The Jamaican 1970s: A Symposium
Where: Columbia University
116th St. & Broadway
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Programme:
Thursday, 28 September:
The Skylight Room, Graduate Center, CUNY
1:00-1:30pm: Opening remarks: Don Robotham
1:30-2:15pm: Opening remarks: Donette Francis
2:30-4:30pm: The Popular
Rachel Mordecai, On Reading Jamaica Inc., Seriously: Sensational(ist) Seventies Literature
Eddie Chambers, Jamaica’s influence on the making of Black Britain
5:00-6:00pm: Monuments
Petrina Dacres, Sculpture, Architectural Modernism and Memory in 1970s Jamaica
6:00pm: CUNY reception
Friday, 29 September:
The Heyman Center, Columbia University
10:00-12:00pm: Sustaining Social Movements
Kimberly Robinson-Walcott, “Black Man Time Now!” Race, Class, and Culture in 1970s Jamaica
Rupert Lewis, The Jamaican Left: Dogmas, Theories, and Politics, 1974-1980
1:30-3:30pm: Autobiographical Reflections
Honor Ford Smith, Performance, Decolonization and Life Stories: Sistren Theatre Collective and the Search for Radical Alternatives in the Present
Brian Meeks, Reading the Seventies in a Different Stylie: Dub Poetry and the Urgency of Message
4:00-6:00pm: General Conversation
Don Robotham and David Scott
Saturday, 30 September:
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
9:30-12:00pm: Project Discussion (by invitation only)