20th Century Black Radicalism:
The Life and Times of
George Padmore
George Padmore
The University of West Indies
Trinidad and Tobago
October 2-4, 2003
University of West Indies
Trinidad and Tobago
6:00pm
Opening Ceremony and Principal’s Reception
9am-10:30am
Chair: Brian Meeks
Rodney Worrell
“ George Padmore, Pan –Africanist Par Excellence.”
Hakim Adi
“ George Padmore and the 1945 Pan –Africanist Congress.”
10:30am–10:45am – Coffee Break
Panel 2
Black Radicalism, Pan-Africanism, Empires
and Anti-colonialism.
10:45am-12:30pm
Chair: Paget Henry
James E. Genova
“ The French Connection, George Padmore and Anti-colonialism in France during 1930’s.”
Rupert Lewis
“ Marcus Garvey and George Padmore: Empire and anti-colonialism.”
12:30pm–1:30pm – Lunch (Senior Common Room)
Panel 3
Colonialism, Exile and the Present
1:30pm–3:30pm
Chair: John LaGuerre
Fitzroy Baptiste,
“ The African Conferences of Governors and Indigenous Collaborators, 1947-1948: A British Strategy to blunt the decolonization momentum of the Manchester conference.”
Nerah Rosalie Jeter
“ The Life of George Padmore in the context of the Pregnant Present.”
Margaret Rouse Jones,
“ George James, Christian of Dominica and the Gold Coast.”
George Padmore
Black Radicalism, Fascism and Colonialism
9am-11:00am
Chair: Claudius Fergus
Bill Schwarz,
“ Pan- African Readings of Colonialism and Fascism: Reassessing Padmore.”
Susan Pennybacker,
“ Padmore in the 1930’s: The Comintern, Fascism and Empire.”
Woodford McClellan,
“ Padmore and the July 1930 Hamburg Conference.”
11: 00am - 11:15am - Coffee break
Panel 5
Padmore and Political Relationships
11:15am–1:15pm
Chair: Roy Thomas
Anthony Bogues
“ CLR. James, George Padmore: The ties that bind, radical politics friendship and the making of revolution.”
Marika Sherwood,
“ Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah : the politics of African liberation and political relationships.”
Tony Martin,
“George Padmore and Eric Williams.”
1:15pm 2:15pm – Lunch (Senior Common Room)
Panel 6
Writing, Politics and the Genealogy
of Pan- Africanism
2:15pm–4:15pm
Chair: David Abdullah
Carol Polsgrove,
“ Padmore’s use of periodicals to build a movement”
Ceil Gutzmore,
“ George Padmore, and CLR. James , Henry Sylvester Williams and the Praxis of Pan –Africanism.”
V.B. Thompson,
“ George Padmore: Reconciling Two Phases of Contradictions.”
Panel 7
George Padmore and the Ghana Years: Continuity or Contradiction
4:15pm–5:00pm
Chair: Brinsley Samaroo
Speakers:
Anani Dzidzienyo
Cyril Daddieh.
5:00pm–5:30pm Closing remarks
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Sponsored by
Principal’s Office University West Indies, St. Augustine
OWTU Oilfield Workers' Trade Union
Africana Studies Brown University
Center for Caribbean Thought University of the West Indies
We would like to thank everyone for their help and support. |