ASWAD

ASSOCIAÇÃO PARA O ESTUDO DA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA NO MUNDO

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORLDWIDE AFRICAN DIASPORA

CONFERENCE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

OCTOBER, 5 - 7, 2005

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Performance e Mostras
Performance and Exhibitions

Augusto Soledade: "In Light of Rhythm." Coreógrafo e Educador/Choreographer/Dance Educator, Florida International University, Miami, Florida (USA). Solo de dança com tambores / solo dancer with drummer.

Carlos da Fonseca: "Cartas D’Africa." Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Brazil): Exibição de 35 fotos dos retornados no século XIX / A display of 35 paintings on the "returnees", in the 19th century.

Sonya Y. Clark: "Beaded Prayers Projects." Baldwin Bascom Professor of Creative Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). An interactive bead project with a display of packettes that people around the world have made.




Quarta-feira, 5 de Outubro
Wednesday, Oct. 5th

09:45 / 10:45

Local/Location: Salas Rio de Janeiro 2 e 3

Sessão de Abertura
Opening Session

Julio Cesar de Tavares, Coordenador Geral da Conferência/ ASWAD Organizing Commettee, Chair Luis Antonio Andrade, Pró-Reitor de Extensão da UFF/Vice-President for Extension Programs Embaixador Pedro Motta, Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Ministry for International Affairs Michael Gómez, ASWAD Diretor


10:45/12:45

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 01:
ARTISTAS FALAM
ARTISTS SPEAK

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Milton Guran, Instituto de Humanidades, Universidade Cândido Mendes

Luis Carlos Gá – Graphic Designer, Independent Artist (Brasil). "Representing Blacks in the Contemporary Visual Culture: The Visual Face of the III ASWAD Conference-Rio 2005".

Maureen Shanahan – Art History Department, James Madison University, Virginia (USA). "The Painted Word: Malaika Favorite’s ‘Furious Flower’ Poetry Quilt-Painting and Pan-African Memory."

Christoph Singler – University of Besançon (France). "Vicente Pimentel, Archeology and Creative Instant."

Jurgen Heinrichs- Art and Music/Museum Professions, Seton Hall University (USA)."Towards a Black German Art Practice: Diasporic Translation in the Works of Marc Brandenburg."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 02:
HISTÓRIA 1 - MARRONS
HISTORY 1 – MAROONS

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Charles Beatty Medina - History Department, University of Toledo (USA). "‘They Are Not Christians’: Sixteenth-Century Missions, Religious Conversions, and Conquest on the Coast of Esmeraldas."

W. F. Santiago-Valles – Africana Studies, Western Michigan University (USA). "The Meaning and Importance of Marronage as a Central Concept to Diaspora Studies."

David Stark – History Department, Grand Valley State University, Michigan (USA)."Creating a Community of their Own: The Morenos Libres and Pardos Libres of Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, (Santurce) Puerto Rico."

Jorge Chinea – History Department, Wayne State University, Michigan (USA)."Jamaican Maroons in Eastern Cuba: A Diasporic, Intercolonial Research Agenda."

Debatedora/Discussant: Rose Watson –Professor Emerita, University of Maryland, European Division, Heidelberg, Germany, Social Science Division.

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Painel/Session 03:
RAÇA E ETINICIDADE 1 – RAÇA NA AMÉRICA DO SUL, CARIBE E AMÉRICA DO NORTE
RACE & ETHNICITY 1 – RACE IN THE SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Ibrahim Sundiata – History Department, Brandeis University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Martin Benavides – Investigadores Asociados Grupo de Análisis para el Desarollo GRADE, Lima (Peru). "Exclusion Social, Discriminación e Identidad de los Afroperuanos."

Kimberly Simmons – Anthropology and African American Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA). "Racial Formation in the African Diaspora: Blackness and Mixed-ness in the United States and the Dominican Republic."

Edward Paulino – History Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (USA). "Dominico-Haitianos and Their 21st Century Struggle for Citizenship and Dignity."

Zaire Dinzey-Flores – Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow on Race, Crime and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice, New York (USA). "The Mask of Racial Superstructures: The Spatial Layout of Race in Puerto Rico’s Housing."

Paulo Fernando de Souza Campos – Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo (Brasil). "The Intolerance to the Black in the First Republic: Representation for a Reflection about the Racism and Anti-Racism in Brazil to the 21st Century."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 04:
Convidados Petrobras
Petrobras invitiees

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 05:
POLÍTICA E GOVERNO 1 – O PODER NEGRO ATRAVÉS DA DIÁSPORA
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 1 – THE GLOBAL CONTOURS OF BLACK POWER

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Hasan Kwame Jeffries – History Department and the Kirwan Institute for the Study on Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University (USA).

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar – University of Connecticut (USA). "Exporting Revolution: Cold War Diplomacy and the Black Panther Party, 1966-1975."

Fanon Che Wilkins – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA). "Talking Black Power to the World: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the International Affair Commission, 1967-70."

Scot Brown – University of California, Los Angeles (USA). "The Fulani Tribe: Black Power and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in Vietnam, 1967 to the 1970s."

Debatedor/Discussants: Minkha Makalani – History Department, Rutgers University (USA).

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 06:
GÊNERO 1 – MULHERES NEGRAS E DIÁSPORA: MÚLTIPLAS EXPERIÊNCIAS
GENDER 1 – BLACK WOMEN AND DIASPORA: MULTIPLE EXPERIENCES

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Micere Githae Mugo – Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Elisee Soumonni – Université Nationale du Bénin (Benin). "Afro-Caribbean Women in Colonial and Postcolonial Dahomey: A Neglected Dimension of the Relationships between Africa and its Diaspora."

Denise Spitzer – Women’s Studies and Population Health, University of Ottowa (Canada) and Philomina Okeke-Ihejiria – Women’s Studies Program, University of Alberta (Canada). "Migration and Mapping Identities: The Experiences of African Canadian Women."

Mireille Miller-Young – Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). "Pornography and Sex Work in the African Diaspora."

Becky Thompson – Sociology Department, Simmons College, Massachusetts; and Diane Harriford – Sociology Department, Vassar College, New York, (USA). "The Black Pornographic Body Revisited: Condolezza Rice Goes to Europe."

Jayne Ifekwunigwe – Visiting Scholar, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University (USA). "Venus and Serena are "Doing it" for Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminism for the Hip-Hop Generation."



13:45/15:45

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 07:
CONCEITUANDO A DIÁSPORA 1 – DESCOLONIALIDADE
CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA 1 – DECOLONIALIDAD

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Julio César de Tavares – Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro e ASWAD Conference Chair (Brasil).

Agustin Lao-Montes – University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA). "Afro-latinidad, Colonialidad del Poder, y la Nueva Ola de Movimientos Antisistémicos."

Angela Figueiredo – Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasil). "A Sociología de Guerreiros Ramos Vista a partir da Colonialidade do Poder."

Nelson Maldonado-Torres – University of California, Berkeley (USA). "Beyond the ‘Color-line’: El Giro De-colonial y la Emergencia de Ciencias De-coloniales."

Catherine Walsh – Universidad Andina Simon Bolívar, Quito (Ecuador). "De- colonialidad y Diáspora Afro-andina: Reflexiones desde Proyetos Políticos-Epistémicos." Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 08:
LITERATURA 1 – JORNAIS E TESTEMUNHOS
LITERATURE 1 – JOURNALS & TESTIMONIES

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Ministro João Inácio Oswald Padilha - Divisão da África II, Ministério das Relações Exteriores.

Deonne Minto – PhD Candidate, University of Maryland (USA). "Writing a Caribbean History: Almeyda, Maroon Woman as Avatar of Africa and Palmares in Gayl Jones´s Song for Anninho."

Nicole Aljoe – English Department, University of Utah (USA). "Slave Testimonies of Diaspora."

Ann Bailey – History Department, Spelman College, Georgia (USA). "Beyond the Silence and the Shame: African Slave Trade and Bridging the African Diaspora."

Akintunde Akinyemi – Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida (USA). "Transnational Displacements and Cultural Continuity: The Performance of Yoruba Religion Poetry in the New World."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 09:
RAÇA E ETHNICITY II – CONSTRUÇÕES RACIAIS HEMISFÉRICAS
RACE & ETHNICITY II – HEMISPHERIC RACIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Colin Palmer – History Department, Princeton University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Jared Sexton – Program in African American Studies, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California at Irvine (USA). "Blackness and Race Mixture: A Hemispheric Perspective."

Hilary Jones – Macalester College (USA). "Between Two Worlds: ‘Mulatto’ Populations in Nineteenth Century Senegal and Brazil."

Michelle D. Thompson – Doctoral student, History Department, New York University (USA). "The Racialization of Jamaican Maroons."

Ivair Augusto Alves dos Santos – Doutorando, Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade de Brasília e Secretário Executivo do Conselho Nacional de Combate a Discriminação Racial, Secretaria Especial de Direitos Humanos (Brasil). "Direitos Humanos no Interior da Diáspora."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 10:
EDUCAÇÃO 1 – JANELAS DE OPORTUNIDADES
EDUCATION 1 – Windows of Opportunities

Coordenadora e Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Eliane dos Santos Cavalleiro – Secretaria de Educação Continuada (SECAD), Ministério da Educação (Brasil).

Deborah Silva Santos – Ministério da Educação (Brasil). "Políticas de Educação Anti- racista no Sistema Educational Brasileiro."

Ana de Costa Gomes (Brasil). "Educação dentro e sobre a Diáspora".

Sandra Borges and Martha Britto – (Brasil). "Vamos a Escola com a Lei 10.639: Relato de Uma Experiência de Capacitação de Professores para o Ensino de História da África."

Maria Valeria Barbosa Veríssimo – Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo (Brasil). "Ações Afirmativas e Desigualdade Educacional."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 11:
RELIGIÃO E ESPIRITUALIDADE 1 - RELIGIÕES DE EXPRESSÃO BANTU NA DIÁSPORA
RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY 1 - BANTU RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN THE DIASPORA

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Margaret Washington – History Department, Cornell University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Kenneth Dossar – Temple University (USA). "Bantu Kongo Culture in Bahia."

Mariza Guimarães Dias – Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Atuação do Negro na Guerra do Paraguai, Revelada Através dos Pontos Cantados e Riscados da Umbanda Brasileira."

Sérgio Paulo Adolfo – Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná (Brasil). "As Religiões de Origem Banto no Contexto das Religiões Afro-Brasileiras."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 12:
A POLÍTICA DO ESPORTE
THE POLITICS OF SPORTS

Chair/Moderator: Asfilófio de Oliveira Filho, Presidente da Liga Urbana de Basketball e Consultor de Marketing Esportivo

Damion Thomas – African-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois (USA). "Playing Politics: Sports: U.S. Imperialism and Diasporic Cold War Politics."

Anene Ejikeme – History Department, Trinity University, Santo Antonio, Texas (USA). "A Hero for All Times: Hogan "Kid" Bassey, Champion of the World."

Michel Ralph – Anthropology Department, University of Chicago (USA) and Department d´Anthropologie Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France). "Basketball Beyond the Baobabs – Recreating Diaspora Amidst Corporate Schemes and Postcolonial Hoop Dreams."

Vilma Aparecida de Pinho and Maria Lúcia Rodrigues Muller – Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso (Brasil). "Relações Raciais no Cotidiano Escolar: Estudos das Percepções de Professores de Educação Física sobre Alunos Negros."

Debatedores/Discussants: Victor Andrade de Melo – Escola de Educação Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) Saje Mathieu, Department of History and African American Studies, Princeton University (USA).

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Exibição de Vídeo e Debate
Video Showing and Discussion
"África Dispersa: Rostos e Vozes da Diáspora Africana" e "Nas Trilhas da Diáspora Africana".

Coordenador / Participante – Coordinator / Participant: Sheila Walker – Phelps Stokes Foundation and ASWAD Board Member (USA) and Joel Zito Araujo – Filmmaker (Brazil).


16:00/18:00

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 13:
HISTÓRIA II – PESQUISA COLONIAL E PRÉ-COLONIAL
HISTORY II – PRE-COLONIAL & COLONIAL RESEARCH

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez - History Department, New York University and ASWAD Board Director (USA).

Chouki El Hamel – History Department, Arizona State University (USA). "Morocco and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century."

Ahmad Sikainga – Ohio State University (USA). "Slave Body and Muslim Jurisprudence in Morocco in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries."

Isabel Rodrigues – Sociology/Anthropology Department and Women Studies Program, University of Massachusetts (USA). "The African Diaspora Before the Middle Passage: Displacement and Place in Cape Verde."

Rosetta d’Angelo – Literature and Africana Studies, Ramapo College, New Jersey (USA). "Images of Africa in Italian Colonial Culture."

Solange Pereira da Rocha – Departamento de História, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. "Deslocamentos Transatlânticos e Concentrações de Afro-Brasileiros no ‘Novo Mundo’: Afro-Brasileiros nas Freguesias da Província da Paraíba do Norte, Século XIX."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 14:
CONCEITUANDO A DIÁSPORA II A – RAÇA, CIDADANIA E SUBJETIVIDADES MODERNAS
CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA II A – RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND MODERN SUBJECTIVITIES

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Jean Muteba Rahier – Florida International University (USA). "The Construction of Blacks as Ultimate Others: Ideology of National Identity and Racist Representation in the Ecuadorian Press."

Percy C. Hintzen – University of California, Berkeley (USA). "Diaspora, Globalization and the Politics of Identity."

Barnor Hesse – Northwestern University (USA). "Deconstructing the African Diaspora: Conceptual Methodologies."

Felipe Smith – Tulane University (USA). "Mapping Darktown: Black America as Imagined Community."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 15:
LITERATURA II – LUGAR E DESLOCAMENTO NA LITERATURA DE MULHERES ESCRITORAS DA ÁFRICA E SUA DIÁSPORA
LITERATURE II – PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT IN LITERATURE BY WOMEN WRITERS FROM AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory – University of Houston (USA). "’Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now’: Place and Displacement in You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock and Tropical Breeze Hotel."

Romanus Muoneke - University of St. Thomas at Houston, Texas (USA). "Migration, Transformation, and Identity Formation in Buchi Emecheta’s In the Ditch and Kehinde."

Juluette Bartlett Pack – Devry University (USA). "Closing the Gap: Diasporic Displacement and Recovery in Tess Onwueme’s The Missing Face."

Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis – English Department, Miami University (USA)."Teaching/Learning to Transform: Women, Higher Education and Change in Africa."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 16:
MEDICINA 1 – MEDICINA E PODER
MEDICINE 1 – MEDICINE AND POWER

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Njoroge Njoroge – Africana Studies Department and the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU (USA).

Wanjiku Njoroge, M.D. – Yale University School of Medicine (USA). "Ethnic Identity Formation in Young children."

Michaela A. Harrison, MSW - Dillard University, Louisiana (USA). "Strong Medicine: Traditional Healing and the AIDS Crisis in Africa and the Diaspora."

Suzanna Reiss - New York University (USA). "The Alchemy of Empire: Drug Control, Race and the New World Order."

Jamie Jaywann Wilson-California State University, Fullerton (USA). "Well-Being, Health, and Politics in Harlem New York during the 1920s and 1930s."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 17:
MÍDIA 1 – NEGRO E AS GRANDES MÍDIAS
MEDIA 1 – BLACK AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Ricardo Freitas – Universidade Estácio de Sá (Brasil). "Raça e Tecnologias de Comunicação e Informação."

Rafael Cavadas – Jornalista, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil). "O Negro a Serviço do Cinema Branco: ou Como a História do Racismo Determinou a Representação Cinematográfica dos Afro-descendentes no Brasil.

Kassio Motta – Jornalista, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil). "Análise dos Textos Publicados pelo Jornal ‘O Globo’ acerca da Implantação de Cotas nas Universidades Públicas."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Mesa Redonda
Roundtable
"Etiopianismo: Ideologia, Teologia, ou Cosmologia"
"Ethiopianism: Ideology, Theology, or Cosmology"

Coordenadores e Participantes – Coordinators and Participants: Robert A. Hill – History Department, University of California, Los Angeles and ASWAD Board Member (USA) and William R. Scott – Africana Studies, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, (USA).

19:00

RECEPÇÃO / RECEPTION
Salas Rio de Janeiro 2 e 3

MESA DE ABERTURA
OPENING SESSION

Celso Amorim Ministro das Relações Exteriores Edmund E. Atkins Consul dos Estados Unidos da America Nelson Maculan Secretário da Educação Superior Cícero Mauro Fialho Rodrigues Reitor da Universidade Federal Fluminense Luiz Fernado Nery Gerente de Comunicação Nacional da Petrobras Lucia Araujo Gerente Geral do Canal Futura Michael Gomez ASWAD Board Director

CONFERÊNCIA MAGNA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Joseph Harris
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History at Howard University

HOMENAGEM
HOMENAGE

Abdias do Nascimento
Senador

COQUETEL DE BOAS VINDAS
WELCOME COCKTAIL



Quinta-feira, 6 de Outubro
Thursday, Oct. 6th

08:30/10:30

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 18:
HISTÓRIA III – LIBERTAÇÃO E LEGISLAÇÃO
HISTORY III – LIBERATION AND LEGISTATION

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Beatriz Galloti Mamigonian – Departamento de História, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil). "Lasting Effects of the Abolition of the Slaves Trade in Brazil: The Liberated Africans and Illegally –Slaved Africans in Their Struggle for Freedom."

Afonso Bandeira Florence – Universidade Católica de Salvador, Bahia (Brasil)."Discipline and Domination: How Private Hirers Dealt with the Liberated Africans’ Freedom in Brazil (1831-1864)."

Alinnie Silvestre Moreira – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brasil)."Freedom under Guardianship: Liberated African Labor at the Estrela Gunpowder Factory, Rio de Janeiro, (1831-1870)."

Joseph Adjaye – Africana Studies, History & International Studies, Director of African Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh (USA). "Memory and the Construction of History as Resistance Among Jamaican Maroons."

Debatedora/Discussant: Keila Grinberg - Universidade do Rio de Janeiro UNIRIO (Brasil).

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Painel/Session 19:
CONCEITUANDO A DIÁSPORA II B – RAÇA, CIDADANIA E SUBJETIVIDADES MODERNAS
CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA II B – RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND MODERN SUBJECTIVITIES

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Jean Muteba Rahier – Florida International University (USA).

Stéphane Robolin – Duke University and Wake Forest University (USA)."Constructive Engagements – Mapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries."

Nicole Castor – University of Chicago (USA). "Land of Fete: Public Culture, Identity and Citizenship in Trinidad."

Lyndon Phillip – University of Toronto (Canada). "‘Keep Hitting ‘em up’: Sonic Diaspora, Rap, and Toronto´s Caribana."

Marlon M. Bailey – University of California (USA). "‘They Want Us Sick’: Displacement, Diaspora, Ballroom Culture and HIV/AIDS Intervention in Detroit, Michigan, (USA)."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 20:
LITERATURA III – ECOS LITERÁRIOS DA DIÁSPORA
LITERATURE III – DIASPORA LITERARY ECHOES

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Keith Cartwright –English Department, University of North Florida (USA). "‘To Walk with the Storm’: Oya/Iansã as the "I" Answering Zora Neale Hurston’s Diasporic Callings."

G. Oty Agbajoh-Laoye – English Department & African Studies, Monmouth University (USA). "‘Paths of Convergence’: African Diaspora Paradigm in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me By My Rightful Name."

Richard Serrano – French Department, Rutgers University (USA). "Friend and Savage Too?: Léon-Gontran Damas and Claude Friend."

Stefanie Dunning – English Department, Miami University (USA). "Our Sister Kills Joy: Africa, the Nation and Homosexuality."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 21:
SOCIOLOGIA E ANTROPOLOGIA 1 – TERRENOS CONTESTADOS
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY 1 – CONTESTED TERRAINS

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Merle L. Bowen –Political Science Department, African-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois (USA). "How Do Land Titles to Black Rural Communities Matter?: Lessons from Brazil and Mozambique."

Jô Brandão – Presidente da Associação Nacional das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas do Maranhão and Ivo Fonseca Silva – Secretário Executivo da Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (Brasil). "Campanha Nacional pela Regularização dos Territórios de Quilombolas."

Savonala Horne – Land Loss Prevention Project (USA). "The Black Land Struggle in the United States."

Debatedor/Discussant: Michael West – Africana Studies and Sociology, Binghamton University (USA).

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 22:
MEDICINA II – SAÚDE ATRAVÉS DA DIÁSPORA
MEDICINE II – HEALTH ACROSS DIASPORA

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderators and Panelists: Tshilemalema Mukenge Tshilemalema and Isa Russeau Mukenge – Morehouse Research Institute, Sociology Department, Georgia (USA). "Social Constraints, Nutrition, Health Practices, and Health Disparities in Black Families in Atlanta (Georgia, USA), Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) and El Ciruelo (Oaxaca, Mexico)."

Ernest Khalema – Research Coordinator, Heart Health Project, Alberta (Canada)."Ethnoepidemiological Analysis of the Health Status of African Descendents in Canada, Brazil, and South Africa: Debunking the Myth of Multiracial Democracies."

Conferencista Convidado - Invited Panelist: Marco Antonio Chagas Guimarães – Instituto de Psicossomática Psicanalítica – Ori-Aperê, Rede Nacional Religiões Afro- Brasileiras e Saúde, Doutor em Psicologia Clínica PUC/RJ (Brasil). "Cuidado e (Des) Cuidado na Construção da Subjetividade Afro-Brasileira."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 23:
MÍDIA II – DAS TELAS DO NOTICIÁRIO, CINEMA E TV
MEDIA II – ON NEWSPRINT, FILM AND TELEVISION SCREENS

Chair/Moderador: Patrick Manning – History and Afro-American Studies, Northeastern University (USA).

Joseph McLaren – Hofstra University, New York (USA). "Representations of Musical Artists in Black Independent Jazz Films."

Ana Paula Pereira Gomes – Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brasil). "O Negro em Propagandas Televisivas de Produtos de Higiene e Beleza: Reformulações da Imagem e Transformações Sociais."

William Berry – University of Illinois (USA). "Whispers From The Shadows: Representations of Africa and Blackness in Daily Newspapers in the Dominican Republic."

Vincent Brown – Harvard University, Massachusetts (USA). "The Audiovision of Melville J. Herskovits: Science, Sound, and Image in the African Diaspora."

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 24:
ECONOMIA E POLITICAS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO
ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Wania Sant’ Anna – Former Human Rights State Secretary and Brazilian Racial Relations Researcher (Brasil).

Asayehgn Desta – Dominican University of California (USA) and Tettch Kofi – San Francisco University (USA). "Economic Development by Invitation: NEPAD’s Approach to Revitalizing Africa’s Economies in the 21st Century."

Alli Wari – Political Science Department, University of Jos (Nigeria). "The African Diaspora and Sustainable Development in Africa."

Richard Mordi – Economic Development Board, City of Lauderdale Lakes (USA)."Economic Impact of Globalization on the African Diaspora."

Rubin Patterson – Sociology & Anthropology Editor, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, University of Toledo (USA). "U.S.- Based Diasporas and Their Impacts on Homeland Technological and Socioeconomic Development: How Do Africans Compare?."

Paula Marceia Moreno Zapata – Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (Colombia/UK). "Biodiversity Management in Colombia: the Trace of the Afro-Colombian Diaspora."


10:45/12:45

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 25:
DANÇA 1 – DANÇA NA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA
DANCE 1 – DANCE IN BRAZILIAN SOCIETY

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Yvonne Daniel – Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies, Smith College and ASWAD Conference Secretary (USA).

Claudia Ramalho –Cia. de Dança Contemporânea da UFRJ e Cia. Danças Rubens Barbot e da Cia. Aérea de Dança (Brasil). "A Descolonização da Dança."

Frank Wilson Roberto – Departamento de Arte Corporal da Escola de Educação Física e Desporto/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "A Raiz Cultural Africana nas Diferentes Manifestações Populares no Brasil."

Julio Moracen Naranjo – Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil). "O Poder do Sol do Saber Deles: Dimensão Histórica do Teatro Negro-Africano."

Eliane Santos de Souza – Rede Municipal de Ensino do Rio de Janeiro, porta- bandeira do Grêmio Recreativo e Escola de Samba Leão de Nova Iguaçu (Brasil)."Samba, uma Dança sem Fronteiras: a Dança da Reza."

Tatiana Maria Damasceno – Escola de Educação Física e Desportos da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e Cia de Dança Contemporânea da UFRJ (Brasil). "Cultura e Memória: A Corporeidade Brasileira na Boca de Cena."

Pedro Simonard – Doutorando, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)."Preservação e Tradição no Jongo da Serrinha."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 26:
CONCEITUANDO A DIÁSPORA III
CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA III

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Colin Palmer –History Department, Princeton University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Daniel Avorgbedor – School of Music and the Department of African American & African Studies, Ohio State University (USA). "Diaspora From Within: A Critique of Theory and Method in Contemporary Discourse on the African Diaspora."

Chambi Chachage – Center of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (Scotland/Tanzania). "Is the ‘African’ In ‘African Diaspora’ the ‘African’ in the ‘African Identity’?"

Kwaku Larbi Korang – African American and African Studies and Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University (USA). "Restoring Africa: A Critique of Paul Gilroy’s Model of the Black Atlantic."

George Sefa Dei – Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto (Canada). "Democracy, Development, Destiny: Setting the African Agenda and the Implications for Africans in the Diaspora."

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 27:
LINGUAGEM E TRADUÇÕES
LANGUAGE & TRANSLATIONS

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Heloisa Toller Gomes – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e Programa Avançado de Estudos Contemporâneos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).

Angela Lamas Rodrigues – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, (Brasil). "Cultural Resistance and the Diasporic African Intellectual: Two Case Studies."

Robert Hinton – Associate Director of Africana Studies Program, New York University (USA). "Orality, Literacy and the Politics of Language."

Steven Byrd – PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Texas-Austin (USA). "Calunga: An Afro-Brazilian Speech of the Triângulo Mineiro – Its Grammar and History."

Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel – Institute of Languages, University of Ghana (Ghana)."Empréstimos Lingüísticos do Português nas Línguas Faladas no País dos Tabom."

Waïl Hassan – Program in Comparative and World Literature, Center for African Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois (USA). "Diaspora and the Poetics of Translation in Anglophone Sudanese Fiction."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 28:
IDENTIDADE – COMUNIDADE, IDENTIDADE E CIDADANIA
IDENTITY – COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND CITIZENSHIP

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Judith King-Calnek – United Nations International School (USA). "Education for Citizenship and Democracy."

Sabiyha Prince – American University (USA). "Coloring Class with Race."

Yevette Richards – George Madson University (USA). "Kampala College: The Rise and Fall of an African Labor School During the Cold War."

Kim D. Butler – Rutgers University (USA). "Negotiating Citizenship in Nation and Diaspora."

Elanir de Moraes Ribeiro –Ciências Sociais PPCIS/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Identidades Negras na Diáspora."

Odette Casamayor Cisneros – (Brasil). "El Negro Cubano: Una Presencia Insoslayable, Aun Detrás de la Nación Mestiza."

Debatedora/Discussant: Leith Mullings, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA)

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 29:
GÊNERO II – MASCULINIDADE NEGRA
GENDER II – BLACK MASCULINITY

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Tiffany Patterson – Africana Studies and History, Hamilton College (USA).

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting – Vanderbilt University, Tennessee (USA). "Beautiful: Colorism, Sex Tourism, and the Globalization of Hip-Hop Culture."

Thabiti Lewis – Willamette University, Oregon (USA). "Ballers of the School: Baaad Black Masculinity in American Sports Culture."

Gilman W. Whiting – Vanderbilt University, Tennessee (USA). "All Eyes on Me: Criminality, Welfare, and Young Black Fathers under the Gun."

Vania Penha-Lopes – Sociology Department, Bloomfield College, New Jersey (USA)."Work, Love, and Family Involvement of African American Men."

Maria Isabel de Assis – Pontifícia Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil). "Black Woman and Black Man, Urban Violence and its Consequences."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 30:
NOVAS PESQUISAS SOBRE NEGROS LIVRES
NEW RESEARCH ON FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Frank Dutra – History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). "Mestre de Campo Domingos Rodrigues Carneiro: Pernambucano, Ex-Slave and Tailor."

Bill Donovan - History Department, Loyola College (USA). "Gender and Freedom: Manumissions in Rio de Janeiro, 1700-1750."

Thomas Orum – History Department, Slippery Rock University (USA). "Tapanhunos, Cafusos e Mulatos: Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Amazon."

Elizabeth Farfan – Doctoral student, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley (USA). "Agents of Social Development: Matisqueiras, Lavradoras, Domesticas and Mothers in a Bahian Quilombo."

Michele Reid - Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University and History Department, Georgia State University. "In this Foreign Land’: Free Cubans of Color in the 19th Century Atlantic World."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Mesa Redonda
Roundtable "O Afro no Andino: Saberes Ancestrais e Processos de uma Diáspora Invisibilizada"
"Lo Afro en lo Andino: Saberes Ancestrales y Processos desde una Diáspora Invisibilizada."

Coordenadora/Coordinator: Catherine Walsh – Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Quito, (Ecuador).

Participantes/Participants: Edizon León – Fondo Documental Afro-Andino, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Quito, (Ecuador), "Pensamiento(s) Cimarron: Ancestralidad y Diáspora(s) Afro-Andinas"; Juan Angola – FUNAFRO, La Paz, (Bolivia), " La Resistencia Cultural, Entre Tambores y Ritmo en Bolivia"; Oswaldo Bilbao – CEDET, Lima, (Peru); Santiago Arboleda – Universidad del Valle, Cali, (Colombia), " Destierro y Conocimientos Amenazados: Invisibilidad AfroColombiana.


13:45/15:45

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Painel/Session 31:
DANÇA II – DANÇA NAS SOCIEDADES DA DIÁPORA
DANCE II – DANCE IN DIASPORA SOCIETIES

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: P. Sterling Stuckey – Professor Emeritus of African American History, University of California, Riverside and ASWAD Board Member (USA). "The Ring-Shout Revisited."

Alicia Sanabria – Cornell University (USA). "In Their own Words: Grassroots African Matrix Cultural Producers in Santiago de Cuba."

Kristen McCleary – James Madison University (USA). "Ethnic Identity and Elite Idyll: A Comparison of Carnival Celebrations in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1880 to 1920."

Rita de Cássia Maia da Silva – Universidade Católica de Salvador, Bahia (Brasil). "O Negro-Espetáculo: o Bloco Ilê Aiyê no Processo de Resignificação e Recepção da Imagem do Negro em Salvador."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 32:
HISTÓRIA IV – ATIVISMO NEGRO E MEMÓRIA
HISTORY IV – BLACK ACTIVISM AND MEMORY

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Participante – Chair/Moderator and Participant: Kim Butler –Rutgers University (USA).

Michael Mitchell –Arizona State University and Kim Butler –Rutgers University. "As Vozes da Raça - Voices of the Race."

Cuti – Activist and scholar (Brasil) and Flávio dos Santos Gomes – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Arquivos e Ativismo - Archives and Activism."

Joel Zito de Araujo – Filmmaker (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Lino de Almeida – Filmmaker (Bahia, Brazil). "O Olhar Nosso no Nosso Presente - Our Perspectives on Our Present."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Painel/Session 33:
RAÇA E ETNICIDADE III – NEGRITUDE E MODERNIDADE CARIBENHA E NORTE-AMERICANA
RACE & ETHNICITY III – BLACKNESS AND CARIBBEAN/NORTH AMERICAN MODERNITIES

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Faith Smith – History Department, Brandeis University (USA). "Rethinking ‘Africa’ in the Caribbean."

Deborah Thomas – Cultural Anthropology, Duke University (USA). "Blackness Across Borders: Jamaica, "America", and the Politics of Generation."

Belinda Edmondson – Rutgers University (USA). "Africa in the American Classroom."

Odile Cazenave – Boston University (USA). "New Space of Anchoring for a New Diaspora of French-Speaking Caribbean Women Writers."

Christina Greer – Columbia University (USA). "Intra-racial Differences in an Increasingly Inter-racial World: Native-born Black American and African and Afro- Caribbean Identity, Interests, and Attitudes toward Government and Participation in the U.S."

Flávia Alessandra de Souza Pereira – Doutoranda em Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brasil). "De ‘Homens de Cor’ a ‘Afro-descendentes’: Movimento Negro e Poder Local em Rio Claro – São Paulo (Brasil).

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 34:
EDUCAÇÃO II – BRASIL E ÁFRICA
EDUCATION II – BRAZIL & AFRICA

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Maria Batista Lima – Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).

Maria Batista Lima – Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro e Projeto Diálogo entre Povos (Brasil) and Cristhiane Silva de Albuquerque - Universidade São José and Projeto Mulheres em Ação (ONG Coisa de Mulher e PMRJ) (Brasil) - "Famílias e Escola como Referências de Construção de Identidade Étnica: Um Estudo com Estudantes Afro-descendentes do Curso de Pedagogia."

Azoilda Loretto da Trindade – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)."Condição Humana, Cotidiano e Formação de Professoras na Perspectiva Afrodescendente."

Cristhiane Silva de Albuquerque – Universidade São José and Projeto Mulheres em Ação (ONG Coisa de Mulher e PMRJ) (Brasil) and Maria Batista Lima PUC/RJ e Projeto Diálogo entre Povos. "Africanidades e Metodologia na Educação: Breve Reflexão Contextual."

Rolf Ribeiro de Souza – Universidade Metodista (Brasil). "Gênero Masculino: Uma Questão para a Educação."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 35:
RELIGIÃO E ESPIRITUALIDADE II – RELIGIÕES DE EXPRESSÃO AFRICANA E SUAS INFLUÊNCIAS
RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY II – AFRICAN RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION AND ITS INFLUENCE

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Ricardo Freitas – Universidade Estácio de Sá (Brasil).

Hippolyte Brice Sogbossi – Universidade Federal do Sergipe (Brasil). "O Cristianismo Celeste: Uma Nova Escolha Religiosa na República do Benin, África do Oeste."

Ashton Welch – Director of Black Studies, Creighton University, Nebraska (USA)."Practicing the one True Religion: Islam among African Slaves in America."

Randal Maurice Jelks – Calvin College (USA). "The Regeneration of Africa: The African Diaspora as a Protestant Revivalist Community."

Roberto Strongman – University of California (USA). "Queer Supra-Syncretism in African-Diaspora Religions."

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 36:
MIGRAÇÕES E DIÁSPORAS
MIGRATIONS AND DIASPORAS

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez - History Department, New York University and ASWAD Board Director (USA).

Emma Cervone – Anthropology Department, Northwestern University (USA). "Vidas en la Encrucijada: Histórias de la Diáspora Africana en el Sur de Italia."

Carlos Subuhana – Universidade Federal do Rio Janeiro (Brasil). "Estudar no Brasil: Imigração Temporária de Estudantes Moçambicanos no Rio de Janeiro."

Acácio Almeida Santos – Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil). "Estimativas dos Saldos dos Imigrantes Africanos e sua Caracterização nas Unidades Prisionais de São Paulo."

Barbara Josiah – History Department, John Jay College, CUNY (USA). "The Other Migration: African Diaspora Sailors from Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States Civil War Navy."

Philomina Okeke-Ihejiria – Women’s Studies Program, University of Alberta (Canada). "The Diaspora Vs the Trans-national as Imagined Community?: The Case of African Immigrant Women in Canada."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 37:
SEXUALIDADES DOS GAYS NEGROS
BLACK QUEER SEXUALITIES

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderators: Thomas Glave and Leo Wilton – State University of New York (USA).

Baltasar Fra-Molinero – Spanish Department, Bates College (USA) and Charles I. Nero - Rhetoric and Theater, African American and American Cultural Studies, Bates College (USA). "Black Community Building and Drag Performance in Cuba and the United States"

Natasha Tinsley – English Department, University of Minnesota (USA). "How Can You Say I’m Not Pretty, Not Pretty? Afro-Caribbean Music and Shifting Imaginations of Same-Sex Desire."

Leo Wilton - Human Development and Africana Studies, SUNY Binghamton (USA)."Pimping the Black Body: Representations of Black Gay Men in the White Imagination."

Paula Johnson - Bond, Schoeneck and King Distinguished Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law. "Breaking Silence: Confronting Diasporic Homophobia, HIV/AIDS, and Violence in Black Women’s Lives."

Thomas Glave - English and Africana Studies, SUNY Binghamton (USA). "Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Political Struggles in Jamaica"


16:00/18:00

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 38:
CONCEITUANDO A DIÁSPORA IV – PENSAMENTO NEGRO-AFRICANOS NO CONTEXTO COLONIAL
CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA IV – THE BLACK AFRICAN THOUGHTS IN THE COLONIAL CONTEXT.

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista: Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Fernando Rosa Ribeiro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brasil). "O Pensamento de Sol Palaatje e a Formação da Nação na África do Sul."

Alain Pascal Kaly – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brasil)."Leopold Sedar Senghor: Um Intelectual Atual Porém Incompreendido."

Laura Zapata – Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)."Teologia Católica Nacionalita em Mozambique y la Invención de la ‘Religião Tradicional Africana’."

Omar Ribeiro Thomas – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brasil)."Jean Price-Mars e a Formação de um Pensamento Universalista na África Colonial."

Lorenzo Macagno – Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brasil). "Samora Machel e a Construção da Nação em Moçambique."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 39:
LITERATURA IV – TEXTOS AFRICANOS E CRIOULOS
LITERATURE IV – AFRICAN AND CREOLE TEXTS

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Joan Anim- Addo – Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK). "Diasporic Encounters of the Creole Text."

Alyxandra Gomes Nunes – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brasil)."Literatura e História da África em Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe".

Njeri Githire – University of Minnesota (USA). "Black-British, French-Caribbean, West- Indian or European: Redefining Identity and Space in the Works of Andrea Levy and Gisèle Pineau."

Conceição Evaristo - Literatura Comparada – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (Brasil). "O Caroço de Dendê se Transforma em Flor-Palavra."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 40:
RAÇA E ETINICIDADE V – RAÇA, GÊNERO E CLASSE
RACE & ETHNICITY V – RACE, GENDER & CLASS

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Ibrahim Sundiata – History Department, Brandeis University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Maria Luisa Pereira de Oliveira – (Brasil). "Gênero e Raça, Etnia nas Relações de Trabalho: Uma Reflexão Sobre Denúncias de Discriminação Racial."

Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana – (Brasil). "Ciência e Preconceito - Raça e Gênero: Estudo do Pensamento Médico Brasileiro a cerca da Epilepsia 1859-1906."

Giovana Xavier da Conceição Côrtes – Departmento de História, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (Brasil). "Burguesa Porém Mestiça: Raça e Classe na Construção da Mestiçagem Feminina nos Romances Literários (Rio de Janeiro, 1880- 1920)."

Maria Clareth Goncalves Reis – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (Brasil)."A Construção da Identidade Racial na Fala de Mulheres Negras."

Luciane Soares da Silva – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "‘O seu lugar não é aqui’: Notas para Reflexão Sobre Raça e Espaço Social em Registros Policiais Sobre o Cotidiano das Relações Raciais no Rio Grande do Sul 1998-2001."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 41:
EDUCAÇÃO III – PEDAGOGIAS PARA A DIÁSPORA
EDUCATION III – PEDAGOGIES FOR THE DIASPORA

Coodenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Beth-Sarah Wright – African Diaspora and World Program, African Diaspora Studies, Spelman College, Atlanta, (USA). "What Do We Need to Know about the African Diaspora?: Strategies and Challenges of Teaching Diaspora Studies at Spelman College."

William Jelani Cobb – History Department, Spelman College (USA). "Let the Rhythm Move You: Using the Aesthetics of Blues Culture and Hip-Hop to Teach the African Diaspora."

Julio Pino – Kent State University (USA). "A Revolutionary Pedagogy for the African Diaspora in Latin America."

Consuela Lewis – University of Pittsburg (USA) and James Coaxum – Rowan University (USA). "Elite and Mass-Access and Equity: A Comparative Analysis of Higher Education in the African Diaspora and the United States."

Alma Jean Billingslea Brown – English Department, Spelman College (USA). "Black Transnationalism, Literary Production and Pedagogical Strategies for Diaspora."

Paul Dash – Goldsmiths University of London (UK). "The Plight of Black Children Globally and its Implications for the Future."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Painel/Session 42:
POLÍTICA E GOVERNO 1 – POLÍTICA E GOVERNO NA ÁFRICA E NA DIÁSPORA
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 1 – POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTS IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA

Chair/Moderator: Micere Githae Mugo - African American Studies, Syracuse University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Jhon Antón – Anthropology/Sociology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia). "El Impacto del Conflicto Armado en las Comunidades Negras del Pacífico Colombiano."

Jean Allman – University of Illinois (USA). "Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana 1959-1962."

Geoffrey Nwaka – Abia State University, Uturu (Nigeria). "Using Indigenous Knowledge to Strengthen Local Government and Governance in Nigeria."

Melina Pappademos – History Department, University of Connecticut. "Alchemists of a Race: Black Clubs in the Cuban Republic, 1900 to 1940."

Okechukwu Iheduru – African American Studies Program, Arizona State University (USA). "African Politics in America: Globalization, Migration and Trans-Nationalization of Domestic Politics."

Stanlie James – Afro-American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin (USA). "Configurations: International Human Rights v Civil Rights."

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 43:
ARTES MARCIAIS DA DIÁSPORA
THE MARTIAL ARTS OF THE DIASPORA


Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Julio César de Tavares – Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (Brasil) and ASWAD Conference Chair.

João Perelli – Physical Education Department, Brazilian Association for University Instruction (Universidade ABEU), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Capoeira, Comunidade Imaginada e Identidade Cultural."

Renee Larrier – French Department, Rutgers University (USA).
"Martial Art in Martinique: Danmyé, Metaphor, and Masculinity."

T.J. Desch Obi – History Department, Baruch College, CUNY (USA).
"History and Origin Myths: The Genesis of Brazil’s Famous Capoeira Foot-Fighting."

Miltinho Astronauta – Champion Capoerista (Brasil).
"Capoeira nos meios de comunicação."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 44:
HISTÓRIA VII – LEGISLAÇÃO, RESISTÊNCIA E RELAÇÕES SOCIAIS NO CARIBE INGLÊS DO SÉCULO XIX
HISTORY VII – LEGISLATION, RESISTANCE, AND SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY BRITISH CARIBBEAN

Coordendora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Participant: Tanya Huelett – Doctoral Student, History Department, New York University (USA)."Freedom for Whom?: The Impact of General Slave Emancipation on Maroon Identity and Status in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica."

Edwina Ashie Nikoi – Doctoral Student, History Department, New York University (USA). "Fifty Lashes on the Parade…or Worse: Crime and Punishment in Grenada, 1784- 1834."

Natasha Lightfoot – Doctoral Student, History Department, New York University (USA). "So Them Make Law for Negro, So Them Make Law for Master: Antigua’s 1831 Sunday Market Rebellion."

Discussant: Sherrie Randolph –Doctoral Student, History Department, New York University (USA).

18:30

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

REUNIÃO GERAL DA ASWAD
ASWAD GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING

19:30

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

REUNIÃO DA EXECUTIVA DA ASWAD
ASWAD EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING



Sexta-feira, 7 de Outubro
Friday, Oct. 7th

8:30/10:30

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 45:
SOCIOLOGIA E ANTROPOLOGIA II – FORMAÇÕES RACIAIS GLOBAIS
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY II – GLOBAL RACIAL FORMATIONS

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Juliet Hooker – Government Department, University of Texas at Austin (USA). "Against Race, Towards Multiculturalism? Blackness and Official Mestizo Nationalism in Nicaragua."

Jossiana Arroyo – Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Texas at Austin. "Afro Brazilians and AfroCaribbeans in the United States: A Dialogue on Visibility and Invisibility."

Jemima Pierre – Anthropology Department, University of Texas at Austin (USA). "‘I Like Your Color!’: The Local (and Global) Geography of Race in Urban Ghana."

Mark Sawyer – Political Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (USA). "Nationhood and Race in the Americas: A Race Cycles Approach."

Debatedor/Discussant: Edmond Gordon – Director of The African and African American Center, University of Texas at Austin (USA).

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 46:
HISTÓRIA V – HISTÓRIAS DA DIÁSPORA
HISTORY V – DIASPORA HISTORIES

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Colin Palmer – History Department, Princeton University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).

Rebecca Tally – History Department, Cornell University (USA). "Territory Rights in the Chocó: History and Representation among Afro-Colombians on the Pacific Coast."

Kwame Essien – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA). "Restoring the Cultural Links Among the Tabom Community, Ghanaians, and Brazilians: The Role of the Brazilian Government and the Brazilian Embassy in Ghana."

Claudine Bonner – University of Western Ontario (Canada). "(Re)Constructing Settlement Histories: Epistemological & Methodological Issues in Historical Research."

Alida Metcalf – History Department, Trinity University (USA). "The Go-betweens of Fifteenth-Century Africa and Sixteenth-Century Brazil: How the Portuguese Experience in Africa Served as a Template for the Colonization of Brazil."

Gloria Chuku – History Department, Millersville University of Pennsylvania (USA)."Black Women in Resistance Movements: Conceptualizing Common and Divergent Themes in Africa and the United States."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel/Session 47:
LITERATURA V – ENGENDERING ANANSI: MULHERES NEGRAS, ESTRATÉGIAS DE RESISTÊNCIA, LIBERTAÇÃO E EMPODERAMENTO
LITERATURE V – ENGENDERING ANANSI: BLACK WOMEN AND STRATEGIES FOR RESISTENCE, LIBERATION, AND EMPOWERMENT

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Kathleen Phillips Lewis – Spelman College, (USA). "Miss Nansi and the Door of No Return: Women Negotiating the Middle Passage."

Danille Taylor – Dillard University, New Orleans (USA). "Monster’s Ball and Xica: The Role of the Black Female Body in White Male Fantasies."

Shirley Toland-Dix – University of South Florida (USA). "The Anancy Poetics of African Diasporic Women Writers."

Georgene Bess Montgomery – Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College (USA)."Who’s Tricksting Who: The Trickster Figure in African American Literature – Charles Chesmutt’s ‘The Goophered Grapevine’ and ‘The Passing Gradisone’."

Beth-Sara Wright – Spelman College (USA). "Emancipative Bodies: Politics of the Vagina, Memory and Healing in Jamaica Dancehall Culture."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 48:
SOCIOLOGIA E ANTROPOLOGIA III – COTAS E AÇÃO AFIRMATIVA NO BRASIL
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY III – BRAZILIAN QUOTAS AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Chair/Moderator: Carlos Alberto Medeiros – Journalist, State of Human Rights Secretary (Brasil).

Simone Freitas – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Cândido Mendes e CEAO/Fábrica de Idéias (Brasil) and Rosana Giordana M. Carvalho – Mestranda em Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Estudos Afro- Orientais, CEAO/Fábrica de Idéias Brazil). "Os Discursos da Mídia sobre Ações Afirmativas no Brasil."

Andre Brandão – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, (Brasil). "Cotas para Negros nas Universidades e os Discurso sobre Méritos."

Carla Ramos - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais (Brasil). "‘Nem tão Pobres, Nem tão Negros’: Um Estudo de Caso Sobre Os Alunos Indeferidos no Vestibular de 2004 da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro"

Verena Alberti and Amilcar Araújo Pereira – Fundação Getúlio Vargas – CPDOC, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Movimento Negro e ‘Democracia Racial’ no Brasil: Entrevista com Lideranças do Movimento Negro."

Debatedora/Discussant: Angela Paiva, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 49:
MEDICINA III – MODELOS DE PREVENÇÃO E INTERVENÇÃO DA AIDS/HIV JUNTO AFRO-DESCENDENTES: SERVIÇOS DE SAÚDE EM COMUNIDADES AFRICANAS E DA DIÁSPORA
MEDICINE III – MODELS OF HIV/AIDS INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT: HEALTH CARE ISSUES IN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC COMMUNI
TIES

Coordenadora/Moderadora e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Joyce F. Kirk – Africology Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA). "Sangomas (African Doctors), Methods of HIV/AIDS Prevention in South Africa."

Florence Kyomugisha – Womens’s Studies Department, California University, Northridge (USA). "New Intervention Models for African Orphan Households."

Osei-Mensah Aborampah – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA). "Ghanaian Traditional Healers and Problems of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention."

Anthony J. Lemelle Jr. – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of California, Berkeley, Office of the President (USA). "Lessons Learned in California’s Prevention Intervention Efforts: Racialization and the Spread of HIV."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 50:
INFÂNCIA E JUVENTUDE: CRIATIVIDADE E PREOCUPAÇÕES
CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH CREATIVITY AND CONCERN

Chair/Moderator: Luiz Carlos Gá - Designer Gráfico

Christen Smith – PhD Candidate, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University (USA). "Shock and Siege: Street Theater and the Verbal Revolution without Firearms in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil."

Flavia Bastos – Art Education, College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning, University of Cincinnati (USA). "A Cross-cultural Examination of a Community-based Art Program for Black Atlantic Urban Youth in Brazil and the United States."

Lorelei Williams – Founder and Director of Projeto Mentes e Portas Abertas, Salvador, Bahia and Development Consultant for Brazil Foundation, New York City (USA). "The Road to Brasília: POMPA & A Generation of Afro-Brazilian Leaders."

Ana Aparício – University of Massachusetts (USA). "Dominicans, Diasporas, and Power: Re-Routing Race and Politics."

Vera Lucia Néri - Instituto Baoba e Jaime da Silva – SICAM - Sociedade Independente de Cultura e Aprendizagem de Manguinhos (Brasil). "Juventude Negra e Desigualdades No Brasil."

Local/Location: Rio de Janeiro 2

Mesa Redonda
Roundtable
"Enciclopédia da Diáspora Africana: (...)"
"Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: A Progress Roundtable."

Coordenadores/Coordinators: Rose Thevenin- Florida Memorial University and Carole Boyce Davies – African New-World Studies, Florida International University and ASWAD Board Member.

Participantes/Participants: Keshia Abraham – Florida Memorial University – "Women, Writing and Resistance in the African Diaspora"; Monica Jardine, SUNY – Buffalo – "Caribbean Migration and the African Diaspora"; Greg Thomas – Syracuse University – "Hip Hop Culture in the African Diaspora"; Sabrina Collins (PhD Candidate, Florida International University, USA) and Babacar M’Bow (Broward County Library, Florida, USA)- "The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora."


10:45/12:45

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 51:
HISTÓRIA VI – DIASPORA AFRICANA E EXPERIÊNCIAS SOVIÉTICAS
HISTORY VI – THE SOVIET DIASPORA EXPERIENCE

CoordedChair/Moderator: Allison Blakely – African American History, Boston University (USA).

Erik S. McDuffie – African American Studies and Research Program/Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois (USA). "‘The Greatest Experience of My Life’: Louise Thompson’s 1932 Journey through the Soviet Union and the Making of a Black Radical Internationalist Feminist."

Joy Carew – Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville (USA). "Selling Hope: Du Bois, Hughes, and Robeson Extolling the Soviet Experiment."

JoAnne Van Tuyl – Duke University (USA). "Soviet Scripting of Race: Examining the 1932 Screenplay of Grebner’s Blacks and Whites."

Meredith Roman – Department, SUNY Brockport (USA). "Keepin’ It Real: African Americans in Moscow’s International Lenin School and the Demands that the Promises of Soviet ‘Racelessness’ be Fulfilled, 1931-1932."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 2

Painel/Session 52:
CONCEITUANDO A DIÁSPORA V
CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA V


Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez - History Department, New York University and ASWAD Board Director (USA).

Elisa Larkin Nascimento – IPEAFRO - Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro- Brasileiros, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "O Olhar Afrocentrado: O Significado da Afrocentricidade e sua Relevância para a Diáspora Afro-Latina das Américas."

Enilce Albergarai Rocha, Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas , Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais (Brasil). "Tradição e Modernidade: Irrupção da Nação Moçambicana em Terra Sonâmbula e em Veranda do Frangipani, de Mia Couto."

Liv Sovik – Communications School, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Stuart Hall and Guerreiros Ramos: Comparisons and Contrasts."

Flávio Goncalves dos Santos – Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (Brasil). "O Discurso dos Intelectuais Afro-brasileiros num Contexto de Disputa Racial na Bahia, 1889/1937."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 53:
RAÇA E ETNICIDADE IV – DESIGUALDADE E AÇÃO AFIRMATIVA NO BRASIL
RACE & ETHNICITY IV – INEQUALITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN BRAZIL

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Renato Emerson dos Santos PPCor/LPP/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Ações Afirmativas: As Experiências de Acesso e Permanência."

João Feres Junior – Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) and Diogo Lyra, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Discriminação Racial no Brasil e a Teoria do Reconhecimento de Axel Honnet."

Jacques d’Adesky – Instituto de Humanidades e Centro de Estudos das Américas, Universidade Cândido Mendes (Brasil). "Desprezo Social, Esquecimento e Responsabilidade Moral."

Amauri Mendes Pereira – Centro de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros, Universidade Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "O Tao da Questão Racial no Pensamento Social no Brasil."

Hugo de Oliveira Barbosa – Pontifícia Universidade Católica e Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisa da Cidadania Plena, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "Relationships and Connections between Africa and its Diasporas."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 54:
ESTUDOS CULTURAIS NEGROS NORTE AMERICANOS
NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES

Coordenador/Moderador e Conferencista – Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Imani Johnson – Doctoral student, Program for American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USA). "Alien-Nation, Blackness, and Third-World Belonging in Spook Who Sat by the Door."

Michelle Denise Commander – Doctoral student, Program for American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USA). "Sister Outsider: African American Expatriate Women Seeking Sisterhood in Paris."

Sionne Rameah Neely – Doctoral student, Program for American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USA). "Bustin’ Loose: Nation- Making/Breaking and 50 Cent’s Embodiment of Alien Interiority."

Local/Location: Copacabana

Painel/Session 55:
BIOGRAFIAS E PERSONAGENS DA DIÁSPORA
BIOGRAPHIES OF DIASPORA PERSONAGES

Moderador/Moderator: Maria Elisa Teófilo Luna – Departamento da África – Ministério das Relações Exteriores (Brasil).

Jerome Branche - University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, USA. "Slavery, Subjection and Sufferation in Juan Francisco Manzano, a Nineteenth Century Cuban."

Lisa Earl Castillo – Doctoral Candidante, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasil). "Martiniano do Bomfim and the Construction of Discourse on Candomblé."

Hillina Seife – History Department, New York University, (USA). " ‘Africa Irredenta’ David A. Talbot: Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Foreign Affairs News Reporting in Addis Ababa and New York, 1937-1960."

Lindy Stiebel- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (South Africa). "Home and Exile- the Writing Career of Lewis Nkosi."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Painel Especial
Special Panel
" African Diaspora Studies: Developing the Field through Graduate Studies Training"

Jean Muteba Rahier – Anthropology, Florida International University (USA). "The Experiences of the International Seminar, ‘Interrogating the African Diaspora, 2004 & 2005’."

Percy Hintzen – African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley (USA)."The Importance of Sites of Transnational and Trans-Institutional Contacts for African Diaspora Graduate Studies."

Marlon Bailey – African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley (USA)."The Perspective of an Emerging Scholar."

Nicole Castor – Anthropology, University of Chicago (USA). "The Perspective of an Emerging Scholar."

Lyndon Phillips – OISE, University of Toronto (Canada). "The Perspective of an Emerging Scholar."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Mesa Redonda
Roundtable
"Entramos Negros e Saímos Afro-descendentes: A Importância de Santiago+5"
"Entramos Negros; Salimos Afrodescendientes: La Importancia de Santiago +5."

Coordenador/Participante – Coordinator and Participant: Jorge Romero Rodriguez – General Coordinator, Alianza Estratégica de Organizaciones Afro-Latino- Americanas y Caribeñas, Montevideo (Uruguay);

Participantes/Participants: Juanpedro Machado - Director, Instituto de Desarrollo Afro- Uruguayo, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura Montevideo (Uruguay); Miriam Gomes - Profesor, Maestría en Diversidad Cultural, Universidad Nacional de 3 de Febrero, Buenos Aires (Argentina); Orlando Ribeiro - Coordinator, Programa de Educación Juvenil, Instituto Superior de Formación Afro, Organizaciones Mundo Afro, Montevideo (Uruguay).


13:45/15:45

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 3

Painel/Session 56:
MÚSICA ATRAVÉS DA DIÁSPORA
MUSIC A CROSS THE DIASPORA


Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Julio César de Tavares – Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (Brasil) and ASWAD Conference Chair.

Waldemir Rosa – Mestrando em Antropologia Social, Universidade de Brasília (Brasil). "O Protesto Negro do Rap: Música e Identidade Brasileira."

Raymond Codrington – Director and Assistant Curator of the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies and Anthropology Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (USA). "Chat About What’s Happening: Global Transformations in Rap and Hip-Hop’s Being."

LaShonda Katrice Barnett – Sarah Lawrence College, New York (USA). "I got Thunder (And It Rings!): The Afrodiasporic ‘Voice’ in Music."

Allysson Fernandes Garcia – Mestrando in History, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brasil). "Cultura Hip-Hop e sua Influência na Construção de Socialidades e Identificações Juvenis em Goiânia."

Carlos Benedito Rodrigues da Silva – Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Alex Ratts – Universidade Federal de Goiás. "Trilhas Sonoras do Atlântico Negro: Música, Corporeidade e Espaço."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 57:
GÊNERO III – PERSPECTIVA DE GÊNERO SOBRE A SAÚDE E DIÁSPORA AFRICANA
GENDER III – GENDERED PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Coordenadoras/Moderadoras – Chair/Moderator: Assata Zerai and Karen Fox

Assata Zerai – Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Penn State University (USA). "Spousal Communication Concerning HIV in Zimbabwe: Application of African Feminism."

Karen Flynn – African American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois (USA). "Living Healthy Lives: Black Women Health in Toronto."

Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni –Departments of Business and Geography respectively, Dominican University of California (USA). "Gendered Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi."

Clifford Odimegwu – University of The Witwatersrand (South Africa). "Men’s Health- Seeking Behavior in Nigeria: Limits of Masculine Stoicism." And "Does it cost to be a Man?: An Analysis of Social and Health Consequences of Masculinity in Nigeria."

Local/Location: Sala Arpoador

Painel/Session 58:
LITERATURA VI – ESCRITORES AFRICANOS E CRIOULOS
LITERATURE VI – AFRICAN AND CREOLE WRITERS

Coordenador/Moderador – Chair/Moderator: Laura Cavalcante Padilha - Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas, Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Simone Alexander – Afro-American Studies, Seton Hall (USA). "Re-Mapping Diasporic Spaces and Subjectivities: Edwidge Danticat’s Narratives of Re-Location and Resistance."

Irline François – Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, Goucher College (USA). "Mapping Sexuality in the Americas: Gendering Quisqueya and Brazil."

Carine Mardorossian – English Department, SUNY Buffalo (USA). "The Diaspora Other: Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter."

Brinda Mehta – (USA). "Diasporic Dissonance and the Violence of Memory in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker."

Adlai Murdoch – French Department, University of Illinois-Urbana (USA). "Exile, Memory and Place in Edwdige Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory."

Local/Location: Sala Botafogo

Painel/Session 57:
GÊNERO III – PERSPECTIVA DE GÊNERO SOBRE A SAÚDE E DIÁSPORA AFRICANA
GENDER III – GENDERED PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Coordenadoras/Moderadoras – Chair/Moderator: Assata Zerai and Karen Fox

Assata Zerai – Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Penn State University (USA). "Spousal Communication Concerning HIV in Zimbabwe: Application of African Feminism."

Karen Flynn – African American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois (USA). "Living Healthy Lives: Black Women Health in Toronto."

Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni –Departments of Business and Geography respectively, Dominican University of California (USA). "Gendered Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi."

Clifford Odimegwu – University of The Witwatersrand (South Africa). "Men’s Health- Seeking Behavior in Nigeria: Limits of Masculine Stoicism." And "Does it cost to be a Man?: An Analysis of Social and Health Consequences of Masculinity in Nigeria."

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1

Painel/Session 59:
EDUCAÇÃO IV – PEDAGOGIAS DA COMUNICAÇÃO
EDUCATION IV – COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGIES

Coordenadora/Moderadora – Chair/Moderator: Lucia Araújo – Futura Cable Television - Roberto Marinho Foundation (Brasil).

Ana Paula Brandão – Canal Futura (Brasil). "A Cor da Cultura: Uma Experiência em Media e Educação."

Peter Ogom Nwosu – Communication Studies, California State University at Northridge (USA). "Strengthening Communication Curriculum in Support of Development: The case for Africa: Part I."

Donald Taylor – Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento (USA). "Strengthening Communication Curriculum in Support of Development: The case for Africa: Part II."

Eddah Mutua-Kombo – Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento (USA). "Strengthening Communication Curriculum in Support of Development: The case for Africa: Part III."

Local/Location: Sala Copacabana

Painel/Session 60:
RELIGIÃO E ESPIRITUALIDADE III – EXPRESSÕES DA ESPIRITUALIDADE AFRO-AMERICANA E SUAS INFLUÊNCIAS
RELIGION AND SPIRITUALIITY III – AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION AND ITS INFLUENCE

Chair/Moderator: Sheila Walker – Senior Consultant, Phelps Stokley Foundation (USA).

Maria das Graças de Santana Rodrigué – Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (Brasil). "Oferenda".

Martha Sales Costa – Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brasil). "Uma Omorixá Yemanjá, sua Iniciação em Um Terreiro de Candomblé e Uma Nova Dinâmica."

Helena Theodoro – Universidade Gama Filho (Brasil). "Educação e Religião de Matriz Africana."

Patrícia Santos Schermann – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brasil)."Anti-escravismo e Colonialismo: A Trajetória do Padre Sorur Pharim Deng."

Local/Location: Sala Flamengo

Mesa Redonda
Roundtable
Sessão Brasileira Convidada
Brazilian Invited Session

16:00/18:00

Local/Location: Sala Rio de Janeiro 1 e 2

PLENÁRIA FINAL
FINAL PLENARY

19:00

FESTA DE ENCERRAMENTO
FAREWELL PARTY


Comitê de Organização
Organizing Committee

Julio Cesar de Tavares - Coordenador Geral / Chair
Professor de Antropologia e Comunicação / Professor of Anthropology and Communication
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
Yvonne Daniel
Professora Emérita de Dança e Estudos Afro-Americanos / Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies
Smith College, Northampton, Ma.
Ibrahim Sundiata
Professor de História / Professor of History
Brandeis University
Sheila Walker
Professora de Antropologia /Professor of Anthropology Phelps Stokes Foundation / Spelman College, Atlanta, GA.
James Millette
Professor de História / Professor of History
Oberlin College

Comitê de Organização Local
Local Conference Services

Wania Sant’Anna - Secretária Executiva / Executive Secretary
Historiadora / Historian
Luis Carlos Gá
Designer Gráfico / Graphic Designer
Marcio Alexandre M. Gualberto
Jornalista, Webmaster / Journalist - Webmaster
Carla Kildes
Jornalista, Relatoria / Journalist – Reporter
Maria Julia Ferreira
Curadoria / Curator of Art and Exhibitions
Christopher Peterson
Coordenador da Tradução Simultânea / Coordinator of Conference Interpreters

Tradução do Programa
Translation of Program

Alyxandra Gomes Nunes
Professora de Literatura Africana / Professor of African Literature, FEUDUC, Rio de Janeiro .
Vania Penha Lopes
Professora de Sociologia / Professor of Sociology, Bloomfield College, New Jersey (USA).
Liv Sovik
Professora de Comunicação / Professor of Communication, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro.
Maria Lúcia Mendes Pereira
Professora de Comunicação / Professor of Communication, UFTO, Tocantins.

Produção Operacional

Produção Operacional / Detail Eventos & Promocionais
Baalca – Tradução Simultânea, Som e Imagem

Assessoria de Imprensa Ivan Accioly

Filmagem
Jorge Canela
Haroldo Looes
Eduardo Sánchez

Fotografia

Wagner Sant’Anna

Fotolito

Play Arte

Impressão Gráfica

ABEGRAPH

ASWAD Board of Directors

Michael A. Gomez, Director
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies
New York University
Barbara Krauthamer, Treasurer
Assistant Professor of History
New York University
Yvonne Daniel, Secretary
Professor of Dance and Afro-American Studies
Smith College
Lisa Aubrey
Associate Professor of Political Science
Ohio University
Boubacar Barry
Professor of History
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar
Abena Busia
Professor of Literature
Rutgers University
Yvonne Daniel
Professor of Dance and Afro-American Studies
Smith College
Howard Dodson
Director
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
David Barry Gaspar
Professor of History
Duke University
Michael A. Gomez
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies
New York University
Robert Hill
Professor of History and Editor-in-Chief, The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers
UCLA
John Hunwick
Professor of History and Religion
Northwestern University
Robin D.G. Kelley
Professor of History and Africana Studies
New York University
Joseph C. Miller
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History
University of Virginia
James Millette
Professor of History
Oberlin College
Micere Githae Mugo
Writer and Professor of Literature
Department of African American Studies, Syracuse
Colin Palmer
Professor of History
Princeton University
Sterling Stuckey
Professor of History
University of California, Riverside
Ibrahim Sundiata
Professor of History and Department Chair
Howard University
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Professor of History
Morgan State University
Julio Cesar de Souza Tavares
Associate Professor, Department of Communications
Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Sheila Walker
Professor, Department of Anthropology & Annabel Irion Worsham
Centennial Professor, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Margaret Washington
Professor of History
Cornell University

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