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All sessions take place in Lecture Room 2, 2nd Floor, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University.
WEDNESDAY 16 JULY
Registration open from 9.30.
10.30 OPENING REMARKS Diana Paton, Newcastle University
11-12.30 DISCOURSE AND KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Kate Ramsey, University of Miami
Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh. "Rites of Power and Rumours of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge and Sacrifice Tales in the Greater Caribbean, 1890-1940"
Kenneth Bilby, Columbia College. "An (Un)Natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song"
Deryck Murray, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. "Tukontology: How West African sages used their sciences to beat out potent forces in a Caribbean auditorium"
Discussant: Richard Drayton, University of Cambridge
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-15.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Robert A. Hill, UCLA. "Marcus Garvey and the Discourse of Obeah"
Chair: Diana Paton, Newcastle University
COFFEE BREAK
15.30-17.30 POWER AND AGENCY
Chair: Michael Jagessar, The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham
Claudette Anderson, Emory University. "Judge, Jury, or Obeahman? Power Dynamics in the Jamaican House o’ Law"
Babalawo Oluwole A. Ifakunle Adetutu Alagbede. "Congo Power, Congo Phobia: Theorizing the Role of Congo Spirituality in the Career of Obeah"
Dianne M. Stewart, Emory University. "Weapons of the Spirit: Distilling the “Science” of Obeah and Other Powers of Engagement"
Discussant: Patrick Taylor, York University, Canada
17.30 CONFERENCE RECEPTION
Northern Stage, Newcastle University
EVENING--OWN ARRANGEMENTS
THURSDAY 17 JULY
9-11.00 CREOLISATION, PURITY, ETHNICITY
Chair: Patricia Murray, London Metropolitan University
Huon Wardle, University of St. Andrews. "An oikumene of the spirits? Insights from Kingston, Jamaica"
Teruyuki Tsuji, Nova Southeastern University: "'They Don’t Do Culture.' Mother Kali: A Matrix of National Culture in Trinidad"
Michelle Asantewa, London Metropolitan University. "Guyanese Comfa as ‘Art of Imagination’ "
Discussant: David Trotman, York University, Canada
COFFEE BREAK
11.15-13.15 GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Chair: Jean Besson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Jeffrey W. Mantz, George Mason University. "Sexual Scapegoating: The Political Economy of Obeah and Erotic Accusation in Dominica"
Wendy Knepper, University of London ISA. "The Work of Obeah and Other Creolised Spiritual Traditions in Nalo Hopkinson’s Oeuvre"
Katherine Smith, UCLA. "Gede Rising: Haiti in the Age of Vagabondaj"
Discussant: Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen
13.15-14.15 LUNCH
14.15-16.15 HEALING AND HIERARCHIES OF KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Projit Mukharji, Newcastle University
John Savage, Lehigh University. "Slave Poison/Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in 19th Century Martinique"
Gordon E. A. Gill, Oberlin College. "Doing the Minje Mama: A Study of the Evolution of an African/Afro-Creole Ritual in the British Slave Colony of Berbice"
Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia. "A Contingent Liaison? Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the 19th Century"
Discussant: Juanita de Barros, McMaster University
COFFEE BREAK
16.30-18.30 REPRESENTATION
Chair: James Procter, Newcastle University
Alasdair Pettinger, Nottingham Trent University: "‘Eh! Eh! Bomba, hen! Hen!’ Making Sense of a Vodou Chant"
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College. "Giving Form to les invisibles: Spirits and Rituals in Haitian Painting"
Patricia Krus, University of Stirling. "Postcolonial Trauma, Winti Healing Rituals and Political Crisis in Astrid Roemer’s Trilogy of Suriname"
Discussant: Erna Brodber
19.30: CONFERENCE DINNER AT SECCO RESTAURANT, 86 PILGRIM STREET, NEWCASTLE
FRIDAY 18 JULY
9-11.00 MORAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMIES
Chair: Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen
Raquel Romberg, Temple University. "The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony: Power, Attitude, and Ritual Piracy"
Maarit Forde, Newcastle University. "Money, Gifts, and Moralities: Obeah in Early 20th Century Trinidad"
Karen E. Richman, University of Notre Dame. "A More Powerful Sorcerer: Conversion, Capital, and Haitian Transnational Migration"
Discussant: Jean Besson, Goldsmiths, University of London
COFFEE BREAK
11.15-13.15 POLITICS, LAW, NATIONHOOD
Chair: Alasdair Pettinger, Nottingham Trent University
Yvonne Schaffler, University of Vienna. "We Don’t Do Vodou, We’re Not Like Them: Religion and Identity in the Dominican Republic"
Kate Ramsey, University of Miami. "Penalizing and Promoting ‘Voodoo’ in U.S.-Occupied Haiti, 1915-1934"
Elizabeth Cooper, Florida International University. "The Open Secrets of Solares"
Discussant: Stephan Palmié, University of Chicago
13.15-14.15 LUNCH
14.15-15.30 FINAL DISCUSSION
Chair: Maarit Forde, Newcastle University
Opening remarks by:
Terence Ranger, Oxford University
Last updated: 15 July 2008.
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