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June 2018 Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE
6:00-9:00pm Opening Reception at Goblin Hill Villas
Performance by Charles Town Drummers & Dancers

THURSDAY 21 JUNE

10:00-11:00am Maroon and Indigenous Sustainability
Dr. Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Frances Botkin, Towson University
"Green Maroons"

John Favini, PhD Candidate, Anthropology,
University of Virginia
"Decolonizing the 'Eco-Imagination': Indigeneity, Marronage, and the Search for
Livable Futures"

Dr. Amy M. Johnson, Associate Professor, History,
Elon University
"Sustainable Identities: Indigenous Incorporation among the Maroons of Jamaica"

11:30am-12:30pm Maroon Women and Resistance
Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall, Literatures in English, UWI Mona
“Who Will Nanny She? Black Woman, Marooned"

Dr. Harcourt Fuller, Associate Professor, History,
Georgia State University
"From Queen-Mother Aqualtune to Queen Nanny: Women Warriors and Leaders in
Maroon Strongholds in the Atlantic World"

Tejan Green-Waszak, PhD Candidate, English,
St. John's University
"Maroon Culture and Tradition in Popular 20th Century Jamaican Women's Poetry"

1:30-2:30pm Indigenous Traditions and Sustainability
Dr. Marcus Goffe, Attorney-at-Law
"Extinguishing the Myth of Extinction: The Re-emergence of the Taíno in Jamaica"

David Brown, Senior Research Fellow,
African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank
"Sound as Memory: African Continuities in the Horn traditions of the Jamaican
Maroons and the Curaçaoan Kachuleros"

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