The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

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INSTITUTE OF CARIBBEAN STUDIES & REGGAE STUDIES UNIT

• 2022 – ‘The Legacies of Slavery in the Expressive Cultures of the Caribbean: Beyond Prohibition and Protest’, paper presented at ‘Mills and Sugar: Lever- aging Resilience Through Heritage Management, Sustainable Tourism and Creativity’, UNESCO Transcultura Programme, ROK Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica, December 13–15. • 2022 – ‘Sonic Street Technologies and Jamaica’, presentation (with Dennis Howard & Ashly Cork) at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)/ESOC- ITE Joint Conference, December 7–10, Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla, Cholula, Mexico. • 2022 – ‘Intersections’ of Sound, Body and Citizenship in the African Diaspora, paper presented at ‘Intersectionality Beyond Eurocentrism’, November 22, University of Tampere, Finland (Virtual) • 2022 – An ‘Aesthetic of Rape’: Exploring Dancehall, Music and the Dismantling of Dignity in Jamaica, presented at Social Change & Gender-based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature & Performance Cultures Symposium as part of the Representing Gender-Based Violence: Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean (UWI & University of Leicester) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK); September 22–23. Dr. Lisa Tomlinson: • 2023 – Panelist on radio show to address the Antiguans government’s deci- sion to provide funding to foreign filmmakers and what is needed to develop a Caribbean film industry, [Virtual panel hosted by The Big Issues: Observer Radio 91.1 FM, Antigua], February 9. • 2022 – Panelist in roundtable discussion on “Caribbean Film Heritage”, Fes- tival De Film Memoirs, APCAG and Interreg Caribe CINUCA, Guadeloupe, November 23. • 2022 – Panelist in roundtable discussion on “Caribbean Film Festivals”, Fes- tival De Film Memoirs, APCAG and Interreg Caribe CINUCA, Guadeloupe, November 22. • 2022 – Specialist / Presenter at Roundtable Talk paper entitled “Mental Health, Creativity: Una Marson’s Poems” [ Virtual panel hosted by the Black Cultural Archive UK, “Pocomania Calling” ], October 6. PUBLIC SERVICE Dr. Howard Dennis: • 2023 – Moderator, The Sounds in The Sound System Jamaica’s Unique Approach to recorded music performance Alpha Institute, February 27.

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