Maroon Magazine 2018_266

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June 2018 Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 6:00-9:00pm THURSDAY 21 JUNE 10:00-11:00am PROGRAMME Opening Reception at Goblin Hill Villas Performance by Charles Town Drummers & Dancers Maroon and Indigenous Sustainability Dr. Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Frances Botkin, Towson University "Green Maroons" John Favini, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Virginia "Decolonizing the 'Eco-Imagination': Indigeneity, Marronage, and the Search for Livable Futures" Dr. Amy M. Johnson, Associate Professor, History, Elon University "Sustainable Identities: Indigenous Incorporation among the Maroons of Jamaica" 11:30am-12:30pm Maroon Women and Resistance Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall, Literatures in English, UWI Mona “Who Will Nanny She? Black Woman, Marooned" Dr. Harcourt Fuller, Associate Professor, History, Georgia State University "From Queen-Mother Aqualtune to Queen Nanny: Women Warriors and Leaders in Maroon Strongholds in the Atlantic World" Tejan Green-Waszak, PhD Candidate, English, St. John's University "Maroon Culture and Tradition in Popular 20th Century Jamaican Women's Poetry" 1:30-2:30pm Indigenous Traditions and Sustainability Dr. Marcus Goffe, Attorney-at-Law "Extinguishing the Myth of Extinction: The Re-emergence of the Taíno in Jamaica" David Brown, Senior Research Fellow, African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank "Sound as Memory: African Continuities in the Horn traditions of the Jamaican Maroons and the Curaçaoan Kachuleros" 39
Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine June 2018 1:30-2:30pm 3:00-4:00pm Debon Panton, MPhil, Post Grad. Studies, Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI Mona "Obeah & Bush Medicine: Preserving our Heritage" The Politics of Indigeneity Dr. Christina H. Fuller, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health, Georgia State University "Environmental Pressures and Health Disparities: Achieving Environmental Justice in Urban and Rural Communities of the African Diaspora" Tracey Mia Stewart, PhD Candidate, Music, University of Virginia "Acknowledging Jamaican Maroon Exceptionalism Beyond Party Lines and Campaign Promises" Lisa Betty, PhD Candidate, History, Fordham University "At the Intersection of Undocumented and Black" 8:00 pm Film Festival • Papa Machete - short film from Haiti • Col. Lumsden - short interview about the Bench Drum • Passage - short film from the Bahamas • Maestra - short film from Cuba • Feature film: Daughters of the Dust - Gullah Geechee culture from USA FRIDAY 22 JUNE 1:00-2:00pm Legacies of Resistance Nakeia Medcalf, MA Candidate, Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design "Reject Design Through Afrofuturism" Dr. Patricia Gonzalez Gomes-Casseres, Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Smith College "Maroon Communities and the Environment: Physical and Spiritual Survival" Chief Michael Grizzle, Trelawny Town-Flagstaff Maroons "Maroon: Invisible yet Invincible" 2:20-3:20 pm Sustainable Livelihoods Kwesi Palmer, Apiculture Specialist Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries “Sustainable development, apiculture, climate change and a Maroon action plan forward” 40
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