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Concordia University
Sir George Williams Campus
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., W.
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS:
Lewis R. Gordon, President
Clevis Headley, Vice President and Co-Director of Publications
Marina Banchetti-Robino, Co-Director of Publications and Chair of the Committee on Translations
Paget Henry, Editor of The C.L.R. James Journal and Secretary of Pan-Caribbean Initiatives
Charles Nissim-Sabat, Legal Counsel

SECRETARIES:
Ayontunde Bewaji, Secretary and Chair of African Relations and Philosophy
B. Anthony Bogues, Caribbean Political Thought and The Small Axe Collective
Richard Clarke, Philosophy and Literature
Henry Con, Dutch Caribbean
Gertrude James Gonzalez, Secretary of Gender Studies
Pat Goodin, Secretary of Ancient Philosophy
Stephen Haymes, Secretary of Philosophy of Education and Pedagogical Studies
Clarence Sholé Johnson, Secretary of Philosophyand Human Rights
Lisa Lowe, Secretary of Asian-Caribbean
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Secretary of Hispanophone and Lusophone Caribbean
Brian Meeks, Secretary at the Institute for Caribbean Thought at UWI–Mona
Brinda Mehta, Secretary of the Indo-Caribbean
Charles Mills, Secretary of Gender Studies
Nkiru Nzegwu, Secretary of African Relations and Philosophy
Marilyn Nissim-Sabt, Secretary of Phenomenological Studies in the Caribbean
Sathya Rao, Secretary of Francophone Regions and Member of Committee on Translations
Neil Roberts, Secretary of Graduate Students
Celso Vargas, Secretary of Philosophical Studies of Science
Kristin Waters, Secretary and Chair of Gender Studies in the Caribbean

MANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
Études Françaises /The Department of French Studies at Concordia University
Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University
Philosophy Department at Florida Atlantic University
The Institute for Caribbean Thought at the University of the West Indies (UWI) at Mona, Jamaica
Department of Africana Studies at Brown University

SALLE/ROOM H765
ON-SITE REGISTRATION
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

SALLE/ROOM SLB 628, 1400 de Maisonneuve I., 6th Floor
CPA BOARD MEETING
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

SALLE/ROOM H767
OPENING NIGHT DINNER AND RECEPTION (cash bar)
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM   

(6:45 PM)
WELCOME
Lewis R. Gordon, President of the CPA
Sathya Rao, Secretary, CPA
Françoise Naudillon, Concordia University

(8:00 PM – 9:30 PM)
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Senaya
http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/CPA.asp

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2006

I.              8:30 AM – 8:45 AM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767

OPENING POEMS
Ramabai Espinet, University of Toronto/Seneca College
Esiaba Irobi, University of Ohio
Arturo Davila, Laney College

8:45 AM – 8:55 AM

B.            SALLE/ROOM H767 

OPENING REMARKS
Lewis Gordon, Temple University
Clevis Headley, Florida Atlantic University
Marina Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University

II.            9:00 AM – 10:50 PM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767

AFRO-CANADIAN THOUGHT
Moderator: Clevis Headley, Florida Atlantic University    

David Austin, Montreal, Canada
“Kindred Souls: The Montreal-based Caribbean Conference Committee
and the Emergence of Caribbean New Left Politics and Intellectual Thought”

Johanna X. K. Garvey, Fairfield University
“Mapping Dislocations: Dionne Brand’s Writing of Diaspora in A Map to the Door of No Return”

Sarah Waisvisz, McGill University
“Fugitive Rhythms: Re-Imagining Diasporic Caribbean–Canadian
Communities in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”

B.            SALLE/ROOM H763 

RACE, SEX, AND HUMOR
Moderator:   Tom Meyer, Temple University

Myron Beasley, De Paul University 
“The Self Portraiture of Samuel Fosso: Transgressive Ritual Performance and the Black Male Body”

Katrina Bell-Jordan, Northeastern Illinois University 
“Speaking Fluent ‘Joke’: Pushing the Racial Envelope through Comedic Performance on Chappelle’s Show”

Vincent Bouchard, Université de Montréal
“Oralité et résistances: processus de créolisation du medium cinématographique”

C.            SALLE/ROOM H760  

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF SCIENCE I
Moderator:  Kenneth Knies, Stoney Brook University

Marina Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University 
“The Birth of Science Out of the Spirit of Myth:
Vico vs. Husserl on the Rationality of the Galilean Mathematization of Nature”

Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Lewis University 
“Sandra Harding’s View of Postcolonial Science:  A Critique from the Point of View of Postcolonial Phenomenology”

Jacqueline Martinez, Arizona State University
“Phenomenologies of Cultural Violence: Interrogating Philosophical and Scientific Prejudices”

III.           11:00 AM – 12: 20 PM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767   

AFRO-CARIBBEAN FEMINISM
Moderator: Gertrude Gonzalez de Allen, Spelman College

Kristin Waters, Worcester State University 
“Power and Resistance: Black Feminist Political Theory”

Carol Conaway, University of New Hampshire 
“Mary Ann Shadd Cary: A Visionary of the Black Press

Sharifa Wright, York University   
"Telling ‘Fugitive Truths’ from ‘Demonic Grounds’: Wynter’s Humanism as a Framework for
Caribbean Feminist Thought”

B.            SALLE/ROOM H763

PHILOSOPHY OF RASTAFARI
Moderator: Neil Roberts, University of Chicago and The Johns Hopkins University

David Austin, Montreal 
“The Unfinished Revolution: The Mytho-Poetics of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Tings an’ Times”

Lawrence Bamikole, UWI-Mona
“From Entertainment to Revolutionary Theory: Bob Marley’s Music as a Tool for Social Change”

Jalani Niaah, UWI-Mona
“Trench Town/York Linkup: Planno, Yawney, and the Development
of Rastafari Studies ina Government Yard, 1980–2006”

C.            SALLE/ROOM H760 

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF SCIENCE II
Moderator: Marina Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University

Kenneth Knies, Stoney Brook University
“What Is an Epoch in Philosophy”

Michael Monahan, Marquette University  
“Scarcity, Violence, and Liberation”

Esiaba Irobi, University of Ohio
“The Theory of Ashe: ‘Possession’ and ‘Transcendence’ as ‘Aesthetic’ in the Dramaturgy of
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria),  August Wilson (USA), Ntozake Shange (USA),  Dennis Scott(Jamaica), 
and Djanet Sears (Canada)”

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12:20 PM – 1:55 PM                             BREAK

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IV.           2:00 PM – 3:25 PM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767

FRANTZ FANON
Moderator: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Lewis University

Richard Pithouse, University of Natal 
“Fanon and the Light of Truth”

Carolyn Cusick, Vanderbilt University 
“Fanon and Testimony in Epistemology”

Gena Chang-Campbell, York University  
“‘Straddling Nothingness and Infinity’: Fanon and Martí on Identity and Consciousness”

Dilan Mahendran, UC-Berkeley
“Ontology of the Damned—Black Being as a Challenge to and Possible Ground of Metaphysics:
A Comparative Ontology of Frantz Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ralph Ellison”

B.            SALLE/ROOM H763 

AFRICANA POLITICAL THEORY
Moderator: Jane Gordon, Temple University

Stephen Wheelock, University of Pittsburgh  
“Toward a Poetics of Racial Slavery, and the Body Politic: Maria Stewart and Radical Turns
in early African-Atlantic Political Thought”

Senfo Tonkam, University of Hamburg
“De-Machiavelizing African Politics and Africanizing Political Ethics: the end of the Humanism
of the Oppressed and the Momentum of Nzinga-Samorism”  

Ayontunde Bewaji, University of the West Indies at Mona  
“Aesthetics of Language in Leadership Politics in Nigeria and Jamaica”

C.            SALLE/ROOM H760

POSTSTRUCTURAL AFRICANA THOUGHT
Moderator:  Tolulope Bewaji, Temple University

George Ciccariello-Maher, UC-Berkeley 
“Scientia Sexualis, Scientia Racialis: The Damné and Foucauldian Biopower”

Joan Jasak, Temple University
“Foucault in Africana Philosophy”

Tim Fiskin, UC-Berkeley 
“Heresy and Hegemony: Rupture in Post-structuralist and Black Radical Thought”

V.            3:30 PM – 4:20 PM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767

THE FRANTZ FANON PRIZE: WALTER MIGNOLO’S THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA
Moderator: Sibylle Fischer, New York University

A Poetic Tribute: Arturo Davila, Laney College

Commentators:
Enrique Dussel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California at Berkeley

Respondent:
Walter Mignolo, Duke University

Presentation of the Prize:
Lewis Gordon, President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

VI.           4:30 PM – 5:45 PM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767  

ON BLACK SOLIDARITY
Moderator:   Chike Jeffers, Northwestern University

Clevis Headley, Florida Atlantic University
“Investigating the Foundations of Black Solidarity”

Pat Goodin, Howard University 
“Reason and the Politics of Africana Philosophy: Reflections on Tommie Shelby’s We Who Are Dark"

B.            SALLE/ROOM H763

THEORIZING IMMIGRATION AND DIASPORA
Moderator:  Yvette Koch, Providence, RI

Elvinet Wilson, Arizona State University
“Globalization, Immigration, Identity, and Postmodern Decision-Making:
Toward a Postcolonial/Caribbean Perspective in Intercultural Communication”

Rosario Torres-Guevara, Teacher’s College 
“Subjectivity of Illegality: The Immigration Experience in Mexican Children”

Cynthia Dahome, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales                                                              
“Proposition de communication: Construire l’objet diaspora ne terre républicaine”

C.            SALLE/ROOM H760 

CARIBBEAN POETICS
Moderator:  Sibylle Fischer, New York University

John Drabinski, Hampshire College                      
“Death and the Poetics of Loss: Reading Peck with Glissant”

Guru Gunaratnam, Independent Scholar                               
“Cricket Sense: The Aesthetics of C.L.R. James”

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5:45 PM – 6:00 PM               Refreshment Break

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V.            6:00 PM – 7:20 PM

SALLE/ROOM H767

LATIN CARIBBEAN PHILOSOPHY
Moderator:  Walter Mignolo, Duke University

Walter Altino, Rio De Janero                                                
“O IlL AiyL e a relaçno com a Política cultural do Estado”

Jorge Gracia, SUNY-Buffalo                                                   
“Hispanic Identities: Cuban, Latino, Hispanic, American?”

VI.           7:35 PM – 10: 00 PM

SALLE/ROOM H-110, Theater, Hall Building

Kevin Pina, Oakland, California/Haiti                                  
Haiti: The Untold Story (Film), with Director’s commentary

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2006

VII.          8:30 AM – 9: 25 AM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H760

ENRIQUE DUSSEL’S THESES ON POLITICS
Moderator:  Rosario Torres-Guevara, Teacher’s College    

Presenter: Enrique Dussel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City

B.             9:30 AM – 9:40 AM 

SALLE/ROOM H767

MORNING POEM
Arturo Davila, Laney College  
Ramabai Espinet, University of Toronto/Seneca College

VIII.        9:45 AM – 11:25 AM 

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767 

THEORIZING HAITI               
Moderator: Esiaba Irobi, University of Ohio

Tommy Lott, San Jose State University                                
“Anna Julia Cooper's dissertation on the Haitian  Revolution”

Nkiru Nzegwu, Binghamton University                                
“Dodard and Modernism: A Radial Evaluation of Haitian Contemporary Art”

Tracey Nicholls, Université de Montréal                              
“Changing the Subject: Discourse Norms in Haiti's Civil Society

B.            SALLE/ROOM H763  

THEORIZING FASCISM, SEMITISM, AND TRAUMA
Moderator: Tom Meyer, Temple University

Natalija Micunovic, University of Belgrade                          
“Neonazism and the Mainstream Society”

George Ciccariello-Maher, UC-Berkeley                               
“Can the Muselmann Speak?: Historical Erasure and Agamben’s Homo Sacer”

Stephen Haymes, De Paul University                                   
“Trauma and Psychoanalytic Theory within Contemporary Educational Theory: An Africana Phenomenological Critique”

C.            SALLE/ROOM H760    

AFRICAN AND AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY               
Moderator: Yvette Koch, Providence-RI

Gail Presbey, University of Detroit-Mercy                            
“Kenyan Sages: Moral Philosophy, and the Traditionalist/Innovator Debate”

Danielle Davis, University of New South Wales                    
“Indigenous Australian Philosophy”

IX.           11: 30 AM – 1: 00 PM

A.            SALLE/ROOM H767 

AFRICAN EXISTENCE
Moderator:  Nkiru Nzegwu, Binghamton University

Elias Bongmba, Rice University                                             
“HIV/AIDS and Virtues in Africa”

Rabson Wuriga, Institute for Jewish Research                       
“Defining You for You: Black Experience in the Case of the Lemba”

P. Mabogo More, University of Kwazulu Natal                    
“The Existentialist Themes in Black South African Literature”

B.            ROOM H763 

LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION IN THE FRANCOPHONE CARIBBEAN
Moderator:  Marina Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University

Françoise Naudillon, Concordia University                          
“Patrick Chamoiseau et le creole, une traduction du monde”

Anne Malena, University of Alberta                                      
“La CariaVbe en Louisiane” (Glissant)

Sathya Rao, University of Alberta                                         
“(Post)Colonial Laughters. The case of Francophone Cinema and Literature
/ rires (post)coloniaux. Le cas du cinéma et de la littérature francophone”

C.            ROOM H760

POETICS OF IMAGINATION AND FAITH
Moderator: Katharine Loevy, Vanderbilt University  

Andre Willis, Yale University                                                
“On Hume and Pope”

James Bryant, College of the Holy Cross 
“The Call as Experience, Sign, and Methodology in the Phenomenological Imagination of Howard Thurman”

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1:00 PM – 2: 15 PM                              BREAK

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X.            2:15 PM – 4:20 PM

A.            ROOM H767    

CARIBBEAN PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE
Moderator: Margo Natalie Crawford, University of Indiana-Bloomington

Brinda Mehta, Mills College                                                  
“The Transcultural Geography of Food in Gisele Pineau’s Un Papillon dans la cité and L’Exil selon Julia”

Anita Baksh, University of Maryland                                    
“The Use of Orality in jan Shinebourne’s The Last English Plantation and Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfly in the Wind”

Ramabai Espinet, University of Toronto/Seneca College      
“Dougla Poetics and Politics: A Discussion of the Epistemological, Cultural and Political Implications”

B.            ROOM H763

CREOLIZING ROUSSEAU
Moderator: Natalija Micunovic, University of Belgrade

Neil Roberts, University of Chicago/The Johns Hopkins      
“Creolizing Rousseau: An Essay on the Origin of Freedom’s Slavery in the Language of Caribbean Political Theory”

Jane Gordon, Temple University                                           
“Of Legitimation and General Will: Creolizing Rousseau through Fanon”

Charles Mills, University of Illinois-Chicago                        
“The Racial-Sexual Contract: Theorizing Racial Patriarchy”

C.            ROOM H760 

GEOPOLITICALITY AND EMPIRE
Moderator:  Michael Monahan, Marquette University

Al Vara, Temple University                                                   
“Geopoliticality of Caribbean Philosophy”

Donald Vernon Kingsbury, UC-Santa Cruz                          
“Performances of Empire: Interstitial Citizenship and the Politics of Worthiness”

Celso Vargas Elizondo, Costa Rica Institute of Technology                                         
“Identity Construction in a Global Context”

XI.           4:30 PM – 6:15 PM   

A.            ROOM H767 

EDOUARD GLISSANT: EMANCIPATORY GEOGRAPHIES AND POETICS
Moderator: Gertrude Gonzalez de Allen, Spelman College

Jenny Burman, McGill University                                         
“Urban Space and Glissant’s Poetics of Relation”

Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University                                
“Entanglement, Relation, Diaspora”

Katherine McKittrick, Queen’s University                           
“Subterranean Convergences”

Rinaldo Walcott,  OISE/University of Toronto                      
“Homopoetics”

B.           ROOM H763  

W.E.B. DU BOIS

Moderator: Rozena Maart, Biko Institute

Clarence Johnson, Middle Tennessee State University 
“Asante and Du Bois on Race(ism) and the Problem of Double Consciousness”

Thomas Meyer, Temple University                                       
"Du Bois, Fanon, and the Philosophy of Immanence"

Anthony Monteiro, Temple University                                 
“W.E.B Du Bois and the Radical reconfiguration of Philosophy”

C.           ROOM H760 

IDENTITY, LIBERATION, AND ONTOLOGY

Moderator: Tolulope Bewaji, Temple University

Anthony Dandridge, Temple University 
“Self Identity, Liberation and Ethics: The possibilities of an Afrocentric Victory via a Unified Ontology”

Margo Natalie Crawford, Indiana University-Bloomington                                           
“Rescuing the Black Diaspora from the Black Family Tree: Beyond Fragmentation and Wholeness”

Douglas Ficek, Temple University                                             
“Reparations in Africana Philosophy of Liberation”

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6:15 PM – 6:30 PM               Refreshment Break

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XII.         6:30 PM – 7:40 PM       

ROOM H 767  

THINKING FROM THE SOUTH TODAY
Moderator: Lewis Gordon, Temple University & University of the West Indies at Mona

Danielle Davis, University of New South Wales
Paget Henry, Brown University
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California at Berkeley

XIII.        7:45 PM – 9:00 PM

ROOM H767 

CLOSING PANEL ON CANADIAN and SUBALTERN SHIFTS IN AND CHALLENGES TO THE GEOGRAPHY OF REASON
Moderator: Lewis Gordon, President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Alexis Nouss, Université de Montréal  
Rozena Maart, Biko Institute–Guelph

                                                                              
CLOSING REMARKS

Lewis Gordon, CPA 

CLOSING POEMS

Arturo Davila, Laney College
Ramabai Espinet, University of Toronto/Seneca College
Rozena Maart, Biko Institute–Guelph

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BOOK DISPLAY will be in Room H762 on Wednesday and Thursday from 10:30 AM till 5:30 PM
Coordinator: Douglas Ficek, Temple University

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SPECIAL THANKS

Françoise Naudillon
Sathya Rao
Joan Jasak
Beatrice Francis
Marilyn Lessard

BOOK AWARD COMMITTEE

Marina Banchetti-Robino, Chair, Philosophy Department, Florida Atlantic University
Douglas Ficek, Philosophy Department, Temple University
Sibylle Fischer, New York University
Jane Gordon, Political Science, Temple University
Clevis Headley, Philosophy Department, Florida Atlantic University
Paget Henry, Africana Studies and Sociology, Brown University
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Alejandro de Oto, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia-Argentina
Neil Roberts, Political Science, The University of Chicago, and Africana Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Jean-Paul Rocci, American Studies, University of Paris VII
Sathya Rao, Department of Modern Language and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta

Sponsoring institutions and departments:

Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University

Études Françaises /Department of French Studies, Concordia University

Africana Studies, Brown University

Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University

Center for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies at Mona

Caribbean Philosophical Association
P. O. BOX 480423
Delray Beach, Florida   33446-9545
(215) 204-5621/Fax: (215) 204-2535
Email: Caribphil@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/CPA.asp