Day 1: Tuesday 21 October 2025

 

Registration (Patio)

08:00-9:00 AM: Registration & coffee/tea

Plenary session (Aula)

09:00-09:10 AM: Welcome, introduction and opening remarks, by program chair Island(er)s at the Helm Professor Francio Guadeloupe (KITLV &  University of Amsterdam. Read more 

09:10-09:50 AM: Keynote lecture Inhuman reparations and Caribbean “new materialists”, by Professor Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London). Read more

09:50-10:20 AM: Presentation Solo no lo briya, awa no lo cay, biento no lo supla, ma nos si semper tey! Climate Change and harvest festivals in the Dutch Caribbean, by Island(er)s at the Helm researcher Dr. Gregory Richardson (Instituto Pedagogico Arubano). Read more

Break (Patio)

10:20-10:35 AM: Coffee/tea break 

Plenary session (Aula)

10:35-11:05 AM: Presentation Ceremonies of being: Caribbean music, poetics and philosophy for climate futures, by Island(er)s at the Helm researcher Dr. Charissa Granger (The University of the West Indies). Read more

11:05-12:00 PM: Panel session and Q&A with Professor. Yusoff, Dr. Richardson and Dr. Granger, moderated by Professor Francio Guadeloupe

Break (Restaurant)

12:00-13.00 PM: Lunch break 

Parallel session (Room Q2-01)

13:00-14:30 PM: Panel Climate governance: Resistance, resilience, and climate change, moderated by Dr. Charissa Granger (The University of the West Indies).

-Caribbean as method: Black geographies and the struggles of West Papua, by Dr. Hatib Kadir (KITLV). Read more

-Awa Archives: A community-based digital archive of water poetics from the ABCSSS island, by Mikayla Ribeiro, MA. Read more 

-Unraveling new questions on cultural identity from Saba's lace work,  by Harjas Kaur, MSc. (KITLV).  Read more

-Waves of understanding: Teaching climate change through neurodivergent minds, by Arginia Lucio, MSc (Skol Myrna Dovale). Read more

Parallel session (Room Q2-02)

13:00-14:30 PM: Workshop Voices of the coast: Co-creating early warning systems for coastal resilience in Boca St. Michiel, by Pedzi Flores-Girigori, MSc (Meteorological Service Curaçao). Read more

Break (Q-building downstairs)

14:30-15:00 PM: Coffee/tea break 

Parallel session (Room Q2-01)

15:00-16:30 PM: Panel Climate governance: Resistance, resilience, and climate change, moderated by Dr. Daphina Misiedjan (International Institute of Social Studies). Read more

-What the hurricane could not blow away: Intangible cultural heritage and resilience in the aftermath of disaster in Old Providence and Santa Catalina, Dr. Ana Isabel Márquez Pérez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). Read more

-Rooted resistance: Communal land tenure as climate action in Puerto Rico and Barbuda,  by Dr. Line Algoed (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Read more 

-Building resilient diet by re-valuing food, by Harjas Kaur, MSc. (KITLV) Read more

Parallel session (Room Q2-02)

15:00-16:30 PM: Workshop Awa Archives: A community-based digital archive of water poetics from the ABCSSS islands, by Mikayla Viera Ribeiro, MA. Read more

Plenary session (Aula)

16:30-17:30 PM: Wrap up with Professor Francio Guadeloupe, Dr. Charissa Granger, Dr. Daphina Misiedjan, Pedzi Flores-Girigori, MSc and Mikayla Ribeiro, MA.

Drinks (Patio)

17:30-19:00 PM: Drinks