Other speakers at the event (such as Dr. Angela Roe, Dr. Margo Groenewoud, Dr. Wigbertson Julian Isenia) contributed to chapters in the handbook. They were emotional moments, such as Dr. Angela Roe's pitch about 'forgotten' family history, racism, and what effect this has had on families of colour in the Dutch Caribbean. You can read more about this theme here (in the articles of Dr. Roe).
Other speakers at the event (such as Dr. Angela Roe, Dr. Margo Groenewoud, Dr. Wigbertson Julian Isenia) contributed to chapters in the handbook. They were emotional moments, such as Dr. Angela Roe's pitch about 'forgotten' family history, racism, and what effect this has had on families of colour in the Dutch Caribbean. You can read more about this theme here (in the articles of Dr. Roe).
On Friday, November 1, 2024, Fausia S. Abdul and Rashid Dossett set aside everything to go to the symposium of the book 'Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean' by Dr. Rose Mary Allen and Dr. Sruti Bala, The event took place in the University Library of the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Allen is also part of our Academic Review Committee From Our Heritage. Fausia was able to obtain a copy of the book and received an inspiring message written in it by Dr. Allen. It was the first time to meet this amazing supporter and inspiring woman in person.
Dr. Rose Mary Allen
Dr. Allen (born in Curacao, on Christmas Day 1950) studied cultural anthropology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, after her studies she worked at the Archaeological and Anthropological Institute of the Netherlands Antilles (AAINA). She specialised throughout time in oral history of the enslaved on Curaçao and their descendants. Then she got her PhD with her thesis Di ki Manera? A Social History of Afro-Curaçaoans, 1863-1917 at Utrecht University in 2007. Since 2021, she has been professor of Culture, Community and History, especially regarding the local and Caribbean perspective, at the University of Curaçao, Dr. Moises da Costa Gomez — the first woman and of colour.
It was an instructive evening and an enjoyable time to also network with academics involved in gender studies in the Dutch Caribbean. Furthermore, the room was almost full and that also indicates that there is interest among academics to properly map gender studies of the Dutch Caribbean.
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