PAINTING THE CARIBBEAN
A symposium at
the University of Essex, 6-7 May 2011
Programme
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All sessions take place in LTB 10
All papers will be 20 minutes long
Friday 6 May
10.15 Introduction
[Chair: Peter Hulme]
Anne Walmsley (London)
Beyond Painted Scene: Art in the Caribbean
11.30 Coffee [LTB B]
12.00
Désha Osborne (Cambridge)
Image and Revolution: Brunias and the Caribs of St. Vincent
[Chair: Joanne Harwood]
1.00 Lunch [Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room]
2.00
Ian Dudley (Essex)
Indigenous Guyana in the Paintings of Edward Goodall and Aubrey Williams
Leon Wainwright (Manchester Metropolitan)
Aubrey Williams and the Temporality of Painting
[Chair: Leon Burnett]
3.15 Tea [LTB B]
3.45
Judy Raymond (Trinidad & Tobago))
The Final Passage of Richard Bridgens
Lawrence
Scott (Trinidad & Tobago))
Michel Jean Cazabon: Artist of the Emancipation
[Chair: Jak Peake]
5.00 Short break
5.15
Maria Cristina
Fumagalli (Essex)
Painting Caribbean Modernity: Derek Walcott and the 'Academy’s Outcasts'
Penny Woollard (Essex)
Painting Derek Walcott’s Caribbean: Romare Bearden
[Chair: Clare Finburgh]
6.30 Dinner [Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room]
Saturday 7 May
9.30
Evelyn O'Callaghan (UWI-Cave Hill)
Marketing Caribbean Landscapes: the Case of William Beckford of Somerley and
George Robertson
Danielle Delon (Trinidad
& Tobago))
A Victorian Woman’s Perspective of Trinidad: Margaret Mann and Michel Jean
Cazabon
[Chair: Marina Warner]
10.45 Coffee [LTB foyer]
11.15
María
Clara Bernal (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
Imagining Africa in the Caribbean: The Work of Wifredo Lam and Hector Hyppolite
Louise Fenton (Wolverhampton)
Images of Haiti: The Culture and History of Haiti through the Paintings of the
Houngan
[Chair: Jonathan White]
12.30 Lunch [LTB foyer]
1.30
Lisa Paravisini (Vassar)
Painting Sugar Cane: Ethics and Aesthetics of
a Problematic Representation
Joanne
Harwood (Essex)
Painting the Caribbean from Near and Afar:
Armando Reverón and Ofelia Rodríguez
[Chair: Valerie Fraser]
2.45 Tea [LTB foyer]
3.15
Kim Robinson-Walcott (UWI-Mona)
Visual-verbal Vistas: Caribbean Writers Who Paint
Judith Bettelheim (UCLA)
Cuban artists comment on Cuba
[Chair: Peter Hulme]
5.00 Close
