ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD AFRICAN DIASPORA

CONFERENCE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

OCTOBER, 5-7


"DIASPORIC ENCOUNTERS AND COLLABORATIONS"

PROGRAM SCHEDULE


⊗ CLOSE

(8/22/2005, English Version)


REGISTRATION

PERFORMANCE AND PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Wednesday, Oct, 5th
09:45/10:45
10:45/12:45
13:45/15:45
16:00/18:00
Evening

Thursday, Oct, 6th
08:30/10:30
10:45/12:45
13:45/15:45
16:00/18:00
Evening

Friday, Oct, 7th
08:30/10:30
10:45/12:45
13:45/15:45
16:00/18:00
19:00





PERFORMANCE AND PERMANENT EXHIBITION


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"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


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09:45/10:45


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Welcome Session:


* Chair of ASWAD Conference Organizing Committee

* President of Universidade Federal Fluminense

* Introduction by the Australian and Eastern African Secretary, Minister of

International Affairs

* ASWAD Board Director





Wednesday, Oct, 5th


10:45/12:45


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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


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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


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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


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Reception (At Rio 2 and 3 Rooms)


Welcome Cocktail








Thursday, Oct, 6th


08:30/10:30


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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


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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: tba


Angela 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


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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


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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 ParadeŠor 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


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Friday, Oct, 7th


8:30/10:30


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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


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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: tba


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


Lisa Earl Castillo - Doctoral Candidante, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal da Bahia (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


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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


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Final Plenary Session (Wine Service)

(At Rio 2 and 3 Rooms)



Friday, Oct, 7th


19:00


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Party