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Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine June 2018

1:30-2:30pm Debon Panton, MPhil, Post Grad. Studies,
Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI Mona
"Obeah & Bush Medicine: Preserving our Heritage"

3:00-4:00pm The Politics of Indigeneity
Dr. Christina H. Fuller, Assistant Professor,
Environmental Health, Georgia State University
"Environmental Pressures and Health Disparities: Achieving Environmental Justice in
Urban and Rural Communities of the African Diaspora"

Tracey Mia Stewart, PhD Candidate, Music,
University of Virginia
"Acknowledging Jamaican Maroon Exceptionalism Beyond Party Lines and Campaign
Promises"

Lisa Betty, PhD Candidate, History, Fordham University
"At the Intersection of Undocumented and Black"

8:00 pm Film Festival
• Papa Machete - short film from Haiti
• Col. Lumsden - short interview about the Bench Drum
• Passage - short film from the Bahamas
• Maestra - short film from Cuba
• Feature film: Daughters of the Dust - Gullah Geechee culture from USA

FRIDAY 22 JUNE

1:00-2:00pm Legacies of Resistance
Nakeia Medcalf, MA Candidate, Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design
"Reject Design Through Afrofuturism"

Dr. Patricia Gonzalez Gomes-Casseres, Senior Lecturer,
Spanish, Smith College
"Maroon Communities and the Environment: Physical and Spiritual Survival"

Chief Michael Grizzle, Trelawny Town-Flagstaff Maroons
"Maroon: Invisible yet Invincible"

2:20-3:20 pm Sustainable Livelihoods
Kwesi Palmer, Apiculture Specialist
Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries
“Sustainable development, apiculture, climate change and a Maroon action plan forward”

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