tenth annualDr. Kenneth E. Robinson

Cyril Outerbridge Packwood

MEMORIAL LECTURE

GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDAMinistry of Community, Culture and SportsDepartment of Community and Cultural Affairs

DR. KENNETH E. ROBINSON IN CONVERSATION WITH MR. CYRIL OUTERBRIDGE PACKWOOD

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INTRODUCTION

The Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Outerbridge Packwood Memorial Lecture was developed during the administration of Minister Dale Butler in recognition of the outstanding scholarship of Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson, author of Heritage and Mr. Cyril Outerbridge Packwood, author of Chained on the Rock.

The annual lecture features a talk on some aspect of the history of the African diaspora as a way of honouring these two prominent Bermudian historians, both of whom contributed significantly to our understanding of Bermudian heritage. It also provides a platform for local and international scholars to present their latest research.

This year marks the 10 year anniversary of the lecture and as such information on past lecturers are enclosed in this booklet.

Visit our website at www.communityandculture.bm to read more about past presentations.

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DR. KENNETH E. ROBINSON, OBE, B.Sc., EDM. ED.D

(1911–1978)

Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson, Bermuda’s first Chief Education Officer, was born in the City of Hamilton on 29 May 1911 and died at his home in West Pembroke on 13 October 1978. He was the only child of the late Hilton Eden Lefroy Robinson and his wife Olivia.

He was schooled in Bermuda at the Berkeley Preparatory School, The Berkeley Institute and the Excelsior Secondary School; and in London, England, at the University Tutorial College.

Dr. Robinson was a graduate of University College (Honours Geography) and the Institute of Education, both of London University, England and of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, classes of 1949 and 1952, where he earned his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Elementary Education and Administration.

He began his teaching career at The Berkeley Institute in 1936 and served at Sandys Secondary (Headmaster), Central, Pembroke (Assistant Headmaster), Harrington Sound (Founding Headmaster) and Francis Patton (Founding Headmaster).

His undergraduate work in London, up to the General Degree level, included Mathematics and Geology; his second tour of duty at Berkeley was for the establishment of its Commerce Department (1942 to 1945): and his educational workshops carried him to Oxford (1935), Cambridge, Massachusetts (1946 and 1966), London (1961 and 1967), Paris (1967), Montreal and Toronto (1969), Princeton (1969), Kingston, Jamaica (1970); and Philadelphia (1972). He was a member of the Berkeley Educational Society, Phi Delta Kappa (since 1949), the Association for the Study of Negro History, USA, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, USA, the Bermuda Audubon Society and the Bermuda National Trust.

Dr. Robinson entered the Department of Education in October 1956 as Supervisor of Schools. He was promoted to Inspector of Schools (later Senior Education Officer) in 1960, and he became Bermuda’s first Chief Education Officer in October 1970.

Dr. Robinson was proud to have been honoured by, among others, the Bermuda Union of Teachers on its 40th anniversary (1959), by the Richard Allen AME Church, St. George’s (1970); by the Berkeley Education Society on its 75th anniversary (1972), and by the Citizens of Bermuda (1976).

He was a believer in trade unionism, having been a Member of the Bermuda

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Union of Teachers for 20 years, and President thereof for five; and he was a Trustee of the Bermuda Civil Service Association.

Dr. Robinson’s scholarly interest in the evolution of education in Bermuda dates from his first teaching appointment in 1936. Much of the little free time his busy professional life afforded him was spent collecting and collating information pertinent to this facet of our social history. His published research on the Berkeley Educational Society (1962) brought together a large body of knowledge formerly unavailable to the general reading public. The text is entitled The Berkeley Educational Society: Origins and Early History.

Heritage, published posthumously in 1997 as a promise made by his wife Rosalind, was his seminal work covering the 25 years post-emancipation. His intention was to produce four books, covering 25 years each, which would span the 100 years post-slavery from 1834–1934.

He viewed education as the means to gain intellectual emancipation, and the tool for this quest was universal literacy. It was perhaps the innate schoolmaster in him that chose for the quotation in his book Wendell Wilkie’s dictum, ‘open the books if you wish to be free’. It was not mere coincidence that the recent impetus and drive towards improving reading standards in our schools came during his tenure as Chief Education Officer.

Dr. K. E. Robinson Day, the second day of the February half-term break, celebrates not merely the achievements of one man, but is an occasion that affords us the opportunity to reaffirm the importance of education in Bermuda.

Dr. Robinson is survived by his children Shirley and Kenneth Edward, his grandsons R. Scott and Michael K. R. Pearman, granddaughters Kalilah and Jennah, great-granddaughters Robin Valana and Anya-Aeleisha Pearman, son-in-law Roderic E. Pearman and daughter-in-law Jo Carol Robinson. Grandson Kenneth Evans Douglas Robinson pre-deceased his grandmother Rosalind Robinson (née Taylor) who passed away on 11 September 2012 in her 103rd year.

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CYRIL OUTERBRIDGE PACKWOOD, OBE, B.Sc., EDM. ED.D

1930–1998

Cyril Packwood was a librarian with a passion for history. He was the author of Chained on the Rock, the first definitive account of slavery in Bermuda.

Published in 1975, after Packwood spent several years doing painstaking research in the Bermuda Archives during summer vacations, Chained on the Rock shed light on an important aspect of Bermuda’s history that had previously been swept under the carpet.

He was born in Wellington, St. George’s, the only child of Cyril and Gladys (Outerbridge) Packwood. His father was a former St. George’s Cup Match cricketer. Packwood attended Temperance Hall, East End Primary School and The Berkeley Institute.

He left Bermuda at age of 15 to complete his high school education in the U.S., and with the intention of becoming a dentist. At Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, he came under the influence of Harlem Renaissance writer and historian Arna Bontemps and decided to study history.

Packwood received a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Fisk in 1953 and a Master of Science in Library Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, a year later. He received a second Master’s Degree, in History, from Hunter College in New York in 1972.

He spent most of his professional life in New York. He worked in the New York Public Library system from 1957 to 1968 and from 1968 to 1985, at the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library, where he was Supervising Librarian.

In 1985, he was appointed Head Librarian of the Bermuda Library, the first black person to hold the position.

He breathed new life into the library. He organised evening lectures, instigated upgrades of its computer system and started a video rental system, all with the goal of bringing more people into the library. He was Head Librarian for eight years, until his retirement in 1993.

Packwood’s other books included Detour Bermuda, Destination U.S. House of Representative: The Life of Joseph Rainey, about the former slave who took refuge in Bermuda during the U.S. Civil War, and went on to become the first black member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

During his years in New York, Packwood lived near Lincoln Center and enjoyed all the cultural pursuits the city had to offer, from opera to theatre.

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His deep and abiding love for Bermuda was matched by his love of Africa. He led cultural tours of Africa for many years and had criss-crossed the African Continent.

He was married to Dorothy, an artist and fellow librarian. The couple had one daughter Cheryl Packwood, a Harvard University-educated lawyer, who is currently the Overseas Representative and Director of the Washington, D.C. Office at The Government of Bermuda, and three grandsons.

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DR. CLARENCE MAXWELL

Dr. Clarence Maxwell was born in Bermuda. He is presently Assistant Professor of Caribbean and Latin American History at Millersville University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He was formerly employed at the Bermuda Maritime Museum (now the National Museum of Bermuda) from 1999–2005 as Registrar and Director of Historical Research. He served as an Assistant Editor of the Bermuda Maritime Museum’s Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, an annual volume, now in its sixteenth year of production.

Dr. Maxwell received his Master’s degree in Historical Research at the University of Hull (UK) and a Doctorate degree in Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick (UK). He has published articles on the poisoning plot involving Sarah Bassett and the Bermuda conspiracy of 1761, the latter of which was the topic

1st AnnualKenneth E. Robinson/ Cyril Packwood

Memorial Lecture

Thursday, November 2312:30 pm

Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club

Pomander Road, Paget

Lecture by Dr. Clarence Maxwell“Blue and Green: The Conspiracy of 1761”

Lecture by Dr. Radall Tankard

“The Development of Islam in Bermuda”

A complimentary buffet lunch will be served

A limited number of free tickets are available at theDept. of Community and Cultural Affairs, #81 Court Str. Hamilton

Please contact Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson on 292-9447

or Mrs. Heather Whalen on 292-1681 with questions

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Department of Community and Cultural Affairs

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of the Packwood-Robinson lecture in 2006 — ‘Blue and Green: the Conspiracy of 1761’. He has also co-authored articles. The first with Dr. Clifford E. Smith, Jr. on the Manilla Wreck, a slave ship examined archaeologically and historically by the National Museum of Bermuda (then the Bermuda Maritime Museum). The second was with Dr. Alyson Brown on the Chatham Prison riots in England 1861 which largely involved convicts transferred from the prison hulks in Bermuda.

His continuing research interests are focusing on the Atlantic African populations and the African Diaspora in the Americas.

RADELL TANKARD, Ph.D.

Dr. Tankard has served as the Deputy Chair of the African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference from 2006–2009. The Conference is an occasion when Continental Africans and people of African descent around the world unite to discuss, preserve, and protect the African heritage. The occasion also allows participants to come together to discuss cutting edge issues in the African community while strategising how to move forward. Politicians, tourism officials, entrepreneurs, researchers, educators and others assemble at the conference.

In 2011, Dr. Tankard authored and published his second book entitled Cup Match Legends and Personalities. This publication highlights outstanding men and women who have played a significant role in enhancing Cup Match, Bermuda’s premier cultural celebration.

In 2012 Dr. Radell Tankard completed his third publication entitled, The Development of Islam in Bermuda. This book, which was an extension of the lecture that he gave at Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Packwood Memorial Lecture, gives an account of the arrival of Islam in Bermuda beginning with the Nation of Islam. Highlighted in the book are some of the social struggles, conditions and circumstances that led to the religion finding its way onto the shores of Bermuda. The book also addresses some of the challenges confronting Muslims in Bermuda in the 21st Century.

Last year, Dr. Tankard organised and co-chaired a two day international conference entitled, ‘Celebrating Our Children’s Brilliance: Cultivating Resilience and the Importance of Culture in Childhood and Early Childhood Education’ along with his wife Dr. Mellisa Gibbons-Tankard. The conference showcased 11 visiting scholars from Howard University and the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Presenting with the visiting scholars were Bermudian scholars and educators.

Currently, Dr. Tankard is in the process of writing about slavery as it relates to Africans and people of African descent.

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DR. FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT

Franklin W. Knight joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1973 and in 1991 was appointed the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History. A graduate of the University College of the West Indies-London (B.A. (Hons.) 1964), he gained Master’s (1965) and Doctorate (1969) degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Knight’s research interests focus on social, political, and cultural aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially after the 18th century, as well as on American slave systems in their comparative dimensions.

Knight has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Ford Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. He has served on committees of the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Inter-American Foundation, the National Research Council, the American Historical Association, the Conference of Latin American History, The Latin American Studies Association, The American Council of learned Societies, The Historical Society, and the Association of Caribbean Historians.

7 pm start at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute

LECTURE BY DR. FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins UniversityAuthor of Slave Society in Cuba during the 19th Century and The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism

THIS EVENT IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC • LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVEDPlease call Folklife Officer Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson on 292-9447 with questions

Historical Heartbeats Lecture“The Abolition of the British Slave Trade

and the Context of Atlantic Slavery”2nd Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Packwood Memorial Lecture

Thursday 9 August 2007

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His analyses of Latin American and Caribbean problems have been aired on National Public Radio, the Voice of America, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the McNeill/Lehrer Report, C-Span, and many local programmes on commercial as well as public radio and television stations across the United States. He served as Academic Consultant to the television series Columbus and the Age of Discovery, The Buried Mirror, Americas, Plagued: Invisible Armies, Crucible of Empire: The War of 1898, The Crucible of the Millennium, and The Louisiana Purchase.

Professor Knight was President of The Historical Society (2004–2006), and served as President of the Latin American Studies Association between October 1998 and May 2000. He also serves on advisory committees of the National Research Council, the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and the editorial boards of several academic journals. He has lectured across the Americas as well as in Australia, Japan, and Europe. In 2001 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Letters of Bahia, Brazil and in 2006 a Corresponding Member of the Academia Dominicana de la Historia. In 2007 the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica, awarded Professor Knight an honorary Doctor of Letters. He was elected Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of History in 2012; a Miembro de Honor by the Asociación de Historiadores de America Latina y del Caribe in 2011; and the Asociación de Historia Ecómica del Caribe in 2013. He also won the Gold Musgrave Medal for Literature from the Council of the Institute of Jamaica in 2013.

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DR. SHEILA S. WALKER

Sheila S. Walker, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropologist and Filmmaker, is Executive Di-rector of Afrodiaspora, Inc., a non-profit organisation that is developing a docu-mentary series and educational materials about the global African Diaspora. She has done extensive fieldwork, lectured, consulted, and participated in cul-tural events in much of Africa and the African Diaspora. Based on these experi-ences she organised an international conference on ‘The African Diaspora and the Modern World’, edited the volume African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas, and produced the documentary Scattered Af-rica: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora.

A member of the International Scientific and Technical Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, she recently produced the documentary Slave Routes: A Global Vision for the project. Dr. Walker was Director of the Center for African and African Studies, the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, and a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the William and Camille Cosby Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the African Diaspora and the World Program at Spelman College.

Historical Heartbeats Lecture“Scattered Africa: Faces & Voices of the African Diaspora”

Thursday, 7 August

GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDAMinis tr y of Culture and Social Rehabil i tat ionDepartment of Community and Cultural Affairs

This event is free to the public on a first-come, first serve basis

Contact Folklife Officer Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson

with questions at 292-9447

“National Heroes Day” is Monday, October 13

Film and Lecture 7 pm at Liberty Theatre

The one-hour video documentary moves from the violent scattering of African people across the earth to their current participation in a global community.

3rd Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Packwood Memorial Lecture By Dr. Sheila S. Walker, Cultural Anthropologist and Executive Film Producer

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

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DR. LINDA HEYWOOD

Dr. Linda Heywood is the author of Contested Power in Angola, editor of and contributor to Central Africans Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, and co-author with John Thornton of Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America (published by Cambridge University Press, July 2007). Her articles on Angola and the African Diaspora have appeared in The Journal of African History, Journal of Modern African Studies, Slavery and Abolition, and the Journal of Southern African Studies.

She has served as a consultant for numerous museum exhibitions, including African Voices at the Smithsonian Institution, Against Human Dignity sponsored by the Maritime Museum, and the new exhibit at Jamestown, Virginia. She was also one of the history consultants and appeared in the PBS series African American Lives (2006) and Finding Oprah’s Roots (2007).

DR. JOHN THORNTON

John Thornton received his Ph.D. in African History in 1979, and after stints at

Historical Heartbeats Lecture4th Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Packwood Memorial Lecture

“Central Africans & the Dynamics of Afro-Bermudian Society, 1615-1700”

Thursday, 6 August 2009

GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDAMinis tr y of Culture and Social Rehabil i tat ionDepartment of Community and Cultural Affairs

7:00 p.m. Lecture by Dr Linda Heywood and Dr. John ThorntonProfessors, Department of History, Boston UniversityCo-Authors of Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, & the Foundation of Americas, 1585-1660

Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute

THIS EVENT IS FREE TO THE PUBLICNO TICKETS REQUIRED

Contact Folklife Officer Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson

on 292-9447 with questionsLIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

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the University of Zambia, Allegheny College, the University of Virginia and then Millersville University after 1986, he joined the Boston University faculty in the fall of 2003.

His specialisations include Africa and Atlantic history, as well as world history. He is the author of The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641–1718 (1983); Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic world, 1400–1680 (1992); The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706 (1998); Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800 (1999); and in 2007 with Linda Heywood published Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which won the Melville J. Herskovits Prize that year.

His latest book, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1350–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the World History Association’s Prize for the Best New Book in World History in 2012.

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DR. MICHAEL GOMEZ

Michael A. Gomez is currently Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, having served as the Director of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora from its inception in 2000 to 2007. He has also served as Chair of the History Departments at both NYU and Spelman College, and served as President of UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project from 2009 to 2011.

His first book, Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (Cambridge University Press, 1992), examines a Muslim polity in what is now eastern Senegal. The next publication, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (University of North Carolina Press, 1998), is concerned with questions of culture and race as they were informed by the African presence and experience. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2005) is primarily aimed at an undergraduate audience, and is more fully involved with the idea of an African diaspora, as is Diasporic Africa: A Reader (New York University Press, 2006), an edited volume that spans time and space in investigating a variety of themes and issues. Black Crescent: African

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Muslims in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2005, Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2006 Literary Awards Winner for Nonfiction Category), continues with the study of the African diaspora by looking at the ways in which African Muslims negotiated their bondage and freedom throughout the Americas, but in a way that allows for significant integration of Islamic Africa.

Primarily a cultural and social historian of both Africa and its diaspora, Gomez is currently in the writing stages of a book on the history of early and medieval West Africa, with a focus on imperial Songhay. Upon its completion, he plans to write a comprehensive study of the African diaspora, within which he will address all attendant arguments and debates. Throughout, he will remain connected to the Arabic manuscript project underway in Mali, arguably one of the most important endeavours to develop in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He continues to work with these as well as other organisations invested in the struggles of people of African descent worldwide, and especially looks forward to exciting opportunities developing in Latin America.

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DR. KRISTY WARREN

Kristy Warren, research associate on the project ‘Structure and Significance of British Caribbean Slave Ownership 1763–1833’, completed her Ph.D. at the University of Warwick in 2012. Her thesis investigates the extent to which the positions taken by Bermudian politicians and social commentators, concerning the question of independence in the British Overseas Territory, are informed by their lived experiences and understandings of the island’s past. Prior to starting the Ph.D., Kristy worked at The National Archives in Kew on a Heritage Lottery funded cataloguing and outreach project entitled ‘Your Caribbean Heritage’. She is interested in the ways in which people remember, interpret, and value the past.

Historical Heartbeats Lecture“How the Past Matters”

6th Annual Robinson/Packwood Memorial Lecture

Thursday, 11 August, 12:30 p.m. Coco Reef Resort

Speaker: Kristy Warren Ph.D. Candidate,

University of WarwickThere is a $10 fee for this talk and lunchSpaces are limited; Tickets can be purchased on a first-come, first-served basis from our office at the Dame Lois Brown-Evans Building, #58 Court Street, 4th Floor

Contact Folklife Officer Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson on 292-1681 with questions, or go to our website at www.communityandculture.bm

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DR. KEITH LAMONT TINKER

Dr. Keith Lamont Tinker is a Bahamian national who received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in the field of Latin American and Caribbean History.

He served as the Director of the National Museum of the Bahamas from 1998 to 2009. Dr. Tinker has taught at the College of the Bahamas, Florida A&M University, and the University of Florida.

He is the author of Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas in 2011 and The Bahamas in American History, also in 2011.

He has two books forthcoming: The African Diaspora to the Bahamas and The Bahamas and Bermuda: A Tale of Two Sister Colonies.

August 2012

Lecture SeriesApril 2012 – March 2013

Speaker: Dr. Keith TinkerRetired executive director of the National Museum of the Bahamas

Author of Migration of People from the Caribbean to the BahamasVenue: Coco Reef

For more information, visit our website at www.communityandculture.bm

There is a $15 fee for this talk and lunch

Spaces are limited; please contact the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs on 292-1681 for tickets, or come to our office at #58 Court Street, 4th Floor.

7th Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson / Cyril Outerbridge Packwood Memorial Lecture

“The Bermudas and the Bahamas: A Tale of Two Sister States”

Thursday, 23 August 2012 | 12:30 p.m.

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DR. JOLENE BEAN

Dr. Jolene Bean has been teaching history for the past 40 years. She was a History Professor at Bermuda College where she taught courses in World History, as well as American and Bermudian History.

Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on Bermudian women fighting for the right to vote, but her interest has shifted away from academic history. She now spends her spare time researching family history and creating short documentaries, which she shares with family and friends.

Jolene says that it’s the ordinary people who are the pillars of our society, and her goal is to encourage more Bermudians to take an interest in finding out about their family history.

Jolene says that the amazing thing about history is that you are never too old or too young to appreciate it.

Lecture Series

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GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDAMinistry of Community, Culture and Sports Department of Community and Cultural Affairs

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10 Ways To Preserve Your Family History8th Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Outerbridge Packwood Memorial LectureDATE: Thursday 15 August, 6:30 p.m.

SPEAKER: Dr. Jolene Bean

VENUE: Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute

August 2013

This event is FREE to the public.

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DR. VERENE A. SHEPHERD

Professor Verene Shepherd, University Director of the Regional Institute for Gender and Development Studies, holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees in History from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus; and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Cambridge. As a graduate of the University of Cambridge, she holds the title of Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society.

She joined the UWI in 1988 as a temporary lecturer, gaining a permanent appointment in 1989. She moved through the ranks of the History Department, where she was first located, becoming Professor of Social History in 2002.

As a member of the Department of History, Professor Shepherd taught courses on the History of the Atlantic World, Women in Caribbean History, Comparative Economic History of Slavery, Race and Ethnicity, the History of the USA and Caribbean Historiography.

Professor Shepherd is an expert in the field of 19th century Asian labour migration, Jamaican economic history in the area of non-sugar economic activities and gender discourses in Caribbean history and she has published widely in these areas of specialisation.

A prolific author, Prof. Shepherd is editor/compiler, author, co-author and co-editor of 16 important books, among them: Transients to Settlers: The Experiences of

Lecture Series

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July 2014

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Light refreshments will be served.Tickets are $10, available at the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs.

“Reparation, Psychological Rehabilitation and Pedagogical Strategies”

Dr. Verene Shepherd, Professor of Social History, University of the West IndiesThursday, 24 July • 5:30 p.m. Reception, 6 p.m. LectureBermuda National Gallery, City Hall

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Indians in Jamaica, Women in Caribbean History, Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean, Engendering Caribbean History: Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica, Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa and the African Diaspora; Slavery without Sugar and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Colonial Jamaica. Among her co-edited texts are: Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture with Glen Richards and Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Student Reader; and Caribbean Freedom: Society and Economy from Emancipation to the Present, with Hilary Beckles.

A scholar activist, Prof. Shepherd is host of Jamaica’s only history programme on radio ‘Talking History’ on Nationwide 90 FM. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum, member of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent; chair of the National Commission on Reparations in Jamaica, a vice chair of the CARICOM Reparation Commission and in 2007 was appointed Chair of the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee.

She has served as a board member of the Association for the Study of the World-Wide African Diaspora, the steering committee of the South-South Exchange Programme for the History of Development and network professor with the York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland. She is a Past President of the Association of Caribbean Historians, and was the first woman to Chair the Board of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

A much sought after public speaker, she has delivered numerous public lectures and made conference and seminar presentations in Africa (from Addis Ababa to Capetown), Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, North America, the UK and Europe. She has also delivered lectures in Australia and New Zealand.

She has been the recipient of several awards, among them the Order of Distinction, Commander Class from the Government of Jamaica for her work in History and Gender Studies; the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Award for her work in History and Heritage and the Africana Studies distinguished African Award from Florida International University. In 2011 she received the Kiwanis Woman of Excellence Award, in 2012, she was inducted into the Hamilton & Knight Career Hall of Fame and was a St. Mary Homecoming Awardee.

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DR. THEODORE FRANCIS

Dr. Theodore S. Francis II is an Assistant Professor of History at Huston-Tillot-son University, Austin Texas. He received his formal training at the University of Chicago, successfully defending his dissertation ‘Fantasy Island: Race, Colo-nial Politics and the Desegregation of Tourism in the British Colony of Bermuda 1881–1961 in May. ‘Fantasy Island’ examines the ways that tourism influenced the lives of black Bermudians from the late 19th century until the onset of de-segregation in the 1960s. It argues that the segregated tourist industry exploit-ed black islanders in various ways; in response, blacks resisted certain aspects of the industry, while also utilising tourism in ways which were advantageous for their own economic, social and political interests.

His primary research and writing interests include: the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Americas; Historical and Contemporary Issues of Tourism; Anti-Colonial Movements In The Caribbean; Atlantic World Slavery, Resistance and Post-Emancipation Societies. These fields of research have directly informed his teaching, enabling Dr. Francis to develop a course on Contemporary Issues in the Caribbean for St. Edwards University — the first course of its kind for the university and one that had a consistent waiting list. In addition, he teaches courses on World History and Globalisation, European Colonisation in the Americas, United States History, African American History, as well as African American Studies.

Lecture Series

Please contact Relief Folklife Officer Keishunda Curtis on 292-1681 or kccurtis@gov.bm for more information.

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July 2015

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FREE tickets are available from the office

10th Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/ Cyril Outerbridge Packwood Memorial Lecture

ON Thursday 23 July, 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. start SPEAKER: Dr. Theodore Francis IIVENUE: New Hall Lecture Theatre, Bermuda College

Black Tourism played a central role in the process of Bermudian desegregation. As this address highlights, Black Tourism was a significant contextual factor in the turbulent journey towards Bermuda’s ‘second emancipation’—the legal prohibition of racial segregation, well over a century after the abolition of chattel slavery in 1834. After the Second World War, Black Bermudian entrepreneurs initiated a form of tourism that was tailored to the unique needs of African American visitors, who sought refuge from,

and allies against, racial oppression in both societies.

“Dark and Stormy: Boycotts, Black Tourism and Desegregation in Bermuda”

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In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Francis also engages with his community, a practice he learned growing up in Bermuda. While attending the University of Chicago, he was the facilitator for a weekly community dialogue programme at a barber shop on the West Side and a youth group leader for a church on the South Side.

He married the former Jacqueline Smith in 2009 and relocated to Texas where he continued his doctoral research and teaching. However, since moving to Texas, he maintained his commitment to community engagement with a variety of non-profits and community organisations. Most recently, Dr. Francis served on the Planning Committee for a public dialogue and student-faculty panel on the civil rights film Selma held at the George Washington Carver Museum, Austin’s African American History Museum and Cultural Center.

Historical Heartbeats Lecture Series Committee

Historical Heartbeats Lecture Series CommitteeDr. Kim Dismont Robinson, Chair

Keishunda Curtis, Relief ChairDaurene Aubrey

Andrew P. BerminghamMeredith EbbinEllen Jane HollisLucinda Spurling

Veney Sims, Recording Secretary

Special thanks to The Bermuda Historical Society and the Bermuda National Library for their assistance and support.

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