The C.L.R. James Institute: Site Contents at a Glance

Preliminary Conference Program
C.L.R. James at 100:
Global Capitalism, Culture and the Politics of World Revolution

September 20-23, 2001
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Thursday, September 20

Visit to C.L.R. James' Grave Site     8:00am

Registration                                        9:00am

Exhibition & Videos     10:00am - 12:00noon and 2:00pm - 4:00pm

PANEL SESSIONS (A)                    10:00am - 12:00noon

(1) Topic: Remembrances

Chair:          Tony Ferguson
Speaker:      Cyril Austin, TBA
Speaker:      John Humprey, TBA
Speaker:      Gopi Singh, TBA
Speaker:      Trevor Sudama, TBA

(2) Topic: James and Cricket

Chair:
Speaker:       Milla Cozart Riggio & Jeffrey Chock, "West Indians and Cricket"
Speaker:       Hilary Beckles, TBA
Speaker:
Speaker:

LUNCH                               12:00pm - 1:00pm

PANEL SESSIONS (B)     1:30am - 3:30noon

(3) Topic: James and The Nation

Chair:
Speaker:       Speakers yet to confirm.
Speaker:

(4) Topic: James, Popular Culture and the Arts

Chair:          Rawle Gibbons, TBA
Speaker:      Dexter Lyndersay, TBA
Speaker:      Horace Ove, TBA
Speaker:      P. Springer, TBA

Formal Opening Ceremonies             7:00pm - 9:00pm

(1) Welcome Address
(2) Presentation of the C.L.R. James Award
(3) Dramatic Presentations of Extracts of The Black Jacobins, Minty Alley;
Beyond A Boundary
Directed by Rawle Gibbons

Friday, September 21

PANEL SESSIONS (C) 9:00am - 11:00am

(5) Topic: James and the Marxist Tradition

Chair:
Speaker: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, TBA
Speaker: Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, "C.L.R. James: American Civilization or Barbarism"
Speaker: Frank Rosengarten, "Reflections on the 'Organic Principle' in the Writings
of C.L.R. James"
Speaker: Robert Birt, On Notes On Dialectics

(6) Topic: James and The Indo-Caribbean Experience

Chair:
Speaker: Rupert Roopnaraine, TBA
Speaker:
Speaker: John LaGuerre, TBA
Speaker: Kumar Mahabir, "James, Race and the Politics of Indian Identity"

(7) Topic: James, Fanon and Revolutionary Thought

Chair:
Speaker: Nelson Maldenado, TBA
Speaker: Lewis Gordon, TBA
Speaker: Sonia Kruks, TBA
Speaker: Rupert Lewis, TBA

Plenary SESSION (1) 11:30-1:00pm

Topic: Caribbean Conversations

Moderator:
Speaker: George Lamming, TBA
Speaker: Lloyd Best, TBA
Speaker: Gordon Rohlehr, TBA

LUNCH 1:00pm - 2:00pm

PANEL SESSIONS (D) 2:00pm - 4:00pm

(8) Topic: James Studies, Literature and Postcolonial Theory

Chair:
Speaker: Aldon Nielsen, "Desert Reading: CLR James as Philosopher"
Speaker: Grant Farred, "Text of Last Resort: Reading Beyond a Boundary as a
Postcolonial Articulation"
Speaker: Brinda Mehta, "Addressing Marginality through the "Coolie/Dougla" Stereotype in CLR James's Minty Alley
Speaker: Kenneth Ramchand, "James and the Short Story"

(9) Topic: James' Second American Sojourn

Chair: James Miller
Speaker: Sylvia Hill
Speaker: Acklyn Lynch
Speaker: Courtland Cox
Speaker: Geri Augusto

Plenary SESSION (2) 5:00-6:30pm

Topic: Study Groups: A Jamesian Political Praxis

Moderator:
Speaker: Norman Girvan
Speaker: Richard Small

Saturday, September 22

PANEL SESSIONS (E) 9:00am - 11:00am

(10) Topic: James Studies and Critical Thought

Chair:
Speaker: Holger Henke, "Ariel's Return: On the Moral Economy of Caribbean Existence"
Speaker: Rachid Murad, "C.L.R. James's Ideology on Religion"
Speaker: TBA

(11) Topic: James and Modernity
Chair:
Speaker: Patrick Goodin, "C.L.R. James, Modernity and the Politics of Racial
Identity"
Speaker: Aaron Kamugisha, "A Jamesian Poeisis?: CLR James, Caribbean
Modernity & Western Civilization"
Speaker: Cameron McCarthy, TBA

(12) Topic: James, Race and Pan Africanism

Chair:
Speaker: Glen Richards, "CLR James and the Race Question in the Caribbean"
Speaker: Matthew Smith, "James, Black Americans & the Reconfiguration of the
Haitian Past"
Speaker: Susan Pennybacker, "Padmore and James in the 1930s"

Plenary SESSION (3) 11:30-1:00pm

Topic: Reflections on Marxism and The Politics of CLR James

Chair:
Speaker: Martin Glaberman
Speaker: Selma James

LUNCH 1:00pm - 2:00pm

PANEL SESSIONS (F) 2:00pm - 4:00pm

(13) Topic: James, Labor and Caribbean Politics

Chair:
Speaker: Jerome Teelucksingh, TBA
Speaker: Brian Meeks, TBA
Speaker: Louis Moyston, TBA
Speaker: Bukka Rennie, TBA

(14) Topic: James Gender and Sexuality

Chair: Rhoda Reddock
Speaker:
Speaker: Speakers to be announced.
Speaker:

(15) Topic: James and Popular Culture

Chair:
Speaker: Christine Ho, "Globalization and Caribbean Popular Culture"
Speaker: Gamal Abel-Shehid, "The Struggle for Happiness: C.L.R. James as a
                 framework for Black Queer Theory"
Speaker:   Ronaldo Walcott

Plenary SESSION (4)     4:30pm-6:30pm

Topic: CLR James, Radical Politics & the Contemporary World
Chair:
Speaker: Tim Hector
Speaker: Robert Hill

Sunday, September 23

Plenary SESSION (5)              10:00am - 12:00 Noon
Sponsored by CENTRE FOR CARIBBEAN THOUGHT

Topic: Rethinking Caribbean Politics
Chair: Brian Meeks
Speaker: Eusi Kwayana
Speaker: Tony Bogues
Speaker: David Abdulah

LUNCH                                     12:00 - 2:00PM

Plenary SESSION (6)             2:00pm - 4:00pm
Sponsored by OILFIELD WORKERS TRADE UNION (OWTU)

Topic: Globalization, Neo-Liberalism and Labour
Round Table

Speakers to be announced

Please direct all inquiries to the conference organizer, Anthony Bogues.

Jim Murray, Director (make inquiries here)
Ralph Dumain, Librarian/Archivist & Webmaster

Uploaded 11 June 2001
Last update: 11 June 2001