WALTER ALTINO de Souza Junior é Bacharel em antropologia, licenciado e mestre em ciências sociais pela UFBA (Universidade Federal da Bahia). Professor concursado da rede publica de ensino, trabalhou como professor substituto durante dois anos na FACED/UFBA (Faculdade de Educação da UFBA). Walter participou  do movimento poetas da praça e militou no movimento estudantil secundarista entre1989 e 1994. Foi um dos organizadores e fundadores do CENUNBA (Coletivo de Estudantes Negros Universitários da Bahia). Membro fundador da a entidade do movimento negro Atitude Quilombola, onde é coordenador de políticas pedagógicas.

WALTER ALTINO de Souza Junior completed a B.A. and a Masters degree in the Social Sciences at the Federal University of Bahia (FUB), Brazil.  He is a certified professor at the public school system and worked as visiting professor for two years in the School of Education at the FUB.  Walter was part of a poetic movement in the city of Salvador and participant in a student movement in secondary education between 1989 and 1994.  He was also one of the two organizers and initial members of CENUNBA (Coletivo de Estudantes Negros Universitários da Bahia)[Black University Students from Bahia Collective].  He is also founding member and coordinator of pedagogical politics of the black movement Atitude Quilombola in Brazil.

DAVID AUSTIN is the co-founder of the Alfie Roberts Institute and a community development worker. In 2005 he produced the three-part radio documentary for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, C.L.R. James:  The Black Jacobin, and he is the author of the forthcoming The Unfinished Revolution: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Poetry, and the New Society, the editor

of A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks on the Caribbean, Cricket, Montreal, and C.L.R. James (2005), and C.L.R. James: The Montreal Lectures (2007). David Austin lives in Montreal.

ANITA BAKSH teaches literature at the University of Maryland.

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LAWRENCE BAMIKOLE is Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.  He has written articles on African philosophy, existentialism, and Jamaican thought.

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MARINA PAOLA BANCHETTI-ROBINO is William F. Dietrich Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.  Her research focuses mainly on the philosophy of language, the philosophy of science, comparative phenomenology, and the work of Edmund Husserl.  She has recently also begun doing work in the areas of zoosemiotics and animal intentionality.  Her papers and reviews have appeared in Synthese, Husserl Studies, Idealistic Studies, The Review of Metaphysics, Continental Philosophy Review, and Philosophy East and West.  She has also contributed essays to The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy (1997), Feminist Phenomenology (2000), and Microcosm and Macrocosm: Historical and Contemporary Concerns (2006), and she is co-editor of The Philosophies of Environment and Technology (1999) and Shifting the Geography of Reason: Science, Gender, and Religion (forthcoming).

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MYRON M. BEASLEY lectures in the areas of Communication and Culture and Performance Studies. Myron's recent work explores issues of gender performance and interpersonal communication through critical ethnography in the African Diaspora. His work has led him to fieldwork in the United States, Morocco, and most recently Brazil. His installations have appeared internationally, particularly his "Ritual, Sacred Spaces, and the Body: Men of African Descent and the Performance of Sexuality" which appeared at Performance International-PSi 6. In addition to his ethnographic work, he has performed and worked with the Alliance Theatre, The Atlanta Children's Theatre, Co-Founder of the Atlanta Reader's Theatre Troupe, directed productions in the Atlanta University Center and served as director for the Hampton Players and Company. Myron is very active in the National Communication Association and Performance Studies International. He has been awarded, both nationally and internationally, for his outstanding teaching.  See: http://myronbeasley.com/MyronSite/HomeHtml.htm

KATRINA E. BELL-JORDAN (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1997) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University, teaching in the areas of media culture and rhetorical theory and criticism.  She earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and reported for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and New York Daily News.  She was also an instructor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.  She received a Faculty Excellence Award from Northeastern Illinois University, and the Paul and Marjorie Boase Rhetorical Scholar Award from the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.  She has published in Nature of a Sistuh: African-American Women’s Lived Experiences in Contemporary Culture and in Women’s Studies in Communication.  She has been on the editorial board of Women’s Studies in Communication since 2000 and a guest editor for Critical Studies in Media Communication.  She lives in Chicago and is currently writing a book on Black popular culture.

AYOTUNDE BEWAJI is Chairman and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.  He is the author of many works, Beauty and Culture: Perspectives in Black Aesthetics an Introduction to African and African Diaspora Philosophy of Art (2003).  He is chairperson of the committee on African relations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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TOLULOPE BEWAJI is a doctoral student in the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

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ELIAS BONGMBA is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, where he combines his teaching of African religions and his research in theology and philosophy of religion working with African philosophical ideas and Continental philosophy. His first book explored intersubjective relations by probing the ethics of witchcraft using the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. He has published other articles on ethical dimension of witchcraft in the context of the Christian church in Africa.  His second book, On the Dialectic of Transformation in Africa, discusses the political aspects of intersubjective relations through an analysis grounded in the human sciences. Bongmba has also addressed current debates on the African Renaissance.

He is currently working on a book on HIV/AIDS titled Facing a Pandemic: Theological Obligations at a time of Illness.

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VINCENT BOUCHARD est étudiant au doctorat. Il est inscrit en cotutelle dans un programme de littérature comparée B l'Université de Montréal et en études cinématographiques B l'université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III. Ses recherches portent sur une exploration historique et esthétique des techniques légPres synchrones B l'Office national du film du Canada. Il a récemment publié, dans le numéro Transmettre de la revue Intermédialité, un article intitulé Transmettre l'expérience d'une rencontre: le cas du cinéma léger synchrone (Montréal, 2005). Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche dirigé par le professeur Germain Lacasse, il mPne des recherches sur les formes orales de cinéma en Afrique francophone.

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JENNY BURMAN is an assistant professor of communication studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill  University.  She teaches and writes in the areas of transnational cultural studies, diaspora studies, and urban culture in Canada.

JAMES BRYANT  is Assistant Professor of Sociology. Before joining the faculty at Holy Cross in the fall of 2002, Professor Bryant earned a BA in sociology and history from Tulane University (1995), and an A.M. (1997) and Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University (2002). His dissertation, entitled “Journeys Along Damascus Road: Black Ministers, the Call, and the Modernization of Tradition,” explored how contemporary African-American ministers construct meanings about their vocations by integrating their understandings of the cultural traditions of the Black Church with their professional training in the ministry. Professor Bryant teaches courses in The Sociological Perspective, Race and Ethnic Relations, African-American-American Social and Religious Thought, and Contemporary African-American Cultural Productions, each of which draw connections among his evolving interests in social theory, religious thought, and cultural theory.

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GEORGE CICCARIELLO-MAHER is a Ph.D candidate in political theory at UC  Berkeley. His area of focus is radical theory, with an emphasis on race, coloniality, and Latin American politics. His work appears or is forthcoming in Journal of Black Studies, The Commoner, and Radical Philosophy Review. He will soon be moving to Caracas.

GENA CHANG-CAMPBELL is a doctoral student in the Social and Political Thought program at York University.  Her work focuses on religion and identity in Brazil and Cuba. Her major research paper is titled “Y/O – Mestizaje as Foil and Fetish of Postcolonial Consciousness,” for which she won the 2005 Baptista Essay Prize.  She has presented her work both in Toronto and in Mexico, and in 2005/2006 Gena was a recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

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CAROL CONAWAY is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Communication at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Her research interests are the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality, and the media; and black women's political thought.

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MARGO NATALIE CRAWFORD Natalie Crawford is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture in the  department of English at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the coeditor of New Thoughts on the Black  Arts Movement (Rutgers, 2006). She is the author of Rewriting Blackness: Beyond Authenticity and Hybridity (2007). Her work has appeared in a range of journals including Études Faulknériennes, MAWA Review, American Literature, and Studies in American Fiction.

CAROLYN CUSICK is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.  Her research focuses on feminist epistemology, Africana philosophy, and phenomenology.

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CYNTHIA DAHOME is a Ph.D student in Social Anthropology at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and affiliated to the Centre d'études Africaines of the EHESS. She is also a doctoral fellow at the "Intersectionnality" pole of the CEETUM (Centre d'études ethniques des Universités montréalaises) in Montreal focusing on second generation west Indian and African youth in France.
Her communication is entitled: "Construire la diaspora noire en terre républicaine, du postcolonialisme aux jeunes issus des immigrations antillaise et africaine".

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ANTHONY DANDRIDGE is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University, where he also teaches courses in African-American philosophy.

ARTURO DÀVILA is Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Professor of Spanish and Mexican-Latin American Studies at Laney College, Oakland.  He is poet laureate in Mexico and Spain where he was awarded three international prizes: La ciudad dormida (National Prize "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz", Mexico, 1995); Catulinarias (International Prize "Antonio Machado", Baeza, Spain, 1998); Poemas para ser leídos en el Metro (International Prize “Juan Ramón Jiménez”, Huelva, Spain, 2003). He has also published book reviews and essays for the Mexican magazines nexos, Siempre and Diva and scholarly essays for Explicacion de Textos Literarios (California State University) and Revista de Crítica Literaria (Hanover-Lima) among others. He received his Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.  He is currently completing a manuscript on pre-Hispanic Codices and indigenous rewriting of the conquest of Mexico.

DANIELLE DAVIS teaches philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where she is also a doctoral candidate in philosophy.  Davis is very active in struggle for indigenous rights and against racism.  She has organized numerous forums, including the 2004 conference Thinking Race and Identity, which brought together an international community of scholars on the study of race and indigenous thought.

JOHN DRABINSKI teaches philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. He is author Sensibility and Singularity (SUNY 2001) and over a dozen articles on Levinas, phenomenology, and political philosophy. In addition to translating Peruvian literary critic Victor Vich’s El caníbal es el otro, he is currently working on a book length project on Godard’s films from the 1970s, as well as a detailed study of Glissant’s poetics.

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ENRIQUE DUSSEL is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitina-Iztapalapa and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  He is the main spokesperson for the Latin American movement known as liberation philosophy. He is author of more than 50 books and 300 articles.  His work in English includes The Underside of Modernity (Humanities, 1996), The Invention of the Americas (Continuum, 1995), Ethics and Community (Orbis, 1988), and Philosophy of Liberation (Orbis, 1985). He has recently completed the first of volume of a two-volume work entitled Politics of Liberation.

RAMABAI ESPINET was born in Trinidad and Tobago and has lived in Canada for more than twenty-five years. Her Indo-Caribbean heritage figures prominently in much of her work. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Espinet is an established essayist and critic. A graduate of York University, she also completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad. She is a Professor of English at Seneca College in Toronto in the School of English and Liberal Studies. She also teaches at the University of Toronto in the Department of Caribbean Studies and the Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies.

Her first novel, The Swinging Bridge (2003), was shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize in the category of Best First Book (Caribbean and Canada Region), longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin 2005 prize for fiction and selected for the Robert Adams lecture series 2005, held annually in Toronto and Montreal, and featuring Adams’s pick of “modern classics.” A French translation of this novel is forthcoming in 2007. Espinet’s published works include the poetry collection Nuclear Seasons (1991) and the children’s books The Princess of Spadina (1992).and Ninja’s Carnival (1993). She has edited Creation Fire (1990), an anthology of Caribbean women’s poetry in several Caribbean languages. Her performance pieces Beyond the Kala Pani, and Indian Robber Talk both explore the historical record of South Asian immigration to the Caribbean. A documentary, Coming Home, produced by Caribbean Tales/Leda Serene Films, and focused upon the context of Espinet’s work, especially The Swinging Bridge, was released in 2005. Forthcoming is a collection of short fiction, Shooting Trouble.

A profile of her is available on the website VG: Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color, An International Website: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/index.html

DOUGLAS FICEK is a doctoral student in philosophy at Temple University, where he is also a graduate fellow at the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.  In addition to his work at Temple, Ficek also teaches philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where he lives. Ficek specializes in Africana philosophy, but he also does work in critical race theory, philosophy of existence, philosophy of religion, philosophy of liberation, social and political philosophy, and theoretical and applied ethics.

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TIM FISKEN is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.

JOHANNA X. K. GARVEY is Chairperson and Associate Professor in the Department of English at Fairfield University.  Her forthcoming books are “To Pull the Sides of the Sea Together”: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, which includes chapters on representations of the Middle Passage in fiction, on “race” and sexuality, on exile and memory, on ethnographic fiction and performances of diaspora, on Black liberation and strategies of resistance, on representations of genealogy, and on cross-cultural experiences of trauma, with discussion of authors Michelle Cliff, Paule Marshall, Nalo Hopkinson, Merle Collins, Maryse Condé, Dionne Brand, Tessa McWatt, Erna Brodber, Patricia Powell, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Loida M. Pérez, Esmeralda Santiago, Cristina García, and Jamaica Kincaid, and Building Con/texts: Women Writers and New York City, which examines writers from Edith Wharton to the present, with a main focus on Black women writers including Larsen, Fauset, Petry, Marshall, Naylor, Morrison, Kincaid, Danticat, Lorde, and Sapphire.

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PATRICK GOODIN is Chairperson and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Howard University.  His  philosophical interests lie in Ancient Greek Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, African-American Philosophy, and Afro-Caribbeana Philosophy. He is the President of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy (S.S.A.P.). He has organized a symposium on Afro-Caribbeana Philosophy at Howard and a series of subsequent one-day conferences on the same subject. Professor Goodin was born in Jamaica, W.I.

JANE GORDON teaches in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, where she also is Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies. She is the author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black–Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 (Routledge, 2001), which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on Civil Rights, and editor of “Radical Philosophies of Education,” a special issue of Radical Philosophy Review. She also is co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell’s, 2006) and Not Only the Master’s Tools (Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Her current work focuses on problems of legitimacy in democratic societies.

LEWIS R. GORDON is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.   He is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, with affiliations in Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, at Temple University, where he also is Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies.  He is also Ongoing Visiting Professor in the Department of Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, where is also on the Board of the Center for Caribbean Thought.  Gordon is the author of many influential articles and books, and he his work has been the subject of philosophical study in journals, books, encyclopedia, and dissertations.  His most recent books are the co-edited Not Only the Master’s Tools (2005) and A Companion to African-American Studies (2006) and the single-authored Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). He is currently completing An Introduction to Africana Philosophy for Cambridge University Press.  Professor Gordon has presented many distinguished lectures worldwide and is currently devoting his energy to building institutions that facilitate international exchanges of ideas.

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JORGE J. E. GRACIA is the Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at SUNY–Buffalo.   He was educated in Cuba, the United States, Canada, and Spain. His PhD is from Toronto and he holds American and Canadian citizenships. He was born in 1942, in Cuba. Gracia is the author of fourteen books: Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (2005), Old Wine in New Skins: The Role of Tradition in Communication, Knowledge, and Group Identity (2003), ¿Qué son las categorías? (2002), How Can We Know What God Means? The Interpretation of Revelation (2001), Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective (2000), Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundations of Knowledge (1999), Filosofía hispánica (1998), Texts: Ontological Status, Identity, Author, Audience (1996), A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and Epistemology (1995), Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography (1992), Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics (1988), Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages (1984, 1986), The Metaphysics of Good and Evil According to Suarez (1989), and Suarez on Individuation (1982)–and over 200 articles published in the US, Europe, Latin America, and China. Gracia has edited more than two dozen volumes in subjects such as metaphysics, hermeneutics, medieval and Latin American philosophy, ethnic and racial issues, and philosophy of religion. He has been president of the Metaphysical Society of America, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought, International Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and American Catholic Philosophical Association. He was the first Chair of the APA Committee for Hispanics in Philosophy and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Division of the APA and Chair of the Program Committee. He chaired the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo from 1980-1986. He sits on the boards of more than a dozen philosophy journals and edits an interdisciplinary series on Iberian and Latin American culture and thought. He has received several fellowships, including an NEH Research Fellowship, and has directed an NEH Summer Institute and an NEH Summer Seminar. He is currently working on a book entitled Categories, and is in the process of editing others dealing with philosophy and popular culture, and identity in art, literature, and philosophy.

GURU PARAN GUNARATNAM holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto and currently resides in Montreal.  His research interests include psychology in Dostoevsky’s fiction and the history of historical genres.

STEPHEN HAYMES is Associate Professor in the School of Education at DePaul University, where he teaches philosophy of education and sociology of education.  From 1999 to 2001 he was a Ford Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Brown University.  His book Race, Culture and the City was named Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America by the Gustavus Myers Center at Boston University.  He is secretary of philosophy of education for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

CLEVIS HEADLEY is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University and Vice President and Treasurer of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  He is the author of many articles on philosophy of language, epistemology, Africana philosophy, and philosophy in literature.  He is also an ongoing visiting scholar at the University of the West Indies at Barbados.

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PAGET HENRY is Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology at Brown University.  His book, Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (Routledge, 2000), won the 2004 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought.  He is Executive Editor of The C.L.R. James Journal and secretary of Pan-Caribbean initiatives for the Caribbean Philosophical Association and now member of the Fanon Prize Committee (winners of the prize become automatic members of the committee).  Other books by Professor Henry are Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua (Transaction Books, 1985), and co-editor of C.L.R. James's Caribbean (Duke UP, 1992) and New Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy, and Development (Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983).  His more than sixty articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in such journals, newspapers, and magazines as Caribbean Quarterly, Social and Economic Studies, The Cornell Journal of Social Relations, The Encyclopedia of the Left, Sociological Forum, Studies in Comparative International Development, The American Journal of Sociology, The Antigua and Barbuda Forum, Third World Affairs, The Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs, and Blackworld. Several of Henry's essays have been reprinted in anthologies on the best work in his fields.  Henry formerly taught at the University of Virginia and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was a recipient of the Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching four consecutive years (1976 to1980). Henry’s distinction also includes the Frederick Sperling Award in Philosophy (City College, 1970).     He is President of the Antiguan Studies Association.

BARNOR HESSE is Associate professor of African American Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University. He is editor of 'Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas. Entanglements, Transruptions' (2000, Zed Press); Co-author of 'Beneath the Surface: Racial Harassment (1992, Avebury); and author of 'Creolizing the  Political: A Genealogy of the African Diaspora (forthcoming, Duke University press).

ESIABA IROBI was born in the Republic of Biafra and has lived in exile in Nigeria , Britain and the USA . He studied at the Universities of Nigeria, Sheffield , Leeds and holds a B.A. in English/Drama, M.A. Comparative Literature, M.A. Film/Theatre, and a PhD in Theatre Studies. His play,  Cemetery Road , won the prestigious World Drama Trust Award for playwriting in 1992. His other published plays include Hangmen Also Die, The Colour of Rusting Gold, Nwokedi, Why the Vultures Head is Naked, What Song do Mosquitoes Sing? and the recently finished Foreplay commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre in London . He has directed numerous plays and productions in Ireland , Hungary , USA , Spain , Sweden , Denmark , Australia , England , Nigeria , Portugal and Scotland . His forthcoming books include Theorizing African Cinema: Ontology, Teleology, Semiology and Narratology (Routledge,  London ) and Before They Danced in Chains: African Metalanguages in African-American Performance Aesthetics and a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Theatre, USA. He has just completed a very exciting book of poetry: Why I Don't Like Philip Larkin which will be published by Nsibidi Publishers in Massachusetts by August, 2003.

GERTRUDE JAMES GONZALEZ DE ALLEN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Spelman College.  Dr. Gonzalez de Allen is also a performance artist.  Her work focuses on feminist theory, Africana philosophy, postcolonial studies, and Latin American philosophy.  She is secretary of Gender Studies in the Caribbean Philosophical Association. 

JOAN JASAK is Research Assistant and Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and a doctoral student of philosophy at Temple University.    Her work focuses on phenomenology, East Indian philosophy, and Africana philosophy.

CHIKE JEFFERS is a doctoral student of philosophy at Northwestern University.

DON KINGSBURY studies contemporary political theory and social movements in the Americas.  He is particularly interested in Feminist and Postcolonial theory as well as notions of sovereignty at the state and subjective levels.  He is pretty sure he wants to begin interrogating the usefulness of psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan) for his work, but hates himself every time he makes an honest go of it.  His most recent projects include analyses of contemporary migrants' movements in the United States that decenters citizenship as its dominant discourse and work on political community formation in the wake of Feminicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

KENNETH KNIES holds the Graduate Council and Presidential fellowships in Philosophy at Stoney Brook University.  His areas of focus are phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political thought, and Africana Studies.

YVETT KOCH is an independent scholar and activist on women’s health issues and indigenous rights.

KATHARINE LOEVY is a graduate student in the Departments of Philosophy and Art History at Vanderbilt University.

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TOMMY LEE LOTT is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University and Editor of the Africana Philosophy section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  A past chair of the Committee on the Status of Blacks in Philosophy, Professor Lott has held many distinguished posts.  He is editor of Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (1998), co-editor with John Pittman of the Companion to African-American Philosophy (2003) and the author of The Invention of Race: Black Culture and the Politics of Representation (1999).                                                                                                             

ROZENA MAART is an independent scholar who does psychoanalysis, writes full time, and is Director of the Biko Institute, a small educational institute in Guelph.   Her undergraduate degree was from the University of the Western Cape, with honors, and she received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham.  She has taught in universities in Canada, the United States, and England, and these days she prefers to teach on short contract and do visiting lectures. She has spent the past year promoting her fiction book Rosa’s District Six, in Canada, France, and most recently in her homeland, South Africa.  Maart’s work focuses primarily on language: as speech, the imagination, and writing.  The focus of her work for the past twenty years has been on the relationship between consciousness and politics.  The overlapping areas of her work are Black Consciousness, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and Derridean deconstruction.  Maart was nominated the “Woman of the Year” award at the age of 24 in 1987, in South Africa for her organizing work in the area of violence against women and for co-founding the first Black feminist organization in South Arica.  Formerly a member of the Biko, Rodney, Malcolm Coaltion, she has remained active in Black Consciousness work, both in terms of protest politics and as a philosophy of consciousness, all of which influence her written works.  A winner of the Journey Prize for Best Short Fiction in 1992, her work includes  The Absence of the Knowledge of White Consciousness in Contemporary Feminist Consciousness, Knowledge, and Morality; The Politics of Consciousness: The Consciousness of Politics, When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness, vol. I: The Interrogation of Writing; The Politics of Consciousness: The Consciousness of Politics, When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness, vol. II: The Research Chapters.  The Interogation of Speech and Imagination.  Her works of fiction include Talk About It and Rosa’s District Six.

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DILAN MAHENDRAN is a fourth year PhD student at UC Berkeley's School of  Information. Dilan's academic areas of interest are in Race Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophical Anthropology and Phenomenology. He is also interested in the  methodological problems of positivism and naturalism in technology studies and issues of constructivism in the social study of science and technology. Dilan's research areas are centered around the impact of digital technology in hip hop music making. He is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork at the DJ Project, a hip hop music production after school program located in the Mission district of San Francisco and in East Oakland CA. Dilan received his BA in anthropology from Northeastern University and MS from the School of Information UC Berkeley.

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NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.  Maldonado-Torres earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico in 1994, and his Ph.D. (2002) in Religious Studies from Brown University. He specializes in phenomenology, critical theory, postcolonial studies, and modern religious thought. He is interested in theories of decolonization as they emerge in different contexts and from different subjective positions in the Americas. Dr. Maldonado has done a considerable amount of work on Africana, Jewish, and Latin American intellectual productions. He is currently working on a theory of epistemic and material decolonization based on Fanon's work and on the theoretical production of U.S. feminists of color. This work encompasses reflections on religion, philosophical anthropology, social and cultural formations in the Americas, and the role of critical intellectual activity in the context of global coloniality.  His first book, Against War; Views form the Underside of Modernity is being published by Duke University, and he is co-editor of Latin@s in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire (Paradigm, 2006).

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ANNE MALENA is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Alberta, where she teaches courses on Francophone  Maghreb Literature and Culture with special interests in gender and postcolonial issues.

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JACQUELINE M. MARTINEZ is Associate Professor in the Hugh Down’s School of Communication at Arizona State University.  Her work focuses on communication as it mediates the relationship among individual experience, social practices, and cultural histories. Her work is informed theoretically by U.S. American phenomenology and communication theory (semiotics) as they have developed in relation to European philosophy since the late 19th century. In an applied sense, she studies embodiment—that which enables the actualization of meaning in the immediate and concrete experiences of persons located in particular times and places. Of specific interest are issues related to racial, ethnic, class, and sexual identifications with contexts of cultural domination. Here book, Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Asian Pacific American Studies Department and the Women and Gender Studies Department at Arizona State University.

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KATHERINE MCKITTRICK is assistant professor in women's studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where she teaches gender studies, Aboriginal studies, and critical race theory.  She has recently published, Demonic Grounds:  Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) and is currently researching the interdisiplinary approaches to “the underground” in black diaspora studies and the poetic inventories of Dionne Brand.

THOMAS MEYER is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, and writes on Emerson, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Deleuze, and the philosophy of immanence.

BRINDA J. MEHTA is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College in Oakland, California where she teaches postcolonial African and Caribbean literatures, French realist fiction, and transnational feminist theory.  She is the author of three books: Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women's Writing (forthcoming Spring 2007);Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani (2004); Corps infirme, corps infame: la femme dans le roman balzacien (1992); a co-edited volume of the CLR James Journal on Indo-Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Intellectual Traditions; and numerous articles on postcolonial literature that have appeared in journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly, Callaloo, Meridians, among others.  She is currently finishing her fourth book, Framing Diaspora in Francophone Caribbean Women's Writing.

NATALIJA MICUNOVIC was born in Belgrade, where she graduated Mathematical High school. She graduated mathematics, philosophy and comparative literature at Sarajevo University. She earned her Ph.D. in political philosophy at Purdue University in 1996. She taught at Purdue, University of Louisville, IUPUI and Auburn. She is interested in problems of gender, ethnos and culture. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at Belgrade University, member of National Gender Equality Council, Director of Hedone Publishing House and Vice-President of Women’s Association HERA, as well as a founding member of Fund for Promotion of Gender Equality. She lives and works in Belgrade, with her husband Velibor Popov and their golden retriever Sarah.

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WALTER MIGNOLO is the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Cultural Anthropology; and Profess of Spanish at Duke University.   received his Doctorat de 3Pme Cycle from the École des Hautes Études, Paris, in 1974. He has taught at the Université de Toulouse, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. Among his books on textual and literary theories are Elementos para una teoría del texto literario (Barcelona, 1978) and Teoría del texto e interpretación de textos (Mexico, 1986), The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995), which was awarded the Katherine Singers Kovac Prize by the Modern Language Association, Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (Princeton U.P., 2000), and The Idea of Latin America (Blackwell, 2006), which is this year’s winner of the Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought. He has edited with an introduction Capitalismo y Geopolitica del Conocimiento: la Filosofia de la Liberacion en el Debate Intelectual Contemporaneo (Buenos Aires, 2001). He co-edited with Elizabeth Hill Boone, Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamérica and the Andes (1994) with contributions from art historians, anthropologists, historians and cultural critics. He is founder and co-editor of Disposition (The University of Michigan) and co-founder and co-editor of Nepantla: Views from South, a journal published by Duke University Press.                                                                                                                      

CHARLES W. MILLS is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works in the general area of oppositional political theory, and is the author of three books: The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), and From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003). Currently, he is completing two new books, Contract and Domination, with Carole Pateman (forthcoming, Polity Press), and Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality (forthcoming, University of the West Indies Press).

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MICHAEL MONAHAN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, where he teaches courses in social and political philosophy, philosophy of race and racism, Africana philosophy, and Latin American philosophy of liberation.

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ANTHONY MONTEIRO is a Distinguished Lecturer in African-American Studies and Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought at Temple University, where he teaches courses on African-American social and political thought. He is well known for his work on W.E.B. Du Bois and the building of political institutions in the Philadelphia black community, especially those in Northern Philadelphia. His many publications include two forthcoming books—one on analytical Marxism and another on the importance of W.E.B. Du Bois’s thought for a philosophy of human science

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FRANÇOISE NAUDILLON est  Professeure B l'université Concordia, Maisonneuve Ouest Montréal (Canada). Elle est spécialiste des littératures francophones : littératures des Amériques, littératures insulaires (Antilles, Guyane, HaVti), littératures africaines et nord-africaines et s'interesse en particulier aux littératures populaires et au roman policier, ainsi qu'B la réception médiatiaue des littératures francophones. Parmi ses dernieres publications publications, on peut citer: Des Maux du Langage a l'art des mots (Liber, 2004); Les Masques de Yasmina (Nouvelles du sud 2002); Tristes Tropismes (Nouvelles du Sud, 1998) et Jean Métellus (L'harmattan, 1994).           

JALANI (BONGO) NIAAH is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies Programme and a researcher in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the Faculty of Humanities & Education, at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.   

TRACEY NICHOLS is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montréal, working on projects in feminist philosophy and the intersection of aesthetics and political philosophy.   She recently completed my doctoral dissertation, on the political implications of philosophizing improvised music, at McGill University ( Montréal, Canada) and will be taking up a tenure-track position in the philosophy department of Lewis University (Romeoville IL ) this fall (2006).  Her research interests include aesthetics, feminist political philosophy, critical race theory, and deliberative democracy (in particular, the impact on deliberative democratic theories of 'politics of recognition' and the ways in which music can help build/rebuild more responsive political communities).

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CHARLES NISSIM-SABAT, Ph.D., J.D., is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Northeastern Illinois University, where he specialized in high-energy physics, and he is a practicing Attorney.  He is Legal Counsel for the Caribbean Philosophical Association. 

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MARILYN NISSIM-SABAT is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Lewis University and is a clinical social worker in private practice in Chicago.  She is the author of many articles and of the forthcoming book, For Love of Humanity.   She is the co-founder of the Phenomenology Roundtable and the recipient of the ISRST Award of Appreciation for Excellent Work in Phenomenology.  Professor Nissim-Sabat is the secretary of phenomenological studies for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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ALEXIS NUSELOVICI (NOUSS) est le Professeur titulaire au Département de linguistique et de traduction de l'Université de Montréal.  Il a créé le groupe de recherche Poexil. Il est aussi membre régulier du CELAT (Centre interuniversitaire d'Etudes sur les Lettres, les Arts et les Traditions) et fait partie de différentes équipes de recherche interdisciplinaires, B savoir “La mémoire brisée : écriture, représentations et pratiques contemporaines,” “Les identités narratives: mémoire et perception.”  Au sein du GTRC Le soi et l'autre, Alexis Nuselovici dirige l'équipe qui travaille sur " Les effets symboliques de la migration " et se consacre B l'étude herméneutique des formes d'énonciation de l'exil et des processus de métissage culturel dans le champ littéraire. Ses champs de recherche vont de la théorie de la traduction aux problPmes esthétiques et philosophiques de la modernité, en passant par les problématiques du métissage, de l'exil et de la diaspora.   Autour du métissage, on lui doit Métissages. De Arcimboldo B Zombie (Pauvert, 2001) et Le Métissage (Flammarion, 1997), tous deux co-écrits avec F. Laplantine. Il a traduit (SataV Tsevi : Le messie mystique 1926–1976, de Gershom Scholem) et, en collaboration avec le compositeur José Evangelista, il a signé les livrets de deux opéras : La Porte et Manuscrit trouvé B Saragosse.  Et plus récente : Poésie, terre d'exil. Autour de Salah Stétié, directeur de publication, Montréal, Trait d'union, coll. " Le soi et l'autre ", 2003.

NKIRU NZEGWU is Professor of Africana Studies and of Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture. She is the founder of the educational website, africaresource.com and has published extensively in the areas of African and African Diaspora art, African women and feminism, and aesthetics. Her book, Family Matters: Feminist Concept in African Philosophy of Culture was published earlier this year by SUNY Press.  She was past President of the International Society of African Philosophy.  She is a member of the committee on African relations and on gender studies for th Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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KEVIN PINA is a U.S journalist and filmmaker. He is known primarily for his coverage of the human rights abuses and suppression of democracy in Haiti following the second (2004) overthrow of Jean Bertrand Aristide and the installation of in installed interim government. Since these subjects receive little or no play in the corporate controlled media, Pina most often writes articles for, and gives interviews to the alternative media.

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RICHARD PITHOUSE is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Civil Society, University of Natal, Durban, or, in his own words, he has worked as a music critic, factory worker, cashier at the Smith Street tote in Durban, trade union educator, sales assistant at WH Smith in Fulham, philosophy lecturer, and door to door salesman in the small rural towns of KwaZulu-Natal. He is currently working in an air-conditioned office with a big black computer on the desk. It says “Research Fellow” on the door, but useful experience, meaningful reflection and thoughtful writing are possible only in the middle of the night or on stolen time. He aims to steal more time... At the moment he is inspired by Frantz Fanon, Bruce Springsteen, Charles Bukowski, Robert Berold, Philip Tabane, Abdullah Ibrahim, Pravasan Pillay, Andrew Walford, Ashwin Desai and Vikram Seth and Kenneth Rexroth’s translation of Chinese and Japanese poems. Sometimes he also likes Pablo Neruda, Lesego Rampolokeng, Rage Against the Machine, Johan van Wyk and Lee Perry. These things ebb and flow. He wants to read Spinoza. He wishes he’d had a beer with Johannes Kerkorrel on a lazy summer night in Maputo.

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GAIL M. PRESBEY is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Detroit Mercy. Her areas of specialization are cross cultural philosophy, social and political philosophy, and peace studies. She is the first editor of two books and author of over thirty journal articles and book chapters.  She is currently at work on three books on the topics of: Kenyan sage philosophy, the use of Gandhian methods in national liberation movements, and the U.S. war on terrorism.  Last year she received a six month research grant from J. William Fulbright Foundation to study in India. An earlier Fulbright in Kenya from 1998-2000 helped her to research sage philosophy. At this conference she will share some of her reflections on sage philosophy in the light of recent research from Ghana in May-June 2006.

SATHYA RAO is assistant professor in French at the Department of Modern Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the authors of several articles and chapters in the fields of Postcolonial studies, theory of translation, Philosophical discourses on Africa and francophone cinema and literatures.  Dr. Rayo is secretary of Francophone Caribbean studies and a member of the translation committee of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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NEIL ROBERTS is a PhD. Candidate in Political Science at The University of Chicago and a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) Board of Directors.  Currently, Roberts also serves as visiting faculty for spring 2006 at The Johns Hopkins University in the Center for Africana Studies and Department of Political Science.  A high school teacher prior to graduate school, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.  Roberts co-founded in 2002 the Graduate Student Caucus of Chicago Political Theory [http://cptgrad.uchicago.edu], a branch of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought that sponsored a historic conference in downtown Chicago in April 2004 on the theme of Colonialism & Its Legacies.  His present writings deal with the intersections of Caribbean, Continental, and North American political theory with respect to theorizing the concept of freedom.  In addition to writing several articles and conducting interviews in The Pepper Bird Magazine on topics and figures such as Rastafarianism, Walter Rodney, Director of PAHO Sir George Alleyne, Angela Davis, Cornel West, and Religious Existentialism, Roberts is the author of articles and book chapters in Caribbean Studies, Clamor magazine (mailto:nroberts@midway.uchicago.edu), The C.L.R. James Journal, Philosophia Africana, Sartre Studies Interncdaational, and an anthology devoted to the work of Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynter.  Mr. Roberts is secretary for graduate students and graduate study for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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SENAYA is a world renown musical artist: http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/CPA.asp

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ROSARIO TORRES GUEVARA is a Doctoral student at Teachers College in International Educational Development. She is an adjunct instructor in Teachers College, The City College of New York, and SUNY Educational Opportunity Center and has recently been appointed as an instructor in CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College.  Her research interests are on immigration and education, immigration and language policy, endangered languages, and bilingual/intercultural education.  Her research in progress concentrates on the impact of undocumented immigration and language in the immigrant child's education.

AL VARA is Reference Librarian/Subject Specialist/Area Studies in the Paley Library at Temple University, Philadelphia PA 19122, USA.  He can be contacted at  artemus@temple.edu / 215 204-4582 / (f) 215 204-5201.  He received his BA at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA. He received his MS in Library Science, Villanova University, and MA in Liberal Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.  He worked as a librarian at Rafael Landivar University, Guatemala City, Guatemala, CA, in 1968, and in the Library for the Academy of Food Marketing, Library, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, 1961–1969.  He has been a Librarian in the Reference Department at Temple University since 1969.

CELSO VARGAS ELIZONDO is a senior professor of philosophy at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in  Logic, Philosophy of Science, Human and Sustainable Development.  He is secretary for the initiatives in philosophy of science in the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

SARAH GABRIELLA WAISVISZ is an MA Candidate in the Department of English at McGill University, Montreal,  Quebec.

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RINALDO WALCOTT is Canada Research Chair of Social Justice and Cultural Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the  University of Toronto.  He is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada  (1997; second revised edition, 2003) and several articles on diaspora cultures.  He is also the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000). Rinaldo Walcott's areas of specialization are cultural studies  and cultural theory; queer and gender theory, and transnational and  diaspora studies. 

KRISTIN WATERS is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Worcester State College in Massachusetts. She writes on topics in feminist ethics, epistemology, and social and political philosophy.  Her books include: Women and Men Political Theorists: Enlightened Conversations (2000).  She is chair of the committee on gender studies for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

STEPHEN WHEELOCK is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. 

ANDRE C. WILLIS is an Assistant Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Yale University in the Divinity School.  He earned his B.A. at Yale in Philosophy and his Ph.D. at Harvard in Religion.  His main intellectual focus is modern liberal philosophy of religion and theological thought.   His current project is Hume and Hope: a Study in David Hume’s Philosophy of Religion.  He has also written articles and essays on music for the journals Radical America, Transition, and Elementary and published a chapter in “Language, Rhythm and Sound” ed. by Adrianne Andrews and Joseph Adjaye.  He edited Faith of our Fathers (Penguin, 1996).

ELVINET WILSON is a doctoral student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.  Originally from The Bahamas, her coursework and interests have been in the area of Intercultural Communication.  The proposed paper is part of the larger project of her dissertation and she hopes to be able to present the preliminary findings of her ongoing research at the Caribbean Philosophical Association Conference in Montreal in order to receive feedback toward the project’s development.

HARVEY GEORGE WILLIS, a member of The Jamaican Institute of Management (MJIM) and The Lay Magistrates Association of Jamaica, is a Justice of The Peace (J.P.) He has a B.Sc in Management Studies from The University of The West Indies.  Mr. Willis has published several articles in all the major news papers in Jamaica, presented numerous papers on ethics and has been part time lecturer in Jamaica, at The University of The West Indies,The University of Technology, The G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, The Jamaica Police Academy,The Jamaican Institute of Management and The Institute of Management and Production. Mr. Willis retired from banking after 27 years service and is now pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Moral Philosophy at UWI. His major interest is in Business Ethics.

SHARIFA WRIGHT is an MA candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University. Her research interests include Caribbean political thought and modern European thought.

RABSON WURIGA was born in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. He is married to Eveline. They have two children. Rabson studied at the then Potchefstroom University (now North-West University). He did philosophy, religion, anthropology, classical greek, and semitic languages earning a BA degree. He also did two honours degrees in religion and philosophy. On completion he enrolled for dual programme of MA in philosophy and a masters in religion. After completing the programme, he moved to the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he completed a PhD in philosophy. Rabson is now a researcher with the Institute for Jewish Community and Research and the Center for Afro-Judeo Studies. He is currently based in South Africa at the North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus.