Sex and the Caribbean 

An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Essex

 Programme

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Please note that this is a draft programme, liable to change until this message disappears

All sessions take place in LTB 10

All papers will be 20 minutes long

Tuesday 3 May

9.30 Introduction

9.45-11.00 Panel 1

Ian Dudley (Essex)
Scientific Subjects/Objects of Desire: Amerindian Bodies in Edward Goodall's 'Sketches in British Guiana', 1841-1843

Wendy Knepper (Brunel)
Eros & Citizenship: The Fragmegrated Body Politic in a Globalising World

[Chair: Jonathan White]

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.45 Panel 2

Kate Houlden (Queen Mary)
The Plantations of the Americas: Sex in the Writing of John Hearne

Jak Peake (Essex)
Sex, Desire and Generation in Trinidadian Fiction: From the Sweetman to the Vampire

[Chair: Vivien Sá]

12.45-13.45 Lunch

13.45-15.00 Panel 3

Ronald Cummings (Leeds)
Queer Marronage and the Politics of Urban Space

Alison Donnell (Reading)
Reading a Caribbean Queerness

[Chair: Lesley Wylie]

Coffee Break 15.00-15.30

15.30-16.45 Panel 4

Wendy McMahon (UEA)
The Origins of Man: Contemporary Literary Representations of Masculinity in the Caribbean

Patricia Murray (London)
Men Without Women: Exploring Male Relations in Three Trinidadian Writers

[Chair: Peter Hulme]

17.00-19.00 Readings & Drinks Reception in the Gallery

Lawrence Scott
(Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in Canada and the Caribbean, 1999)

Monique Roffey
(Orange Prize Shortlist, 2010)
'Against Stereotyping the Whore'

Sponsored by
American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography (AHRC project)
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies