QUEERING PARADIGMS 7, 11-12 June 2016, 9am – 6pm 

The Auditorium of the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce

Unit 4-107, Governors Square, 23 Lime Tree Bay Avenue,

West Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Preliminary Programme                                                           [PDF]

Saturday, 11 June 2012

9am: OPENING

9:30am -11 am Panel: Queer Caribbean I: Jamaica

Maurice Tomlinson (Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network), Constitutional challenges to homophobia in Jamaica

Kyle Jackson (University of Nevada, Reno), Queer as Religion: Spirituality as a Source of both LGBTIQ+ Oppression and Resistance in Jamaica

Amar Wahab (York University, Canada), ‘Jamaicanizing’ ‘Homophobia’: Queer Governmentalities in the Stop Murder Music (Canada) Campaign

 11am-11:30am Coffee Break

 11:30am -1:30pm             Panel: Queer Caribbean II: Caymanian Voices

Billie Bryan (Independent; Eco-Conscious Creative…

[CCCU/INCISE press release 16 May 2016]

Canterbury Christ Church University will next month sponsor the Seventh Queering Paradigms conference on Grand Cayman.

The conference, co-organised by Christ Church academics and local Human Rights activists, addresses the social injustices faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer/Questioning (LGBTIQ) people in the Caribbean on the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands and the wider region.

Queering Paradigms (QP) founder and Director of the University’s INCISE research centre Professor Bee Scherer said: Local activists approached us last year at the QP6 conference in Canterbury with the view to bringing QP to the Caribbean region.  We have invited the Rt Rvd Dr Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham, as a keynoter speaker and he will share the UK experience with legislative change around same-sex marriage and make some theological reflections about the queering project of Jesus.

Visiting Senior Research Fellow at INCISE Barrister…