
Presentation TBC)

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Panel Four: Discourses of Dynamism and Marginality: Cultural Genders and Gendered Cultures
Moderator: Dr. Ian Bethell‐Bennett, School of English Studies, The College of The Bahamas
Panelists Jahlani, Niaaha, University of the West
Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Dr. Charleston Thomas, University of
the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
and Tobago
Mr. Patrick Helber, University of
Heidelberg
(Dungle) Fallacies: Rastafari Masculinity in the
narrative of the Post‐Colonializing Jamaican society
(the Case of Orlando Patterson’s Children of
Sisyphus)
Blues in C Minor or from Backlash to Black‐Lash:
Walcott’s Poetic Performance of the “Blues,” the
Male Body and the Lyricism of Marginality in the
Black Diaspora
“Ah my brownin’ dat!” – A Visual Discourse‐
analysis of the Performance of VybzKartel’s
Masculinity in the Cartoons of the Jamaica
Observer (Skype Presentation TBC)