Amsterdam Conference; The Pan-Guyanese Highway: Cayenne – Georgetown – Paramaribo
CELEBRATING THE GUYANAS 3G NETWORK
Ecotones Conference
Amsterdam, 1-3 October 2015
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Maroni/Marowijnerivier, border river between Suriname and La Guyane. Foto © Monica van Kempen
The Pan-Guyanese Highway : Cayenne Georgetown Paramaribo
Programme
Venue: Doelenzaal, University Library of Amsterdam, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam
Thursday 1 October 2015 18.00-21.30
18.00-19.00 Welcome & Registration
19.00-19.15 Official Welcome (word of the Organizers, Kim Andringa, Kathleen Gyssels, Michiel van Kempen; a word on Ecotones by J. Misrahi-Barak)
19.10-20.00 Keynote Gert Oostindie (Leiden University)
20.00-21.20 Reception
Friday 2 October 2015 9.00-18.00
9.15-10.45 Session 1 INTER-GUYANESE MIGRATION
Chair: Gert Oostindie
Simona Vezzoli (International Migration Institute) – Migration in the three Guianas
Rosemarijn Hoefte (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden), Matthew L. Bishop (Institute for International Relations, T & T) and Peter Clegg (U. of the West of England, Bristol) – Hemispheric Reconfigurations and the Three Guianas
Patricia Noxolo (U. Birmingham) – The 3 Guyanas: ‘Community as other than the Animism of Fate’
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
Marron. Foto © Michiel van Kempen
11.00-12.30 Session 2 MAROON CULTURE
Chair: to be anounced
Stéphanie Guyon (U. de Picardie Jules Verne) – Amerindian and Marrons Associational Participation and Transborder Circulation in Lower Marowijne
Cathérine Benoit (Connecticut College) – Border Reinforcement on the Maroni River: on Transnationalism and the Non-Circulation of People to French Guiana
Clémence Léobal (U. Paris-Descartes/Ehess) – Transborder Ways of Dwelling and Changing Identifications in Lower Marowijne
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
George Struikelblok – Death
14.00-15.30 Session 3 THE ARTS
Chair: Michiel van Kempen
Gerard Collomb (Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain, EHESS/CNRS, Paris) – Mobilizing Symbolic Resources across the Borders: “new” Kali’na Music between French Guiana and Suriname.
Hilde Neus (IOL, Paramaribo) – Artistic Exchanges among Islands
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-17.00 Session 4 ARTS/RELIGION
Chair: Joop Vernooij
Michelle Yaa Asantewa (indep. Researcher, London) – Spirits in the Guianas: Guyanese Comfa and the Ndyukas of Suriname
Patricia Murray (U. of London) – Activating the Ghosts: Cross-Cultural Strategies in the Stories of Wilson Harris and Pauline Melville
17.30-19.30 Guided tour through Amsterdam in the Golden Age by Leo Balai
19.30 Dinner in an 17th-century channel house: the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis – kindly offered by the University of Montpellier
Saturday 3 October 2015
9.30-10.30 Session 5 LANGUAGES
Chair: Folkert Kuiken (University of Amsterdam)
Sabine Gorovitz (Universidade de Brasilia) – Brazilians in French Guiana: Types of Bilingual
Talk in Family Interactions
Ellen-Rose Kambel (Rutu Foundation) & Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman (Utrecht
University) – The Introduction of Plurilingual and Intercultural Teaching Strategies in
Suriname: Between Evidence and Resistance
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
Saint Laurent du Maroni, 2015; foto © Michiel van Kempen
10.45-12.15 Session 6 LITERATURE
Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak (University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)
Kathleen Gyssels (Antwerp University) – ‘Damas and the Chinese Mask: coolitude, sinutude,
antillanité and créolité in Damas’ poetry’
Gemma Robinson (University of Stirling) – Making Guyana from the Guianas: Edgar
Mittelholzer, Martin Carter, Denis Williams on Guyanese National Culture
Julio Monteiro (Universidade de Brasilia) – Literature, History, Memory: The Historical Novel
in Suriname
12.15-12.45 Closing session
12.45-14.30 Lunch and farewell drink; musical accompagnement: Sanne Landvreugd
Register: werkgroepcarlet@gmail.com
Abstracts here
All pictures, unless indicated otherwise, © Michiel van Kempen
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