SMALL AXE SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

Science Library – Standish Room

University at Albany

Friday, September 28

Opening Remarks

9:00 am Glyne Griffith, Symposium Coordinator – University at Albany

Pedro Caban, Vice Provost for Diversity – SUNY Central

PANEL: Whiteness and Transcultural Identity

9:30am – 10:30am Mike Hill – English Department, University at Albany

Break

10:45am – 11:45am Evelyn O’Callaghan – English Department, U.W.I., Barbados

Lunch 11:45am – 1:00pm Standish Room

PANEL: Race, Sex, and Visual Culture in the Caribbean

1:00pm – 2:00pm Patricia Mohammed – Center for Gender & Development Studies,

U.W.I., Trinidad

Break

2:15pm – 3:15pm Kim Robinson-Walcott – Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social

and Economic Studies, U.W.I., Jamaica

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center

8:00pm – 10:00pm ANTHONY WINKLER - Jamaican Novelist

Saturday, September 29

Opening Remarks

9:00am David Scott, Editor, Small Axe

PANEL: The Black Diaspora and the Atlantic World

9:30am – 10:30am Michelle Stephen, English Department, Colgate University

Break

10:45am – 11:45am Berhane Araia, Africana Studies Department, University at Albany

Lunch 11:45am – 1:00pm Standish Room

PANEL: Color, Hair and Bone: Race and Mesticagem in the Latin Americas

1:00pm – 2:00pm Patricia Pinho, Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and

U.S. Latino Studies, University at Albany

Break

2:15pm – 3:15pm Silvio Torres-Saillant, English and Latin American Studies

Department, Syracuse University

ART EXHIBIT

Keynote Visual

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Presents

“Where To Find Me”

New paintings from the Caribbean

at the

Amrose Sable Gallery

306 Hudson Avenue

Albany, NY

Saturday, September 29

6:30pm – 9:00pm

Roundtrip transportation from hotel to gallery will be provided. Pick up time is 6:00pm.