Events
Past Speaking Events
2023
March 26, 2023: Guest Speaker
Brooklyn Book Fair
The Coal Pot, 1466 St. John’s Place, Brooklyn, NY
2022
December 2 – 4, 2022: Guest Speaker
Medger Evers College Preparatory School and The Crown Hill Theater
Brooklyn, New York
Theme: Caribbean Music, Dance & Culture Symposium
October 13, 2022: Guest Speaker
The University of the West Indies, Institute of Caribbean Studies
Topic: Unpacking the Connections, Interconnections & Disconnections of Kaisofusion in the Diaspora
Virtual Event
September 9, 2022: Panelist/Interviewee
The musical contribution of Soca Star, Machel Montano – in celebration of MM40
Event: I Belong to the House of Music series in collaboration with the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and Center for Fiction
15 La Fayette Ave., Brooklyn, New York
June 27, 2022: Panel Presentation
Caribbean Studies Association Panel in celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month
Title: Unpacking Connections, Disconnections and Inter-connections within Caribbean American cultures
Zoom Online Platform
June 23, 2022: Roundtable Discussant
Caribbean Connections Celebrates “All of WE is Family” Caribbean-American Heritage Month
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.
Title: Calypso and Soca in New York – A decade that brought change 1980s – 1990s
June 14, 2022: Public Talk
TropicalFete presents Authors Connecting
In Celebration of Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Brooklyn Public Library
New Lots, Brooklyn, New York
Title: Unpacking the future of continuing synergies and migratory movements of Trinidad and Tobago’s Calypso and Soca in New York
June 3, 2022: Panelist
Caribbean Studies Association Conference
Topic: Caribbean Creativity Through Expressions of Blackness, Food and Popular Music
Virtual Event
March 5, 2022: Presenter
Caribbean Studies Association Young Scholars Mentoring Programme
Topic: Caribbean Music – coping with Diversity
Virtual Event
February 14, 2022: Roundtable Discussant
Africana Studies Series – A Love Balm for the Ages – Music and Wellness in the African Diaspora
Queens College, Queens, New York
Title: Black Music, Wellness and the Diaspora
February 2022: Facilitator
The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) Secondary School Lecctures
Topic: Calypso Music: Moving Beyond Adversity
2021
October 29, 2021: Panelist
Consul General for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in New York, The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO)
Theme: Calypso “Limitless Lyrical Power”
Virtual Event
October 19, 2021: Guest Lecturer
Finger Lakes Community College – SUNY
Canandaigua, New York
Title: People Power Movements in Caribbean Festival Culture – The Calypso Experience
October 1, 2021: Interviewee
TTT Live – NOW Morning Show Interview
Topic: Discussing plans to celebrate Calypso History Month – De Bell Reigns
September 27, 2021: Guest Lecturer
Cornell University, Africana Studies and Research Center
Ithaca, New York
Title: People Power Movements in Caribbean Festival Culture
August 26, 2021: Guest Speaker
Coléaas Conversations
Topic: Student Affairs & Academic Affairs: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Virtual Event
June 25, 2021: Panelist
International Journal of Carnival Arts Calypso Explicator Webinar Series
Topic: Calypso Migration: Trinidad & Tobago and the Eastern Caribbean Meet Their Diaspora
June 1, 2021: Conference Session
Caribbean Studies Association 45th Annual Conference
Topic: Re-imagining Caribbean Cultural Performances in the Age of COVID-19
April 30, 2021: Discussion session between Professor Hollis Liverpool and Meagan Sylvester
Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at UT AUSTIN
College of Liberal Arts, Cornell University
Title: Calypso as a Form of Resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5WbolnKDY
April 26, 2021: Guest Speaker
The University of the West Indies, Centre for Health Economics
HEU Webinar Series
Topic: Social Security and the Informal Economy
April 23, 2021: Panel Discussion
PopCon Music Conference
Theme: Hope in Darkness: Music that Reclaimed Our Joy
Virtual Event
2020
November 3, 2020: Caribbean Worlds: An Introduction
Guest Lecture
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Title: Defiant Youth, Womanhood, Femininity and Gender Justice in Caribbean Pop Music
October 2020: Calypso History Month Lecture
TUCO’s Education and Research Department
Marabella North Secordary School
Title: Calypso…Beyond Boundaries & Borders
September 17, 2020: Panelist
MoPOP Pop Conference Spotlight Panel
Theme: Ladies of the Night: Resistant Youth Who Shaped Pop Culture & the Underground
Virtual Event
June 16, 2020: National Caribbean Heritage Month Webinar Series
45th Caribbean Studies Association Conference
Title: Caribbean-American Connections, Social Justice and Shared Dreams
Virtual Event
2019
June 24, 2019: Dept. of English
College of Humanities
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
Title: Trinidadian Language, Culture and Identity
2018
April 3, 2018: Jamaica Theological Seminary
Kingston, Jamaica
Title: Race and Ethnicity in the development of music of Trinidad and Tobago
2016
September 2016: Public Presentation as part of The Executive Council of The Caribbean Studies Association public talk
Topic; Music of the Caribbean and its diasporic contributions
University of Miami
March 9, 2016: Public Presentation after accepting the position of new Editorial Board Member of the online Journal “Commentaries” which has its base in Dutch Sint Maarten
The University of St. Martin
March 9, 2016: Public Talk on the Sociology of Music
The University of St. Martin
St. Martin,
Dutch Caribbean
2015
April 16, 2015
Northern Caribbean University
Mandeville, Jamaica
Title of talk: The socio-political issues affecting the development of music in the Caribbean
2014
July 9, 2014: Rutgers University
Department of Geography
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The United States of America
Title of talk: Issues of Identity and Culture in Music