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ASWAD EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING/ REUNIÃO DA DIRECTORIA DA ASWAD/ REUNIÓN DE LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA DE ASWAD |
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Hibiscus
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| 13:00-13:15 |
WELCOMING SESSION/ SESSÃO DE BOAS VINDAS/ SESIÓN DE BIENVENIDA |
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Needhams 1
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CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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RITUAL AND BELIEF IN EARLY BARBADOS AND GUYANA/ RITUAL E CRENÇA NOS PRIMÓRDIOS DE BARBADOS E GUYANA/ RITUAL Y CREENCA EN EL COMIENZO DE BARBADOS Y GUYANA |
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Michael A. Gomez, History, New York University |
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Travis Glasson, History, Temple University, Slaves, Masters and Missionaries: Religious and Cultural Encounters on Codrington Plantation, Barbados
Jenny Shaw, History, New York University, Complementary Cosmologies: sites of shared religious ritual on Barbados Plantations, 1650-1692
Gordon E. A. Gill, African American Studies, Oberlin College, Cannibals, Big Men, and Ngangas: Rituals and Community Formation among the Enslaved in the Slave Society of Berbice (Guyana)
Vincent Brown, History, Harvard University, Discussant
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DIASPORA IN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE/ A DIÁSPORA EM PERSPECTIVA ECONÔMICA/ LA DIÁSPORA EN SU CONTEXTO ECONÓMICO |
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Rubin Patterson, Sociology and Africana Studies, University of Toledo |
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Anthony Paul Andrews, Economics and Liberal Studies, Global Trade Research Institute, Globalization and Equity in the Caribbean: A Time Series Analysis from 1970 - 2005
Karl Ellis Johnson, Social Science and Human Services, Ramapo College of New Jersey, China’s New Relationship with Sub-Saharan Africa: Will Chinese economic investment help lift Africa out from its Neo-Colonialist Past?
Umar Moulta-Ali, Sociology, The Ohio State University, Democratization and Political Insurgency in Extractive Economies
Rubin Patterson, Sociology and Africana Studies, University of Toledo, Africa’s Pioneering Strategies for Transformative Development: Winning with Brain Circulation and Eco-Industries |
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LANGUAGE AS POWER, MEMORY, AND SOCIAL CONTROL/ LINGUAGEM COMO PODER, MEMÓRIA E CONTROLE SOCIAL/ EL LENGUAJE COMO PODER, MEMORIA Y CONTROL SOCIAL |
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T. Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel, Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill |
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Constancio K. Nakuma, French and Languages, Clemson University, Borders of Death?: Ominous Echoes of the Berlin Conference of 1884 on African Languages
Norma Rosas Mayén, Foreign languages and Literatures, Wittenberg University, Costeño Spanish, An Afro-Hispanic Variety on the Brink of Extinction, Spoken in the Costa Chica Region of Oaxaca, Mexico
Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel, Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill, Empréstimos do Português nas línguas faladas no país dos Tabom |
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AUTONOMY, AGENCY, AND COMMUNITY IN SLAVE SOCIETIES/ AUTONOMIA, AGENCIAMENTO E COMUNIDADE NAS SOCIEDADES ESCRAVOCRATAS/ AUTONOMIA, AGENCIA Y COMUNIDAD EN LAS SOCIEDADES DE ESCLAVOS |
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Margaret Washington, History, Cornell University |
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Claudius Fergus, History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, The Enslaved as Litigants: Cases before the Protectorate and Criminal Courts during the Amelioration in Trinidad (1824 – 1834)
Paula Saunders, Anthropology, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, Gender, Kinship, and Resistance: Case Study of an Enslaved African Community in Jamaica
Tamara J. Walker, History, University of Michigan, Color Lines and Social Lines: Clothing as an Index of Status in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru
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RACISM AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE/ RACISMO E INJUSTIÇA SOCIAL/ /EL RACISMO Y LA INJUSTICIA SOCIAL |
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Filomina Steady, Africana, Gender and Environmental Studies, Wellesley College |
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Jill Rowe-Adjibogoun, African American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Contesting Imagined History: A Community’s Struggle To Reclaim Richmond’s African Burial Grounds
Wilma E. Waithe, Office of Minority Health, New York State Department of Health, Exploring the invisibility of immigrants of the African Diaspora in acculturation theory and Research
Filomina Steady, Africana, Gender and Environmental Studies, Wellesley College, Environmental Justice in the African Diaspora and in Africa
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Garrison 1
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BLACK WOMEN MAKING POWER: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES OF SELF-EMPOWERMENT IN THE HERITAGE OF SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM/ PODER FEITO POR MULHERES NEGRAS: ESTRATÉGIAS ALTERNATIVAS DE AUTO EMPODERAMENTO EM FACE DA HERANÇA ESCRAVISTA E DO COLONIALISMO/ NEGRAS HACIENDO EL PODER: ESTRATEGIAS ALTERNATIVAS DE AUTO-EMPODERACIÓN EN LA HERENCIA DE LA ESCLAVITUD Y EL COLONIALISMO |
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Kim Butler, Africana Studies, Rutgers University
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Camillia Cowling, Leverhulme Trust (UK)/Universidade Cândido Mendes, ‘Day by Day and Night by Night’: Women, Urban Claims-Making and the Ending of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1888
Chouki El-Hamel, History, Arizona State University, Surviving Slavery: Sexuality and Female Agency in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Morocco
Kim Butler, Africana Studies, Rutgers University, About Her Business: Black Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Making of Queens in Brazil
Stanlie M. James, African and African American Studies, Arizona State University, Discussant |
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| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007 ~ TERÇA-FEIRA, 9 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MARTES, 9 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ~ TERÇA-FEIRA, 9 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MARTES, 9 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 15:30-17:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES: AN AUTHORS’ ROUNDTABLE/ A DIÁSPORA AFRO-CARIBENHA NOS EUA: UMA MESA REDONDA COM AUTORES/ LA DIÁSPORA AFRO-CARIBEÑA EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: UNA MESA REDONDA CON AUTORES |
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Richard Goodridge, History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Chair |
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Percy C. Hintzen, African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley (author of West Indians in the West: Self Representations in a Migrant Community)
Winston James, History, University of California, Irvine (author of Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America)
Violet Showers Johnson, History, Agnes Scott College (author of The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950)
Milton Vickerman, Sociology, University of Virginia (author of Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race)
Irma Watkins-Owens, African and African American Studies, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (author of Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930) |
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Needhams 1
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN SLAVERY STUDIES/ NOVAS DIREÇÕES NOS ESTUDOS SOBRE ESCRAVIDÃO NOVAS DIREÇÕES NOS ESTUDOS SOBRE ESCRAVIDÃO/ NUEVAS DIMENSIONES DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE LA ESCLAVITUD |
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Sterling Stuckey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Riverside |
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William Harris, History, Cornell University, Fear and Violence in Antebellum Mississippi
Rashauna Johnson, History, New York University, Port of Call: Cosmopolitanism of a Different Shade in New Orleans
Joseph Brent Morris, History, Cornell University, ‘You ain't right yet, Marster’: Constructions of Self in the Antebellum South and the Power Counterpoint Between Men
David M. Stark, History, Grand Valley State University, New Ways of Looking at the Past: The Use of Parish Registers to Reconstruct the Life Experience of Enslaved Populations in Eighteenth-Century Arecibo, Puerto Rico |
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Peninsula 1
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THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND ATLANTIC ECONOMY/ O MERCADO ESCRAVO E A ECONOMIA ATLÂNTICA/ LA TRATA NEGRERA ATLÁNTICA Y LA ECONOMÍA ATLÁNTICA |
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Jean Allman, History, Washington University, St. Louis, Chair |
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Edmund Abaka, Africana Studies and History, University of Miami, ‘In The Jaws of the Atlantic Slave Trade’: A Biography of São Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle) in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1400-1996
C. Magbaily Fyle, History, Ohio State University, Freedom, Identity, and the African American Experience: Perceptions of African Participation in the TransAtlantic Slave Trade
Kay Wright Lewis, GRAD STUDENT, History, Rutgers University, Visions of Violence, The Revival of the African Slave Trade
Warren Whatley, Economics, Afro-American and Africa Studies, University of Michigan, From Gold Coast to Slave Coast: West Africa in the Emerging Atlantic Economy, 1450-1850
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RECONSIDERING OLIVER C. COX: CAPITALIST SLAVERY, CULTURAL REGIMES, AND OTHER WORLD-HISTORICAL STRUCTURES/ RECONSIDERANDO OLIVER C. COX: ESCRAVIDÃO CAPITALISTA, REGIMES CULTURAIS E OUTRAS ESTRUTURAS DO MUNDO HISTÓRICO/ REPENSANDO A OLIVER C. COX: LA ESCLAVITUD CAPITALISTA, REGÍMENES CULTURALES Y OTRAS ESTRUCTURAS HISTÓRICAS GLOBALES |
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Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies |
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Cynthia Lucas Hewitt, Sociology, Morehouse College, The ‘Embedded’ Oliver C. Cox: The Rise of the Cultural Regime of Capitalism and the Challenge to World Civilization
Dellvin R. Williams, Sociology, SUNY at Binghamton, Trajectories: Conceptual Methodological Notes on Slavery and Servile Labor in the Mediterranean World-Economy from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries
Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies, Oliver C. Cox, Du Bois, and the Intertwined World-Historical Structures of ‘Race’ and ‘Labor’
William G. Martin, Sociology, SUNY at Binghamton, Discussant |
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Garrison 1
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NATIONALITY AND GENDER IN LATIN AMERICA/ NACIONALIDADE E GÊNERO NA AMÉRICA LATINA/ NACIONALIDAD Y GÉNERO SEXUAL EN LATINO AMÉRICA |
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Joseph Dorsey, History, Purdue University |
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Niza Fabre, Africana Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Social Struggle and Achievement
M'baré N'gom, World Languages and International Studies, African Studies, Morgan State University, Migration and Historical Memory in Lucía Charún-Illescas’ Malambo
Magaly G. Vera Macha, Instituto Cultural Ruricancho, Peru, La Paideia Retrograda: Memoria histórica y educación en la formación de la identidad: el caso afroperuano |
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Garrison 2
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REFLECTIONS ON ABOLITION AND EMANCIPATION/ REFLEXÕES SOBRE A ABOLIÇÃO E EMANCIPAÇÃO/ CONTEMPLACIONES DE LA ABOLICIÓN Y LA EMANCIPACIÓN |
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James Millette, African American Studies, Oberlin College |
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Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, English Studies, University of Montreal, Geographical Memory and Redefinitions of Emancipation
Carolyn Williams, History, University of North Florida, Am I Not a Man and a Brother, Am I Not a Woman and a Sister: The Transatlantic Crusade against the Slave Trade and Slavery
James Millette, African American Studies, Oberlin College, Abolition, Emancipation and Nation Building: Coincidence or Consequence?
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| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007 ~ TERÇA-FEIRA, 9 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MARTES, 9 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
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PLENARY SESSION/ SESSÃO PLENÁRIA/ SESIÓN PLENARIA |
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THE [ERIC] “WILLIAMS THESIS” REVISITED: A CONTINUING HISTORICAL LEGACY
RE-VISITANDO A TESE DE [ERIC] WILLIAMS: A PERSISTÊNCIA DO LEGADO HISTÓRICO
LA “TESIS WILLIAMS” [ERIC] VISITADA DE NUEVO: UN LEGADO HISTÓRICO CONTINUO
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Colin Palmer, History, Princeton University |
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Selwyn Carrington, History, Howard University, The Rise of Capitalism: the Economic Justification for the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
William Darity, Jr., Public Policy Studies, Duke University, Neoinstitutionalism, Capitalism and Slavery, and Uneven Development
Seymour Drescher, History and Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Emperors of the World: Abolitionism and Imperialism |
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| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 ~ QUARTA-FEIRA, 10 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MIERCOLES, 10 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 8:30-10:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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RITUALS, SYMBOLS, AND COMMUNITY IN THE DIASPORA/ RITUAIS, SÍMBOLOS E CULTURA COMUNITÁRIA NA DIÁSPORA/ RITUALES, SÍMBOLOS Y CULTURA COMUNAL EN LA DIÁSPORA |
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Christopher C. Fennell, Anthropology, University of Illinois |
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Henry Lovejoy, History, University of California, Los Angeles, Drums of Sàngó: Oyo Migration in the pan-Atlantic World (1817-67)
Martha Luz Machado Caicedo, National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and Its Legacy/NINSEE, Centre of Studies in Europe and Latin America, University of Van Amsterdam, El Arte Africano en las Esculturas Sagradas Amerindias de Colombia
Christopher C. Fennell, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Archaeological Explorations of African Diasporas and Symbolism in the New World
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Needhams 1
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WHEN IS A DIASPORA NOT A DIASPORA? PERSPECTIVES FROM ASIAN SEAS/ QUANDO A DIÁSPORA NÃO É DIÁSPORA? PERSPECTIVAS A PARTIR DOS MARES ASIÁTICOS/ ¿CUÁNDO NO |
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John E. Wills, Jr., History, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California |
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Sebouh Aslanian, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, From ‘trade diaspora’ to ‘Circulation Society’: Mobility and Circulation in the making of the Early Modern Indian Ocean Network of Julfan Armenians
Engseng Ho, Anthropology, Harvard University, When the Circulation Stops: Swahili-Yemenis Stuck in the Arabian Homeland
John E. Wills, Jr., History, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, Settled and Unsettled Chinese in Southeast Asia: Evidence from Texts, Inscriptions, and Cemeteries |
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Needhams 2
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CLAIMING NATION/PERFORMING DIASPORA: FESTIVAL, ETHNICITY AND BELONGING IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN/ REVINDICANDO NAÇÃO/ EXECUTANDO DIASPORA: FESTIVAL, ETINICIDADE E PERTENCIMENTO NA AMÉRICA LATINA E CARIBE/ AFIRMANDO NACIÓN/REPRESENTANDO DIÁSPORA: FESTIVAL, ETNIA, Y SENTIDO DE COMUNIDAD |
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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, History, Professor Emerita, Morgan State University |
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Nicole Castor, Anthropology and Africana Studies, Texas A&M University, Play Yuhself: Emancipation Festivals in the Diaspora
Renee Alexander Craft, Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, El Dia de la Etnia Negra: The Politics of Be(com)ing/Performing “Afropanameño”
Tosha Grantham, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland College Park, Performance, Prayer and Play as Sites of Sacrifice, Healing and Renewal
Meida McNeal, Theatre, Speech and Dance, Brown University, From “recalcitrant minority” to the nation’s mainstage: The public emergence of
Indo-Trinidadian culture |
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Garrison 2
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EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL FORCE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN UPLIFT AND THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF THEIR EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND SOCIAL DISCOURSES/ EDUCAÇÃO COMO FORÇA SOCIAL: MULHERES AFRO- AMERICANAS EM ELEVAÇÃO E OS MÚLTIPLOS SIGNIFICADOS DE SUAS PRÁTICAS EDUCACIONAIS E DISCURSOS SOCIAIS/ LA EDUCACIÓN COMO FUERZA SOCIAL: MUJERES AFRO-AMERICANAS EN EL MEJORAMIENTO Y LOS MULTIPLES SIGNIFICADOS DE SUS PRÁCTICAS EDUCATIVAS Y SUS DISCURSOS SOCIALES |
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Nikki Brown, History, Grambling State University |
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Stephanie Evans, History, University of Florida, Cooper and Bethune: Two Faces of Freedom, Justice, and Movement
Sonya Ramsey, History, University of Texas at Arlington, Giving a Hand-up Not a Hand-Out, Southern African American Women Non-Profit Workers, 1930s to the 1980s
Nikki Brown, History, Grambling State University, Spreading the Gospel of Good Citizenship: Circumventing Disenfranchisement Laws through Voting Registration Education |
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Peninsula 1
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GENDER, IDENTITY, AND THE LIMITS OF SOLIDARITY/ GÊNERO, IDENTIDADE E OS LIMITES DA SOLIDADIEDADE/ GÉNERO SEXUAL, IDENTIDAD, Y LOS LÍMITES DE LA SOLIDARIDAD |
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Diane Harriford, Sociology, Vassar College, Chair |
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Tameka L. Cage, English, Bucknell University, “Two Values in Conflict”: Modernity, Women’s Solidarity, and Social Change in Ousmane Sembene’s Moolaadè
Tekla Ali Johnson, History, Johnson C. Smith University, The Hazards of “School Daze”: Color and Gender Politics a Stubborn Legacy
Diane Harriford, Sociology, Vassar College, and Becky Thompson, Sociology, Simmons College, From ‘Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud,’ to Colorblindness, to Double Consciousness: Still on the Journey |
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SEX, RACE, AND SOCIOCULTURAL PARAMETERS OF HIV/AIDS/ SEXO, RAÇA E PARÂMETROS SÓCIO-CULTURAIS DO HIV/AIDS/ SEXO, RAZA Y PARÁMETROS SOCIOCULTURALES DEL VIH/SIDA |
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Bruce H. Wade, Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College |
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Allison Moses, Social Economist, Consultant, Freedom Denied? The Social and Economic Consequences of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
Robin Stanback Stevens, Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Shawnika Hull, Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Angel Ho, Communication, University of Pennsylvania From TV to Testing: Linking the KNOW HIV/AIDS Media Campaign to HIV Prevention Behavior among Adolescents
Bruce H. Wade, Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College, and Michael Hodge, Sociology, Morehouse College, Racial and Diasporic Identities and Sexual Attitudes Among Historically-Black Colleges and University Students in the Face of a Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic
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Garrison 1
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| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 ~ QUARTA-FEIRA, 10 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MIERCOLES, 10 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 10:30-12:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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BLACK FREEDOM AS A GLOBAL ISSUE: AFRICAN DIASPORIC RADICALISM AND THE EARLY COLD WAR/ LIBERDADE NEGRA COMO UM ASSUNTO GLOBAL: RADICALISMO DIASPÓRICO AFRICANO NOS TEMPOS DA GUERRA FRIA/ LA LIBERTAD NEGRA COMO UN ASUNTO GLOBAL:EL RADICALISMO DE LA DIÁSPORA NEGRA Y LOS PRIMEROS AÑOS DE LA GUERRA FRÍA |
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Penny Von Eschen, History, University of Michigan |
| Panelists: |
Margaret Burnham, School of Law, Northeastern University, Cold War Politics, the Black American Movement and the South African Freedom Charter
Jacqueline Castledine, History, Northeastern University ‘The Link With You We Have Always Hoped For’: Anticolonial Feminism in the Age of McCarthy
Robbie Lieberman, History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale‘Another Side of the Story’: African American Intellectuals Speak Out for Peace and Freedom during the Early Cold War Years
Erik S. McDuffie, African American Studies and Research Program/Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spotlight on Africa: The Council on African Affairs and the Suppression of African American Diasporic Radicalism during the McCarthy Period |
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Needhams 1
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HAITI AND THE DIASPORIC IMAGINATION/ HAITI E A IMAGINAÇÃO DIASPÓRICA/ HAITÍ Y LA IMAGINACIÓN DE LA DIÁSPORA |
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Daniel Littlefield, History, University of South Carolina |
| Panelists: |
Jossiana Arroyo, Spanish and Portuguese and African and African-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Genealogies: Modernity, Freemasonry and Revolution in the Atlantic-Caribbean
Tiffany Patterson, African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University, What Haiti Meant to Zora Neale Hurston’s Politics
Jason Young, History, SUNY at Buffalo, ‘...And Muddy the Water’: An (African) American Diaspora in Zora Neale Hurston’s Haiti, Jamaica, and United States |
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Needhams 2
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DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES: NEW AND OLD TEMPORALITIES/ COMUNIDADES DIASPÓRICAS: NOVAS E VELHAS TEMPORALIDADES/ COMUNIDADES DE LA DIÁSPORA: NUEVAS Y VIEJAS TEMPORALIDADES |
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Patrick Manning, History, University of Pittsburgh |
| Panelists: |
Yvonne Captain, Latin American Film and International Affairs, Romance Languages and Literatures, George Washington University, The New Diaspora: Recent African Migrants in Europe
Thely Lopes, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, SUNY-Albany, The Location of Race Among Brazilian Immigrants in the U.S.
Birte Timm, History, University of Erfurt, Migration and the Decolonization of Jamaica: The “Jamaica Progressive League“ in New York und Kingston 1936 – 1962
Patrick Manning, History, University of Pittsburgh, The Old-World African Diaspora: Parallels to and Divergences
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Garrison 2
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GENDERED AND RACIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN CINEMA/ REPRESENTAÇÕES DE GÊNERO E RAÇA NO CINEMA/ REPRESENTACIONES DE GÉNERO Y DE RAZA EN EL CINE |
| Chair: |
Gladstone L. Yearwood, Film, Centre for Creative Imagination, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill |
| Panelists: |
James Burns, History, Clemson University, Cinema and Black Identity in the African Diaspora, 1900 to 1918
Leslie Campbell Grant, Africana Studies, University of Arizona, We’ve Come a Long Way, or Have We? Representations of African American Women in Julia, The Cosby Show, Living Single, and Girlfriends
Kamille Gentles Peart, Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Television and the Construction of West Indian Women’s Immigrant Identity
Gladstone L. Yearwood, Film, Centre for Creative Imagination, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill, Documentary in the Black Cultural Tradition |
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Peninsula 1
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ENVISIONING FREEDOM AND RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CARIBBEAN/ VISUALIZANDO LIBERDADE E RECONSTRUINDO IDENTIDADE NO CARIBE NO SÉCULO XIX E PRIMÓRDIOS DO SÉCULO XX/ IMAGINANDO LA LIBERTAD Y RECONSTRUYENDO LA IDENTIDAD EN EL CARIBE DEL SIGLO 19 Y EL COMIENZO DEL SIGLO 20 |
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James Millette, African American Studies, Oberlin College |
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Edwina Ashie-Nikoi, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, In My Own Native Land”: Insights from Carriacou Migration, 1851 – 1937
Aisha Finch, Presidential Scholar, University of California, Making Nation, Making Blackness in Cuba’s Conspiracy of 1844
Tanya Huelett, History, New York University, Visions of a Free Society: Post Revolutionary Imaginings and the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865
Natasha Lightfoot, History, Columbia University, ‘Mashing Ants’ in Difficult Times: Antiguan Freedpeople’s Survival Tactics During the 1840s |
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Garrison 1
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HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND THE COMMONWEALTH/ SAÚDE, EDUCAÇÃO E O BEM COMUM/ LA SALUD, LA EDUCACIÓN Y LA MANCOMUNIDAD |
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Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, Human Development, SUNY at Binghamton |
| Panelists: |
Laretta Henderson, Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, The Representation of Slavery in African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature: A Study of the Works of Julius Lester
Madia Jemina Thomson, History, Boston University, A Settling Mission: James M. Thomson and the Establishment of the Mount Vaughn School at Cape Palmas, Liberia
Yvonne C. Williams, Black Studies, DePauw University, The Jeanes Supervisors: Diasporic Educational Vision
Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz, Human Development, SUNY at Binghamton, Antonia Sáez Torres: Education, Racial Uplift, and Social Change in Early-Twentieth Century Puerto Rico
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Peninsula 2
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| 12:15-13:30 |
LUNCH/ ALMOÇO/ ALMUERZO |
| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 ~ QUARTA-FEIRA, 10 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MIERCOLES, 10 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 13:30-15:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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CARIBBEAN WOMEN AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION: SPATIAL MOVEMENT AND GENDER/ MULHERES CARIBENHAS E MIGRAÇÃO TRANSNACIONAL: MOVIMENTO ESPACIAL E GÊNERO/ /LAS MUJERES CARIBEÑAS Y LA EMIGRACIÓN TRANSNACIONAL: EL MOVIMIENTO ESPACIAL Y EL GÉNERO SEXUAL |
| Chair: |
Carole Boyce Davies, English, African-New World Studies, Florida International University |
| Panelists: |
Veronique Helenon, History, African-New World Studies, Florida International University, Women of The Diaspora between France and the Caribbean
Monica Jardine, Professor Emerita, SUNY-Buffalo, Abandoning the Nation , or Engaging the New Regional Structure of Caribbean History: Journeys from Guyana to the U.S. and Canada
Hyacinth M. Simpson, English, Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University, ‘Mothers of the Nation’: Caribbean Domestic Workers and the Revisioning the Canadian National Identity
Carole Boyce Davies, English, African-New World Studies, Florida International University, Working Class Women and the Northern Migration Circuit. Gender, Labor, and the Super-Exploitation Thesis
Monica Gordon, Walden University, Discussant (to be confirmed) |
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Needhams 1
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MEMORY AND COMMUNITY IN THE DIASPORA NOVEL/ MEMÓRIA E COMUNIDADE EM ROMANCES DA DIÁSPORA/ MEMORIA Y COMUNIDAD IN LA NOVELA DE LA DIÁSPORA |
| Chair: |
Joyce Hope Scott, American Studies, Wheelock College |
| Panelists: |
Kimberly J. Banks, English, Communications, and Theatre Arts, Arcadia University, The Geography of Articulation: Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom
Jennifer Henton, English, Hofstra University, Buddha Sula
Joyce Hope Scott, American Studies, Wheelock College, In Search of “The City of Bones”: Tchamba/AdÈ Operatives in African Diaspora Novels |
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Peninsula 1
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RADICAL INTERNATIONALISM AND ANTI-COLONIALISM/ INTERNACIONALISMO RADICAL E ANTI-COLONIALISMO/ /INTERNACIONALISM RADICAL Y EL ANTI-COLONIALISMO |
| Chair: |
Erik S. McDuffie, African American Studies and Research Program/Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Panelists: |
Mark Christian, Black World Studies and Sociology, Miami University (Ohio), A Black British Indigenous Analysis of C.L.R. James' Beyond A Boundary
Robeson T. P. Frazier, African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Revisiting the Connections Between Asia and the African Diaspora—Mao Zedong, James Boggs and the Black Radical Tradition
Marc Goulding, History, New York University, Black Radical Networks and International Communism: The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, 1930–1933
Minkah Makalani, History, Rutgers University, The Union of all Oppressed Peoples Against Imperialism": Diasporic Black Radicals and Anti-Colonial Internationalism in the League Against Imperialism, 1927-1929 |
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Garrison 1
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SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND IDENTITY IN NARRATIVES FROM THE DIASPORA/ ESCRAVIDÃO, LIBERDADE E IDENTIDADE NAS NARRATIVAS DA DIÁSPORA/ LA ESCLAVITUD, LA LIBERTAD, Y LA IDENTIDAD EN NARRACIONES DE LA DIÁSPORA |
| Chair: |
Margaret Washington, History, Cornell University |
| Panelists: |
Brycchan Carey, English Literature, Kingston University, UK, Alice Curwen in Barbados: A Seventeenth-Century Abolitionist?
Robert S. Wolff, History, Central Connecticut University, Interrogating History; Enslavement/Slavery and the Narratives of the Historical Profession in the U.S. |
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Needhams 2
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RACE, IDENTITY, AND ETHNICITY/ RAÇA, IDENTIDADE E ETINICIDADE RAÇA, IDENTIDADE E ETINICIDADE/ RAZA, IDENTIDAD, Y ETNIA |
| Chair: |
Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies |
| Panelists: |
Sara Busdiecker, History, Texas A & M University, Race in Place: Locating Blackness in the Bolivian Landscape
Ana Teodoro Cleaver, History and Civilizations, École des Hautes Étudesen Sciences Sociales, The Haitian Diaspora in French Guyana: Colonialism, Identity and Immigration
Maria Roseane Corrêa Pinto Lima, History, Universidade Federal do Pará, Associação Nacional de História (ANPUH) Seção Pará, Barbadianos na Amazônia: imigração, identidade, memória e racismo
Danielle Terrazas Williams, History, Duke University, The Parasites of a “Mangy Parrot”: The Tide of Discourse on Blackness in Eighteenth-Century Mexico |
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Garrison 2
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TIME, SPACE, AND A DWELLING PLACE: HEALING AND HOME IN THE DIASPORA/ TEMPO, ESPAÇO E A MORADIA: CURA E CASA NA DIÁSPORA/ TIEMPO, ESPACIO Y MORADA: LA CURACIÓN Y EL HOGAR EN LA DIÁSPORA |
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Angelita D. Reyes, English and African and African American Studies, Arizona State |
| Panelists: |
Osunbimpe Abegunde (Maria Eliza Hamilton Bispo de Jesus Abegunde), Ritualist-in-Residence and Research Associate for Illinois Transatlantic Slave Trade Commission, and Ya Afriye We-kandodis, Director/Curator of the Slavery and Civil War Museum, Selma, The African American Museum as a Healing Site
Claudine Bonner, Education, University of Western Ontario, Beyond the Underground Railroad - A New Era in African-Canadian History
Gillian Richards-Greaves, Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Reconstructing “Home”: Kweh-Kweh Ritual and Afro-Guyanese Identity Negotiation
Angelita D. Reyes, English and African and African American Studies, Arizona State, Rights of Property and Rites of Home Place: Vicey Skipwith’s Elusive Autobiography and Visual Literacy on a Southern Virginia Landscape
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Peninsula 2
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| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 ~ QUARTA-FEIRA, 10 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MIERCOLES, 10 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 15:30-17:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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BEYOND NATIONALISM: THE IMPACT OF MARCUS GARVEY/ PARA ALÉM DO NACIONALISMO: O IMPACTO DE MARCUS GARVEY/ MÁS ALLÁ DEL NACIONALISMO: EL IMPACTO DE MARCUS GARVEY |
| Chair: |
Robert A. Hill, History, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Panelists: |
Adam Ewing, History, Harvard, Marcus Garvey and the Politics of Mobilization, 1916-1927
Frances Peace Sullivan, History, New York University, The UNIA in Cuba: Immigrant Garveyites and the Appeal of a Transnational Mass Movement
Robert A. Hill, History, University of California, Los Angeles, The Garvey Movement in the Caribbean: The Case of ‘Colonel’ George A. Morris of Barbados and Bermuda |
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Peninsula 1
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FICTION AS HISTORY, MEMORY, AND BIOGRAPHY/ FICÇÃO COMO HISTÓRIA, MEMÓRIA E BIOGRAFIA/ LA FICCIÓN COMO HISTORIA, MEMORIA Y BIOGRAFÍA |
| Chair: |
Shirley Toland-Dix, English, University of South Florida |
| Panelists: |
J. Dillon Brown, English, Washington University, St. Louis, Sovereign or Subject? Interrogating Freedom in the Novels of Earl Lovelace and Caryl Phillips
Gichingiri Ndigirigi, Africana Studies and English, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
Shirley Toland-Dix, English, University of South Florida, Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones: Interrogations of History and the Fictional Testimonio |
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Peninsula 2
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WOMEN, GODDESSES, AND THE PROBLEMATIC OF REPRESENTATION/ MULHERES, DEUSAS E A PROBLEMÁTICA DA REPRESENTAÇÃO/ MUJERES, DIOSAS Y LA PROBLEMÁTICA DE LA REPRESENTACIÓN |
| Chair: |
Ruth Iyob, Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis |
| Panelists: |
Rosetta D’Angelo, Italian Studies and Literature, Ramapo College of New Jersey, African Women Writing in Italy: The Shaping of a New Discourse
Akin Ogundiran, History, African-New World Studies, Florida International University, The Modernity of Black Atlantic Goddesses in the Bight of Benin
Giovana Xavier da Conceição Côrtes, Doutoranda em História Social da Cultura na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, Brasil), Cobras amaldiçoadas versus deusas de ébano: narrativas e diálogos em torno da “mulher de cor” em romances e na imprensa negra (Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, 1880-1950)
Ruth Iyob, Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Ornament of Empire: Representation(s) of Women in Italophone Africa |
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Needhams 1
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MUSIC AND DANCE: NATIONALIST AND TRANS-ATLANTIC IDENTITIES/ MÚSICA E DANÇA: IDENTIDADES NACIONALISTAS E TRANSATLÂNTICAS/ LA MÚSICA Y LA DANZA: IDENTIDADES NACIONALISTS Y TRANS-ATLÁNTICAS |
| Chair: |
Kathleen Phillips Lewis, History, Spelman College |
| Panelists: |
Manuel Apodaca-Valdez, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Wittenberg University, The Dances of the Devils: Pan-Afro-Latin American Performances of Identity and Resistance
La Tasha A. Brown, Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, The Universal Being the Local Without Walls: Yaad/Yard Hip Hop — Reggae and Hip-Hop Music in the African Diaspora
Adriana Carvalho Lopes, African-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, The Hybridization of National Identity in the Funk Carioca
Esailama Diouf, Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Staging the African: Trans-Atlantic Performances of West African Dance |
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Garrison 2
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‘FREE’ TO MOVE: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORA MIGRATIONS/ “LIVRE” PARA MOVIMENTAR-SE: MIGRAÇÕES DA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA CONTEMPORÂNEA/ LA “LIBERTAD” DE MOVIMIENTO: EMIGRACIONES CONTEMPORÁNEAS DE LA DIÁSPORA NEGRA |
| Chair: |
Selwyn Ryan, Professor Emeritus, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine |
| Panelists: |
François Durpaire, History, University of Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Identity Choices and Associations in the Africa Diaspora Communities of Contemporary France
Trica D. Keaton, American Studies & Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, The Social Reality of Race and the “Other France”: The Case of the 2005 “Riots”
Maggi M. Morehouse, History, University of South Carolina, Aiken, ‘Smiling Faces, Beautiful Place’: African Diaspora Return Migration in the New South
Elisa Joy White, Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Leaving to Remain: An Examination of the Contemporary African Diaspora in the Context of Modernity and Freedom |
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Garrison 1
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 ~ QUARTA-FEIRA, 10 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ MIERCOLES, 10 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 17:30-18:15 |
ASWAD GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING (for all members)
ASEMBLÉIA GERAL da ASWAD (para todos os sócios)
REUNIÓN GENERAL de ASWAD (para todos los socios) |
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Needhams Ballroom
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| 20:00-21:00 |
PLENARY SESSION/ SESSÃO PLENÁRIA/ SESIÓN PLENARIA |
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Needhams Ballroom
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IN CELEBRATION OF GEORGE LAMMING
NO CELEBRATION DE GEORGE LAMMING
EN CELEBRAR A GEORGE LAMMING
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| Chair: |
Mary Chamberlain, History, Oxford Brookes University |
| Panelists: |
Curwen Best, Language, Linguistics, and Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Mary Chamberlain, History, Oxford Brookes University
Philip Nanton, Associate Fellow, Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham
Winston James, History and Africa American Studies, University of California, Irvine
J. Dillon Brown, English, Washington University, St. Louis
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| 21:30-23:30 |
MUSIC AND DANCE ~ MÚSICA E DANÇA ~
MÚSICA Y BAILE
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 ~ QUINTA-FEIRA, 11 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ JUEVES, 11 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 8:30-10:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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THE GEOGRAPHY AND GENETICS OF AFRICA AND THE TRANSATLANTIC AFRICAN DIASPORA (PART 1)/ A GEOGRAFIA E A GENÉTICA DA ÁFRICA E DIÁSPORA AFRICANA TRANSATLÂNTICA (PARTE 1)/ LA GEOGRAFÍA Y LA GENÉTICA DE AFRICA Y LA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA TRANSATLÁNTICA (PARTE 1) |
| Chair: |
Fatimah Jackson, Biological Anthropology, University of Maryland |
| Panelists: |
Steve Prince, Physical Geography, University of Maryland, Geography of Africa
Bert Ely, Molecular Biology, University of South Carolina, Genetics of West and West Central African Groups
Shomarka Keita, Biological Anthropology, Howard University, Genetics and Morphometrics of East and North African Groups
SHORT DISCUSSION 1
Fatimah Jackson, Biological Anthropology, University of Maryland, mtDNA Variation in Africa: Linguistic and Geographical Dimensions
Latifa Borgelin, Molecular Biology, University of Arizona, Genetic Consequences of Infectious Disease in Africa
Teresa Leslie, Biological Anthropology, University of Maryland, The Middle Passage as a Constructing Force on African Genetic Variability
SHORT DISCUSSION 2
Junhao Ma, Nutritional Sciences, University of Maryland, African Environmental Influences on Disease Genes in the U.S.
Jamie Wilson, Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Genetics of African Caribbean Groups
Bruce Jackson, Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Genetics of African South American Groups
SHORT DISCUSSION 3
Henry Louis Gates, African American Studies, Harvard University, Discussant |
Location
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Needhams 1
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BREAKING THE SILENCE, LIFTING THE VEIL: ARTICULATING FEMALE OPPRESSION/ QUEBRANDO O SILÊNCIO, LEVANTANDO O VÉU: ARTICULANDO A OPRESSÃO FEMININA/ ROMPIENDO EL SILENCIO, ALZANDO EL VELO: PRONUNCIANDO LA OPRESIÓN FEMENINA |
| Chair: |
Deirdre Bucher Heistad, Modern Languages, University of Northern Iowa |
| Panelists: |
Candace M. Calloway, Radio, TV and Film, Howard University, Muted Voices: African American Women in Local News Media
Chioma L. Emwerem, Social Policy and Social Reform, Imo State University, Owerri, Violence Against Women in Selected Nigerian Video Films and Novels
Natasha Johnson-Lashley, Attorney, Legal Sanctuary for Families, Lost in the Movements: The Voice of the Battered Immigrant African Woman
Deirdre Bucher Heistad, Modern Languages, University of Northern Iowa, and Catherine MacGillivray, English, University of Northern Iowa, Slimane Benaïssa’s Beyond the Veil |
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Garrison 2
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PAN-AFRICANISM AS LIVED EXPERIENCE/ PAN-AFRICANISMO COMO EXPERIÊNCIA VIVIDA/ EL PAN-AFRICANISMO COMO EXPERIENCIA VIVIDA |
| Chair: |
Kwaku Larbi Korang, African American and African Studies, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University |
| Panelists: |
Ayele Bekerie, Africana Studies, Cornell University, Haile Selassie's Government Opposition to Repatriation: A Critical Assessment
Miniabiyi Ford, Medical Case Manager, Washington, D.C., The Life History of an Afro-Caribbean Repatriate to Ethiopia Mignon Lorraine Inniss Ford and her Pan-African Vision
Margaret D. Rouse-Jones, Campus Libraries, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and Estelle Appiah, Attorney-General’s Department, Ministry of Justice, Accra, West Indian Patriot in West Africa: A Case Study of George James Christian of Dominica and the Gold Coast
Kwaku Larbi Korang, African American and African Studies, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, ‘Ethiopia Unbound’: Modeling Post-Abolitionist African Freedom in the Thought of E. W. Blyden |
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Peninsula 1
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SLAVERY, MARYLAND, AND THE LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY/ ESCRAVIDÃO, MARYLAND E O PANORAMA DA MEMÓRIA/ LA ESCLAVITUD, EL ESTADO DE MARYLAND Y EL PAISAJE DE LA MEMORIA |
| Chair: |
Charles J. Holden, History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
| Panelists: |
Garrey Michael Dennie, Africa and African Diaspora, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Instruction, Ideology, and Historical Memory: The Case of Sotterley Plantation
Iris Carter Ford, Anthropology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Mapping the Commemoration of Slavery on the Maryland Landscape
Julia Ann King, Anthropology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The Past is a Rural Landscape: Race, Authenticity, and Memory at Maryland’s First Capital
Kathleen B. Meatyard, Sociology and Anthropology, Ethnobotany and
Ethnicity in the Maryland Tidewater
Sara Rivers-Cofield, Maryland Archeological Conservation Laboratory at Jefferson Park and Museum, French Refugees and Slave Abuse in Frederick County, Maryland: Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendière Family at L’Hermitage Plantation |
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Peninsula 2
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CONSUMING SLAVERY: THE AFRICAN ATLANTIC DIASPORA AND TOURISM/ CONSUMINDO A ESCRAVIDÃO: A DIÁSPORA ATLÂNTICA AFRICANA E TURISMO/ CONSUMIENDO LA ESCLAVITUD: LA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA DEL ATLÁNTICO Y EL TURISMO |
| Chair: |
Anna M. Dempsey, Art History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
| Panelists: |
Memory Holloway, Art, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth College, Slave with Iron Muzzle: Control, Consumption and Veneration
Lisa Maya Knauer, Anthropology, African and African-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Remembering Slavery, Performing Cuba
Anna M. Dempsey, Art History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Spectacular Spaces: Museums and the Representation of the Middle Passage |
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Garrison 1
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CULTURAL TRANSFER AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE DIASPORA/ TRANSFERÊNCIA CULTURAL E TRANSFORMAÇÃO NA DIÁSPORA/ TRANSFERENCIA Y TRANSFORMACIÓN CULTURALES EN LA DIÁSPORA |
| Chair: |
Ras Michael Brown, History, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale |
| Panelists: |
Virginia Gonsalves-Domond, Psychology, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Acculturative Issues among Afro-Caribbean Women
Karl Johnson, African-American Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Africanisms and Change in Gullah Culture
Ras Michael Brown, History, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Bântu-Kôngo Aspects of Transition in Gullah-Geechee Spirituality
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Needhams 2
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| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 ~ QUINTA-FEIRA, 11 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ JUEVES, 11 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 10:30-12:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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THE GEOGRAPHY AND GENETICS OF AFRICA AND THE TRANSATLANTIC AFRICAN DIASPORA (PART 2)/ A GEOGRAFIA E A GENÉTICA DA ÁFRICA E A DIÁSPORA AFRICANA TRANSATLÂNTICA (PARTE 2)/ A GEOGRAFÍA Y LA GENÉTICA DE AFRICA Y LA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA TRANSATLÁNTICA (PARTE 2) |
| Chair: |
Fatimah Jackson, Biological Anthropology, University of Maryland |
| Panelists: |
Steve Prince, Physical Geography, University of Maryland, Geography of Africa
Bert Ely, Molecular Biology, University of South Carolina, Genetics of West and West Central African Groups
Shomarka Keita, Biological Anthropology, Howard University, Genetics and Morphometrics of East and North African Groups
SHORT DISCUSSION 1
Fatimah Jackson, Biological Anthropology, University of Maryland, mtDNA Variation in Africa: Linguistic and Geographical Dimensions
Latifa Borgelin, Molecular Biology, University of Arizona, Genetic Consequences of Infectious Disease in Africa
Teresa Leslie, Biological Anthropology, University of Maryland, The Middle Passage as a Constructing Force on African Genetic Variability
SHORT DISCUSSION 2
Junhao Ma, Nutritional Sciences, University of Maryland, African Environmental Influences on Disease Genes in the U.S.
Jamie Wilson, Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Genetics of African Caribbean Groups
Bruce Jackson, Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Genetics of African South American Groups
SHORT DISCUSSION 3
Henry Louis Gates, African American Studies, Harvard University, Discussant |
Location
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Needhams 1
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THE DIASPORA’S IMPACT ON REGIONAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCE IN WEST AFRICA/ O IMPACTO DA DIÁSPORA NA DIFERENÇA REGIONAL E ÉTNICA NA ÁFRICA OCIDENTAL/ EL IMPACTO DE LA DIÁSPORA EN LAS DIFERENCIAS REGIONALES Y ÉTNICAS DE AFRICA OCCIDENTAL |
| Chairs: |
Benjamin Talton, History, Hofstra University
Allan C. Dawson, History, Anthropology, McGill University |
| Panelists: |
Bayo Halsey, African and African American Studies, Duke University, Slavery, Difference, and Diaspora: Imagining North and South in Ghana
Chima J. Korieh, History, Rowan University, Imaging Africa: Afro-Diaspora Missions in West Africa and the Issue of Race, Identity, and Representation
Allan C. Dawson, History, Anthropology, McGill University, The Centrality of Yoruba Culture in Diasporic Visions of Africa
Benjamin Talton, History, Hofstra University, The Political Currency of Slavery in Ghana and the African Diaspora |
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Garrison 1
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SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND MEMORY IN LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF A GENDERED DIASPORA/ ESCRAVIDÃO, LIBERDADE E MEMÓRIA NAS REPRESENTAÇÕES LITERÁRIAS DE GÊNERO NA DIÁSPORA / ESCLAVITUD, LIBERTAD Y MEMORIA EN REPRESENTACIONES LITERARIAS DE LA DIÁSPORA SEGÚN GÉNERO SEXUAL |
| Chair: |
Abena Busia, Literature, Rutgers University |
| Panelists: |
Julia D. Jay, English, San Jacinto Central College, ‘What a History You Have’: Ancestral Memory, Cultural History, Migration Patterns, and Quest for Autonomy in the Fiction of Jamaica Kincaid
Esther L. Jones, English and Women’s Studies, Emory University, Subjectivity, Space, and Spirituality: Towards a New Theory of Diaspora in Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar
Medha Nirody Karmarkar, French, Rutgers University, Forgotten Voices and Female Histories: Gisèle Pineau’s Femmes des Antilles: Traces et Voix and L’Exil Selon Julia
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, French and Italian, African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University, and Kathryn T. Gines, African American and Diaspora Studies, and Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Ruminations Beyond Negritude: Paulette Nardal and La Femme dans la Cité Women. On Race, Rights, and Women |
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FLIGHT, RESISTANCE, AND REBELLION IN AFRICA AND AMERICA/ VÔO, RESISTÊNCIA E REBELIÃO NA ÁFRICA E AMÉRICA/ HUIDA, RESISTENCIA, Y REBELLIÓN EN AFRICA Y EN AMÉRICA |
| Chair: |
Margaret Washington, History, Cornell University |
| Panelists: |
Adeline I. Apena, History, Russell Sage College, Nzinga, Nanny and Kilombo. Resistance and Liberation
Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, History, Norfolk State University, Escapes from ‘Worthless Sots: The Underground Railroad from Portsmouth, Virginia to Upper Canada
Graziela de Oliveira, Economics, UFPB (retired), Vencendo Adversidades em Tempos de Escravidão |
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Garrison 2
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DIASPORIC JOURNEYS FROM SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM TO FREEDOM: PASSAGEWAYS OF PAIN; CHANNELS OF HEALING/ JORNADAS DIASPÓRICAS DA ESCRAVIDÃO E COLONIALISMO À LIBERDADE: PASSAGENS DE DOR; CANAIS DE CURA/ VIAJES DE LA DIÁSPORAS DESDE LA ESCLAVITUD Y EL COLONIALISMO A LA LIBERTAD: PASILLOS DE DOLOR; CANALES DE CURACIÓN |
| Chair: |
Kathleen Phillips Lewis, History, Spelman College |
| Panelists: |
Gnimbin Ouattara, History, Georgia State University, Responses to the Civilizing Mission: “Cherokee and Western African Women in the Lancasterian Schools of the ABCFM
Beth-Seth Wright, African Diaspora and the World, Spelman College, Emancipative Bodies: Politics of the Vagina, Memory and Healing in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Kathleen Phillips Lewis, History, Spelman College, Water and Water Deities as Diasporic Channels for Their Healing, Passageways to Freedom
Danille K. Taylor, Dean of Humanities, Dillard University, Discussant |
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Peninsula 2
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RACE, GENDER, AND IDENTITIES OF THE SELF/ RAÇA, GÊNERO, E IDENTIDADES DE SI/ /RAZA, GÉNERO E IDENTIDADES DEL YO |
| Chair: |
Gilman W. Whiting, African American and Diasporic Studies, Vanderbilt University |
| Panelists: |
Kanika Batra, English, Texas Tech University, ‘Our Own Gayful Rest’: A Postcolonial Archive of Gay and Lesbian Community Building in Jamaica
Cameron Van Patterson, African and African American Studies, Harvard University, (Re)Dressing the Racial Body: Sartorial Arts of the African Diaspora as the Discourse of Masking
Gilman W. Whiting, African American and Diasporic Studies, Vanderbilt University, Men, Masculinities, and Fathering: South Africa and the United States |
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Needhams 2
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| 12:15-13:30 |
LUNCH/ ALMOÇO/ ALMUERZO |
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 ~ QUINTA-FEIRA, 11 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ JUEVES, 11 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 13:30-15:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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SLAVERY, PLANTATIONS, AND ETHNO-RACIALIZED LABOR: ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION, IDENTITIES, COERCION, AND RESISTANCE/ ESCRAVIDÃO, PLANTAÇÕES E TRABALHO ETNO-RACIALIZADO: EXPLORAÇÃO ECONÔMICA, IDENTIDADES, COERÇÃO E RESISTÊNCIA/ ESCLAVITUD, PLANTACIONES, Y LABOR ETNO-RACIALIZADA: EXPLOTACIÓN ECONÓMICA, IDENTIDADES, COERCIÓN Y RESISTENCIA |
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Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies |
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Joseph Dorsey, History, Purdue University, African Ethnicity and Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and Puerto Rico
Jorge L. Giovannetti, Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Racial Subjects: Caribbean Plantations from Slavery to the Present
Zhandarka Kurti, Sociology, SUNY at Binghamton, The Ethno-Racialized Coercion of Slaves, Peasants, and Migrants, 1830s-1890s
Reynaldo Ortíz, Sociology, SUNY at Binghamton, Capitalist Accumulation, Racialized Labor, and Caribbean Plantation Slavery |
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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL SINCE THE AGE OF REVOLUTION/ O NEGRO INTERNACIONAL DESDE A ERA DA REVOLUÇÃO/ EL NEGRO INTERNACIONAL DESDE LA ÉPOCA DE REVOLUCIÓN |
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Savi Horne, Executive Director, Land Loss Prevention Project (Durham, North Carolina) |
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Sylvia Frey, History, Professor Emerita, Tulane University, The American Revolution and the Creation of a Global African World
Brian Meeks, Social and Political Change, University of West Indies-Mona, The Rise and Fall of Caribbean Black Power
Lara Putnan, History, University of Pittsburgh, ‘Nothing Matters But Color’: Transnational Circuits, the Interwar Caribbean, and the Black International
Michael O. West and William G. Martin, Sociology, SUNY at Binghamton University, The Contours of the Black International, from Toussaint to Tupac |
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SELF-DETERMINATION ON THE URBAN LANDSCAPE - BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY IN THE CITY AND THE IDEA OF FREEDOM/ AUTO–DETERMINAÇÃO NO PANORAMA URBANO - HISTÓRIA DE MULHERES NEGRAS NA CIDADE E A IDÉIA DE LIBERDADE/ LA AUTO-DETERMINACIÓN EN EL PAISAJE URBANO – LA HISTORIA DE LA MUJER NEGRA EN LA CIUDAD Y LA IDEA DE LA LIBERTAD |
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Kali Nicole Gross, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University |
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, History, University of Delaware, Reading and Writing the Public and the Personal: African-American Women's Writings in Antebellum Philadelphia
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, History, Indiana University, 'Landholding Slaveholders and Taxpaying Members of Society': Free Black Women's Articulations of Citizenship in the Antebellum South
Kali Nicole Gross, History and Africana Studies, Drexel University, Mary Hannah Tabbs, Murderess: Crime and Social Violence in 19th Century Philadelphia |
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MEMORIES OF PLACE AND IMAGININGS OF RACE: LOCATING AFRICAN DIASPORIC SUBJECTIVITIES/ MEMÓRIAS DE LUGARES E IMAGINAÇÃO DE RAÇA: TERRITORIALIZANDO SUBJETIVIDADES AFRO-DIASPÓRICAS/ LOS RECUERDOS DE LUGAR E IMAGINACIONES DE RAZA: LOCALIZANDO SUJETIVADES DE LA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA |
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Michael A. Gomez, History, New York University |
| Panelists: |
Frank Guridy, History and African and African-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Uncovering an Afro-Diasporic Past in Cuba’s Present
Juliet Hooker, Government and African and African-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Where is Africa? Negotiating Creole/Black Diasporic Identities in Contemporary Nicaragua
Jemima Pierre, Anthropology and African and African-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Touring Heritage? Making Race?: African-African Diasporic Interactions in Urban Ghana
Christen Smith, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Discussant |
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Garrison 1
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THEMATIC CONSTRUCTIONS OF SLAVE SOCIETIES/ CONSTRUÇÕES TEMÁTICAS DE SOCIEDADES ESCRAVAS/ /CONSTRUCCIONES TEMÁTICAS DE LAS SOCIEDADES ESCLAVISTAS |
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Chouki El-Hamel, History, Arizona State University |
| Panelists: |
Sean Foley, History, Middle Tennessee State University, Thomas Jefferson, Keith Ellison, and African Muslims in Atlantic History
Yuko Miki, History, New York University, Rebellion between the Sea and the Hinterland: the Quilombola Benedito and the Maroon Community of São Mateus, Espírito Santo, Brazil, 1880-1885
Elaine P Rocha, Latin American Studies, History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, The Colours of Slavery in Brazil: Miscegenation and Gender |
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IMAGINATION, IDENTITY, AND LOCATIONS OF ARTISTIC POWER/ IMAGINAÇÃO, IDENTIDADE E LUGARES DE PODER DOS ARTISTAS/ IMAGINACIÓN, IDENTIDAD Y LOCALIZACIONES DEL PODER ARTÍSTICO |
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Ann Murphy, English, Assumption College |
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Charmaine Nelson, Art History, McGill University, Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Race, Location and Power in Transoceanic Visual Culture
Raél Jero Salley, Art History, University of Chicago, “Geo-Imagining,” Diasporic Imagination and the Construction of Identity: Yinka Shonibare and a Diary of a Victorian Dandy
Ann Murphy, English, Assumption College, Love, War, and Empire: Discovering and Creating Identity |
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| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 ~ QUINTA-FEIRA, 11 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ JUEVES, 11 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 15:30-17:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING DIASPORA/ ETNICIDADE E ESTRATIFICAÇÃO SOCIAL NA DIÁSPORA HISPÂNICA/ LA ETNIA IS ESTRATIFICACIÓN SOCIAL EN LA DIÁSPORA HISPANO-HABLANTE |
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Howard Dodson, Chief, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
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Rosa E. Carrasquillo, History, College of the Holy Cross, Black Heroism: Ismael Rivera in the Popular Imagination
Carmen Hutchinson Miller, History, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Afro-Caribbean Descendants: A Closer Look at Afro-Costa Ricans Today
Paula Moreno Zapata, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colombia, Ethnic Development and Freedom: The Main Dilemma for African Colombians |
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NARRATING MEMORY: INTERROGATIONS OF FREEDOM, RECONCILIATION AND REPARATIONS IN AFRICAN DIASPORA LITERATURE/ NARRATIVAS DA MEMÓRIA: INTERROGAÇÕES DE LIBERDADE, RECONCILIAÇÃO E REPARAÇÃO NA LITERATURA DA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA/ NARRANDO LA MEMORIA: INTERROGACIONES DE LIBERTAD, RECONCILIACIÓN Y REPARACIÓN EN LA LITERATURA DE LA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA |
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Abena Busia, Literature, Rutgers University |
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G. Oty Agbajoh-Laoye, English, Monmouth University, Conceptual Landscapes, Re-Memory, Interrogation of Freedoms and Ancestral Belonging in Selected African Diaspora Literature
Maureen N. Eke, English, Central Michigan University, Daughter of the Diaspora: (Re)Covering Diasporic Memory, History and Culture in Maryse Condé’s I Tituba (1986)
Joseph McLaren, English, Hofstra University, Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe: The Bajan "Migrant" Writer and Gender(ing) Memories
Lauren Sokol, History, Monmouth University, Imposing the Present on the Past: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me By My Rightful Name as Neo-Slave Narratives |
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Peninsula 1
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CARIBBEAN FEMALE AGENCY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIASPORAN IDENTITY/ AGENCIAMENTO FEMININO CARIBENHA E O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA IDENTIDADE DIASPÓRICA/ AGENCIA FEMENINA CARIBEÑA Y EL DESARROLLO DE UNA IDENTIDAD DE LA DIÁSPORA |
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Lesley Feracho, Romance Languages and African American Studies, University of Georgia |
| Panelists: |
Tiffany Adams, English, University of Georgia, A Conquered Commitment: Transatlantic Connections in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana
Lauren Chambers, English, University of Georgia, Remembering Home: Unpacking Women’s Identity in Geographies of Home
Lesley Feracho, Romance Languages and African American Studies, University of Georgia, Women's Journeys of Dominicanness: Female Agency, Migration and the Development of Dominican Diasporan Identity in Contemporary Dominican Women Writers |
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FREEDOM, BLACK NATIONALISM, AND ACTIVISM IN THE DIASPORA/ LIBERDADE, NACIONALISMO NEGRO E ATIVISMO NA DIÁSPORA/ LIBERTAD, NACIONALISMO NEGRO, Y ACTIVISMO EN LA DIÁSPORA |
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Ashton W. Welch, History, Creighton University |
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Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, History, Shippensburg University, 'When All Shall Be Free... Anything Short of This..:’ James Hutton Brew, The Gold Coast Times, and African Agency in Abolitionism in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana)
Dianne Wheaton Cappiello, History, Cornell University, ‘May the whole world be a world of liberty’: Black Reformers and the Global Formation form Freedom, 1808-1816
Ashton W. Welch, History, Creighton University, Pan-Africanism in the New World Reconsidered: Widening the Focus |
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HANDS ACROSS THE WATER: COOPERATION, SOLIDARITY, AND SHORTFALL AROUND THE ‘BLACK ATLANTIC’/ MÃOS CRUZANDO A ÁGUA: COOPERAÇÃO, SOLIDARIEDADE E AS PEQUENAS QUEDAS ENTORNO DO ‘ATLÂNTICO NEGRO’/ LAS MANOS CRUZANDO LAS AGUAS: COOPERACIÓN, SOLIDARIDAD Y DIFICULTADES SOBRE EL ATLÁNTICO NEGRO |
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Winston James, History, University of California, Irvine |
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Carol Anderson, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, ‘Follow the Bodies’: The NAACP and the Diplomacy of African Anticolonialism"
Glenn Chambers, History, Texas A & M University, Perceptions of Race and Nation: Blackness and Notions of Criminality on the North Coast of Honduras, 1915-1934
Jason C. Parker, History, Texas A & M University, Hothouse and Safehouse: The Role of the 'Black University' in the Decolonization of the Black Atlantic
Mark D. Alleyne, Communication, Georgia State University, Doing Anti-Racism: The Significance of the UN to the Black Struggle for Racial Equality
Leslie Alexander, History, Ohio State University, Discussant |
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PRACTICES OF FREEDOM/ PRÁTICAS DE LIBERDADE/ LAS PRÁCTICAS DE LA LIBERTAD |
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Herman Bennett, History, Rutgers University, Chair |
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Stephen Best, English, University of California, Berkeley, The African Queen
Christopher Brown, History, Rutgers University, Respondent
Colin (Joan) Dayan, Humanities, Vanderbilt University, Idioms of Servility
Saidiya Hartman, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University,
Remembering Slavery / Practicing Freedom
Herman Bennett, History, Rutgers University, An Early Modern Culture of Freedom
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| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 ~ QUINTA-FEIRA, 11 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ JUEVES, 11 de OCTUBRE de 2007 |
| 19:30-20:30 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
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University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Campus (transportation will be provided and will leave from the Hilton at 19:00/ o transporte será fornecido e sairá do Hilton em 19:00/ el transporte será proporcionado y se irá del Hilton en 19:00)
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Hilary McD Beckles, Principal, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill |
| 21:00 |
RECEPTION/ RECEPÇÃO/ RECEPCIÓN |
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Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Campus
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2007 ~ SEXTA-FEIRA, 12 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ VIERNES, 12 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 8:30-10:15 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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AS DIÁSPORAS AFRICANAS NA AMÉRICA DO SUL: UMA PONTE SOBRE O ATLÂNTICO (PARTE 1)/ LAS DIÁSPORAS AFRICANAS EN SURAMÉRICA: UN PUENTE SOBRE EL ATLÁNTICO (PARTE 1)/ AFRICAN DIASPORAS IN SOUTH AMERICA: A BRIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC (PART 1) |
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Julio Cesar de Tavares, antropólogo, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| Panelists: |
Edson Cardoso, Editor do Jornal Iroin, Comunicando a Diáspora: a Experiência de uma Imprensa de Combate
Ricardo Oliveira de Freitas, Professor da Universidade Estadual da Bahia, Mídia Comunitária: as organizações populares via Internet
Januário Garcia, fotógrafo, O lugar da fotografia na criação de novas representações negras
Wania Sant’Anna, historiadora e consultora de Diversidade da Petrobrás Oil Co., Costurando relações no presente, tecendo futuros relatos: negociando a incorporação da diáspora africana no mundo corporativo
Maria Eliza Teófilo de Luna, diplomata, Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Ação afirmativa em Instituições do Estado no Brasil: A experiência do Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Julio Cesar de Tavares, antropólogo, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Regando a Árvore da vida com Metáforas de resistência e acomodação |
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MOVING TARGETS: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF FREEDOM/ DESLOCANDO OS ALVOS: CONSCIÊNCIA HISTÓRICA E MUDANÇA NOS SIGNIFICADOS DE LIBERDADE/ LOS OBJETOS EN MOVIMIENTO: CONCIENCIA HISTÓRICA Y LOS SIGNIFICADOS CAMBIANTES DE LA LIBERTAD |
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Constance R. Sutton, Anthropology, New York University
Deborah A. Thomas, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Panelists: |
Faith Smith, English, African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University, Who’s Modern?
Sidney M. Greenfield, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Landownership, Schooling and Emigration: The Beginnings of Barbadian Transnationalism
Mary Chamberlain, History, Oxford Brookes University, Independence 'In Action': The 'Moral Economy' and Narratives of Resistance in Barbados, 1937-1966
Constance R. Sutton, Anthropology, New York University, From Tenantries to Terraces: the Barbados Diaspora and Changing Meanings of Freedom
Deborah A. Thomas, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Circulations of Violence: Culture, Class, and Diaspora
Andrea Queely, Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, West Indian Daughters, Cuban Women: Notes on the Remembering of Revolution
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DESIRING LIBERTY: ‘FREE’ BLACK WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS/ LIBERDADE DESEJADA: MULHERES NEGRAS NAS AMÉRICAS “LIVRE”/ LIBERTAD DESEADA: NEGRAS ‘LIBRES’ EN LAS AMÉRICAS |
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Rosanne Adderley, African-American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University |
| Panelists: |
Marisa Fuentes, African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive
Dayo Nicole Mitchell, History, University of Oregon, Legal Limbo: Almost-Free Women of African Descent in the British Caribbean
Lisa Ze Winters, English and Africana Studies, Wayne State University, Black Magic and Whirlwind Affairs: Remembering “Freedom” in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans |
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BLACK BODIES, DIASPORIC SELVES: TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL AESTHETICS/ CORPOS NEGROS, EGOS-DIASPÓRICOS: ESTÉTICA RACIAL TRANSNACIONAL/ LOS CUERPOS NEGROS, Y LOS SERES DE LA DIÁSPORA: ESTÉTICA RACIAL TRANSNACIONAL |
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Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Communication, University of Pennsylvania
John L. Jackson Jr., Communication and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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Tshepo Masango, History, University of Pennsylvania, Garveyism and the Re-imagining of Black Aesthetics
Riley Snorton, Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Bathrooms, Barbershops, and Other Liminal Spaces for Black Queer & Trans Masculinity
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Black “Hair”: A Transnational Process
John L. Jackson Jr., Communication and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Re-theorizing Racial Diasporas: Black Hebrews in Israel and the Poetics of Cultural Politics
Noliwe Rooks, African American Studies, Princeton University, Discussant |
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CHRONICLES, SOJOURNERS, AND RE-IMAGININGS/ CRÔNICAS, VIAJANTES E RE-IMAGINAÇÕES/ CRÓNICAS, MORADORES Y RE-IMAGINACIONES |
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Elaine Savory, Literature, New School University |
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Lydia Asana, African Renaissance Ambassador Corp., and Wilfred Ngwa, African Renaissance Ambassador Corp., From Dust to Snow: The African Dream?
Mara de Gennaro, English, Bucknell University, Voyages into the Unknown: Deciphering Cosmopolitanisms of Conrad, Walcott, and Condé
Katrina Thompson, Africana Studies, University of Notre Dame, The Silenced Others: The Public Image of Blackness Constructed in Travel Journals
Elaine Savory, Literature, New School University, Discovering New Maps: Kamau Brathwaite’s Creative History of the World
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TOURISM: REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE, PLACE, AND GENDER IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA/ TURISMO: REPRESENTAÇÕES DE RAÇA, LUGAR E GÊNERO NA ÁFRICA E A DIÁSPORA/ / EL TURISMO: REPRESENTACIONES DE RAZA, LUGAR, Y GÉNERO EN AFRICA Y LA DIÁSPORA |
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Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History, University of Chicago |
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Kimberly Simmons, Anthropology and African American Studies, University of South Carolina, Mestizo(a), Indio(a), Mulato(a) and Afro-Dominican: Competing Representations of Race and Gender in the Dominican Republic
Patricia Pinho, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, SUNY-Albany, Race, Place and Gender Representations in African-American Roots Tourism
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History, University of Chicago, Whydah, Slavery and Diaspora Tourism
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| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2007 ~ SEXTA-FEIRA, 12 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ VIERNES, 12 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 10:45-12:30 |
CONCURRENT PANELS/ APRESENTAÇÃO DOS PAINÉIS/ PANELES CONCURRENTES
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AS DIÁSPORAS AFRICANAS NA AMÉRICA DO SUL: UMA PONTE SOBRE O ATLÂNTICO (PARTE 2)/ LAS DIÁSPORAS AFRICANAS EN SURAMÉRICA: UN PUENTE SOBRE EL ATLÁNTICO (PARTE 2)/ AFRICAN DIASPORAS IN SOUTH AMERICA: A BRIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC (PART 2) |
| Chair: |
Julio Cesar de Tavares, antropólogo, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| Panelists: |
Edson Cardoso, Editor do Jornal Iroin, Comunicando a Diáspora: a Experiência de uma Imprensa de Combate
Ricardo Freitas, Professor da Universidade Estadual da Bahia, Mídia Comunitária: as organizações populares via Internet
Januário Garcia, fotógrafo, O lugar da fotografia na criação de novas representações negras
Wania Sant’Anna, historiadora e consultora de Diversidade da Petrobrás Oil Co., Costurando relações no presente, tecendo futuros relatos: negociando a incorporação da diáspora africana no mundo corporativo
Maria Eliza Teófilo de Luna, diplomata, Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Ação afirmativa em Instituições do Estado no Brasil: A experiência do Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Julio Cesar de Tavares, antropólogo, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Regando a Árvore da vida com Metáforas de resistência e acomodação |
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NATIONALITY, IDENTITY, AND MIXED RACE DILEMMAS/ NACIONALIDADE, IDENTIDADE E OS DILEMAS DAS MISTURAS RACIAIS/ NACIONALIDAD, IDENTIDAD Y DILEMAS DE RAZA MEZCLADA |
| Chair: |
Marcelle McVorran, Education Studies, DePauw University |
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William Alexander, History, Norfolk State University, 'An Indelible Stain': Blacks and the Dynamics of Race in Eighteenth Century France
Celia E. Naylor, History, Dartmouth College, ‘One Ever Feels His Two-ness’: African Cherokees’ Conceptions of Blood, Culture and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory
Marcelle McVorran, Education Studies, DePauw University, Contradictions in Historic Memory: Africans and Indians in Trinidad, West-Indies
Pedro Welch, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Adjustment to Emancipation: Naming Practice in Post-1834 Barbados
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WOMEN OF THE DIASPORA IN CANADA: PROBLEMATIZING MEANINGS OF HOME, COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE/ MULHERES DA DIÁSPORA NO CANADÁ: PROBLEMATIZANDO SIGNIFICADOS DA CASA, COMUNIDADE E RESISTÊNCIA/ LAS MUJERES DE LA DIÁSPORA EN CANADA: UNA PROBLEMATIZACIÓN DE SIGNFICADOS DE HOGAR, COMUNIDAD Y RESISTENCIA |
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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, History, Professor Emerita of History, Morgan State University |
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Charmaine Crawford, Women’s Studies, York University, African-Caribbean Women: Motherhood, Transnationality and Diaspora
Karen Flynn, African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, We Are Still Rooted Here’: Constructing Black Canadian Women's Identity
Amoaba Gooden, Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, African- Caribbean Women Migrants: Home, Community Building and Cultural Legacies |
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LABOR AND POST-EMANCIPATION ISSUES IN THE DIASPORA/ TRABALHO E PROCESSOS PÓS-EMANCIPAÇÃO NA DIÁSPORA/ / EL TRABAJO Y LOS ASUNTOS POS-EMANCIPACIÓN EN LA DIÁSPORA |
| Chair: |
Richard Goodridge, History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill |
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Kean Amelia Gibson, Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Religion and the Oppression of Africans in Guyana
Brandi C. Brimmer, History, Vanderbilt University, ‘All Her Rights and Privileges’: African American Women, the Pension System, and the Quest for Rights and Recognition
Mellissa Ifill, History, University of Guyana, Situating African Workers in the Post Emancipation Division of Labour in British Guiana
Alison Ramsay, Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Breaking the Colour Code: Freedom and Freemasonry under Re/view, 1775 to 1847
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FREEDOM FROM DISAPPEARANCE: REVERSING THE POLICIES AND PROCESSES THAT CAUSE DEATH AND DISPLACEMENT IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA/ LIBERDADE DO DISAPPEARANCE: INVERTENDO AS POLÍTICAS E PROCESSOS QUE CAUSAM A MORTE E O DESLOCAMENTO NA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA/ LIBERTAD DE LA DESAPARICIÓN: INVERTIR LAS POLÍTICAS Y PROCESOS QUE CAUSAN MUERTE Y LA DISLOCACIÓN EN LA DIÁSPORA AFRICANA |
| Chair: |
Sabiyha Prince, Anthropology, American University |
| Panelists: |
Karla Slocum, Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Discussant
Michelle Boyd, African American Studies and Political Science, University of Illinois-Chicago, The Roots of Black Gentrification
Marie-Elena John, Novelist/Literature, Antigua, W.I., Skeletons in the Forest: Merging History with a Fictionalized Account of Maroonage in Dominica, W.I.
Dylan Kerrigan, Anthropology, American University, “Who Ain’t Dead, Badly Wounded”: Class, Violence, and the Spectacle of Carnival in Trinidad
Brett Williams, Anthropology, American University, Deadly Inequalities: Displacement and Disease in Washington, D.C.
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EXPANDING THE PARAMETERS OF THE PEREGRINATION/ EXPANDINDO OS PARÂMETROS DA PEREGRINAÇÃO/ AMPLIANDO LOS PARÁMETROS DE LA PEREGRINACIÓN |
| Chair: |
Pier M. Larson, History, Johns Hopkins University |
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Sheila Bunwaree, Social Studies and Humanities, University of Mauritius, Memory and Reparations- Creoles in the Mauritian Miracle
Bruce Hall, History, SUNY-Buffalo, Into the Saharan Diaspora: The Epistolary Network of Anjay Isa, Slave from Ghadames in Timbuktu, 1857-1900
Pier M. Larson, History, Johns Hopkins University, Ocean of Letters: Malagasy Refugees and Letter Writing in the Western Indian Ocean, 1830-1850 |
Location
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Garrison 1
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| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2007 ~ SEXTA-FEIRA, 12 de OUTUBRO de 2007 ~ VIERNES, 12 de OCTUBRE de 2007 ( back to top ↑ ) |
| 12:30-14:30 |
LUNCH/ ALMOÇO/ ALMUERZO/ ALMOÇO/ ALMUERZO |
| 14:30-15:30 |
PLENARY SESSION: SUMMARY AND ASSESSMENT/ SESSÃO PLENÁRIA: RESUMO E AVALIAÇÃO/ SESIÓN PLENARIA: UN RESUMEN Y UNA EVALUACIÓN |
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Robert Hill, History, University of California, Los Angeles
Verene Shepherd, History, University of the West Indies, Mona |
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Needhams Ballroom
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| 15:30-16:00 |
FAREWELL ADDRESS/ COMUNICADO DE DESPEDIDA/ DISCURSO DE DESPEDIDA |
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Michael Gomez, Director, ASWAD/History, New York University |
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Needhams Ballroom
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| 20:00 |
FISH FRY AT OISTINS/ OS PEIXES FRITAM EM OISTINS/ LOS PESCADOS FRÍEN EN OISTINS
END OF CONFERENCE/ FIM DA CONFERÊNCIA/ FINAL DE LA CONFERENCIA
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