PROGRAMME

Thursday, October 16

OCAD University, Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaul Street, 2nd Floor

Welcome, Land Acknowledgment, Introduction: 9:00 - 9:15

KEYNOTE: Dr. Walton Look Lai 9:15 - 10:00

Conversation: Dr. Walton Look Lai (Historian, Trinidad and Tobago) with Dr. Kathleen López (Associate Professor, Latino and Caribbean Studies, History, Rutgers University, USA)

PANEL 1: LITERATURE 10:00 - 12:00

Panelists:

• Jacqueline Jiang (Poet and PhD student, University of Puerto Rico)

• Dr. Tzarina Prater (Associate Professor, English and Media Studies, Bentley University, USA)

• Scott Ting-A-Kee (Poet, novelist, and teacher, Guyana)

• Dr. Kerry Young (Novelist, UK)

Respondents: Dr. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy (Associate Professor, English, TMU, Canada) & Dr. Helen Quah (MFA student, Notre Dame)

LUNCH 12:00 - 1:30 

PANEL 2: HISTORY 1:30 - 3:30

Panelists:

• Dr. Nikoli Attai (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, USA)

• Dr. Isabelle Dubost (Maîtresse de conférences en anthropologie, Université des Antilles, Martinique)

• Dr. Laura Hall (Independent historian, USA)

• Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Professor, History and American Studies, Brown University, USA)

Respondents: Dr. Tzarina Prater (Associate Professor, English and Media Studies, Bentley University, USA) & Zichan Qiu (PhD student, UI Chicago)

BREAK 3:30 - 4:00

PANEL 3: VISUAL CULTURE 4:00 - 6:00

Panelists:

• Albert Chong (Artist, Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts Practice, University of Colorado, USA)

• Mimian Hsu (Artist, Costa Rica)

• Jeanette Kong (Filmmaker, Canada)

• Kit-Ling Tjon Pian Gi (Artist and writer, Suriname)

Respondents: Richard Fung (Professor Emeritus, OCAD University, Canada) & Kai Trotz ( Cultural worker, Canada)

Friday, October 17

OCAD University, Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaul Street, 2nd Floor

PANEL 4: FUTURES 9:30 - 11:30

Panelists:

• Dr. Matthew Chin (Assistant Professor, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Emory University, USA)

• Dr. Jordan Lynton Cox  (Associate Director of Research at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University, USA)

• Dr. Elena Igartuburu García (Lecturer, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)

• Denise Ryner (Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA) & Dr. Zairong Xiang (curator and Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Duke Kunshan University, China)

Respondents: Dr. Kathleen López (Associate Professor, Latino and Caribbean Studies and History, Rutgers University) & Maddi Chan (PhD candidate, McMaster)

BREAK: 11:30 - 11:45

CLOSING SESSION: NEXT STEPS 11:45 - 1:00

• Hannah Lowe, The Woman in the Chinese Collar: Listening to Silences in the Chinese Caribbean Archive

• Anne-Marie Lee-Loy and Nikoli Attai, facilitated conversation with all attendees on next steps