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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 Jones´s Song
for Anninho." Nicole Aljoe - English Department, University of Utah (USA). "Slave Testimonies of Diaspora." Ann Bailey - History Department, Spelman College, Georgia (USA). "Beyond the Silence and the Shame:
African Slave Trade and Bridging the African Diaspora." Akintunde
Akinyemi - Department of African and Asian Languages and
Literatures, University of Florida (USA). "Transnational
Displacements and Cultural Continuity: The Performance of Yoruba Religion
Poetry in the New World."
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 d´Anthropologie Écoles des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales, Paris (France). "Basketball Beyond the
Baobabs - Recreating Diaspora Amidst Corporate Schemes and Postcolonial Hoop
Dreams." Vilma Aparecida de
Pinho and Maria Lúcia Rodrigues Muller
- Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso (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 Toronto´s Caribana." Marlon M. Bailey - University of California (USA). "'They Want Us Sick':
Displacement, Diaspora, Ballroom Culture and HIV/AIDS Intervention in Detroit,
Michigan, (USA)." 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). |