Preliminary Program

Friday, February 15

9 am-10am
PLENARY SESSION

Welcome and introduction of keynote speaker:
Howard Dodson, Schomburg Center

Keynote speaker:
TBA

10:15-11:45am
WILLIAMS AND HIS CARIBBEAN VISION

Chair: Linda Heywood, Howard University

“Eric Williams and the Chaguaramas Dispute, 1957-1960”
Cary Fisher, Pennsylvania State University

“Race, Nation, and Party Politics in Eric Williams’ Massa Day Done Speech”
Anthony Maingot, Florida International University

“Eric Williams, ca. 1943-Early Political Stirrings of a Scholar Activist”
Tony Martin, Wellesley College

Comment: Audience

11:45-1:15pm
LUNCH

12:30-1:15pm
SLIDE PRESENTATION

“The Use of a Heliconia as a Political Symbol in the Caribbean”
Sandra Barnes, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

1:30-3:00pm
ERIC WILLIAMS, THEORY AND PRAXIS

Chair: Carlton Wilson, North Carolina Central University

“What’s America for the Goose is Britain for the Gander: Exploring the relationship between Eric Williams and C.L.R. James”
Grant Farred, Duke University

“Eric Williams and the Ethnic, Racial, and Color Stratification of the Caribbean”
Sandy Darity, University of North Carolina and Duke University

“Williams, the State, and Economic Development”
Selwyn Ryan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Comment: Audience

3:00-4:30pm
ERIC WILLIAMS AND NATIONAL POLICY

Chair: Winston James, Columbia University

“Eric Williams and the Labor Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, 1960-1980”
Jerome Teelucksingh, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

“Eric Williams and Public Sector Reform”
Roland Baptiste, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

“Eric Williams and Tobago: Policies and Attitudes”
Learie Luke, South Carolina State University

4:45-6:15pm
WILLIAMS AND CARIBBEAN INTERGRATION

Chair: TBA

“We Integrate or We Perish: Forbes Burnham, Eric Williams and the regional integration movement”
Cecilia McAlmont, University of Guyana

“Williams and the genesis of the West Indies Federation”
Colin Palmer, Princeton University

“Constructing West Indianness: Williams, race, regional identity, and the West Indies Federation”
Eric Duke

Comment: Audience

7pm
RECEPTION

Saturday, February 16

9-10:30am
ERIC WILLIAMS, THE SCHOLAR

Chair: Sean Greene, The University of Pennsylvania

“The Nineteenth Century Origins of Capitalism and Slavery”
Demetrius Eudell, Wesleyan University

“Capitalism and Slavery Revisited”
Dale Tomich, Binghampton University

“Williams, the Free Coloreds, and Abolition: A Reassessment"
Edward Cox, Rice University

Comment: Audience

10:45-12:15pm
WILLIAMS, THE RESEARCHER AND THEORIST

Chair: TBA

“Williams, the bibliophile and scholar!”
Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies

“Williams: Publishing in the Journal of Negro History”
David Barry Gaspar, Duke University

“Williams and the problem of economic autonomy in the Caribbean”
Gabrielle Lane, Independent Scholar

Comment: Audience

12:15-1:30pm
LUNCH

1:30-3:00pm
WILLIAMS, WOMEN, AND GENDER

Chair: TBA

“Williams, Claudia Jones, and the Politics of Change”
Lydia Lindsey, North Carolina Central University

“Williams and Claudia Jones” (to be confirmed)
Carole Boyce Davies, Florida International University

“The Black Woman in Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery”
Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies, Mona

3:15-5:15pm
ERIC WILLIAMS AND THE LARGER WORLD OF SCHOLARSHIP

Chair: TBA

“Williams and the Chinese Optic”
Jiang Shixue, Institute of Latin American Studies, Beijing

“The Function of History: Williams, Woodson, Dubois, and the Counter Narrative of History”
Derrick E. White, Ohio State University

“The Portrait of Dr. Eric Williams in Earl Lovelace’s ‘Salt’”
George Ramos, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

“Eric Williams: Past, Present, and Future of Caribbean Studies”
Fannie Theresa Rushing, De Paul University

Comment: Audience