Keynote Address I - Thursday, Nov 3
Keynote Speaker: Curwen Best
Professor of Popular Culture and Literary Studies, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Curwen Best did his undergraduate degree and MPhil at UWI, Cave Hill before going on to the University of Birmingham to read for his PhD. He joined the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in the mid-1990s as Assistant Lecturer. He pioneered the teaching of Popular Culture at Cave Hill while also conducting frontier research on facets of Caribbean and Western culture. His major publications include Barbadian Popular Music: and the Politics of Caribbean Culture (1999); Roots to Popular Culture: Barbadian Aesthetics from Kamau Brathwaite to Hardcore Styles (2001); Culture@ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music (2005); The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture (2008); and Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo: Art Politics and the Music of Ritual (2009). |
Keynote Address II - Friday, Nov 4 (am)
Keynote Speaker: Peter Roberts
Professor Emeritus, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Peter Roberts received his secondary education at Harrison College, Barbados and university education at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He taught at the University of the West Indies, Barbados from 1974 to 2011. He retired from the University as Professor and is now Professor Emeritus. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and General Studies (UWI); on the Board of Codrington College; on the Board of St. James Secondary School, Barbados. He served as Chief Examiner (English A), Caribbean Examinations Council. He taught at the University of Tennessee, Dept of Afro-American Studies in 1985, in the Department of English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He was a Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. He is the author of West Indians and their language, From oral to literate culture, CXC English, Roots of Caribbean identity. He has also published several articles in various journals. He has attended conferences, workshops and other scholarly activities in various parts of the world. |
Keynote Address III - Friday, Nov 4 (pm)
Keynote Speaker: Keming Liu
Professor of English, Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York
Keming Liu holds an EdD in linguistics from Columbia University’s Teachers College and MA degrees in technology and ESL from Columbia University and Hunter College respectively. Her research explores the impact of language upon identity, politics, pedagogy and cognition. Her publications include refereed articles on composition, linguistics and literature. Her recent book, Voices of the Fourth Generation: China's Poets Today (Floating World Editions, 2010) includes an historical and critical introduction to an anthology of Chinese poems in English translation. Other publications include a chapter in Adult ESL: Politics, Pedagogy, and Participation in Classroom and Community Programs (Erlbaum, 1998) and a book-length primer, Fingertip Chinese (2nd ed., Weatherhill, 2011). Her articles have appeared in Urban Education, Geolinguistics and she regularly reviews linguistics and literature titles for Choice Magazine. She also writes about art and design for a Chinese fashion and lifestyle magazine and has contributed to Fodor’s publications on Chinese culture and customs. Her current work in progress is an anthology of contemporary Taiwanese fiction and poetry in English translation. She serves on the executive board of New York State TESOL and is a board member of American Geolinguistics Society. |