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Final Schedule:
Last
update: 01 May 2008
Wednesday,
September 9
Opening Activities
Noon - 7:30 pm
Registration - Austin Arts
Center
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Reception, Austin Arts
Center
Celebrating the opening of the
Carnival Exhibition, Widener Gallery
Welcome:
Raymond Baker, Dean of the Faculty,
Trinity College
Mayor Michael Peters, City of Hartfor
Response:
Thursday, September 10
8 am - 8:45 am
Morning Coffee, Reese Room, Smith
House
9:00 - 11 am
Reese Room, Smith House
Plenary Roundtable
"Freeing Up Notions of
Carnival"
Peter Chelkowski, presiding
Panelists: Richard Schechner, Earl Lovelace,
J. D. Elder, John O. Stewart, and Maria Theresa Linares
Discussants: Judith Bettelheim,
Pedro Pérez-Sarduy, Nina Friedeman, Nina de Friedemann and Milla Riggio.
11:15 - 12:45 pm
Session One: Panels
and Seminars
1. Seminar: Carnival
and Theatricality,
Smith House
Geraldine Connor, College of the U of
Leeds, presiding
Carnival and the Folk Origins of
Caribbean Drama, Keith Q. Warner, George Mason U
Jamette!: Parody and Power in Creole
Women’s Cross-dressing During 19th c. Trinidad Carnival, Rosamond
King, New York U
Performing Roles in the Town Festivals
of Loíza, Hatillo, and Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, Sharon Marie Carnicke, U of Southern
California
El Teatro en el Carnaval de Barranquilla,
Patricia González, Smith College
2. Seminar:
Carnival and Belief
Smith House
Nolene Davidson, Independent Scholar,
presiding
Caminemos con Santiago Apóstol: Walking
with St. James in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico, Edward C. Zaragoza, Phillips Theological
Seminary
Carnival and Myth, Burton
Sankeralli, Caribbean Conference of Churches
The Religious Challenge to Present-Day
Carnival Celebrations, Dean Knolly Clarke, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Port of Spain
3. Panel:
Documenting Carnival
Errol Hill, Dartmouth College, presiding
Panelists: Carol Martin, Carlisle Chang,
Michael Anthony, Pearl Springer, Ray Funk, John Cowley, and Philip Scher
2:00 -4:00pm
Session One: Panels
and Seminars
4. Seminar:
Comparative Analyses -
European Carnival Background &
American Carnival Foreground
Smith House
Samuel Kinser, Northern Illinois University,
presiding.
Ethnicity & Innovation: Problematics
of Change in Carnival Traditions in Pre-Modern Europe & the Post-Modern Americas,
Samuel Kinser
Imagining Reconquest: Festivals of Aztecs,Moors,
and Christians in Spain and Mexico, Max Harris, Wisconsin Humanities Council, U of
Wisconsin, Madison
Le carnanval, l’histoire, et le politique,
Martine Grinberg, CNRS and CRH, France
Europe and Trinidad, Martin Walsh, U of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
5. Seminar:
The Beat of Bacchanal
Smith House
Lise Waxer, Trinity C, presiding
Carnival Aesthetics in Panorama, Shannon
Dudley, U of Washington
Music and Aesthetics in ‘Turn Up the
Volume’, Ernest Brown, Williams C
Carnival in Pernambuco: The Maracatú de Baque
Vivado, Larry Crook, U of Florida
Responses: Joslynne Sealy, NCC and Gage Averill, New
York U
6. Seminar: Myth,
Magic, and Memory
Smith House
Leslie Desmangles, Trinity C, presiding
Binding Relationships: Race, Memory, and
Historical Consciousness in Haitian Communities, Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew U
Rara Festivals in Haiti: Magic, Sex, and Politics,
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U
Creating the Carnival Product: Marketing
Nostalgia and Fantasy in the Trinidad Carnival, Garth Green, New School for Social
Research
Carnival in Francophone Caribbean Literature,
Hanetha Vete-Congolo, U of West Indies
4:15 - 5:30pm
Barbieri Foundation Lecture
McCook Auditorium
Devils, Gamblers, Lovers,
and Fools: Venetian Carnival Masks and the Commedia Dell’Arte
Lecture by
Theodoro Dragionieri,
Venetian Mark-Maker
5:30 - 6:00pm
Celebrations of the Opening
of
The Dragon
Can't Dance
with author Earl
Lovelace
Reception at Austin Arts Center
Free and Open to the Public
Sponsored by the Barbieri Foundation
6:15-7:30pm
Conference Banquet
Hamlin Hall
Tickets available at the Registration Desk
8:00pm - Goodwin Theater
Opening Night
The Dragon Can't
Dance
Written by Earl Lovelace
Directed by Tony Hall
Produced by Jeffry Walker,
Austin Arts Center
Open to the Public
Admission: $12 general / $8 students and seniors
9:30pm - 1:00am
About Face:
Masquerade Ball
and Exhibition of Masks
Charter Oak Cultural
Center
Downtown Hartford
Open to the Public
Costumes encouraged
Admission: $5 for registered conference attendees, $10 for public (including mask).
Bus transportation available after the ball.
Friday, September 11
8:00 - 8:45am
Morning Coffee: Austin Arts Center
Welcoming Remarks:
Memorial Tribute to Dan
Crowley
by J.D. Elder
9:00am - Noon
Performance
Spotlight
Goodwin, Austin Arts Center
The Trinidad
Carnival Tradition:
Calypso, Mas, and Pan
Presentational/Performantive
Lectures by
Peter Minshall,
Hollis "Chalkdust" Liverpool,
and Dawn Batson
Assited by Carnival
artistes
from Trinidad and Tobago
Artists'
Roundtable
Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall
Arthur Feinsod,
Trinity College, presiding
9:30 - 11:45am
Issues in Creating
Masks
for Different Carnival Traditions
1:15 - 3:30pm
Issues in
Performaning with Masks
for Different Carnival Traditions
1:15-3:15pm
Session Three:
Panels and Seminars
7.
Panel: African Carnival/Carnival in Africa
Terrace Room A, Mather Hall
Selwyn Cudjoe, President, NAEAP, presiding
Yoruba Masking Traditions in Urban Festivities,
Margaret Drewal, Northwestern U
Yoruba Festival and Carnival Traditions,
Charles Campbell, Chairman, NAEAP
The Reinterpretation of Carnival in South Africa,
Denis-Constant Martin, CERI
African Consciousness and Connections in Trinidad
Calypso: a focus on South Africa, Barbara Temple-Thurston, Pacific Lutheran U, and
Brian Honoré, U of the West Indies
8. Panel:
Carnival and its Analogs,
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
Nina de Friedemann, U of Santiago, presiding
Congo Dances in Columbian and Panamanian
Carnivals, Nina de Friedemann, Colombia
Hosay and Carnival, Peter Chelkowski, New
York U
Masking the Site: The Fiestas of Santiago
Apóstol of Loíza, Puerto Rico, Max Harris, U of Wisconsin, Madison
A Caribbean Purim Carnival in Jerusalem: Plans
for an Intercultural Event, Alay Citron, School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem
Response: Lydia González, Puerto Rico and Frank
Korom, Boston U
9. Seminar:
Acts of Subversion
Terrace Room C, Mather Hall
Martin Walsh, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, presiding
Carnival in Southwest Germany: The Politics of
the Local, Peter Tokofsky, U of California, Los Angeles
The Paramin Blue Devils: Training and
Improvisation in a Rural Trinidad Carnival Band, Martin Walsh
Performing Violence and Obscenity in Trinidad
Carnival, Pamela Franco, U of Illinois at Chicago
Gandhi’s Little Spectacles, Barbara
Browning, New York U
Noon - 3 pm
Semi-Annual Business
Meeting of the
Institute for
Politics and Performance
Painter Room, Smith House
Diana Taylor, New York U, presiding
3:45 - 5:45 pm
Session Four:
Panels and Seminars
10.
Panel: Interpreting the Interpreters
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
Beth Quitslund, Trinity C, presiding
The Reformation of the Americas: Early Colonial
Readings of Festival, Beth Quitslund
Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Brazilian
Cinema, Robert Stam, New York U
Acoustic Labour in the Making of Carnival Samba
Songs, Samuel Araujo, U Federal do Rio de Janeiro
11.
Seminar: Political Play
Terrace Room A, Mather Hall
Dario Euraque, Trinity C, presiding
Between the Real and Ideal in Haitian Kanaval,
Gage Averill, New York U
The Spectacular Costumes in Trinidad Carnival and
the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Betsy Taylor, U of Sydney
Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival, John Cowley,
Independent Scholar
Carnival, Culture, and Citizenship in
Post-Independence Trinidad, Michael Harper, Claremont C
Liberation and False Consciousness: Carnival as
Janus, André-Vincent Henry, Vice President, Trade and Industry Development CO.,
Trinidad and Tobago
12. Panel:
Carnival, The Ultimate Pan-African Celebration
Terrace Room C, Mather Hall
Vonulrick Martin, OAS, presiding
Introduction: Ian Smart, Howard U
Carnival as Liberation, Charmaine Robinson,
IMF
Experiencing the Pan-African Dimension,
Patricia Moran, World Bank
Jouvert in Brooklyn, Maurice Horsham,
Independent Scholar
5:45 - 6:30 pm
Reception Celebrating the release of
the
The Drama Review
Special Issue on
Trinidad & Tobago Carnival
Tributes to Errol Hill, Peter Chelkowski,
and the TDR staff
Faculty Club, Hamlin Hal
6:30 pm
Dinner:
Trinity’s Birthday Bash
Main Quadrangle
Be Trinity’s guest at a
barbeque in honor
of the College’s 175th
anniversary
8 pm
Performances
The Dragon
Can’t Dance
Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center
Followed by discussion with the author, director,
and cast
Trinidad and Tobago
Carnival Wallop
Washington Room, Mather Hall
Free and open to the Public
Presented by Trinidad and Tobago
Artistes,
with calypso workshop by
Gypsy
Rapso by Brother Resistance
Saturday: September 12
8:15 - 9:00am
Morning Coffee - Gallows Hill
Bookstore
with a demonstration by
Boy-Scout
Stickfighters from
Point Fortin, Trinidad
Performance arranged by
Margaret Charles
9:00am - Noon
McCook Auditorium
Plenary:
Traditions of the
Américas
Moderator: Judith Bettleheim, San Francisco State U,
presiding
Panelists: A.G. Quintero-Rivera (Puerto Rico), Nina
de Friedman (Colombia0, Samuel Araujo (Brazil), Donald Hill (Lesser Antilles), Pedro
Pérez-Sarduy (Cuba), Leslie Desmangles (Haiti), and Thomas Turino (The Andes).
Commentator: Joseph Roach (New Orleáns)
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall
Exhibit Planner’s
Meeting
Robert Baron, New York Council
of the Arts , presiding
1:30- 3:30 pm
Session Five: Panels,
Seminars, and Workshops
13. Panel:
Carnival Identities
Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall
Luis Figueroa, Trinity C, presiding
Carnival in Santiago de Cuba: Ethnicity and
Nation, Judith Bettelheim, San Francisco State U
’Aquí el que baila gana’: Carnaval in
Havana During the Special Period, Pedro Pérez-Sarduy, Independent Scholar
White Face, Black Culture: Carnival in Buenos
Aires, Ana C. Cara, Oberlin C
Articulating Identities Between Myth and Daily
Life: An Uruguayan Carnival Group, Ethel Jorge, U of Alaska, Fairbanks
Gustavo Remedi, Trinity C, respondent
14. Seminar: Trinidad
Carnival in Diaspora I: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Terrace Room A, Mather Hall
Roger Abrahams, U of Pennsylvania, presiding
Globalization and the Trinidad Carnival:
Diaspora, Hybridity, and Identity in Global Culture, Keith Nurse, U of the West Indies
Changing Performance Settings for Trinidadian
Steel Pan Music in Brooklyn Carnival, Ray Allen, Brooklyn C
Carnival: New York’s Caribbean Connection,
Dale Byam, New York U
Performing Identity in New York’s Labor Day
Celebration, Renée Baron, Hofstra U
15. Seminar:
Theorizing Carnival
Terrace Room C, Mather Hall
Carol Martin, NYU, presiding
Does Bakhtin have all the Answers? An argument
for a non-Western Approach to the Theorization of an Afro-Diasporic Festival Performance,
Esiaba Irobi, Nigeria
Jumpin’ Up: Carnival and the Social Surplus,
Stefano Harney, Pace U
Ritual Structure and History in Carnival,
Martine Grinberg, CNRS, CRH
The Monstrous and the Wild: Bakhtin’s
Trinidad, Samuel Kinser, Northern Illinois U
Workshop: Samba
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
conducted by Eric Galm and Larry Crook
3:00-4:00pm
Reception at the Exhibit
Uruguay:
A South American
Carnival Photographic Exhibit
Mather Gallery
Assembled and presented by
Gustavo Remedi, Trinity C
Drink a glass of wine & celebrate this exhibit
4:00 - 6:30 pm
Festival in the Streets
A City Celebrates!
Starting Point: Trinity
College Main Quadrangle
Ending Point: Bushnell Park,
Downtown Hartford
Free and Open to the Public
Join us at Bushnell Park
A festive expression of the week-long series
of events and workshops exploring the
celebratory traditions of Hartford’s communities.
8:00pm
Evening Performances and
Celebrations
Third Performance of Earl Lovelace's
"The Dragon
Can't Dance"
Goodwin Theater - Austin
Arts Center
Saturday
Night City Fête
Featuring world-famous calypso
artist
Gypsy
and Connecticut Samba Ensemble
Sambatucada
Directed by Eric Gaim
Begining at 7pm
Bushnell Partk, Downtown Hartofrd
Free and Open to the Punblic
Bus transportation available
before and after the performance
Sunday: September 13
9:00 - 9:45am
Morning Coffee - Austin Arts Center
9:45 am - 11:45 am
Session Six: Panels
and Seminars
16. Panel: Producing
Carnival
Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall
André-Vincent Henry, Vice President, TIDCO,
Trinidad and Tobago, presiding
Carnival in the City: A Marketing Product
Creating an Economic Impact and Stimulating the Local Economy, Courtney Doldron,
Caribbean Cultural Committee, Caribana
Steel Pan Manufacture and the Carnival Milieu,
Patrick Louis Arnold, Pan Trinbago Inc.
The Calypso Tent-Cradle of Carnival, Seadley
Joseph, Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organizations
Puerto Rico: de los símbolos del Carnaval de
Ponce, Néstor Murray-Irizarry, Centro de Investigaciones Folklóricas de Puerto Rico
Richard Afong, National Carnival Bands Association,
respondent
17. Panel: Trinidad
Carnival in Disaspora II
Terrace Room C, Mather Hall
Dale Byam, New York U, presiding
Carnival as an Instrument of Post-Colonial
Liberation: In Search of a Liberative Potential for the Post-Modern West Indian Subject,
Geraldine Connor, College of the U of Leeds
Ancestral Voices: Taeini-a Case Study of
Meta-Masking in Notting Hill Carnival, Patricia Tamara Alleyne-Dettmers, University C,
London
This is We Carnival: Edmontonians Play Mas,
Jean Walrond-Patterson, U of Alberta, Edmonton
Trinidad Carnival in Sweden, Krister Malm,
Musikmuseet, Stockholm
18. Seminar: Carnival
in
Literature/Literature in Carnival
Terrace Room A, Mather Hall
Ken Ramchand, Colgate U, presiding
Carnival Scenes: Cross-Cultural Links from
Walcott to Piedmont, Isabella Maria Zoppi, National Council of Scientific Research,
Italy
From Historical to Hysterical: Images of Carnival
in Contemporary Literature, Angelita Reyes, U of Minnesota
The Carnivalesque Novel, Robin Dizard, Keene
State C
Wilson Harris’ Dantesque Carnival,
Claudio Gorlier, U of Turin
19. Panel:
Re-Inventing Calypso and Pan
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
Gordon Rohlehr, U of the West Indies, presiding
Panelists: Derek Gay, Donald Hill, Chantal Esdelle,
Jocelyn Sealy, and Dawn Batson
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch Concert, Trinity
Chapel
Open to the Public
concert free, sandwich lunch available
Spiritual singing by a massed
community choir with steel band accompaniment
Steven Charleston, Trinity C
Chaplain, Host
1:15 - 3:00 pm
Session Seven:
Panels and Roundtable Discussion
Panel: A City
Celebrates!
Washington Room, Mather Hall
Free and Open to the Public
André Kreft, presiding
Local presenters talk to
scholars and the community
Roundtable:
Where We’ve Been
and Where We’re Going
Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall
Milla Riggio, presiding
Carnival U: A Panel
Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall
John Cupid, NCC, presiding
Free and Open to the Public
Trinity students are encouraged to attend
to learn about the new Trinity College
campus site partnership
approved with the
University of the West Indies,
St. Augustine, Trinidad,
for the spring semester 1999.
An opportunity for students, educators,
and scholars to talk about studying
Trinidadian culture and Carnival
Presentation: Carnival Studies in the Degree
Syllabus, A. Ruth Thompsett, Middlesex U
Panelists: Barbara Temple-Thurston, Pacific Lutheran
U; Christine Ho, U of South Florida; Tony Hall, Trinity C
3:15 - Dusk
Trinity College Main
Quadrangle
Closing Concert
Featuring
David Rudder
and
Sol de América
Free and Open to the Public
For more information, please contact the organizers
at the
Carnival Hotline
or e-mail us to:
Carnival@TrinColl.edu
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