Spring
2008 CONFERENCE
Global
Movements, Local Identities:
Race, Space, and the African Diaspora in Latin America
March 6-7, 2008
Schedule · Call
for Papers · Conference
Registration and Travel
Afro-Latino Working Group
Sponsored
by the Inter-American Foundation
SCHEDULE
Thursday,
March 6, 2008
| 12:00 – 12:30
pm |
Welcome |
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12:30 –
2:15 pm |
Redefining
Culture:
Local Responses to Global Flows |
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Alisha
M. Beliso-DeJesus
PhD Candidate, Anthropology,
Stanford University
“Santeria and Jineterismo: Locating Nation in the Consumption of Religion”
Adriana
Parra
Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, UC Davis
“Paying the Cost of Mass Displacement in Colombia : Narratives of Trauma
and Healing”
Ryan
Rideau
Ph.D. Student, African
Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley*
“‘Aquí Estoy’: An Analysis of Diaspora and Race in Cuban
Hip Hop Music”
Erica
L. Williams
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology,
Stanford University
“Negra Gostosa and Mulata tipo Exportação: Race and Gender
in the Sexual Economies of Tourism in Salvador, Brasil”
Jennifer
Jones
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley*
Moderator |
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2:15 –
2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:30 –
4:15 pm |
Constructing
New Hybrid Identities:
Migration Across and Within the
African Diaspora |
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Micaela
Díaz-Sánchez
Ph.D. Candidate,
Drama, Stanford University
“‘Me Pongo y Me Quito’: Afro-Xicano/a Diasporic Aesthetics”
Ryan
Mann-Hamilton
Ph.D. Student, Cultural Anthropology,
City University of New York
“What Rises from the Ashes: Reconstructing Identity in the Dominican Republic”
Richard
Pérez
Ph.D. Student, Latino/a and Post-Colonial
Literature, City University of New York
“The Afro-Dominican Fuku: Cursing Difference in Junot Díaz’s The
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Ankullah
Thomas
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Harvard
University
“Ethnoracial Identity and Social Mobility among Afro-Panamanian Americans”
Vielka
Cecilia Hoy
Ph.D. Student, African Diaspora
Studies, UC Berkeley*
Moderator |
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4:15 –
4:30 pm |
Break |
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4:30 –
6:00 pm |
Panel
of Invited Latin American Activists |
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Celso
Alvarez
Organización Negra Centroamericana,
Honduras
Joseph
Cherubin
Movimiento Sociocultural de los Trabajadores
Haitianos (MOSCTHA), Dominican Republic
Daniel
Garces Carabalí
Procesos de
Comunidades Negras, Colombia
Yvette
Modestin
Red de Mujeres Afro-Latinoamericanas/Encuentro
de la Diaspora Afro, Panama/U.S.A. |
Friday,
March 7, 2008
10:00 –
10:30
am |
Opening
Remarks |
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10:30
am –
12:15 pm |
Disrupting
Racial Democracy:
Black Social Movements in Latin America |
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Takkara
Brunson
Ph.D. Student, Latin American History,
UT Austin
“Visualizing Uplift: Photography and Cultural
Production Among Afro-Cubans and within Diasporic Perspective,
1910-1915”
Paul
Joseph López Oro
M.A. Candidate, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque
“¡Nuestro
Propio Espacio! 15 Years of ENLACE de Mujeres Negras de
Honduras (ENMUNEH) Garifuna Women and their Community-Based
NGO in Bahia de Tela, Honduras”
Tianna
Paschel
Ph.D. Student, Sociology, UC Berkeley*
and
Mark Q. Sawyer
Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Political Science, UCLA
“Contesting Politics as Usual: Black Social
Movements, Globalization and Race Policy in Latin America ”
Gladys
L. Mitchell
Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science,
University of Chicago
“Strategies of Gaining the Afro-Brazilian
Vote and Raising Racial Consciousness among the Afro-Brazilian
Electorate”
Celso
Castilho
Ph.D. Candidate, History,
UC Berkeley*
Moderator |
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12:15 –
1:00 pm
|
Lunch |
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1:00 –
2:45 pm |
The
Color of Representation:
Culture as Contested Ground |
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Raquel
De Souza
Ph.D. Student, Social Anthropology
and Diaspora, UT Austin
“Resurrectiong Chica da Silva: Gender, Race and Nation in Brazilian Popular
Culture”
Matthew
Rarey
M.A. Candidate, Art History, University
of Wisconsin Madison
“The Political Economy of Afro-Mexican Identity: Representing Race and
Diaspora in Institutional Space”
Petra
Raquel Rivera,
Ph.D. Candidate, African Diaspora
Studies, UC Berkeley*
“‘Tegology/Tegología’:
Community and African Diaspora Space in Tego Calderón’s
Reggaetón”
Esteban
Kelly,
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, City University
of New York
“Performative Reconfigurations of São Paulo : Afro-Brazilian Youth
Subcultures Advance an Insurgent Cartography of the City Center ”
Christina
Knight
Ph.D. Candidate, African
and African American Studies, Harvard University*
Moderator |
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2:45 –
3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:00 –
4:45 pm |
Race
and Spaciality:
Identity Rooted and Routed in Place |
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Barbara
Idalissee Abadia-Rexach,
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology & CAAAS,
UT Austin
“Navigating the African Diaspora through the Dominican Parade: (Re)Construction
of Identities in Afro-Dominican Immigrants in Santurce, Puerto Rico ”
Rebecca
Bodenheimer
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology,
UC Berkeley*
“‘La Habana No Aguanta Más’: Regionalism in Contemporary
Cuban Society and Popular Music”
Christina
Sue,
Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA
“Who is ‘Black’?: Constructions of Blackness in History, Region,
and Identity in Veracruz, Mexico”
Katya
Wesolowski,
Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University
“Inventing Brazil in Africa : Roots and Routes of an Afro-Brazilian Art
Form”
Juan
Herrera,
Ph.D. Student, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley*
Moderator |
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4:45 –
5:00 pm |
Break |
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5:00 –
6:30 pm |
Invited
Faculty Roundtable |
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Nancy
Applebaum
History, State University of New York, Binghamton
Robin
Derby
History, UCLA
Steven
Gregory
Anthropology, Columbia University
Michael
Hanchard
Political Science, Northwestern University
Agustín
Laó-Montes
Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
George
Priestly
Political Science, Queens College |
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6:30 –
8:00 pm |
Closing
Reception |
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* member of the Afro-Latino Working Group at UC Berkeley |
**NOTE:
Schedule subject to change
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