Herman L. Bennett, History, Rutgers University
"Diaspora and the Making of Africa"

Brent Edwards, English, Rutgers University
"The Uses of Diaspora'"

Fred Moten, Performance Studies, NYU
"The Magic Triangle: Marxism, Anthropology, Africa"

Bennis Blue, Independent
" Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: A Black Montauk"

Victor Blue, Independent
"Narratives from Princeville, North Carolina"

Pearl Duncan, Independent
"Family Treasures: We Were Warriors, Prisoners-of-War, and Hostages: How I Used Genealogy and DNA to Search for, and Find, My Ancestors"

Carla Peterson, English, U. of Maryland
"New Negro Modernity and Historical Consciousness in African-American Novels of the 1890s"

Rafia Zafar, English and African/Afro-American Studies, Washington University (St. Louis)
"The Princess of Tabanguila: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Reverses the Middle Passage"

Marilyn Mobley McKenzie, English and African-American Studies, George Mason U
"Historical Presence: Toni Morrison's Narrative Interventions"

Edward Alpers, History, UCLA
"The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean: A Comparative Perspective"

Saadi Simawe, English and Africana Studies, Grinnell College
"Blacks in The Arabian Nights"

Fran Markowitz, Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University
"Claiming the Pain, Making a Change: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora"

Behnaz Mirzai Asl, History, York University
"The 1848 Farman, the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Iran: A Movement Toward Modernization"

Yvonne Daniel, Dance and Anthropology, Smith College

Kwasi Ampene, Musicology, U. of Colorado, Boulder
"Give Me Silence, Space, and a Dance: The Pianistic Style of Thelonious Monk"

Yvonne Daniel, Dance and Anthropology, Smith College
"Embodied Knowledges in Cuba's Yoruba Dance Tradition"

Julio Cesar de Souza Tavares, Departamento de Comunic“o Social, Universidade Federal Fluminense
"Performance, Memory and Cognition:  The Case of Capoeira in the Brazilian Culture"

Marta Vega, Independent
"Internationalization of Cuban Santeria: Transformations, Continuity and Activism"

Keletso Atkins, African and Afro-American Studies, U. of Minnesota
"James W.C. Pennington and South Africa as a Factor in the Nineteenth Century Anti-Colonization Movement"

A. Ogunsuyi, African Studies, Manhattanville College
"Forging Support for an African Agenda in U.S. Foreign Policy: An African-American Frontier in the New Millennium"

Margaret C. Lee, History, Georgetown University
"Development, Cooperation, and Integration in the SADC Region"

Robert C. Watson, History, Hampton University

T.J. Desch-Obi, History, UCLA
"Tricknology and Trip Em Ups: The Pan-African Martial Artist as Trickster-Hero"

Akinyele Umoja, African American Studies, Georgia State University
"Passing the Akoben: The Continuity of a Military Tradition from West Africa to North America"

Kenyatta Gedegbevi, African American Studies, Georgia State University
"From Maroons to Sanzala: The Savannah River Kilombo as an Example of Grand Marronage in the United States"

Heather Shirey, History of Art, Indiana University
"Divination and Slave Resistance in the Caribbean"

Kathleen Phillips-Lewis, History, Spelman College

Hershini Bhana, Ethnic Studies, UC, Riverside
"Embodied Memory, Obeah, and Burning the Big House Down: Christophene in Jean RhysÌ Wide Sargasso Sea"

Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis, Caribbean School of Architecture
"Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture in Jamaica"

Sharon Chacko, History, UWI-Mona
"Memorial Art in Kingston, Jamaica"

Kwame Dawes, English, U. of South Carolina
"The Restoration of Africa in the Imagination of West Indians through Reggae Music"

Sheila Walker, Anthropology, UT-Austin

Barbara Krauthamer, History, NYU

Erik S. McDuffie, History, NYU
"A Comparative Analysis of the Radicalism of Black Women Garveyites and Left-Wing Activists during the Early Twentieth Century"

Robert Vinson, History, Howard University
"'I Am My Own Person': Female Garveyites Confront African and European Patriarchy in the Transkei, South Africa"

Njubi Nesbitt, African-American Studies, U. of Massachusetts
"Pan Africanism and the International Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1948-1994"

Katrin Hansing, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
"Rasta, Race and Revolution: Transnational Connections in Socialist Cuba"

Huma Ibrahim, Long Island U.

Carol Allen, Long Island University
"'Shaking That Thing' and All Its Wonders: Pauline Hopkins and the Origin of Black Female Authored Popular Theater"

Heather Andrade, Barry University
"Meditations on History: John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing"

Cynthia Davis
"Botanic/Botanica: Gardening as Resistance in Afrocentric Women's Writing"

Sharon Lewis, English, Montclair State University
"'No Stranger to Capital': Black Women Insurgents in Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise"

Walter Johnson, History, NYU

Joseph C. Miller, History, U. of Virginia,
"Sugar, Slaves, and History: The Southern Atlantic in Formation, ca. 1400-1500"

David Eltis, History, Queens U. &
G. Ugo Nwokeji, History, U. of Connecticut
"African Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade"

David Barry Gaspar, History, Duke University
"Illegally and Forcibly Brought Away: 'Voyage of the Slave Ship 'Catherine'"

Douglas B. Chambers, History, U. of Southern Mississippi
"Out of Calabar: The Igbo Diaspora in the Early Modern Atlantic World"

Margaret Washington, History, Cornell University

Patrick Manning, History, Northeastern University
"Popular Culture of Africa and the Diaspora: Extraordinary Expressions of Ordinary Sentiments

Frederick Knight, History, Memphis State University
"West African Indigo Workers In the Atlantic World, 1650-1800"

James Sweet, History, Florida International U. "Recreating Africa: Mbundu 'Calundu' Ritual and Portuguese Response in Seventeenth-Century Brazil"

Jo“o Reis, History, Federal University of Bahia
"Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: 1808-1855"

Ian Isidore Smart, Spanish, Howard University
"Putting the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival in Perspective"

Kimani Nehusi, Afrika Studies, U. of East London
"The Origins of Carnival"

ReneÈ Baron, English, Hofstra University
"The Labor Day Carnival in New York City"

Elizabeth McAlister, Religion, Wesleyan University
"Rara Festivals in Haiti: Spiritual Work at the Crossroads"

Bethuel Hunter, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
"'Africa Unbound': Diaspora and Dance at African Carnival 61"

Ana L. Teixeira, African American Studies, Temple University
"Mozambican Women Writers: The Development of a National Literature in the Works of NoÈmia de Souza and Paulina Chizane"

Bheki Mngomezulu
"Gender Politics in Swaziland: Tradition versus Modernity"

Karla Jackson-Brewer, Africana and Women's Studies, Rutgers University
"Conjuring Identities: Comparative Analysis of the Archetypes of the Goddess in Tantric Buddhism and the West African Spiritual System of Ifa"

Juluette F. Bartlett, English, University of Houston
"Female Attitudes about Domestic Violence as Depicted in Alice Walker's Color Purple and Amy Tan's Kitchen God's Wife"

Jean Billingslea-Brown, English, Spelman College
"Ritual, Dream, and Memory in Edwidge Danticat's Krik?Krak!"

Joyce F. Kirk, History, U. Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Rites of Passage and African American Transformation"

George J. Sefa Dei, Sociology and Equity Studies, U. of Toronto
"Removing The Margins: The Politics and Desires of [Re]Inventing an Africanness in the Diasporic Contexts"

Bruce H. Wade, Sociology, Spelman College
"The Reaction of Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Courses on the African Diaspora"

James Millette, African American Studies, Oberlin College

Claudius Fergus, History, U. of the West Indies-St. Augustine
"Exploring the Epistemological Context of African Resistance to Colonial Slavery"

Melisse Thomas-Bailey, History, U. of the West Indies-St. Augustine
"Ideological Tendencies and Contradictions of Trinidad Garveyism'"

Michael Toussaint, History, U. of the West Indies-St. Augustine
"Some Responses to Slavery and Emancipation in 19^th Century Trinidad: Afro-West Indian Migration to the Spanish Main, 1800-1914"

Ada Ferrer, History, NYU

Evelyn Powell Jennings, History, U. Of Rochester
"In Service of the King: Los esclavos del Rey in Late Eighteenth Century Havana"

Mbare Ngom, Foreign Languages, Morgan State University
"Marginalidad, Violencia y Escritura en La Selva y La Lluvia de Arnoldo Palacios"

David Stark, History, Grand Valley State University
"Marriage Seasonalities among the Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rican Slave Population"

Harcourt Fuller, International Relations, City College of CUNY
"The Black Experience in Colonial/Republican Peru: Evidence from the Water Paintings of Pancho Fierro."

Jerome S. Handler, Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Kenneth M. Bilby, Anthropology, Smithsonian Institute & Jerome S. Handler, Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
"Obeah: Healing and Protection in Afro-Caribbean Slave Life "

Jason Young, History, UC-Riverside
"Root Doctors, Divination, and the Sacred Implements of the Oppressed"

Jermaine Damani Archer, History, UC-Riverside
"Bitter Tasting Roots and a Lock of Hair: African Spirituality Reflected through Slave Narratives"

Walter Rucker, History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"'I Will Gather all Nations': Resistance, Culture, and Pan-African Unity in Denmark Vesey's South Carolina"

Chouki El Hamel, History, African and African-American Studies, Duke University
"Social Marginalization and Legal Integration: The Question of the HaratÌn in the Oasis of Aqqa"

John O. Hunwick, History and Religion, Northwestern University
"The Same but Different: Approaches to Slavery and the African Diaspora in the Lands of Islam."

Moustafa Bayoumi, English, Brooklyn College
"The Panama Manuscript of Shaikh Sana See: A Preliminary Assessment"

Alaine S. Hutson, History, Southwest Missouri State University
"Enslaved Africans and Yemenis in Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and 30s"

Daina L. Ramey, History, Michigan State University

Diane Batts Morrow, History, U. of Georgia
"Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence"

Daryl Cumber Dance, English, U. of Richmond
"Browns and Cumbers: Free Black Families of Virginia"

Yvonne Captain, Romance Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
"Louisiana Before Haiti: A Martinican Case Study"

Walter B. Hill, Jr., National Archives
"Institutional Record Keeping and the Maintenance of History: The Documantation of the Slave Trade in Federal Records"

Asale Angel-Ajani, Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz
"Wreckage: Transnational Landings in Diaspora Studies"

Kamari Clarke, Anthropology, Yale U.
"From Far Away Shores Home Isn't Far: Problems of Deterritorialization and the Specificities of Space and Time"

Naomi Pabst, Black Studies and Women's Studies, Harvard University
"Black Geopolitics and Intra-Racial Alterity"

Keisha-Khan Perry, Anthropology, UT Austin
"The Politics of Fieldwork: African Diasporic Encounters in Brazil"

Barbara P. Josiah, History, Howard University
"The Perils of Labor: African Guyanese Internal Migrants and the Gold and Diamond Industries"

Rachel Reynolds, English, U. of Illinois-Chicago
"Follow the Yellow Brick Cab: African Immigrants, Education, and Employment Opportunities in Chicago "

Jerome Teelucksingh , History, U. of the West Indies-St. Augustine
"Protestant Religion and Black Settlements in Upper Canada, 1530-1565"

John Morrow, Jr., History, U. of Georgia

Allison Blakely, History, Howard University
"Lifting the Veil: Racism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia"

Tina Campt, Women's Studies and History, UC-Santa Cruz
"Intercultural Address and the Tensions of Diasporic Relation"

Jacqueline Brown, Anthropology, UC-Santa Cruz
"Before Blackness in Liverpool, England: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Sail"

Tyler Stovall, History, UC-Santa Cruz
"Race and the Making of National Identity: Blacks in Modern France"

Yvonne Daniel, Dance and Anthropology, Smith College

Doris Green, Independent
"My Ancestors Touched Me"

Thomas A. Hale, African, French and Comparative Literature, Penn State U.
"In Search of the First Griot to Come to the New World"

Edith Jackson, Spanish, Morgan State U.
"Signs of Spirit, Structures of Memory; African Influences on Argentine Carnivals"

Zab Maboungou
"The Art of Improvisation in African Dance"

Linda Heywood, History, Howard University

John Thornton, History, Millersville University
"Religious Traditions and Rituals of Seventeenth Century Kongo and Angola"

Linda Heywood, History, Howard University
"Culture and Change in Eighteenth Century Angola"

Monica Schuler, History, Wayne State University
"Memories of Kongo in Guyana"

Discussants to be announced

LansinÈ Kaba, History, U. of Illinois-Chicago

Randy Matory, Anthropology and African American Studies, Harvard U.

Augustin Lao, Sociology, U. of Mass.-Amherst

Kim Butler, History and Africana Studies, Rutgers University

Tejumola Olaniyan, English, U. of Virginia

Michael A. Gomez, History, NYU

Hilary McD Beckles, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies, Mona

Colin Palmer, History, Princeton U.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, History, Morgan State University

New York Univeristy Venues

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• 6 train to Astor Place Walk West on 8th Street, turn left on University Place, which becomes Washington Square East

• A, B, C, D, E, F, Q trains to West 4th Street West 4th Street becomes Washington Square South Turn left on Mercer Street
• N, R trains to 8th Street Walk West on 8th Street, turn left on Mercer Street
• 6 train to Astor Place Walk West on 8th Street, turn left on Mercer Street
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South

• A, B, C, D, E, F, Q trains to West 4th Street West 4th Street becomes Washington Square South