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Please review the following vital information regarding arrangements for the promotion of exhibitor/promotor products at the upcoming 2008 ACS Crossroads Conference. ExhibitionThere will be an exhibition in the University’s main hall at the centre of the campus open to all delegates and the general public for the duration of the conference, providing ample opportunity for promoting your goods and services. An exhibition booth will be a ‘table top’ suitable for books, brochures, or other promotional material. Data or electrical connection or other technical equipment should be ordered separately. Exhibition space will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The fee includes one delegate badge. Extra badges can be ordered from the Secretariat (same fee as for participants). Pertaining to the registration of exhibitors or managers of booths, the fee includes one delegate badge. Extra badges can be ordered from the Secretariat (same fee as for participants). See the 'promotional opportunities' link for more details. Times for Set-up and Dismantling:
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The University of the West Indies is a non-profit organization and will accept book donations from exhibitors; due to operating procedures, we will not be able to send invoices. However, appropriate donation receipts will be provided. Registration Pack InsertsCompanies are offered the opportunity to provide promotional literature to be inserted into the registration packs. These packs include the final conference program, abstract book and participant list and will be given to all conference participants upon registration in Kingston. Literature can be up to A4 in size and can be single-sided or double-sided documents or brochures. If possible, please send with your booking an indication of the sort of document you would like to include. The organizers reserve the right to reject the material offered. Advertising SpaceYour advertisement would appear in the conference programme which contains a copy of the timed conference programme with synopses of the presentations. The conference programme will be given to all participants upon registration in Kingston. The programme will most likely be published in B&W and the size of the advertisement is 1 page. Shipping and Customs InformationThose who will be shipping packages that will be cleared by the University’s customs broker should stay aware of the following. Shipments should be addressed to: Shipping documents including invoices / airway bills should be sent to the above address prior to arrival of shipments. Please ensure that packages are sent within good time to facilitate clearance prior to the start of the conference. Information on the official customs broker for Crossroads 2008 at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, will be made available via email and the conference website shortly (www.crossroads2008.org).
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Eduardo Restrepo
Title: What does it mean to do cultural studies in Colombia today?Doctoral Program, Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Researcher of Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Culturales Pensar, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Professor of the Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Publications: Políticas de la teoria y dilemas de los estudios de las colombias negras. (Popayán: Editorial de la Universidad del Cauca). Teorías de la etnicidad. Entre la etnicidad sin garantias de Stuart Hall y la ontología histórica de Michel Foucault. (Popayán: Editorial Universidad del Cauca. 2004).Read more... 
Arturo Escobar - Keynote Speaker
Title: Latin America at a Crossroads: Moving Beyond Modernity?
Arturo was born in Manizales, Colombia. He is currently a Colombian national and a United States citizen. In 1969, he attended the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Here he got his Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering. From there he went to Universidad del Valle Medical School in 1975 and spent a year doing graduate work in the biochemistry field. In 1976, he spent two years at Cornell University, New York getting his Master's Degree in Food Science and International Nutrition.
Daniel Mato
Title: All Industries are Cultural. A Critique of the Idea of "Cultural Industries" and New Possibilities for ResearchDaniel Mato is Full Professor of Social Sciences and Chair of the Program on Culture, Communication, and Social Transformations (PCCTS), at the Center for Postdoctoral Research, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). He holds a Doctorate in Social Sciences (UCV), and has been a Visiting Professor at several universities in Latin America, Spain and the United States.Read more... 
M. Jacqui Alexander
Title: Ouvri baryè-a pou nou pasé la: Cultural Studies in the Domain of Papa LegbaM. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Feminism, Sexual Politics and The Sacred, The Third Wave: Feminist Perspectives on Racism, and a coeditor of Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures.Read more... 
Stephen Ching-kiu Chan
Title: Putting Pedagogy Back into Cultural Studies: The (Un-)Learning of Culture and its Pragmatic ChallengesDr. Stephen Ching-kiu Chan is Professor of Cultural Studies and Programme Director of the Master of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He founded the BA Cultural Studies degree in 1999, and served as Department Head in Cultural Studies from 2000 to 2003, teaching practicum in cultural criticism, cultural policy and institution, representation, and critical thinking through popular culture.Read more... 
Rex Nettleford
Rex Nettleford is a well-known Caribbean scholar, trade union educator, social and cultural historian and political analyst. A former Rhodes Scholar, he is Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. After taking an undergraduate degree in History at the UWI he pursued post-graduate studies in Politics at Oxford. He is also the founder, artistic director and principal choreographer of the internationally acclaimed National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica and is regarded as a leading Caribbean authority in the performing arts.
Carolyn Cooper
Title: 'Pedestrian Crosses': Sites of Dislocation in 'Post-colonial' JamaicaCarolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and Director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies. Cooper is author of Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, and Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and 'Vulgar' Body of Jamaican Popular Culture.Read more... 
John Clarke
Title: Restating the problem of power: politics, policies and populationsJohn Clarke is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University in the UK, where he has been engaged in teaching and research for over twenty five years. After a first degree in Management Studies, he was rescued by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, where he was a postgraduate for five years. During that time he was part of the writing groups that produced Resistance Through Rituals and Policing the Crisis.Read more... 
Stephen Muecke
Title: The Nature of CultureStephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has worked extensively in Indigenous Australia and more recently on the historical and contemporary links between culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean. His 1984 Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (with Krim Benterrak and Paddy Roe) was one of the first postmodern ethnographies, and he is well known for his ficto-critical writing style (No Road (bitumen all the way), 1997).Read more... 
Kamau Brathwaite, New York University
Title: DiVination: intending the culturation discoursePoet, playwright, critic, and historian, whose works deal with the complex Caribbean heritage and its African roots. Brathwaite has been a major proponent of the use of "nation language", which is closely allied to the African experience in the Caribbean. It is not dialect or creole merely, but as Brathwaite had defined "the kind of English spoken by the people who were brought to the Caribbean, not the official English now, but the language of slaves and labourers, the servants who were brought in".Read more... |
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