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ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD AFRICAN DIASPORA CONFERENCE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL OCTOBER, 5-7 "DIASPORIC
ENCOUNTERS AND COLLABORATIONS" PROGRAM
SCHEDULE (8/22/2005, English
Version)
REGISTRATION PERFORMANCE AND
PERMANENT EXHIBITION "In Light of
Rhythm." Augusto
Soledade - Choreographer/Dance
Educator, Florida International University, Miami, Florida (USA): 12 min
choreography (one solo dancer with drummer, both on stage). "Cartas
D'Africa." Carlos
da Fonseca
- Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University (Brazil): Art exhibit- a display of 35 paintings on the
"returnees" to Brazil in the 19th century. "Beaded
Prayers Projects."
Sonya
Y. Clark - Baldwin
Bascom Professor of Creative Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). An
interactive bead project with a display of packetes that people around the
world have made; conference participants can make their own and add to the
collection. Wednesday, Oct, 5th From 08:30 through the whole day Registration 09:45/10:45 Welcome Session:
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Chair of ASWAD Conference Organizing Committee *
President of Universidade Federal Fluminense
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Introduction by the Australian and Eastern African Secretary, Minister of International Affairs *
ASWAD Board Director Wednesday, Oct, 5th 10:45/12:45 Location:
ROOM 01 Session
01 (20) VISUAL ART #1- ARTISTS SPEAK Chair/Moderator: To be appointed (tba) Stacey Williams - Valencia Community College, California (USA). "Stitched Boundaries and the Seamless Diaspora in Romare Bearden's North Carolina, Harlem, and St. Maarten Collages."Maureen
Shanahan
- James Madison
University, Virginia (USA). "The Painted Word: Malaika Favorite's 'Furious Flower'
Poetry Quilt-Painting and Pan-African Memory."
Christoph Singler - University of Besançon (France). "Vicente Pimentel, Archeology and
Creative Instant." Location: ROOM 02
Session 02 (29) HISTORY #1- MAROONS Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Charles Beatty Medina - History Department, University
of Toledo (USA). "'They
are not Christians!': Native and African Religious Expression in 16th
Century Esmeraldas." W. F. Santiago-Valles - Africana Studies, Western Michigan University (USA). "The Meaning and Importance of
Marronage as a Concept Central to Diaspora Studies." David Stark- History Department, Grand Valley State University,
Michigan (USA). "Creating
a Community of their Own: The Morenos Libres and Pardos Libres of Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de
Cangrejos, (Santurce) Puerto Rico." Jorge Chinea -History Department, Wayne State University, Michigan
(USA). "Jamaican
Maroons in Eastern Cuba: A Diasporic, Intercolonial Research Agenda." Joseph Adjaye - University of Pittsburgh (USA). "Memory and the Construction of History as Resistance Among
Jamaican Maroons." Discussant: Rose Watson -Professor Emerita, University
of Maryland, European Division, Heidelberg, Germany,
Social Science Division. Location: ROOM 03 Session 03 (51) RACE & ETHNICITY #1- RACE IN THE SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA Chair/Moderator: Ibrahim Sundiata - History Department, Brandeis University and ASWAD
Board Member (USA).
Nestor
Valdivia and Martin Benavides - Investigadores Asociados Grupo de Análisis para el
Desarollo GRADE, Lima
(Peru). "Exclusion
Social, Discriminación e Identidad de los Afroperuanos."
Kimberly
Simmons - Anthropology and African American Studies, University
of South Carolina, Columbia (USA). "Racial Formation in the African Diaspora: Blackness and
Mixed-ness in the United States and the Dominican Republic."
Edward
Paulino - History
Department, John Jay College
of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (USA). "Dominico-Haitianos and Their 21st Century
Struggle for Citizenship and Dignity."
Zaire Dinzey-Flores - Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow on Race, Crime and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice, New York (USA). "The Mask of Racial
Superstructures: The Spatial
Layout of Race in Puerto Rico's Housing." Paulo Fernando de
Souza Campos - Universidade
Estadual Paulista, São Paulo (Brazil). "The Intolerance to the Black in
the First Republic: Representation for a Reflection about the Racism and
Anti-Racism in Brazil to the 21st Century." Location: ROOM
04
Session
04 (40) SOCIO/ANTHRO #1- GLOBAL RACIAL FORMATIONS Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Juliet Hooker - Government Department,
University of Texas at Austin (USA). "Against Race, Towards
Multiculturalism? Blackness and Official Mestizo Nationalism in Nicaragua." Jossiana Arroyo - Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Texas at Austin. "Afro Brazilians and AfroCaribbeans in the United States: A Dialogue on Visibility and Invisibility." Jemima Pierre - Anthropology Department, University of Texas at
Austin (USA). "'I
Like Your Color!': The Local (and Global) Geography of Race in Urban Ghana." Mark Sawyer - Political Science Department, University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (USA). "Nationhood and Race in the
Americas: A Race Cycles Approach." Discussant: Edmond Gordon - Director of African and
African American Center, University of Texas at Austin (USA). Location: ROOM 05 Session
05 (37) POLITICS/GOVERNMENT #2- THE GLOBAL CONTOURS OF BLACK POWER Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Hasan Kwame Jeffries - History Department and the
Kirwan Institute for the Study on Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University
(USA).
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - University of Connecticut
(USA).
"Exporting Revolution: Cold War Diplomacy and the Black Panther Party,
1966-1975." Fanon Che Wilkins - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA). "Talking Black Power to the World:
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the International Affair
Commission, 1967-70." Scot Brown - University of California, Los Angeles (USA). "The Fulani Tribe: Black Power and
the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in Vietnam, 1967 to the 1970s." Discussants: Minkha Makalani - History
Department, Rutgers University (USA). Location: ROOM 06 Session
06 (11) GENDER #2- BLACK WOMEN AND DIASPORA - MULTIPLE EXPERIENCES Chair/Moderator: Micere Githae Mugo - Department of African
American Studies, Syracuse University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).
Elisee Soumonni - Université Nationale du Bénin
(Benin). "Afro-Caribbean
Women in Colonial and Postcolonial Dahomey: A Neglected Dimension of the
Relationships between Africa and its Diaspora." Denise
Spitzer - Anthropology
Department, University of Alberta and Philomina Okeke-Ihejinka - Women's Studies Program, University of Alberta
(Canada).
"Migrations and Mapping Identities: The Experiences of African Canadian Women."
Mireille Miller-Young - Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). "Pornography and Sex Work in the African Diaspora."Becky Thompson - Sociology Department, Simmons College, Massachusetts; and Diane Harriford - Sociology Department, Vassar
College, New York, (USA). "The Black Pornographic Body Revisited: Condolezza Rice
Goes to Europe." Jayne Ifekwunigwe - Visiting Scholar, Cultural Anthropology, Duke
University (USA). "Venus and Serena are "Doing it""
for Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminism for
the Hip-Hop Generation." Wednesday, Oct, 5th 13:45/15:45 Location: ROOM 01 Session
07 (44) CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA #1- DECOLONIALIDAD Chair/Moderator: Julio César de Tavares - Departamento de
Estudos Culturais e Mídia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro and
ASWAD Conference Chair (Brazil). Agustin Lao-Montes - University of Massachusetts at
Amherst (USA).
"Afro-latinidad, Colonialidad del
Poder, y la Nueva Ola de Movimientos Antisistémicos." Angela Figueiredo
- Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil).
"La Sociología de Guerreiros
Ramos Visto desde la Colonialidad del Poder." Nelson
Maldonado-Torres - University of California,
Berkeley (USA). "Beyond the 'Color-line': El
Giro De-colonial y la Emergencia de Ciencias De-coloniales." Catherine Walsh -
Universidad Andina Simon Bolívar, Quito (Ecuador).
"De-colonialidad y Diáspora Afro-andina: Reflexiones desde Proyetos
Políticos-Epistémicos." Location: ROOM 02 Session
08 (59) LITERATURE #1- JOURNALS & TESTIMONIES Chair/Moderator: tba Deonne Minto - PhD Candidate, University of Maryland (USA). "Writing a Caribbean Herstory:
Almeyda, Maroon Woman as Avatar of Africa and Palmares in Gayl Jonesīs Song
for Anninho." Nicole Aljoe - English Department, University of Utah (USA). "Slave Testimonies of Diaspora." Ann Bailey - History Department, Spelman College, Georgia (USA). "Beyond the Silence and the Shame:
African Slave Trade and Bridging the African Diaspora." Akintunde
Akinyemi - Department of African and Asian Languages and
Literatures, University of Florida (USA). "Transnational
Displacements and Cultural Continuity: The Performance of Yoruba Religion
Poetry in the New World."
Location: ROOM
03
Session
09 (52) RACE & ETHNICITY #2 HEMISPHERIC RACIAL CONSTRUCTIONS Chair/Moderator: Colin Palmer - History Department, Princeton
University and ASWAD Board Member (USA). Jared Sexton - Program in African American Studies, Department of
Film and Media Studies, University of California at Irvine (USA). "Blackness and Race Mixture: A
Hemispheric Perspective." Hilary
Jones - Macalester College (USA). "Between Two Worlds: 'Mulatto'
Populations in Nineteenth Century Senegal and Brazil."
Michelle
D. Thompson - Doctoral
student, History Department, New York University (USA). "The Racialization of Jamaican
Maroons."
Ivair Augusto Alves
dos Santos -
Doctoral Candidate, Sociology Department, Universidade de Brasília and Secretário Executivo do Conselho
Nacional de Combate a Discrimnação Racial, Secretaria Especial de Direitos
Humanos (Brazil). "Direitos
Humanos no Interior da Diáspora." Location: ROOM 04 Session
10 (13) EDUCATION #1 - Education: Windows of Opportunities Chair/Moderator: tba
Lori
Diane Hill
- University of
Michigan (USA). "Educational
Opportunity in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An analysis of Access, Choice and
Mobility and the Western Cape."
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis - English Department, Miami
University (USA). "Teaching/Learning to Transform: Women,
Higher Education and Change in Africa." Eliane dos Santos Cavalleiro and
Deborah Silva Santos - Ministério da Educação (Brazil). "Políticas
de Educação Anti-racista no Sistema Educational Brasileiro."
Ana
de Costa Gomes (Brazil). "Educação
dentro e sobre a Diáspora." Sem identificação da filiação institucional."
Sandra Borges and Martha Britto - (Brazil). "Vamos
a Escola com a Lei 10.639: Relato de Uma Experiôncia de Capacitação de
Professores para o ensino de História da África." Maria Valeria Barbosa Verissimo -Sociology Department, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo (Brazil). "Ações Afirmativas e Desigualdade Educacional."
Location: ROOM 05 Session
11 (56) RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY #1- BANTU RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN THE DIASPORA Chair/Moderator: Margaret Washington - History Department, Cornell University and ASWAD
Board Member (USA).
Kenneth
Dossar - Temple University
(USA). "Bantu
Kongo Culture in Bahia."
Ras M. Brown - Dillard University (USA). "Bântu-Kôngo Aspects of Transition
in Gullah-Geechee Spirituality." Mariza Guimarães Dias
- Museóloga do Ministério da Cultura/Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e
Artístico Nacional, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, (Brazil).
"Atuação do Negro na Guerra do Paraguai, Revelada Através dos Pontos Cantados e Riscados da Umbanda Brasileira." Sergio Paulo
Adolfo -
Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná (Brazil). "As Religiões de Origem Banto no
Contexto das Religiões Afro-Brasileiras." Location: ROOM 06 Session
12 (6) THE POLITICS OF SPORTS Chair/Moderator: tba Damion Thomas - African-American Studies and Research Program,
University of Illinois (USA). "Playing Politics: Sports: U.S. Imperialism and Diasporic
Cold War Politics." Anene Ejikeme - History Department, Trinity University, Santo
Antonio, Texas (USA). "A
Hero for All Times: Hogan "Kid" Bassey, Champion of the World." Michel Ralph - Anthropology Department, University of
Chicago (USA) and Department dīAnthropologie Écoles des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales, Paris (France). "Basketball Beyond the
Baobabs - Recreating Diaspora Amidst Corporate Schemes and Postcolonial Hoop
Dreams." Vilma Aparecida de
Pinho and Maria Lúcia Rodrigues Muller
- Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso (Brazil). "Relações
Raciais no Cotidiano Escolar: Estudos das Percepções de Professores de Educação
Física sobre Alunos Negros." Location: ROOM 07 Video
Showing and Discussion Coordinator
and participant: Sheila Walker - Phelps Stokes Foundation and ASWAD Board Member. "África
Dispersa: Rostos e Vozes da Diáspora Africana" and "Nas
Trilhas da Diáspora Africana", with Joel Zito Araujo
- Filmmaker (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Wednesday, Oct, 5th 16:00/18:00 Location:
ROOM 01 Session
13 (30) HISTORY #2- PRE-COLONIAL & COLONIAL RESEARCH Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez - History Department, New York
University and ASWAD Board Director (USA). Chouki El Hamel - History Department, Arizona State University (USA). "Morocco and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century." Ahmad Sikainga - Ohio State University (USA). "Slave Body and Muslim
Jurisprudence in Morocco in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." Isabel Rodrigues - Sociology/Anthropology Department and Women
Studies Program, University of Massachusetts (USA). "The African Diaspora Before the
Middle Passage: Displacement and Place in Cape Verde." Rosetta d'Angelo - Literature and Africana Studies, Ramapo College, New
Jersey (USA). "Images
of Africa in Italian Colonial Culture." Solange Pereira da
Rocha - Departamento de História, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco. "Deslocamentos Transatlânticos e
Concentrações de Afro-Brasileiros no 'Novo Mundo': Afro-Brasileiros nas
Freguesias da Província da Paraíba do Norte, Século XIX." Location: ROOM 2 Session
14 (45) CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA #2A (PART I) - RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND MODERN
SUBJECTIVITIES Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Jean Muteba Rahier - Florida International
University (USA).
"The Construction of Blacks as Ultimate Others: Ideology of National Identity
and Racist Representation in the Ecuadorian Press." Percy C. Hintzen - University of California, Berkeley (USA). "Diaspora, Globalization and the
Politics of Identity." Barnor Hesse - Northwestern University (USA). "Deconstructing the African
Diaspora: Conceptual Methodologies." Felipe Smith - Tulane University (USA). "Mapping Darktown: Black America
as Imagined Community." Location: ROOM 03
Session
15 (60) LITERATURE #2- PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT IN LITERATURE BY WOMEN WRITERS
FROM AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory - University of Houston (USA). "Feet, Don't Fail Me Now -
Migration and Identity in Black Women's Plays." DeLinda Marzette - Prairie View A&M University (USA). "Coming to Voice: Navigating the
Interstices in Plays by Winsome Pinnock." Violet Harrington Bryan - Xavier University (USA). "Conflicting Identities in the
Women of Ama Ata Aidoo's Drama and Fiction." Romanus Muoneke - University of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands). "Migration, Transformation, and
Identity Formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the Ditch and Kehinde." Juluette Bartlett Pack - Devry University (USA). "Closing the Gap: Diasporic
Displacement and Recovery in Tess Onwueme's The Missing Face." Location: ROOM 04
Session
16 (17) MEDICINE #1- MEDICINE AND POWER Chair/Moderator: Njoroge Njoroge - Africana
Studies Department and the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU
(USA). Wanjiku Njoroge, M.D. - Yale University School of
Medicine (USA). "Ethnic Identity Formation in Young
children." Michaela A. Harrison, MSW - Dillard University, Louisiana
(USA). "Strong
Medicine: Traditional Healing and the AIDS Crisis in Africa and the Diaspora." Suzanna Reiss - New York University (USA). "The Achemy of Empire: Drug Control,
Race and the New World Order." Jamie Jaywann Wilson-California State University,
Fullerton (USA). "Well-Being, Health, and Politics in
Harlem New York during the 1920s and 1930s." Location: ROOM 05
Session 17 (7) MEDIA #1: "NEGRO E MÍDIAS:
GRANDES MÍDIAS E MÍDIAS ALTERNATIVAS." Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Ricardo Freitas - Universidade
Estácio de Sá (Brazil). "Raça e Tecnologias de Comunicação
e Informação." André Ricardo Nunes
Martins - Universidade de São Paulo
(Brazil). "Racismo e Discurso da Imprensa." Rafael Cavadas
- Jornalista, Universidade Federal
Fluminense (Brazil). "O Negro a Serviço do Cinema
Branco: ou Como a História do Racismo Determinou a Representação
Cinematográfica dos Afro-descendentes no Brasil. Kassio Motta -
Jornalista, Universidade Federal
Fluminense (Brazil). "Análise dos Textos Publicados
pelo Jornal 'O Globo' acerca da Implantação de Cotas nas Universidades
Públicas." Daphne Washington - University of South Florida (USA). "Digitalizing Blackness in
Afro-Latin America: Virtual Community Building on the World Wide Web." Location:
ROOM 06 Roundtable
"Ethiopianism:
Ideology, Theology, or Cosmology." Coordinators
and Participants: Robert A. Hill - History Department, University
of California, Los Angeles and ASWAD Board Member (USA) and William R. Scott, Africana Studies, Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, (USA). Wednesday, Oct, 5th Evening Reception (At Rio 2 and 3 Rooms) Welcome Cocktail Thursday, Oct, 6th 08:30/10:30 Location: ROOM 01 Session
18 (31) HISTORY #3- LIBERATION Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Beatriz Galloti Mamigonian - Departamento de História,
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). "Lasting Effects of the Abolition
of the Slaves Trade in Brazil: The Liberated Africans and Illegally -Slaved
Africans in Their Struggle for Freedom." Afonso Bandeira
Florence - Universidade Católica de
Salvador, Bahia (Brazil). "Discipline and Domination: How
Private Hirers Dealt with the Liberated Africans' Freedom in Brazil
(1831-1864)." Alinnie Silvestre
Moreira - Universidade Estadual de
Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil). "Freedom under Guardianship:
Liberated African Labor at the Estrela Gunpowder Factory, Rio de Janeiro,
(1831-1870)." Discussant: Keila
Grinberg - Universidade do Rio de
Janeiro (UNIRIO) (Brazil). Location: ROOM 02
Session
19 (46) CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA #2B (PART II) - RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND MODERN
SUBJECTIVITIES Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Jean Muteba Rahier - Florida International
University (USA).
Stéphane Robolin - Duke University and Wake Forest University (USA). "Constructive Engagements -
Mapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries." Nicole Castor - University of Chicago (USA). "Land of Fete: Public Culture,
Identity and Citizenship in Trinidad." Lyndon Phillip - University of Toronto (Canada). "'Keep Hitting 'em up': Sonic
Diaspora, Rap, and Torontoīs Caribana." Marlon M. Bailey - University of California (USA). "'They Want Us Sick':
Displacement, Diaspora, Ballroom Culture and HIV/AIDS Intervention in Detroit,
Michigan, (USA)." Location: ROOM 03 Session
20 (61) LITERATURE #3- DIASPORA LITERARY ECHOES Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Keith Cartwright -English Department, University
of North Florida (USA).
"'To Walk with the Storm': Oya/Iansã as the "I" Answering Zora Neale Hurston's Diasporic
Callings." G. Oty Agbajoh-Laoye - English Department & African Studies,
Monmouth University (USA). "'Paths of
Convergence': African Diaspora Paradigm in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Isidore
Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name."
Richard Serrano - French Department, Rutgers
University (USA).
"Fiend and Savage Too?: Léon-Gontran Damas and Claude MacKay." Stefanie Dunning - English Department, Miami
University (USA).
"Our Sister Kills Joy: Africa, the Nation and Homosexuality." Location: ROOM 04 Session
21 (41) SOCIO/ANTHRO #2- CONTESTED TERRAINS Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Merle L. Bowen -Political Science
Department, African-American Studies and Research Program, University of
Illinois (USA). "How Do Land Titles to Black Rural Communities Matter?: Lessons
from Brazil and Mozambique." Jô Brandão - Presidente da Associação Nacional das Comunidades Negras Rurais
Quilombolas do Maranhão and Ivo Fonseca Silva
- Secretário Executivo da Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das
Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (Brazil). "Campanha Nacional pela Regularização dos Territórios de Quilombolas." Savonala Horne - Land Loss Prevention Project (USA). "The Black Land
Struggle in the United States." Discussant: Michael West - Africana Studies and Sociology,
Binghamton University (USA). Location: ROOM 05 Session
22 (18) MEDICINE #2- HEALTH Chair/Moderators and Panelists: Tshilemalema and Isa Russeau
Mukenge
- Morehouse Research Institute, Sociology Department, Georgia
(USA). "Social Constraints, Nutrition, Health Practices, and Health
Disparities in Black Families in Atlanta (Georgia, USA), Salvador (Bahia,
Brazil) and El Ciruelo (Oaxaca, Mexico)." Ernest Khalema - Research Coordinator, Heart
Health Project, Alberta (Canada). "Ethnoepidemiological
Analysis of the Health Status of African Descendents in Canada, Brazil, and
South Africa: Debunking the Myth of Multiracial Democracies." Paula Marceia Moreno Zapata - Associate Researcher, Centre
of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (Colombia/UK). "Biodiversity Management in
Colombia: the Trace of the Afro-Colombian Diaspora." Location: ROOM 06
Session
23 (8) MEDIA #2-ON NEWSPRINT, FILM AND TELEVISION SCREENS Chair/Moderador: Patrick Manning -History and Afro-American Studies, Northeastern
University (USA).
Joseph McLaren - Hofstra University, New York (USA). "Representations of Musical Artists in Black Independent Jazz Films."Jane Bryce - Literatures in English Department, University of the
West Indies (Barbados). "Split Screen: 'Local' and 'Diasporic' Film In and Of the
Caribbean." Ana Paula Pereira
Gomes - (Brazil). "O Negro
em Propagandas Televisivas de Produtos de Higiene e Beleza: Reformulações da
Imagem e Transformações Sociais." William Berry - University of Illinois (USA). "Whispers From The Shadows: Representations of Africa and Blackness in Daily Newspapers in the Dominican Republic." Vincent Brown - Harvard University,
Massachusetts (USA).
"The Audiovision of Melville J. Herskovits: Science, Sound, and Image in the African Diaspora."
Location: ROOM 07
Session
29 (43) ECONOMICS Chair/Moderator: Wania Sant' Anna - Former Human Rights State
Secretary and Brazilian Racial Relations Researcher (Brazil). Asayehgn Desta - Dominican University of California (USA) and Tettch Kofi - San Francisco University (USA). "Economic Development by
Invitation: NEPAD's Approach to Revitalizing Africa's Economies in the 21st
Century." Alli Wari - Political Science Department, University of Jos
(Nigeria). "The
African Diaspora and Sustainable Development in Africa." Richard Mordi - Economic Development Board, City of Lauderdale Lakes
(USA).
"Economic Impact of Globalization on the African Diaspora." Rubin Patterson - Sociology & Anthropology Editor, Perspectives
on Global Development and Technology, University of Toledo (USA). "U.S.- Based Diasporas and Their
Impacts on Homeland Technological and Socioeconomic Development: How Do
Africans Compare?." Thursday, Oct, 6th 10:45/12:45 Location: ROOM 01 Session
24 (21)
VISUAL ART #2- VISUALIZING THE DIASPORA Chair/Moderator: Bonnie Thornton Dill - Women's Studies, University of
Maryland (USA). Cheryl LaRoche - American Studies, University of Maryland (USA). "Envisioning Escape from Slavery:
Landscapes of Resistance in the African Diaspora." Isabell Cserno - American Studies, University of Maryland (USA). "Nationhood and Diaspora: A
Critical View on Visual Representations of Blacks in Advertisements in Germany
and the US." Bridget Cook Cumbo - Art History and Ethnic
Studies, Santa Clara University, California (USA). "Re-imagining the Stereotype across
the Diaspora: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Black Artists." Jurgen Heinrichs- Art and Music/Museum Professions, Seton Hall
University (USA). "Towards
a Black German Art Practice: Diasporic Translation in the Works of Marc
Brandenburg." Discussant: Leslie King-Hammond, Dean of Graduate Studies,
Maryland Institute College of Art. Location: ROOM 02
Session
25 (47) CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA #3 Chair/Moderator: Colin Palmer -History Department, Princeton
University and ASWAD Board Member (USA). Daniel Avorgbedor - School of Music and the Department of African
American & African Studies, Ohio State University (USA). "Diaspora From Within: A Critique
of Theory and Method in Contemporary Discourse on the African Diaspora." Chambi
Chachage - Center of
African Studies, University of Edinburgh (Scotland/Tanzania). "Is the 'African' In 'African
Diaspora' the 'African' in the 'African Identity'?"
Kwaku Larbi Korang - African American and African
Studies and Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University (USA). "Restoring Africa: A Critique of Paul Gilroy's Model of the Black Atlantic."Naana Opoku-Agyemang - English Department, University
of Cape Coast (Ghana). "A Bridgeable Divide: Towards an
Exploration of Relationships Between Continental and Diaspora Africans." George Sefa Dei -
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto (Canada). "Democracy, Development, Destiny: Setting the
African Agenda and the Implications for Africans in the Diaspora."
Location: ROOM 03 Session
26 (25) LANGUAGE & TRANSLATIONS Chair/Moderator: tbaAngela
Lamas Rodrigues - Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina, (Brazil). "Cultural Resistance and the
Diasporic African Intellectual: Two Case Studies."
Robert Hinton - Associate Director of Africana Studies Program, New
York University (USA).
"Orality, Literacy and the Politics of Language."
Steven
Byrd - PhD Candidate, Spanish and
Portuguese Department, University of Texas-Austin (USA). "Calunga: An Afro-Brazilian Speech
of the Triângulo Mineiro - Its Grammar and History."
Marco
Aurelio Schaumloeffel - Institute of
Languages, University of Ghana (Ghana). "Empréstimos Lingüisticos do
Portuguôs nas Línguas Faladas no País dos Tabom" (Linguistic Borrowings from
the Portugues Language to the Languages Spoken in the Country of the Tabom).
Waïl Hassan - Program in Comparative and World Literature, Center
for African Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University
of Illinois (USA). "Diaspora
and the Poetics of Translation in Anglophone Sudanese Fiction." Location: ROOM 04
Session
27 (14) EDUCATION #2- BRAZIL & AFRICA Chair/Moderator and
Panelist: Maria Batista Lima - Pontifícia
Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Maria Batista Lima
-
Pontifícia Universidade
Católica, Rio de Janeiro e Projeto Diálogo entre Povos
(Brazil) and Cristhiane Silva de Albuquerque -
Universidade São José and Projeto Mulheres em Ação
(ONG Coisa de Mulher e PMRJ) (Brazil)
-"Famílias e Escola como Referencias de Construção de Identidade Étnica: Um
Estudo com Estudantes Afro-descendentes do Curso de Pedagogia." Azoilda Loretto da
Trindade - Universidade Federal do Rio
de Janeiro (Brazil). "Condição Humana, Coditidiano e
Formação de Professoras na Perspectiva Afrodescendente." Cristhiane Silva de
Albuquerque - Universidade São José and Projeto
Mulheres em Ação (ONG Coisa de Mulher e PMRJ)
(Brazil) and Maria Batista Lima PPUC/RJ e
Projeto Diálogo entre Povos. "Africanidades
e Metodologia na Educação: Breve Reflexão Contextual." Rolf Ribeiro de Souza
- Universidade Metodista (Brazil). "Gônero Masculino: Uma Questão para a
Educação." Location: ROOM 05
Session
28 (10) GENDER #1 - BLACK MASCULINITY Chair/Moderator: Tiffany Patterson -Africana Studies and History,
Hamilton College (USA). T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - Vanderbilt University,
Tennessee (USA).
"Beautiful: Colorism, Sex Tourism, and the Globalization of Hip-Hop Culture." Thabiti Lewis - Willamette University, Oregon (USA). "Ballers of the School: Baaad Black
Masculinity in American Sports Culture." Gilman W. Whiting - Vanderbilt University,
Tennessee (USA). "All
Eyes on Me: Criminality, Welfare, and Young Black Fathers under the Gun." Vania Penha-Lopes - Sociology Department, Bloomfield College, New Jersey
(USA).
"Work, Love, and Family Involvement of African American Men." Maria Isabel de Assis
- Pontifícia Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). "Black Woman and Black Man, Urban
Violence and its Consequences." Location: ROOM 06
Session
30 (27) NEW RESEARCH ON FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Frank Dutra - History Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). "Mestre
de Campo Domingos Rodrigues Carneiro: Pernambucano, Ex-Slave and Tailor." Bill Donovan - History Department, Loyola College (USA). "Gender and Freedom: Manumissions
in Rio de Janeiro, 1700-1750." Thomas Orum - History Department, Slippery Rock University (USA). "Tapanhunos,
Cafusos e Mulatos: Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Amazon." Elizabeth Farfan - Doctoral student, Anthropology Department, University of
California, Berkeley (USA). "Agents of Social Development: Matisqueiras, Lavradoras,
Domesticas
and Mothers in a Bahian Quilombo." Michele Reid - Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for the Americas,
Wesleyan University and History Department, Georgia State University. "In this Foreign Land': Free Cubans
of Color in the 19th Century Atlantic World." Location: ROOM 07 Roundtable "Lo Afro en lo Andino: Saberes
Ancestrales y Processos desde una Diáspora Invisibilizada." Coordinator: Catherine Walsh
- Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Quito, (Ecuador). Participants:
Edizon León - Fondo Documental
Afro-Andino, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Quito, (Ecuador),
"Pensamiento(s) Cimarron: Ancestralidad y
Diáspora(s) Afro-Andinas"; Juan Angola -
FUNAFRO, La Paz, (Bolivia), " La Resistencia Cultural, Entre Tambores y Ritmo
en Bolivia"; Oswaldo Bilbao - CEDET,
Lima, (Peru); Santiago Arboleda -
Universidad del Valle, Cali, (Colombia), " Destierro y Conocimientos
Amenazados: Invisibilidad AfroColombiana. Thursday, Oct, 6th 13:45/15:45 Location: ROOM 01 Session
31 (24) DANCE #2- DANCE IN DIASPORA SOCIETIES Chair/Moderator and Panelist: P. Sterling Stuckey - Professor Emeritus of African
American History, University of California, Riverside and ASWAD Board Member
(USA). "The
Ring-Shout Revisited." Alicia Sanabria - Cornell University (USA). "In Their own Words: Grassroots
African Matrix Cultural Producers in Santiago de Cuba." Kristen
McCleary - James Madison
University (USA). "Ethnic
Identity and Elite Idyll: A Comparison of Carnival Celebrations in Buenos
Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1880 to 1920."
Rita de Cássia Maia da Silva
- Universidade Católica de Salvador, Bahia (Brazil).
"O Negro-Espetáculo: o Bloco Ilô Aiyô no Processo de Resignificação e Recepção
da Imagem do Negro em Salvador." Location: ROOM 02 Session
32 (32) HISTORY #4- BLACK ACTIVISM AND MEMORY Chair/Moderator and Participant: Kim Butler -Rutgers University (USA). Michael Mitchell -Arizona State University and
Kim Butler -Rutgers University. "As Vozes da Raça - Voices of the
Race." Cuti -Activist
and scholar (Brazil) and Flávio dos Santos Gomes
-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Arquivos
e Ativismo - Archives and Activism." Joel Zito de Araujo
-Filmmaker (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Lino de Almeida
-Filmmaker (Bahia, Brazil). "O Olhar
Nosso no Nosso Presente - Our Perspectives on Our Present." Location: ROOM 03
Session
33 (53) RACE & ETHNICITY #3 - "NOT YOUR FATHER'S
AFRICA": BLACKNESS AND CARIBBEAN/NORTH AMERICAN MODERNITIES. Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Faith Smith - History Department, Brandeis
University (USA). "Rethinking
'Africa' in the Caribbean." Deborah Thomas - Cultural Anthropology, Duke University (USA). "Blackness Across Borders:
Jamaican Diasporas and New Politics of Citizenship." Belinda Edmondson - Rutgers University (USA). "Africa in the American
Classroom." Odile Cazenave - Boston University (USA). "New Space of Anchoring for a New
Diaspora of French-Speaking Caribbean Women Writers." Christina Greer - Columbia University (USA). "Intra-racial Differences in an Increasingly
Inter-racial World: Native-born Black American and African and Afro-Caribbean
Identity, Interests, and Attitudes toward Government and Participation in the
U.S." Location: ROOM 04 Session
34 (50) IDENTITY -COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND CITIZENSHIP Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Judith King-Calnek - United Nations International
School (USA). "Education
for Citizenship and Democracy." Sabiyha Prince
- American University (USA). "Coloring Class with Race." Yevette Richards - George Madson University (USA). "Kampala College: The Rise and Fall
of an African Labor School During the Cold War." Kim D. Butler - Rutgers
University (USA). "Negotiating
Citizenship in Nation and Diaspora." Elanir de Moraes
Ribeiro -Ciôncias Sociais
PPCIS/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
"Identidades Negras na Diáspora." Odette Casamayor
Cisneros -(Brazil). "El Negro Cubano: Una Presencia
Insoslayable, Aun Detrás de la Nación Mestiza." Location: ROOM 05 Session
35 (57) RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY #2 -AFRICAN RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION AND ITS
INFLUENCE Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez- History Department,
New York University and ASWAD Board Director (USA).
Hippolyte Brice Sogbosssi - Universidade
Federal do Sergipe (Brazil). "O Cristianismo
Celeste: Uma Nova Escolha Religiosa
na República do Benin, África do Oeste."
Ashton Welch - Director of Black Studies, Creighton University,
Nebraska (USA). "Practicing the one True Religion: Islam among African Slaves in
America." Randal Maurice Jelks - Calvin College
(USA). "The Regeneration of Africa: The African Diaspora as a Protestant
Revivalist Community." Roberto Strongman - University of California (USA). "Queer Supra-Syncretism in
African-Diaspora Religions." Location: ROOM 06
Session
36 (9) MIGRATIONS AND DIASPORAS Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez -
History Department, New
York University and ASWAD Board Director (USA). Emma
Cervone - Anthropology
Department, Northwestern University (USA). "Vidas en la Encrucijada: Histórias de la Diáspora Africana en el Sur
de Italia." Carlos
Subuhana - Universidade Federal do Rio
Janeiro (Brazil). "Estudar no Brasil: Imigração
Temporária de Estudantes Moçambicanos no Rio de Janeiro." Acácio Almeida Santos - Universidade
de São Paulo (Brazil). "Estimativas
dos Saldos dos Imigrantes Africanos e sua Caracterização nas Unidades
Prisionais de São Paulo." Barbara
Josiah - History
Department, John Jay College, CUNY (USA). "The Other Migration: African
Diaspora Sailors from Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States
Civil War Navy."
Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika - Women's Studies Program, University
of Alberta (Canada).
"The Diaspora Vs the Trans-national as Imagined Community?: The Case of African
Immigrant Women in Canada." Location: ROOM 07 Session
37 (66) BLACK QUEER SEXUALITIES Chair/Moderators: Thomas Glave and Leo
Wilton - State University of New York (USA). Baltasar Fra-Molinero - Spanish Department, Bates College (USA) and Charles I. Nero -Rhetoric and Theater, African American and American Cultural Studies, Bates College (USA). "Black Community Building and Drag Performance in Cuba and the United States" Natasha
Tinsley
- English Department, University of Minnesota (USA).
"How Can You Say I'm Not Pretty, Not Pretty? Afro-Caribbean Music and Shifting
Imaginations
of Same-Sex Desire." Leo Wilton - Human Development and Africana Studies, SUNY
Binghamton (USA). "Pimping
the Black Body: Representations of Black Gay Men in the White Imagination." Paula Johnson - Bond, Schoeneck and King Distinguished Professor of
Law, Syracuse University College of Law. "Breaking
Silence: Confronting Diasporic Homophobia, HIV/AIDS, and Violence in Black
Women's Lives." Thomas Glave - English and Africana Studies, SUNY
Binghamton (USA). "Contemporary Lesbian and Gay
Political Struggles in Jamaica" Thursday, Oct, 6th 16:00/18:00 Location:
ROOM 01 Session 38 (48) CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA
#4- PENSAMENTO NEGRO-AFRICANOS NO CONTEXTO COLONIAL Chair/Moderator and
Panelist: Fernando Rosa Ribeiro,
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil). "O Pensamento de Sol Palaatje e a Formação da Nação na
África do Sul." Alain Pascal Kaly - Universidade
Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil). "Leopold
Sedar Senghor: Um Intelectual Atual Porém Incompreendido." Laura Zapata
- Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Teologia
Católica Nacionalita em Mozambique y la Invención de la 'Religião Tradicional
Africana'." Omar Ribeiro Thomas -
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil).
"Jean Price-Mars e a Formação de um Pensamento Universalista na África
Colonial." Lorenzo Macagno - Universidade
Federal do Paraná (Brazil). "Samora
Machel e a Construção da Nação em Moçambique." Location: ROOM 02
Session
39 (62) LITERATURE #4- AFRICAN AND CREOLE TEXTS Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Joan Anim-Addo - Goldsmiths College,
University of London (UK). "Diasporic Encounters of the Creole Text." Anthere Nzabatsinda - French Department, Vanderbilt
College (USA).
"Foreigners in the Works of L'Abbé Alexis Kagame, Writer of Rwanda." Alyxandra Gomes Nunes
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil).
"Literatura e História da África em Things Fall Apart
de Chinua Achebe". Njeri Githire - University of Minnesota (USA). "Black-British, French-Caribbean, West-Indian or European: Redefining Identity and Space in the Works of Andrea Levy and Gisčle Pineau." Conceição Evaristo - Literatura Comparada/UFF. "O Caroço de Dendô se Transforma em
Flor-Palavra." Location: ROOM 03
Session
40 (54) RACE & ETHNICITY #5- RACE, GENDER & CLASS Chair/Moderator: Ibrahim Sundiata - History Department, Brandeis University
and ASWAD Board Member (USA). Maria Luisa Pereira de Oliveira
- (Brazil). "Gônero e Raça, Etnia nas Relações
de Trabalho: Uma Reflexão Sobre Denúncias de Discriminação Racial." Aderivaldo Ramos de
Santana - (Brazil). "Ciôncia
e Preconceito - Raça e Gônero: Estudo do Pensamento Médico Brasileiro a cerca
da Epilepsia 1859-1906." Giovana Xavier da
Conceição Côrtes - History Department,
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Burguesa
Porém Mestiça: Raça e Classe na Construção da Mestiçagem Feminina nos Romances
Literários (Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1920)." Maria Clareth Goncalves Reis
- Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "A
Construção da Identidade Racial na Fala de Mulheres Negras." Luciane Soares da Silva
-
Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro (Brazil). "'O seu lugar não é aqui':
Notas para Reflexão Sobre Raça e Espaço Social em Registros Policiais Sobre o
Cotidiano das Relações Raciais no Rio Grande do Sul 1998-2001." Location: ROOM 04 Session
41 (15) EDUCATION #3- PEDAGOGIES FOR THE DIASPORA Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Beth-Sarah Wright - African Diaspora and World
Program, African Diaspora Studies, Spelman College, Atlanta, (USA). "What Do We Need to Know about the
African Diaspora?: Strategies and Challenges of Teaching Diaspora Studies at
Spelman College." William Jelani Cobb - History Department, Spelman
College (USA).
"Let the Rhythm Move You: Using the Aesthetics of Blues Culture and Hip-Hop to
Teach the African Diaspora." Julio Pino - Kent State University (USA). "A Revolutionary Pedagogy for the African Diaspora in Latin America."Consuela Lewis - University of Pittsburg (USA) and James
Coaxum - Rowan University (USA). "Elite and Mass-Access and Equity:
A Comparative Analysis of Higher Education in the African Diaspora and the
United States." Alma Jean Billingslea
Brown - English Department, Spelman College USA). "Black
Transnationalism, Literary Production and Pedagogical Strategies for
Diaspora."
Paul Dash -
Goldsmiths University of London (UK). "The Plight of
Black Children Globally and its Implications for the Future."
Location: ROOM 05 Session
42 (36) POLITICS/GOVERNMENT #1- POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTS IN AFRICA AND THE
DIASPORA Chair/Moderator: Micere Githae Mugo - African American
Studies, Syracuse University and ASWAD Board Member (USA).
Jhon Antón
- Anthropology/Sociology,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia).
"El Impacto del Conflicto Armado en las Comunidades Negras del Pacífico
Colombiano." Jean Allman - University of Illinois (USA). "Nuclear Imperialism and the
Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana 1959-1962." Geoffrey Nwaka - Abia State University, Uturu (Nigeria). "Using Indigenous Knowledge to
Strengthen Local Government and Governance in Nigeria." Melina Pappademos -History Department, University of Connecticut. "Alchemists of a Race: Black Clubs
in the Cuban Republic, 1900 to 1940." Okechukwu Iheduru - African American Studies
Program, Arizona State University (USA). "African Politics in America:
Globalization, Migration and Trans-Nationalization of Domestic Politics." Stanlie James - Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies, University
of Wisconsin (USA). "Configurations:
International Human Rights v Civil Rights." Location: ROOM 06
Session
43 (28) THE MARTIAL ARTS OF THE DIASPORA Chair/Moderator: Julio César de Tavares
- Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Rio de Janeiro and ASWAD Conference Chair (Brazil). João Perelli -
Physical Education Department, Brazilian Association for University Instruction
(Universidade ABEU), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Capoeira,
Comunidade Imaginada e Identidade Cultural." Renee Larrier - French Department, Rutgers University (USA). "Martial Art in Martinique: Danmyé, Metaphor, and Masculinity." T.J. Desch Obi - History Department, Baruch College, CUNY (USA). "History and Origin Myths: The
Genesis of Brazil's Famous Capoeira Foot-Fighting." Paulo Coelho -
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). "Abordagem
Socio-histórica da Capoeira." Miltinho Astronauta
- Champion Capoerista (Brazil). "Capoeira
nos meios de comunicação." Location: ROOM 07 Session
44 (35) HISTORY #7- LEGISLATION Chair/Moderator and Participant: Tanya Huelett - Doctoral Student, History
Department, New York University (USA). "Freedom for Whom?: The Impact of
General Slave Emancipation on Maroon Identity and Status in Nineteenth-Century
Jamaica." Edwina Ashie Nikoi - Doctoral Student, History
Department, New York University (USA). "Fifty Lashes on the Paradeor
Worse: Crime and Punishment in Grenada, 1784-1834." Natasha Lightfoot - Doctoral Student, History Department, New York
University (USA). "So
Them Make Law for Negro, So Them Make Law for Master: Antigua's 1831 Sunday
Market Rebellion." Discussant: Sherrie Randolph -Doctoral Student, History
Department, New York University (USA). Thursday, Oct, 6th Evening Friday, Oct, 7th 8:30/10:30 Location: ROOM 01 Session
45 (23) DANCE #1-DANCE IN BRAZILIAN SOCIETY Chair/Moderator:
Yvonne Daniel -
Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies, Smith College and ASWAD
Conference Secretary (USA). Claudia Ramalho -Cia. de
Dança Contemporânea da UFRJ e Cia. Danças Rubens Barbot e da Cia; Aérea de
Dança (Brasil). "A
Descolonização da Dança." Frank Wilson Roberto -
Departamento de Arte Corporal da Escola de Educação Física e
Desporto/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). "A
Raiz Cultural Africana nas Diferentes Manifestações Populares no Brasil." Julio Moracen Naranjo
- Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil).
"O Poder do Sol do Saber Deles: Dimensão Histórica do Teatro Negro-Africano." Eliane
Santos de Souza - Rede
Municipal de Ensino do Rio de Janeiro, porta-bandeira do Grômio Recreativo
e Escola de Samba Leão de Nova Iguaçu (Brasil). "Samba,
uma Dança sem Fronteiras: a Dança da Reza." Tatiana Maria Damasceno - Escola
de Educação Física e Desportos da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e Cia
de Dança Contemporânea da UFRJ (Brasil). "Cultura
e Memória: A Corporeidade Brasileira na Boca de Cena." Pedro Simonard
- Ph.D. Candidate at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Preservação
e Tradição no Jongo da Serrinha." Location: ROOM 02 Session
46 (33) HISTORY #5-DIASPORA HISTORIES Chair/Moderator: Colin Palmer - History Department, Princeton
University and ASWAD Board Member (USA). Rebecca Tally - History Department, Cornell University (USA). "Territory Rights in the Chocó:
History and Representation among Afro-Colombians on the Pacific Coast." Kwame Essien - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA). "Restoring the Cultural Links
Among the Tabom Community, Ghanaians, and Brazilians: The Role of the Brazilian
Government and the Brazilian Embassy in Ghana." Claudine Bonner - University of Western Ontario (Canada). "(Re)Constructing Settlement
Histories: Epistemological & Methodological Issues in Historical Research." Alida Metcalf - History Department, Trinity University (USA). "The Go-betweens of
Fifteenth-Century Africa and Sixteenth-Century Brazil: How the Portuguese
Experience in Africa Served as a Template for the Colonization of Brazil." Gloria Chuku - History Department, Millersville University of
Pennsylvania (USA).
"Black Women in Resistance Movements: Conceptualizing Common and Divergent
Themes in Africa and the United States." Location: ROOM 03
Session
47 (63) LITERATURE #5 - ENGENDERING ANANSI: BLACK WOMEN AND STRATEGIES FOR
RESISTENCE, LIBERATION, AND EMPOWERMENT Chair/Moderator
and Panelist: Kathleen Phillips Lewis - Spelman College, (USA). "Miss Nansi and the Door of No
Return: Women Negotiating the Middle Passage." Danille Taylor - Dillard
University, New Orleans (USA). "Monster's Ball and Xica: The Role of the Black Female
Body in White Male Fantasies." Shirley Toland-Dix - University of South Florida (USA). "The Anancy Poetics of African
Diasporic Women Writers." Georgene Bess Montgomery -
Clark Atlanta
University and Spelman College (USA). "Who's Tricking Who: The Trickster
Figure in African American Literature - Charles Chesmutt's 'The Goophered
Grapevine'
and 'The Passing Gradisone'." Beth-Sara Wright - Spelman College (USA). "Emancipative Bodies: Politics of
the Vagina, Memory and Healing in Jamaica Dancehall Culture." Location:
ROOM 04 Session
48 (42) SOCIO/ANTHROPOLOGY #3 -BRAZILIAN QUOTAS AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Chair/Moderator: Carlos Alberto Medeiros -Journalist,
State of Human Rights Secretary (Brazil).
Simone Freitas - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Coordenadora do Acervo "Memória Negras" da Universidade Cândido Mendes, Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, CEAO/Fábrica de Idéias (Brazil) and Rosana Giordana M. Carvalho - Mestranda em Ciôncias Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, CEAO/Fábrica de Idéias Brazil). "Os Discursos da Mídia sobre Ações Afirmativas no Brasil." Andre Brandão - Universidade Federal
Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, (Brazil). "Cotas para Negros nas Universidades e os Discurso sobre Méritos." Carla Ramos -
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciôncias
Sociais (Brazil). "'Nem tão Pobres, Nem tão Negros':
Um Estudo de Caso Sobre Os Alunos Indeferidos no Vestibular de 2004 da
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro" Verena Alberti and Amilcar Araújo Pereira
- Fundação Getúlio Vargas -CPDOC, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Movimento
Negro e 'Democracia Racial' no Brasil: Entrevista com Lideranças do Movimento
Negro." Location: ROOM
05
Session
49 (19) MEDICINE #3- MODELS OF HIV/AIDS INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION FOR PEOPLE
OF AFRICAN DESCENT: HEALTH CARE ISSUES IN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC
COMMUNITIES Chair/Moderator and Panelist: Joyce F. Kirk -Africology Department,
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA). "Sangomas (African Doctors), Methods of HIV/AIDS Prevention
in South Africa." Florence Kyomugisha - Womens's Studies Department, California
University, Northridge (USA). "New Intervention Models for African Orphan Households." Osei-Mensah Aborampah - University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA). "Ghanaian Traditional Healers and Problems of HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Intervention." Anthony J. Lemelle Jr. - University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of California, Berkeley, Office of the
President (USA).
"Lessons Learned in California's Prevention Intervention Efforts: Racialization
and the Spread of HIV." Location: ROOM 06
Session
50 (39) CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: CREATIVITY AND CONCERN Chair/Moderator: tba
Christen Smith - PhD Candidate, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University (USA). "Shock and Siege: Street Theater and the Verbal Revolution without Firearms in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil."Flavia
Bastos
- Art Education, College of Design, Art, Architecture, and
Planning, University of Cincinnati (USA). "A Cross-cultural Examination of
a Community-based Art Program for Black Atlantic Urban Youth in Brazil and the
United States."
Lorelei Williams - Founder and Director of Projeto Mentes e Portas
Abertas, Salvador, Bahia and Development Consultant for Brazil Foundation, New
York City (USA). "The
Road to Brasília: POMPA & A Generation of Afro-Brazilian Leaders." Ana Aparício - University of Massachusetts (USA). "Dominicans, Diasporas, and Power:
Re-Routing Race and Politics." Vera Lucia Néri - Instituto Baoba and Jaime
da Silva, Documentarista e Diretor do
SICAM - Sociedade Independente de Cultura e Aprendizagem de Manguinhos
(Brazil). "Juventude Negra e Desigualdades
No Brasil." Location: ROOM 07 Roundtable "Encyclopedia of
the African Diaspora: A Progress Roundtable." Coordinators: Rose
Thevenin- Florida Memorial University and
Carole Boyce Davies - African New-World Studies, Florida International
University and ASWAD Board Member. Participants: Keshia
Abraham - Florida Memorial University - "Women, Writing and
Resistance in the African Diaspora"; Monica Jardine,
SUNY - Buffalo - "Caribbean Migration and the African Diaspora"; Greg Thomas - Syracuse University - "Hip Hop
Culture in the African Diaspora"; Sabrina Collins (PhD Candidate, Florida International University,
USA) and Babacar M'Bow (Broward County Library, Florida, USA)- "The
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora." Friday, Oct, 7th 10:45/12:45 Location: ROOM 01 Session
51 (34) HISTORY #6- THE SOVIET DIASPORA EXPERIENCE Chair/Moderator: Allison Blakely - African American History, Boston
University (USA). Erik S. McDuffie - African American Studies and Research Program/Gender
and Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois (USA). "'The Greatest Experience of My
Life': Louise Thompson's 1932 Journey through the Soviet Union and the Making
of a Black Radical Internationalist Feminist." Joy Carew
- Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville (USA). "Selling Hope: Du Bois, Hughes, and
Robeson Extolling the Soviet Experiment." JoAnne Van Tuyl - Duke University (USA). "Soviet Scripting of Race: Examining
the 1932 Screenplay of Grebner's Blacks and Whites." Meredith Roman - Department, SUNY Brockport (USA). "Keepin' It Real: African Americans in Moscow's International Lenin School and the Demands that the Promises of Soviet 'Racelessness' be Fulfilled, 1931-1932." Location: ROOM 02
Session
52 (49) CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORA #5 Chair/Moderator: Michael Gomez - History Department, New York
University and ASWAD Board Director (USA). Elisa Larkin
Nascimento - IPEAFRO - Instituto de
Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
"O Olhar Afrocentrado: O Significado da Afrocentricidade e sua Relevância para
a Diáspora Afro-Latina das Américas." Enilce
Albergarai Rocha, Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas ,
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais (Brazil). "Tradição
e Modernidade: Irrupção da Nação Moçambicana em Terra Sonâmbula e em Veranda do
Frangipani, de Mia Couto." Jean-Michel
Mabeko-Tali -
History
Department, Howard University (USA). "Tradições
e Modernidade no Discurso Político na África Central: Quais as Influôncias no
Novo mundo."
Liv Sovik
- Communications School, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Stuart Hall and Guerreiros Ramos:
Comparisons and Contrasts."
Flávio Goncalves dos
Santos - Universidade Estadual de Santa
Cruz (Brazil). "O Discurso dos Intelectuais Afro-brasileiros
num Contexto de Disputa Racial na Bahia, 1889/1937." Location: ROOM 03
Session
53 (55) RACE & ETHNICITY #4- INEQUALITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN BRAZIL Chair/Moderator and
Panelist: Renato Emerson dos
Santos PPCor/LPP/Universidade do Estado
do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Ações
Afirmativas: As Experiôncias de Acesso e Permanôncia." João Feres Junior - Ciôncia
Política, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Diogo Lyra, Instituto Universitário de
Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "Discriminação
Racial no Brasil e a Teoria do Reconhecimento de Axel Honnet."
Jacques d'Adesky - Contemporary
Anthropology, Instituto de Humanidade and the Centro de Estudos das Américas,
Universidade Cândido Mendes (Brazil). "Desprezo
Social, Esquecimento e Responsabilidade Moral." Amauri
Mendes Pereira - Centro de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros, Universidade
Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). "O
Tao da Questão Racial no Pensamento Social no Brasil."
Hugo de Oliveira Barbosa
- Pontifícia
Universidade Católica and Lélia Gonzales African and Afro-Brazilian Group, Rio
de Janeiro (Brazil). "Relationships and Connections
between Africa and its Diasporas." Location: ROOM 04
Session
54 (12) GENDER #3- GENDERED PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Chair/Moderator: Assata Zerai and Karen Fox.
Assata Zerai - Department of African and Afro-American Studies, Penn
State University (USA). "Spousal
Communication Concerning HIV in Zimbabwe: Application of African Feminism." Karen Flynn - African American Studies and Research Program,
University of Illinois (USA). "Living Healthy Lives: Black Women Health in Toronto." Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni -Departments of Business and
Geography respectively, Dominican University of California (USA). "Gendered Context of HIV/AIDS in
Malawi." Clifford Odimegwu - University of The
Witwatersrand (South Africa). "Men's Health-Seeking Behavior in Nigeria: Limits of
Masculine Stoicism." Clifford Odimegwu - University of The Witwatersrand
(South Africa). "Does
it cost to be a Man?: An Analysis of Social and Health Consequences of
Masculinity in Nigeria." Location: ROOM 05 Session
55 (65) INTERDISCIPLINARY- MEDIA, FILM, MUSIC, INTERNET: FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET Moderator and Panelist: Imani
Johnson -
Doctoral student, Program for American Studies and Ethnicity, University of
Southern California (USA). "Alien-Nation, Blackness, and Third-World Belonging in Spook
Who Sat by the Door." Michelle Denise
Commander
- Doctoral student, Program for American Studies and Ethnicity, University of
Southern California (USA). "Sister Outsider: African American Expatriate Women Seeking
Sisterhood in Paris." Sionne Rameah Neely - Doctoral student, Program for
American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USA). "Bustin' Loose:
Nation-Making/Breaking and 50 Cent's Embodiment of Alien Interiority." Nicole Hodges Persley - Doctoral student, Program for
American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USA). "Improvising Africa, Performing
Diaspora: The Performance of African Diasporic Identities in Adrienne Kennedy's
Funny House of a Negro and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus." Location:
ROOM 06 Session
56 (26) BIOGRAPHIES OF DIASPORA PERSONAGES Moderator: tbaJerome Branche -
University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, USA. "Slavery,
Subjection and Sufferation in Juan Francisco Manzano, a Nineteenth Century
Cuban."
Lisa Earl Castillo - Doctoral Candidante,
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil). "Martiniano do Bomfim and the
Construction of Discourse on Candomblé." Hillina Seife - History Department, New York University, (USA). " 'Africa Irredenta' David A.
Talbot: Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Foreign Affairs News Reporting in
Addis Ababa and New York, 1937-1960." Lindy Stiebel- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (South
Africa). "Home and Exile- the Writing Career
of Lewis Nkosi." Location: ROOM 07 Roundtable "Entramos
Negros; Salimos Afrodescendientes: La Importancia de Santiago +5." Coordinator and Participant: Jorge Romero Rodriguez - General Coordinator, Alianza Estratégica de Organizaciones Afro-Latino-Americanas
y Caribeņas, Montevideo (Uruguay); Participants: Juanpedro Machado - Director,
Instituto de Desarrollo Afro-Uruguayo, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura Montevideo
(Uruguay); Miriam Gomes - Profesor,
Maestría en Diversidad Cultural, Universidad Nacional de 3 de Febrero, Buenos
Aires (Argentina); Orlando Ribeiro - Coordinator, Programa de Educación Juvenil, Instituto
Superior de Formación Afro, Organizaciones Mundo Afro, Montevideo (Uruguay). Friday, Oct, 7th 13:45/15:45 Location: ROOM 01 Session
57 (22) MUSIC ACROSS THE DIASPORA Chair/Moderator: Julio
César de Tavares - Departamento de Estudos
Culturais e Mídia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro and ASWAD
Conference Chair (Brazil). Waldemir Rosa - Mestrando
em Antropologia Social, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil).
"O Protesto Negro do Rap: Música e Identidade Brasileira." Raymond Codrington -Director and Assistant Curator
of the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies and Anthropology
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (USA). "Chat About What's Happening:
Global Transformations in Rap and Hip-Hop's Being." LaShonda Katrice Barnett - Sarah Lawrence College, New
York (USA). "I
got Thunder (And It Rings!): The Afrodiasporic 'Voice' in Music." Allysson Fernandes
Garcia -
Mestrando in History, Universidade Federal de
Goiás (Brazil). "Cultura Hip-Hop e sua
Influôncia na Construção de Socialidades e Identificações Juvenis em
Goiânia." Carlos Benedito Rodrigues da Silva
- Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Alex Ratts -
Universidade Federal de Goiás.
"Trilhas Sonoras do Atlântico
Negro: Música, Corporeidade e Espaço." Location: ROOM 02 Session
58 (64) LITERATURE #6- AFRICAN AND CREOLE WRITERS Chair/Moderator: Laura
Cavalcante Padilha - Departamento de
Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Simone Alexander -Afro-American Studies, Seton Hall (USA). "Re-Mapping Diasporic Spaces and
Subjectivities: Edwidge Danticat's Narratives of Re-Location and Resistance." Irline François - Comparative Literature and Women's Studies, Goucher
College (USA).
"Mapping Sexuality in the Americas: Gendering Quisqueya and Brazil." Carine
Mardorossian - English
Department, SUNY Buffalo (USA). "The Diaspora Other: Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter."
Brinda Mehta - (USA). "Diasporic Dissonance and the
Violence of Memory in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker." Adlai Murdoch - French Department, University
of Illinois-Urbana (USA). "Exile,
Memory and Place in Edwdige Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory." Location: ROOM 03
Session
59 (16) EDUCATION #4- COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGIES Chair/Moderator: Lucia Araújo - Futura Cable Television - Roberto Marinho Foundation
(Brazil).
Peter Ogom Nwosu - Communication Studies, California State University at Northridge (USA). "Strengthening Communication Curriculum in Support of Development: The case for Africa: Part I."Donald Taylor - Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento (USA). "Strengthening Communication Curriculum in Support of Development: The case for Africa: Part II."Eddah
Mutua-Kombo - Communication
Studies, California State University, Sacramento (USA). "Strengthening Communication
Curriculum in Support of Development: The case for Africa: Part III."
Ana Paula Brandão
- Canal Futura (Brazil).
"A Cor da Cultura: Uma Experiôncia em Media e Educação."
Location: ROOM 04 Session
60 (58) RELIGION/ SPIRITUALIITY #3 - AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION AND
ITS INFLUENCE Chair/Moderator: Yvonne Daniel -Professor Emerita of Dance and
Afro-American Studies, Smith College and ASWAD Conference Secretary (USA). Maria das Graças de Santana Rodrigué - Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (Brazil). "O Tema é mesmo vou buscar o argumento no Ritual das Águas de Oxalá".
Martha Sales Costa - Universidade
Federal de Sergipe (Brazil). "Uma Omorixá
Yemanjá, sua Iniciação em Um Terreiro de Candomblé e Uma Nova Dinâmica."
Helena Theodoro - (Brazil). "Educação e Religião de
Matriz Africana." Patrícia Santos
Schermann - Universidade Estadual de
Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil).
"Anti-escravismo e Colonialismo: A Trajetória do Padre Sorur Pharim Deng." Location: ROOM 05
Roundtable
Brazilian
Invited Session Friday, Oct, 7th 16:00/18:00 Final Plenary Session (Wine
Service) (At Rio 2 and 3 Rooms) Friday, Oct, 7th 19:00 Party |