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JUNE 24, 2023 ACADEMIC PANELS

Saturday, June 24, 2023

Academic Conference Panels

Asafu Yard, Charles Town
11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Maroon Sound and Movement
Lucayo Casillas, PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley
“The Treaty of 1739: An Episode of African Statecraft in Colonial Jamaica”

Dr. Linda Sturtz, Department of History, Macalester College
“Festivity as a Form of Petit Marronage”

Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall, Department of Literatures in English, University of the
West Indies, Mona
“Story-telling”

12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch Break

1:45 - 3:00 p.m. Fear of the Folk: Reconciling with our Past
Student Panel, Department of Literatures in English at University of the
West Indies, Mona
Recipient of a Conference Grant Awarded by the Journal of International
Women’s Studies

• Kandice Thompson, Literature Major

• Natalia Downer, Writing, Literature, and Publishing Major

• Aaliyah Lunan, Writing, Literature, and Publishing Major

3:15 - 4:15 p.m. Reconciliation and Indigeneity
Dr. Celia Bardwell-Jones, Philosophy and Gender Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
“Decolonizing Asian Settler Allyship in Hawaiʻi: Ethical Reflections on
Indigenous and Immigrant Perspectives in Home-Making”

Dr. Rebecca Schneider, Department of English, New Mexico Highlands University
“Reconciliation in the Classroom: A Paradox of Federal Indian Boarding
School History at an Indigenous-Serving College”

Dr. Marcus Goffe, Attorney at Law, Kingston, Jamaica
“Constitutional Reform, Indigenous Rights and Reparations: Taino, Maroon
and Rastafari Perspectives”

4:15 - 5:15 p.m. The Global Premiere of Reimagining Nanny: Documentary and Panel Discussion
Dr. Leo Douglas, Assistant Clinical Professor/Faculty Fellow in Residence,
New York University

7:00 p.m. BUN FYAH CONCERT at the River Park
Activities at the Wellness Village throughout the day

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