April 8^th – 9^th 2015

Archaeological Society of Jamaica, 13^th Symposium

Multifunctional Room, Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona

Admission Rates: $1000; ASJ members, $800; O.A.P.s $800; students, $200

Wednesday April 8^th

Aspects of Conservation

12:15. Doors Open

12:30. Registration opens

1 p.m. Welcome, Dr. Paulette Kerr, Librarian, University of the West Indies, Mona

1:20 – 2:20. Panel 1: Engaging with Texts

Stanley H. Griffin, University Archives, U.W.I. Mona. ‘“Digging for Records” Using “Community Archives” to broaden the heritage reach in Jamaica’

Cherry-Ann Smart, West Indies Collection, Main Library, U.W.I. Mona, ‘Born fi Dead: Preservation and Conservation of Born Digital Cultural Heritage in Jamaica’

2:30-3:45. Panel 2: Engaging with Buildings

Errol Alberga, ‘The Restoration of the Morant Bay Courthouse’

KeVaughn Harding, Coordinator of Architectural Resources, Falmouth Heritage Trust, ‘Preserving Falmouth in the 21^st Century: Approaches to Archaeological Conservation in the 21^st Century’

Coffee Break

 4:30-5:30. Panel 3: Engaging with Paint

Joelle Salkey, ‘Issues facing preventive conservation in tropical environments’

William (Bill) Poinsett, ‘Restoration of the Resurrection Chapel Painting at the Anglican Cathedral in Spanish Town’

6:00.   Archaeological Society of Jamaica, Annual General Meeting

6:15. Lecture, Ainsley Henriques

Reports

Election of Officers

Thursday – April 9th

8:30. Doors open

8:45. Registration opens

 9:20.   Welcome, James Robertson, President, ASJ

Prayer, Evelyn Thompson, past-President, ASJ

9:30-10:30. Panel 4: Functional Buildings with Style

Emilie Johnson, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, ‘Plantation Hospitals at Good Hope, Orange Valley, and Kellits: Why here? Why now?’

Suzanne Francis-Brown, Curator UWI Museum, ‘Early tropical modernist architecture and the University College of the West Indies’

10:30-11:15. Coffee Break

 Poster Sessions/Exhibit

Donnette Zacca, Department of Photography, Edna Manley College, ‘Imaging the Jamaican Taino Artifacts: Still digital photographs as a resource’

Jodi-Ann Wellington, ‘The Insignificantly Significant’

 11:15-12:35. Panel 5, Reconsidering Prehistoric Contexts

 Theresa Rodriguez and David Miller, Department of Geography & Geology, U.W.I., Mona, ‘The Use of Ostracods in the Paleoclimatic Reconstruction of the Albion Ponds, Jamaica over a 1300 Year Period’

Ivan Roksandic, University of Winnipeg, ‘Early Connections Between Central America and the Western Caribbean Islands’

Ivor Conolley, ‘Jamaican Taíno Symbols: Implications for Religious Rituals and Intra- and Inter-community Status and Communication’

12:30-1:40. Lunch

 You will need to find your own food. There are several restaurants on campus

 1:40-2:50. Panel 6, Modern Fortifications

Session Chair: Captain Staci-Marie Dehaney, Curator, Jamaica Military Museum and Library

Zachary J. M. Beier, Department of History & Archaeology, U.W.I., Mona, ‘The Archaeology of Caribbean Fortifications: Insights from the Cabrits Garrison and Fort Rocky’

Merrick Needham, civilian historian, Jamaica Military Museum and Library, ‘A Coastal Defence Gun at Constant Spring?!’

3:00-4:20. Panel 7, Fieldwork and its Findings

 Thera Edwards, ‘Lines of response: Exploring tramways and light railways in post-Emancipation, Jamaica’

Kennedy Reid, ‘Looking for the Ex-Slaves of Kitson Town’

Susan Lockwood, ‘What is Past, is Prologue: Design Shifts in Jewish Tombstone Iconography in 18^th-19^th Century Jamaica’

4:30-5:30. Panel 8, The substance of buildings

Sherene A. James-Williamson and Simon F. Mitchell, Department of Geography & Geology, U.W.I. Mona, ‘Source of the Seville Stones?’

Anthony R.D. Porter, ‘The unique Potosi stone chute, Trelawny, Jamaica’

5:30-5:35. Vote of Thanks

5:36 –  Refreshments and discussion

Open Meeting

6:30. Book Launch – Falmouth Jamaica: Architecture as History

Louis P. Nelson and Edward A. Chappell with Brian L. Cofrancesco and Emilie Johnson,

 Comment: James Robertson, Department of History & Archaeology, U.W.I. Mona and President, Archaeological Society of Jamaica

Response: Louis Nelson, Department of Architectural History, School of Architecture, University of Virginia