CECTON conference: 26-28 of August 2021
Researching Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre and Opera:
Challenges and Methodologies
Thursday 26th August 2021
3pm: arrival and welcome
3.15pm-4.00pm: Studying the Colonial Caribbean: Combining Geographical and Imperial Approaches (Dexnell Peters)
4.00pm-4.45pm: Crossing the Linguistic Proscenium: Challenges of Linguistic Aptitude and Translation in Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre Research (Susan Thomas)
4.45pm-5pm: break
5pm-5.45pm: Silences in the Archive: the revival of John Fawcett’s colonial-era Obi; or Three-Finger’d Jack in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1862 (Jenna Gibbs)
Friday 27th August 2021
3pm-3.45pm: Using Military Documents to Study Theatre in Colonial-Era Saint-Domingue (Logan Connors)
3.45pm-4.30pm: Problems of Comparison: National Approaches to Caribbean Blackface (Jill Lane)
4.30pm-5pm: break
5pm-5.45pm: From Metropole to Colony: Harlequin Travels to Suriname (Sarah Adams)
5.45pm-6.30pm: Constructions of “Race” in the Musico-Theatrical Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Kingston (Wayne Weaver)
Saturday 28th August 2021
3pm-3.45pm: Colonial-Era Theatre and the Enslaved Population: Uncovering Hidden Connections in Saint-Domingue (Julia Prest)
3.45pm-4.30pm: Using Academic Research to Create New Theatre (Flavia d’Avila with Jaïrus Obayome and Catherine Bisset)
4.30pm-4.45pm: break
4.45pm-5.15pm: discussion of next steps
CECTON Workshop 9-10 April 2021
Friday 9th April 2021
2.30pm: testing and troubleshooting
3pm: Welcome and introductions
3.30pm: discussion drawing on Mulich, ‘Introduction’ to In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Topics to include: researching the Caribbean, Caribbean networks, inter-imperial relations, periodization and regional / micro-regional approaches
Short break
4.30pm: discussion drawing on Cooper and Stoler, ‘Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda’ (introduction to Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World)
Topics to include: the relationship between metropole and colony, dichotomies, categories and classification, using the colonial archive
5.30pm: end
Saturday 10th April 2021
3pm: discussion drawing on Dutt, ‘Rethinking Categories of Theatre and Performance: Archive, scholarship, and practices (a post-colonial Indian perspective)’ (from Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography)
Topics to include: the differences between theatre and performance, historicization, local and colonial practice, studying the colonial-era from a post-colonial perspective
Short break
4.15pm: discussion drawing on Davis, ‘The Context Problem’ (Theatre Survey)
Topics to include: historical performance, filling in the gaps, the problem of reception, academic priorities
5pm: discussion of next steps
5.30pm: end