This is a provisional list of facilitators for the regional workshop.
ELIZABETH F. WATSON (Barbados) BA MSc FCLIP elizabeth.watson@cavehill.uwi.edu
Elizabeth F. Watson is Campus Librarian at the Cave Hill Campus in
Barbados of The University of the West Indies. She currently serves as
Chair MoW in Barbados and is a member of the Barbados National
Commission for UNESCO. As Chair she has organised several workshops in
the Anglophone Caribbean on behalf of MoW Barbados. These activities
have looked at audiovisual preservation, digitization and the
preparation of MoE nominations forms. She is also the sitting VIce
President of MOWLAC.
Miss Watson is coordinating this workshop.
ALISSANDRA CUMMINS (Barbados), GCM, F.M.A. alissandra.cummins@gmail.com,
Ms Alissandra Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and is a lecturer (part-time) in Heritage Studies with the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. She currently serves as Chairperson of both the National Art Gallery Committee and the Barbados National Commission for UNESCO.
Ms. Cummins was elected as the President of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 2004 and is currently serving a second term. More recently (2007) she was appointed as President of the International Advisory Committee of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme. In 2007 she was also elected as Barbados' cultural heritage representative on UNESCO's World Heritage Committee and served as its Rapporteur during 2008, following which she was elected to serve as its Vice President in 2009.
In 2005 Ms Cummins was awarded Barbados' Gold Crown of Merit in recognition of her services to heritage and museum development. In 2006, she was recognized by UNESCO as one of `sixty eminent women who, in different parts of the world, in different positions and in different moments across the history of the Organization have made, and in many ways are still making, significant contributions to the ideals and action of the Organization, be it in education, culture, science or communication'.
ROSLYN RUSSELL (Australia) roslyn@rrms.com.au
Roslyn Russell is an historian, editor and museum curator based in Canberra, Australia. She has been involved with the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme since the mid-1990s, when she was one of the four authors of the original General Guidelines to Safeguard Documentary Heritage. In 2000 Roslyn became a foundation member of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World National Committee, and Chair of its Assessment Sub-Committee, a position she retains. Roslyn was appointed to the Programme's International Advisory Committee (IAC) in 2005, and was elected its Rapporteur. Later that year she was elected as Chair of the IAC's Register Sub-Committee, and has served in that capacity since then. She has conducted workshops in the process of nominating documentary heritage to the Memory of the World Registers across Australia; and regional workshops in St Lucia (2007) for the Caribbean Sub-Region of MOWLAC; and South Korea (2009) for MOWCAP. Roslyn also conducted a workshop on the Memory of the World Register nomination process for international and local delegates to the UNESCO Memory of the World International Conference in Canberra, Australia, in February 2008.
RAY EDMUNDSON (Australia) OAM, B.A. Dip Lib ray@archival.com.
Ray Edmondson is Director of Archive Associates, a consultancy company (www.archival.com.au). He began his career in archiving in the Film Section of the National Library of Australia in 1968, ultimately becoming the Section's Director. Described as the 'moving spirit' behind the creation of the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in 1984, he served as its Deputy Director until early 2001, then becoming its first honorary Curator Emeritus.
In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his professional work, and in 2003 received the Silver Light Award of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) for career achievement. In 2008 he was elected NSW Pioneer of the Year by the Australian Society of Cinema Pioneers.
Ray writes, speaks and teaches internationally within the audiovisual archiving field. He is active in its federations and forums and writes for its professional journals. Since 1996 he has been involved in UNESCO's Memory of the World Program, authoring its current General Guidelines, and presently serves on its national, regional and international committees. His latest monograph Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles was published by UNESCO in 2004. His major writings have been translated into nine languages.
Closer to home, Ray is Secretary of the advocacy group Archive Forum, and working on his doctorate at the University of Canberra.
VICKY O'FLAHERTY (St. Kitts) nationalarchives@gov.kn or stkitts.archives@gmail.com
Victoria Borg O'Flaherty has been the Director of Archives of St. Kitts-Nevis since 1996. She has a degree in History from the University of Malta and.. in Archives and Records Management with the University of Dundee. She was the secretary of the Caribbean Branch of the International Congress on Archives (CARBICA) from 2003 to 2005 and has served on several Advisory Committees dealing with education and culture.
She was instrumental in the writing of the law on Archives and Records Management for St. Kitts-Nevis and of the proposal to include the Slave registers of the Caribbean in UNESCO's Memory of the World list. She has lectured on Kittitian labour history and on resistance to enslavement both in St. Kitts and in Europe. She has written and participated in a number of television and radio programmes that aired in Malta, St. Kitts and the UK. Her research has been featured in a number of publications.
TARA INNISS (Barbados) tara.inniss@cavehill.uwi.edu
Dr. Tara Inniss is a Temporary Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus. Dr. Inniss is currently a member of the UNESCO World Heritage Task Force Research Team and has served on heritage committees for the Ministry of Community Development and Culture, Ministry of Tourism and the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.
In 2007, at the UWI she successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled Fed with the Bread of Slavery': Children's Health during Slavery and the Apprenticeship Period, 1790-1838. Focusing on the role malnutrition played in the lives of children, her dissertation examined some of the strategies used by parents, community members and plantation authorities to ensure children's health and provide adequate care. The study also explored some of the challenges involved in studying children's history in former slave societies and investigated the shifting social, political and economic roles of children in Barbados.
Dr. Inniss has an avid interest in the history of medicine in the Caribbean as well as in social policy and development issues of the region.
AVISTON DOWNES (Barbados) aviston.downes@cavehill.uwi.edu
Aviston D. Downes (Barbados) BA DPhil is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at the Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies. He is currently Deputy Chair/ Secretary of MoW Barbados. Dr Downes is a 1991 Commonwealth (UK) Scholar and received his doctorate in History from the University of York in 1995. His research interests includes all aspects of the social and cultural history of Barbados and the Commonwealth Caribbean, especially Freemasonry, friendly societies, cricket and the cultural formation of masculinities. He has published widely on these subjects and has presented numerous papers at academic conferences internationally.
He is Coordinator of the Oral History Project, Cave Hill Campus and has served on a number of national committees concerned with the preservation of the material, oral and intangible heritage of Barbados. He has served on the Executive Council of the International Oral History Association.