December 13, 2019 (Friday)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panels
Panel 35: Representaciones y agencias afrodescendientes I
- Francisco Flórez, Professor, Universidad de Cartagena
“‘Los negros también piensan’: explotación minera, tropicalización y defensa territorial en una antigua sociedad esclavista, Chocó (Colombia), 1914-1945
- María Elena Oliva, Researcher, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano
“La prensa política afrodescendiente en la primera mitad el siglo XX: los casos de Previsión (Cuba) y PAN (Uruguay)”
- *Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés, Graduate Student, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, Ecuador
“‘Quítate de mi escalera, no me hagas oscuridad’: imágenes de lo ‘negro’ en la antropología colombiana 1930-2016”
- William Mina Aragón, Professor, Universidad del Cauca
“Los afrodescendientes y el proyecto libertario en Colombia”
Chair and Moderator: María Elena Oliva
Panel 36: Security and Human Rights in the International Decade of Afro-Descendants
- *Juan D. Delgado, PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
“Specifying the Relationship Between Ethnoracial Inequality and Mobilization: The Structural Path Towards Territorially Racialized Positions, Dispositions, and Capitals in Colombia”
- Melissa M. Valle, Professor, Rutgers University, Newark
“Framing Progress: Urban Branding and the Symbolic Economy of Race and Place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”
- Crystal Yuille, Activist, Howard University
“Searching for Peace In Spite of the Police State: Similarities and Distinctions in a Brazilian and Colombian Case Study”
- Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Activist, Organization Member of Washington Office on Latin America
“Peace, Security, and Human Rights in the Americas in the UN Decade of Afrodescendants”
Chair: Juan D. Delgado
Moderator: Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
Panel 37: To Affirm Her Space, Place, Body, and Voice: Brazilian Black Women’s Resistance
- Alysia Mann Carey, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
“Black Diasporic Feminism and Collective Intimacy: Toward a Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Politics and Mobilization in the Américas”
- *Jaira J. Harrington, Professor, Villanova University
“Inscribed and Erased: Black Women’s Politics and the Case of Domestic Work in Brazil”
- Racquel Bernard, PhD Student, University of California, Los Angeles
“Empress Epistemologies and Negritude Musicality: Jamaican Reggae and Brazilian Samba Reggae in Conversation”
- Ugo F. Edu, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
“Beauty and the Black: Politics of Aesthetics and Black Reproduction in Brazil”
Chair: Jaira J. Harrington
Moderator: Alysia Mann Carey
Panel 38: Corporalidades, performances: artes y artistas afrodescendientes en Latinoamérica
- Cary Aileen García Yero, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
“Making Cubanidad Through Vanguardia Music During the 1940s in Cuba”
- Elena Palmero González, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
“Afrolatinoamericanidades: voces y cuerpos negros en la poesía oral latinoamericana contemporánea”
- Elizabeth Schwall, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
“Cuban Ballet and Race: The Moving History of Caridad Martínez”
- Luis Antonio Madrid Moraga, PhD Candidate, Universidad de Chile
“Artistas afrodescendientes del Chile colonial y republicano: upresencia histórica continental”
- Rosilín Bayona Mojena, Researcher, Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello”
¿Qué es los que rapean? Circulación de expresiones culturales y la influencia de los discursos raciales y de género
Chair and Moderator: Cary Aileen García Yero
Panel 39: Black Subjecthood: Religion and Performance in the Colonial Atlantic
- Fernanda Bretones Lane, Professor, University of Florida
“Sacred Waters: Kalunga and Baptism in the colonial Caribbean.”
- Maria Cecilia Ulrickson, Professor, Catholic University of America
“Afro-Catholicism and Citizenship in Early Haiti”
- Miguel Valerio, Professor, Washington University St Louis
"Afro-Mexican Confraternities and Self-Governance."
Chair and Moderator:
Sherwin Bryant, Professor, Northwestern University
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Panel 40: Representaciones y agencias afrodescendientes II
- Alicia l. Monroe, Professor, College of the Holy Cross
“Visual and Material Markers of Freedom: Reading Images of Afro-Brazilian Laborers During Gradual Abolition and Beyond”
- Ayinde Madzimoyo, PhD Candidate, Florida International University
“Spaces of Resistance: Mountains, Forests, and Marronage in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, 1815-1880”
- Cristina Wissenbach, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
“Para além da escravidão: modos de ser, de pensar e de sentir expressos nas cartas de Theodora da Cunha Dias (São Paulo, 1860)”
- *Elsa Maxwell, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
“Nineteenth-Century Afro-Caribbean Writers: Abolitionism, Authorship and the Public Sphere”
Chair and Moderator: Elsa Maxwell
Panel 41: Mujeres afrodescendientes: luchas, representaciones, prácticas
- Susana Cruzalta, Graduate Student, Universidad de Granada
“Representación de la mujer afroescendiente en el filme mexicano La negra Angustias”
- *J.M.H. Clark, Professor, University of Kentucky
“Diasporic Identity and Port City Networks in the Early Modern Caribbean”
- Taís de Sant'Anna Machado, PhD Candidate, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)
“‘The place for blacks is in the kitchen’: Naturalization and Invisibilization of Female and Black Culinary Work in Brazil”
Chair: J.M.H. Clark
Moderator: Taís de Sant'Anna Machado
Panel 42: La presencia africana en México: historia, culinaria, y música
- Dora E. Careaga-Coleman, Professor, University of New Mexico
“Las retenciones de la culinaria afro-veracruzana: un discurso para iluminar a los afrodescendientes mexicanos”
- *Eduardo Luis Espinosa, Professor, UAM/ Harvard University
“Arte afromexicana y audiencia de la música popular en la Costa Chica”
- Odilia Organista Mora, Researcher, Secretaria de Educación Pública
“La expresión rítmica del baile de artesa y la identidad cultural de los afromexicanos de la Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca”
- María Camila Díaz Casas, Researcher, Centro de Estudios Afrodescendientes, Universidad Javeriana
“Fronteras de libertad: esclavizados fugitivos del sur estadounidense a México, 1821-1865”
- Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Professor, University of Rochester
“Cautivas madres y yatólicas: las raíces afro-mexicanas de los gens du couleur Saint-Domingue (Haití), 1683-1700”
Chair and Moderator: Dora E. Careaga-Coleman
Panel 43: Educación e inclusión en Brasil
“Are Race-Conscious Remedies in Brazil Building a New Concept for Race?”
“O movimento negro brasileiro na luta por educação: história e antirracismo
nas escolas e nos currículos”
“Para além da inclusão: Ação afirmativa no Brasil, ensino superior e a formação de uma nova geração de intelectuais negros”
Chair: Amilcar Pereira
Moderator: Andréa Lopes da Costa Vieira
Panel 44: Afro-Latina Identity across the Americas
- Ana María Morales Troya, PhD Candidate, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
“Haciendas cañeras, despojo y rebeliones femeninas en Territorio Ancestral Afroecuatoriano.”
- Erly Barbosa, PhD Candidate, Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF
“Quem Sabe De Mim Sou Eu?: Construção Do Feminino Negro Em Redes Sociais On-Line.”
- Eryn S. Berger, PhD Candidate, Temple University
Becoming Afroargentina: Feminismo negro and intersectionality in Afrodescendant youth civic identity formation in Buenos Aires
- Jeremy Jacob Peretz, PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
“Embracing African Gods and Latin American (Queer) Femininities: Borderlands and “The Spanish Nation” of Spirits in Guyanese Komfa”
12:30 Luch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Panel 45: Frente a la discriminación hacia afrodescendientes: acciones y revisión crítica de diseños
- Alina Sarahi Gómez Rivera, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
“Los personajes afrodescendientes perfilados por esquemas raciales”
- Helen Patricia Peña Martínez, Directora de ONG Internacionales de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos
“La cooperación de las instituciones nacionales de derechos humanos de Iberoamérica a favor de las poblaciones afrodescendientes”
- Mireya Morales Peña, Universitat de Barcelona/ Dirección General de Regularización Territorial, México
“Centro histórico de la Ciudad de México: sitio de memoria de la esclavitud africana”
Panel 46: Políticas afirmativas e produção de conhecimento de intelectuais negros
- Anderson dos Santos Alves, Associado ao Programa de Pós-graduação, Univeraidad Nacional de La Plata.
“Políticas educacionais e direitos humanos: intersecção de raça, gêneros e sexualidades na educação latinamericana”
- Daiane Francisco de Medeiros, Graduate Student, UERJ
“Orixás, educação e diáspora afro-brasileira”
- Sharah Elisa Araújo dos Santos, Graduate Student, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
“Produção de conhecimento e de narrativas antirracistas em movimentos sociais iniciados a partir de contextos de violência do Estado”
Chair and Moderator: Jeana Morrison
Panel 47: Decenio internacional ara la población afrodescendiente: experiencias en Brasil, Colombia, y Honduras
- Ana Barreto, Graduate Student, The New School
- Edwin Álvarez Norales
- Lina Hurtado
Round Table: Aquí se encuentran: Afro-Latinx Cultural Production and the Women of Hip-Hop
- Sarah Bruno, PhD Candidate, University Wisconsin-Madison
- Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Professor, Wellesley College
- Wilfredo Gomez, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
- Carlos Burgos, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University
- Nitty Scott, MC
- Yomaira Figueroa, Professor, Michigan State University
Moderator: Carlos Burgos
3:30-5:00 p.m. Closing Reception - Thompson Room