African, Asian, European, Indigenous, and Latin American cultural forms are entwined through power, embodiment, and play both within and outside the Caribbean region. In this interdisciplinary symposium we will be exploring, through the lens of Carnival and (mas)querade, subversive displays of power, the politics of racialized, sexualized & nationalized bodies, and the trickster energy of play. 

Join us in discourse and dance! 

 

UC Santa Barbara in partnership with Leeds Beckett University 

This is a hybrid program, webinar and in-person. RSVP details below. 

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 – 9:45 AM–6:00 PM PST 

UCSB University Center – State Street Room 

 

9:45 AM–10:00 AM Welcome 

Adeola Dewis, Cathy Thomas, and Emily Zobel Marshall 

 

10:00 AM– 11:00 AM Keynote: "Those Kinds of Women": How the New Orleans Baby Dolls Used "Women's Rites" 

to Move Beyond Respectability Politics and Create Visibility 

Kim Vaz-Deville (Xavier University of Louisiana) 

 

11:00 AM–11:15 AM Morning Break 

 

11:15 AM–12:15 PM Roundtable: Wining & Twerking, On a Genealogy of Hips 

Adanna Kai Jones (Bowdoin College) and Ra/Malika Imhotep (UC Berkeley) 

moderated by Dr. Mireille Miller-Young (UCSB Feminist Studies) 

 

12:15 PM–1:00 PM Women in Carnival Overview and Research Ethics 

Cathy Thomas (UCSB English), Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University, Reader in Postcolonial 

Literature) and Adeola Dewis (University of South Wales, Diaspora Artist) 

 

1:00 PM–2:00 PM Lunch Break (catered, please RSVP)

 

2:00 PM–3:00 PM Roundtable: Women in Trinidad Carnival 

Renella Alfred (Whip Princess), Dr. Adanna Kai Jones (on spectators/performers), Amanda McIntyre 

.(Baby Doll and writer), and Eintou Springer (Trinidad & Tobago Poet Laureate, Kambulé) 

 

3:00 PM–3:15 PM Afternoon Break 

 

3:15 PM–4:15 PM Roundtable: AfroLatinidad's Festival Culture and Dance in California 

Nadia Calmet (Afro-Peruvian folk dance/festival artist & activist) and Cheryl L. Noralez 

((on masking traditions, Garifuna. American Heritage Foundation United) 

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4:15 PM–5:00 PM Dance Demo & Experience with Nadia Calmet 

 

5:00 PM–6:00 PM Roundtable: Undergraduate Creative Critical Exploration of Carnival Art and Literature 

moderated by Maria Zazzarino (Graduate Student, UCSB Comparative Literature) 

 

Refreshments and lunch served at event

 

Remote webinar RSVP: 

tinyurl.com/womenincarnival 

 

In-person RSVP by emailing 

 

Map/Directions/Parking: 

 

Symposium website: 

tinyurl.com/carnivalweb

 

Art Design by Maya Iverson-Davis 

Instagram: @barely_elsewhere_art

 

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