Day 3: Thursday 23 October 2025

Registration (Patio)

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

Plenary session (Aula)

09:00-09:10 AM: Welcome and opening remarks by project leader Island(er)s at the Helm Professor Antonio Carmona Báez (University of St. Martin). Read more

09:10-09:40 AM: Keynote lecture This Island’s mine, by Sycorax, my mother”: Garifuna women, memory work and the more than human world, by Professor Melanie Newton (University of Toronto). Read more

09:40-10:10 AM: Keynote lecture (Neo)-liberal, pan-African or anti-imperialist? Reparations and Caribbean freedom at the borders of history, by Dr. Keston Perry (University of California - Los Angeles). Read more

Break (Patio)

10:10-10:15 AM: Coffee/tea break 

Plenary session (Aula)

10:15-10:30 AM: Presentation “White homemaking”, poverty & pirates: The afterlives of settler colonialism on Saba, by Island(er)s at the Helm researcher Dr. Anna Younes. Read more

10:30-10:45 AM: Presentation Unruly refrains: Faith, prophecy, and climate disengagement among Seventh-day Adventists in St. Eustatius, by Island(er)s at the Helm researcher Dr. Yvette Ruzibiza (KITLV). Read more

10:45-11:00 AM: Presentation What's in a policy, what is in a poem? Poetically informed participatory ethnography as a method for Caribbean public policy, by Island(er)s at the Helm researcher Lysanne Charles, MSc (KITLV). Read more

11:00-12:00 PM: Panel session and Q&A with Professor Melanie Newton & Dr. Keston Perry, Dr. Anna Younes, Dr. Yvette Ruzibiza and Lysanne Charles, 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: History and politics, moderated by Dr. Jay Haviser (St. Maarten Archaeological Center). Read more.

-Climate governance framework and disaster recovery: Hurricane beryl and food security in Jamaica, Charmaine Heslop-Thomas  (Shortwood Teachers' College). Read more

-The politics of climate change in the Caribbean longue durée, 18th century to present, Dr. J. Brent Crosson (The University of Texas, Austin). Read more

-Between water and warming: Developing desalination in colonial Curaçao, Archana Ramanujam, MSc (Brown University). Read more

Parallel session (Room Q2-02)

13:00-14:30 PM: Workshop Awa Yobé: Policy impact on traditional water management, by Dimitri Cloose, MA (National Archeological Anthropological Memory Management Foundation). 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 The politics of climate governance, moderated by Dr. Jay Haviser (St. Maarten Archaeological Center). Read more.

-Beyond technical solutions: The role of social infrastructure in enhancing climate resilience in the Caribbean, by Dr. Victor Toom (Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy). Read more

-Climate governance and the greening of Teachers’ Colleges in Jamaica, Dr. Claudette L. Barrett-March (Shortwood Teachers' College). Read more

-Equal protection requires unequal measures: The BES Islands, climate change, and the Dutch constitution, by Dr. Daphina Misiedjan (International Institute of Social Studies). Read more

Parallel session (Room Q2-02)

15:00-16:30 PM: Workshop session Research in action - Translating knowledge through museums, by Jude Finies (Terramar Museum, Bonaire). Read more

Plenary session (Aula)

16:30-17:30 PM: Wrap up with Professor Antonio Carmona Báez, Dr. Jay Haviser, Dimitri Cloose and Jude Finies. Closing remarks by Professor Francio Guadeloupe.

Drinks (Patio)

17:30-19:00 PM: Drinks