Conference Programe

Monday October 10th, 2016

5:30 pm – 9:00 pm : Opening Ceremony  –  Venue:  Methodist Church Hall, Kingstown

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

CONFERENCE  SESSIONS : Venue : Peace Memorial Hall

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM :  Registration

9:00-10:30 AM   – Panel Presentation: Retrieval Techniques and Research Methodology

Moderator: Mr. Shavar Maloney

Presenters:

  • Jeon Adams-Julien – Librarian, National Library Services , Ministry of Education Highlighting the National Archives and Documentation Services collection in the retrieval of the history of the Garifuna/Kalinago people, challenges and opportunities for the Vincentian public.
  • Dana Neverson –, National Library Services, Ministry of Education “Online Retrieval, techniques, databases and sources”
  • Paul Lewis – Historian and Educator, Former Senior Administrative Assistant, Open Campus, UWI ” Understanding the Indigenous people of SVG (Kalinago and Garifuna) through a critical use of the Internet and other sources.”

DISCUSSION

10:30 AM-12:00 AM :  Panel Presentation: Developing Relevant Educational Curriculum for    Indigenous People

Moderator: Ms. Anne Weinhardt

Presenters: 

  • Professor Guillermo Guevara – Dean of the National Experimental University of Tauca, Venezuela
  • Karen Martinez – Dean of the Stann Creek Ecumenical Junior College, Belize “Educating the Garifuna Student in Belize in the 21st Century”
  • Désha Osborne – Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA “Yurumein/St Vincent/Hairoun: Locating Nationhood through Cultural Expression”

DISCUSSION

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – LUNCH BREAK

1:00 PM- 3:00 PM :   Panel Presentation: History of the Kalinago/Garifuna People: Pre and Post Exile of 1797

Moderator: Mrs. Aldia Dyer

Presenters:

  • Vanessa Demirciyan – Anthropologist, Independent Researcher, Director of the Alliance Française of St. Vincent and the Grenadines “Early contacts between the French and the Indigenous People:  Actors and Accounts”
  • Cleve Scott – Professor , Department of History, UWI, Cave Hill Campus “Critical aspects of the History of the Kalinago /Garifuna up to 1797”
  • Adrian Fraser – Historian, Former Resident Tutor, UWI Open Campus

“The Indigenous People: Their Continuing Existence after 1797”

DISCUSSION

 Wednesday: October 12th, 2016  – CONFERENCE  PRESENTATIONS

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Panel Presentation:  “Reparations and the Indigenous Cultural Experience”

Moderator –  Mr. Cornelius Richards

Presenters:

  • Shenella Charles – PhD student, University of Toronto, Canada”Sweet Talk or Putting Things Right?: Indigenous Voices on the Lands Rights Debate in Early Post-Independence Guyana.”
  • Garrey Dennie – History Professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA “Chatoyer’s Legacy: Writing The History of Reparations”
  • Lennox Honychurch – History Lecturer, Researcher and former Resident Tutor, UWI Open Campus “Genocide, loss of land, breach of treaties: The Kalinago case in the reparations struggle.”

DISCUSSION

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Panel Presentation:  Actions for Indigenous Retrieval

Moderator –    Ms. Vanessa Demirciyan

Presenters: 

  • John Nero – Greggs, St. Vincent “Greiggs village projects: Histories and future projections”
  • Augustine Sardo Sutherland – Sandy Bay, St. Vincent “Survival of the Kalinago people: pirogue project in St. Vincent”
  • Deirdre Millington Myers – Chairperson of the SVG National Trust, St. Vincent “The Cayo village experience as an action oriented model   for public participation in Indigenous Retrieval”

 DISCUSSION

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM – PLENARY AND CLOSING CEREMONY
1:00  PM  –   LUNCH AND EXHIBITION

 

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