The ALARI First Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies / Primer Encuentro Continental de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos ALARI / Primeiro Encontro Continental de Estudos Afro-latino-americanos ALARI
The ALARI First Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies marks the coming of age of the emerging, multidisciplinary field of Afro-Latin American Studies and the fifth anniversary of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University. Contributions to this growing field come from a variety of knowledge producers, including scholars, activists in the Afrodescendant movement, government officials and officers in international organizations. Given the central roles played by Africans and their descendants in the formation of Latin America, their contributions, struggles, and intellectual production are studied through a variety of disciplines and approaches, many of which are represented at our conference.
This Conference builds on two important previous Harvard initiatives: the conference Africa in the Americas, organized by Doris Sommer in 1998; and the conference Black in Latin America, organized by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 2011. Our conference connects with similar events happening all over Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina. The ALARI is currently working with GEALA (Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires) to make sure that the “Jornadas” of GEALA and the ALARI Conferences take place in alternate years, providing new opportunities for those working in the field to come together, share their work, and develop new initiatives. Welcome!
December 11-13, 2019
Barker Center, Harvard University (TBC)
December 11, 2019 (Wednesday)
8:30 a.m. Café y Registro
9:30 a.m. Palabras de bienvenida de Alejandro de la Fuente, Director de ALARI
10:00 a.m. Mesa Redonda con el Comité de Programa
11:30-1 p.m.
Panel 1: Thompson Room
Ambigüedad cultural y política en el espacio afroandino
- Alberto Díaz Araya, Profesor, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile
“Los bailes morenos de Arica y Tarapacá: cultura e identidades en movimiento en el norte de Chile”
- Cristian Báez Lazcano, Activista e Investigador Vivencial, Organización Afrochilena, ONG Lumbanga
“Relaciones sociales y culturales afro-indígenas en el norte de Chile, desde la negación al reconocimiento”
- Juan Eduardo Wolf, Professor, University of Oregon
“Pachamama, la tierra de los ancestros: usando conceptos afroandinos de territorio y ambiente como herramientas para decolonizar”
- Sara Busdiecker, Professor, Spelman College
“De bailar Saya a denunciar Tundiqui: Afrobolivianos negociando ‘performance’ para llegar a inclusión en la nación”
Chair and Moderator: Juan Eduardo Wolf
Panel 2: Kresge Foundation Room
Cosmovisiones, ontologías y geografías
- Patrícia dos Santos Pinheiro, Researcher, Federal University of Paraíba
“Memories and Collective Identity in the Audiovisual Production of the Quilombola Community of Mituaçu, Conde, Paraíba”
- Yilver Mosquera Vallejo, PhD Candidate, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“Geografías de la negridad: prácticas del ‘adentro’ y ‘afuera’ en la construcción de territorio en el valle del Patía, 1960-2017 (Colombia)”
- Céline Demol, PhD Candidate, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)
“De susto, daño al tono y otras enfermedades en comunidades negras afromexicanas de la Costa Chica de Oaxaca (México)”
Chair: Patrícia dos Santos Pinheiro
Moderator: Yilver Mosquera Vallejo
Panel 3: Barker Center 211
Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latino Digital Decolonization
- Eduard Arriaga, Professor, University of Indianapolis
“PretaLab: Afro-Latin American Women Making a Digital Decolonization”
- Maya Anderson-González, Professor, Université Paris EstMarne-la-Vallée, France
“Mapping Afro-Cuban Digital Communities”
- Camila Daniell, Professor, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
“Do you dance samba, morena?’”: An Experimental (Auto)ethnography of Afrolatinidad as a Hemispheric Experience
- Tania Lizarazo, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Utopian Archives: Collaborative Digital Collections in the Colombian Pacific”
Chair: Eduard Arriaga
Moderator: Tania Lizarazo
Panel 4: McFadden Room
Afro-Latin American Politics
- Andrew Janusz, Professor, University of Florida
“Afro-Brazilian Political Representation: Legislator Behavior in the Brazilian Congress”
- Marcus Johnson, Professor, Baruch College, CUNY
“Slavery, Violence, and Elections”
- Danilo Antonio Contreras, Professor, College of the Holy Cross
“The Illusion Trap”
- Jana Morgan, Professor, University of Tennessee
“Ethnoracial Marginalization and the Limits of Democratic Values”
Chair: Andrew Janusz
Moderator: Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
Panel 5: Barker Center 316
Artes, visualidades y negritudes
- Aldones Nino, PhD Candidate, International Graduate School, University of Granada/ School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
“Contemporary Art and Folds in Time: Subalternity, Art, and Power”
- Dunia Roquetti Saroute, PhD Candidate, Università Ca’Foscari di Venezia
“Afro-Brazilian Visuality at the Venice Biennale”
- Liz Moreno Chuquen, Professor, Idaho State University
“Narrativas visuales afro en los archivos oficiales del siglo XX”
- Ryan Morrison, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
“Conjuring Blackness in the Pampas: Negotiating Racial Democracy in Aldo
Locatelli’s Negrinho do Pastoreio Paintings”
- Rafael Acosta de Arriba, Researcher, Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello
“Imágenes de una ausencia: fotografía y racialidad en Cuba”
Chair and Moderator: Liz Moreno Chuquen
1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-3:30p.m.
Panel 6: Thompson Room
New Ethno-Cultural Approaches to Afro-Cuban Literature and History
- William Luis, Professor, Vanderbilt University
“The Cuban Enslaved Poet Juan Francisco Manzano and the Transatlantic Antislavery Movement”
- Flora González, Professor Emerita, Emerson College
“Georgina Herrera: el acto de nombrarse mediante el testimonio y el retrato poético”
- Rosemary G. Feal, Professor Emerita, State University of New York at Buffalo
“Africanicity in the Poetry of Rogelio Martínez Furé: Reinventing the Oriki”
Chair and Moderator: Rosemary G. Feal
Commentator: Doris Sommer
Panel 7: Kresge Foundation Room
Historias afrodescendientes in Colombia: Region, Identity, Politics, and Culture
- Jazmín Puicón, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Peace and Progress: Las mujeres obreras de Cali and Their Involvement in las Juntas de Acción Comunal in the 20th century”
- T.J. Desch-Obi, Professor, Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos, Universidad Icesi
“An African Diaspora Perspective on the Zurrigo”
- Yesenia Barragan, Professor, Dartmouth College/Rutgers University
“Final Abolition and the Problem of Autonomy in the Colombian Black Pacific”
- Brandi Waters, PhD Candidate, Yale University
“Afro-Colombians, Slavery, and the Ethics of Colonial Medical Jurisprudence”
Chair: James E. Sanders
Moderator: Joshua M. Rosenthal, Professor, Western Connecticut State University
Commentator: James E. Sanders, Professor, Utah State University
Panel 8: Barker Center 211
Advances in Afro-Peruvian Studies from Conquest to Independence
- Claire Maass, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, and José Luis Santa Cruz Alcalá, Researcher, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.
“Proyecto de investigación arqueológica La Quebrada: perspectivas bioarqueológicas hacia la historia de esclavitud en el Perú colonial”
- Marcella Hayes, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
“Building Troy in Their Own Image: The Black and Mulatto Guilds of Seventeenth- Century Lima”
- Ximena Gómez, Assistant Professor, U Mass Amherst
“Writing Art History Without Art: Examining the ‘Collections’ of Colonial Lima’s Black Confraternities”
Chair and Moderator: Michelle McKinley
Panel 9: McFadden Room
Representations of Afro-Descendant Women Across the Americas
- Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Claims of Dignity, Echoes of Past Violence(s), and Current Racist Humor in Venezuela: A Methodological Inquest”
- Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Instructor, University of Hawai‘i / Kelly Barros Santos, Professora, Universidade Federal da Bahia /Ana Urpia, Professora, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
“Com a palavra, mulheres quilombolas”
- Maria D. Ballesteros, Researcher, CAIINNO
“Afro-Latin American Women in 19th Century Representations”
- Rayron Lennon Costa Sousa, Professor, Universidade Federal Do Maranhão
“O lugar da periferia na literatura latinoamericana contemporânea: o(s) discurso(s) de gênero e etnicidade na literatura brasileira de Carolina Maria de Jesus”
Chair and Moderator: Pollianna Freire
Panel 10: Barker Center 316
Music and Blackness in Latin America
- Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Theorizing Black Music in a Hemispheric Context: Music Genre as Epistemology”
- Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Professor, Boston University
“Between Legibility and Alterity: Black Musical Self-Making in Multicultural Colombia”
- Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Professor, Wellesley College
“What is the Urban in Latin Urban Music?”
Chair and Moderator: Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Panel 11: Thompson Room
Esclavitud y abolición: abordajes históricos
- Leticia Canelas, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP, Brasil)
“Maternidade e alforria no Caribe francês: experiências e questões sobre gênero e escravidão (século XIX)”
- Lloyd Belton, PhD Candidate, University of Leeds
“Afro-Latinos in the Age of Inter-American Abolitionism (1791-1863)”
- Magdalena Candioti, Researcher, CONICET-Instituto Ravignani, Buenos Aires
“Un Manual de Piedad para hombres de color: miradas sobre religión,
raza y esclavitud en el Río de la Plata y el mundo atlántico”
- Maurício Barros de Castro, Professor, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
“Eustaquio Neves: Images and Memory of Slavery in ‘Valongo: Letters to the Sea’”
- Rocío Vera Santos, Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin
“Entre el atlántico y el pacífico negro: afrodescendencia y regímenes de desigualdad en Sudamérica”
Chair: Magdalena Candioti
Moderator: Leticia Canelas
Panel 12: Kresge Foundation Room
Perspectivas actuales sobre raza y derecho en Colombia
- Ana Margarita González, Activist, Ilex Aacción Jurídica
“Política de drogas y derechos humanos de los afrocolombianos: perfilamiento racial y abuso policial en Bogotá”
- Audrey-Karina Mena-Mosquera, Researcher, Illex Acción Juridica, Colombia
“El reconocimiento jurídico de los aportes culturales negros en Colombia”
- Daniel Gómez-Mazo, PhD Candidate, Fordham University School of Law / Ilex-Acción Jurídica
“El derecho a la representación dentro del Estado: la exclusión de los afrodescendientes en la rama judicial y su impacto sobre el movimiento negro en Colombia”
- Dayana Blanco Acendra, Researcher, Ilex Accion Juridica, Colombia
“Avances jurídicos para combatir la discriminación interseccional por raza y orientación sexual”
- Maryluz Barragán-González, Activist, Ilex Acción Jurídica
“Discriminación en el empleo contra los afrodescendientes: tendencias actuales del derecho constitucional en Colombia de las comunidades y personas afrodescendientes”
Chair and Moderator: Maryluz Barragán-González
Panel 13: Barker Center 211
Public Policy and the Politics of Blackness in Brazil
- David De Micheli, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University
“Racial Reclassification and Political Identity Formation”
- Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Intersectional Blackness”
- Reighan Gillam, Professor, University of Southern California
“Black Consciousness at Work: Race and Work in the Mainstream Media”
- Sales Augusto dos Santos , Researcher, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
“Quota System for Blacks: White Opportunism, Frauds, and Hyper-racism in Brazil”
Chair and Moderator: Reighan Gillam
Panel 14: McFadden Room
"The Afro-Latin American Research Association (ALARA): Its Inception, 20th Century Contributions, and 21st Century Implications for the U.S. Academy"
- Dawn F. Stinchcomb, Professor, Purdue University
“ALARA: Recovering the Neglected History of Forgotten People Who Left an Unforgettable Legacy”
- Jacqueline Alvarez-Rosales, Professor, Spelman College
“Connecting Academia to Social Organizations and Social Movements: ALARA and Its Commitment to Strengthening the Diaspora”
- Antonio Tillis, Professor, University of Houston
“PALARA and the Interdisciplinary Chronicling of Afro-Latin American Studies”
- Sarah Soanirina Ohmer, Professor, Lehman College
“ALARA, PALARA, and Reflections on Intersectional and Hemispheric Research in U.S. Afro-Latin American Studies”
Chair and Moderator: Dawn F. Stinchcomb
Panel 15: Barker Center 316
Subjetividades y emancipaciones simbólicas
- Isabela Fraga, Graduate Student, University of Chicago
“Nostalgic Subjects of Colonial Medicine: Trajectories of Sentimentalism in Iberian Slavery”
- Jessica A. Krug, Professor, George Washington University
“Fugitive Masculinities and Gender Outside the State: Black and Latinx Outside the Archives”
- Jéssyka Sâmya Ladislau Pereira Costa, Graduate Student, Universidade
Estadual de Campinas
“Escravidão e liberdade no mundo do trabalho do Amazonas Oitocentista (1850-1888)”
Chair and Moderator: Jessica A. Krug
5:00-7:00 p.m. December 11, 2019 (Wednesday)
Reception in Thompson Room, Barker Center
December 12, 2019 (Thursday)
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Panel 16: Thompson Room
Raza y territorio: la interseccionalidad entre los estudios afrolatinoamericanos y lo político
- Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene, Research Associate, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University
“Estudios afrolatinoamericanos: aportes desde los marcos transnacionales de movilidad y migración de pueblos afrodescendientes en Colombia y Ecuador”
- Gabriela Rodrigues Gois, Graduate Student, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“Narrativas geográficas de los territorios quilombolas en el extremo sur de Brasil”
- José Mario Suárez Martínez, Graduate Student, Universidad Icesi
“Qué tipo de racismo de Estado se ha ejercido frente a la población afrodescendiente en la zona metropolitana del Valle de México?”
- Marisol Alcocer Perulero, Researcher, Centro de Investigación y Estudios en Antropología Social, CIESAS, México
“Estrategias de defensa y resistencia de las mujeres afromexicanas de Guerrero frente a la violencia de género”
- Beatriz Marcheco, Researcher, National Center of Medical Genetics in Havana, Cuba,
"Cuba and Its Roots: A DNA-based Story'"
Chair and Moderator: Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene
Panel 17: Kresge Foundation Room
Tradição afrorreligiosa brasileira, resistência e racismo religioso
- Andréa Letícia Carvalho Guimarães, Researcher, Universidade de Brasília, Calundu, Grupo de Estudos sobre Religiões Afro-Brasileiras
“Os direitos dos povos de terreiros na encruzilhada: o uso do atabaque e o meio ambiente”
- Ariadne Moreira Basílio de Oliveira, Researcher, Calundu, Universidade de Brasília
“O racismo religioso como a base da violação a direitos dos povos de terreiro”
- Guilherme Dantas Nogueira, PhD Candidate, Universidade de Brasília; Calundu, Grupo de Estudos sobre Religiões Afro-Brasileiras
“Tradição Calunduzeira: um conceito diaspórico”
- Nathalia Vince Esgalha Fernandes, PhD Candidate, Universidade de Brasília, Calundu, Grupo de Estudos sobre Religiões Afro-Brasileiras
“Chuta que é macumba: discriminação contra religiões afro-brasileiras, um debate entre intolerância e racismo religioso no Estado Brasileiro”
Chair and Moderator: Ariadne Moreira Basílio de Oliveira
Panel 18: Barker Center 211
“I’m not White” is Not Enough: Racial Counterpoints in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies
- Hilda Lloréns, Professor, University of Rhode Island
“Racializing Migration: Unpacking the Black-Puerto Rican Experience”
- Omaris Z. Zamora-García, Professor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Decolonizing Afro-Latinx Studies”
- William García-Medina, PhD Student, University of Kansas
“‘I am not White!’: White Denial and Anti-Black Racism in Media Representations”
- Zaire Dizney-Flores, Professor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Faultless Whiteness: The Need for New Epistemologies in Afro-Latinx Studies”
- Devyn Spence Benson, Professor, Davidson College; Danielle Clealand, Professor, Florida International University
“Privileging the Silenced: Afro-Cuban Oral and Political History in the United States”
Moderator: April J. Mayes, Professor, Pomona College
Chair: Zaire Dizney-Flores
Panel 19: McFaddden Room
Inequalities, Social Policies, and Citizenship: Intersectional Portraits of Contemporary Brazil
- Ninive Fonseca Machado, PhD Candidate, Universidade Federal da Paraíba
“Reconfiguration and Constant Dispute for the Legitimization of Social Policies in Brazil”
- Marcia Lima, Professor, Universidade de Sao Paulo
“Access to Higher Education and Regional Inequalities”
- Rogerio Medeiros, Researcher, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil
“Seeing Poverty and Social Policy Through Intersectional Lenses: Beneficiary Families of the Bolsa Família Program in Northeastern Brazil”
Commentators: Marcia Lima and Rogerio Medeiros
Chair: Rogerio Medeiros
Panel 20: Barker Center 316
Black Feminist Theory from the South of the Americas
- Ane Costa, Graduate Student, Purdue University
“From Brazilian Coffee Plantations to the Favelas: An Ecofeminist Perspective of Carolina Maria de Jesus’ Trajectory”
- Angela Figueiredo, Professor, Universidade Federal da Bahia
“A marcha das mulheres negras: por um novo pacto civilizatório”
- Élida Lima, PhD Candidate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
“Anti-colonizar os afetos da branquitude no feminismo Brasileiro”
- Raíla Alves, Master in Social Sciences/Afro-Latin Lesbian Activist/Lecturer, Universidade de Brasília/University of Brasilia
“Amefrican Epistemology and Epistemicide: A Black Decolonial Feminist Critique to Academic Spaces”
Chair and Moderator: Angela Figueiredo
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Panel 21: Thompson Room
Round Table: Arqueología de Afro-latinoamericanos y concepto de nación
· Kathryn Sampeck, Professor, Illinois State University
·Daniel Schavelzon , Researcher, University of Buenos Aires
· Daniela Balanzátegui, Professor, U Mass Boston
·Felipe Gaitan-Ammann , Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
· Heriberto Erquicia, Professor, Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
· Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros, PhD Candidate, Universidad de Colonia, Alemania
· Lucio Menezes Ferreira, Professor, Federal University of Pelotas
· Marguerite L. De Loney, Stanford University
Panel 22: Kresge Foundation Room
Relaciones y comparaciones afro-indígenas
- Jessica Fernandez Norales, PhD Candidate, University of Lisbon
“Afro-indígenas y la reivindicación de derechos colectivos: un análisis del pueblo Garifuna en Honduras”
- Laura Correa Ochoa, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
“Black and Indigenous Marxisms and the Making of the Colombian Left, 1930-1948”
- Montserrat Arre Marfull, Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“La historia después del olvido: relaciones afro-indígenas en Chile colonial y el caso del corregimiento de Coquimbo, siglos XVII-XIX”
Chair: Montserrat Arre Marfull
Moderator: Laura Correa Ochoa
Panel 23: Barker Center 211
La internacionalización y redes interamericanas para combatir el racismo
- Oswaldo Bilbao Lobaton, Director Ejecutivo del Centro de Desarollo Etnico (CEDET), de Lima, Peru.
“Los estudios culturales como fórmula para politizar la teoría y teorizar la política desde una perspectiva afrodescendiente”
- Gustavo Lugo Vallecilla, Consejero Nacional de Planeación
“La educación como estrategia para combatir el racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y las formas conexas de intolerancia”
- Paula Lezama. PhD Candidate, University of South Florida
“La internacionalización de las luchas afrodescendientes como estrategia de negociación y protección del sujeto de derecho afrodescendiente en toda la región”
- Tonija Hope Navas, Directora del Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center y Doctoranda, Howard University
“Construyendo puentes a través de ‘Study Abroad'”
- Kandya Gisella Obezo Casseres, Comunicadora Social
“San Basilio de Palenque: resistencias y luchas libertarias entre el ayer y hoy”
Chair and Moderator: Bernd Reiter, Director del Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y del Caribe (ISLAC), University of South Florida, Coordinador del grupo de trabajo sobre Afrodescendientes de ISLAC
Panel 24: McFadden Room
Identity Performance in Dominican Republic
- Benoît Vallée, Graduate Student, State University of New York at Albany
“Performing Hip-Hop Blackness Within the Transnational Dominican Society”
- Christina C. Davidson, Professor, Harvard University
“Born Again Black: The Racial Politics of Transnational Dominican Evangelicalism”
- Mónica Espaillat Lizardo, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
“Diáspora as Method: Deferred Belonging in the Dominican Republic”
Chair: Christina C. Davidson
Moderator: Mónica Espaillat Lizardo
Panel 25: Barker Center 316
Violencia y territorios afrodescendientes
- Andrea Leiva Espitia, Professor, Saint Thomas University, Bogotá
“‘'Now we are a black community’: Ethnic Discourse and Forms of Political Organization in Islote (Bolívar, Colombia)”
- Kaysha Corinealdi, Professor, Emerson College
“From a National Day to a Seat at the Table”
- Roosbelinda Cárdenas, Professor, Hampshire College
“Black Visions of Peace: From Transitional Justice to Protecting Black Lives”
Moderator: Kaysha Corinealdi
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Panel 26: Thompson Room
Afro-Latino Identity Performance
- Florencia V. Cornet, Professor, University of South Carolina, Columbia
“Performing Decolonial Moves: Praxis from the U.S. Afro-Latina Margins”
- Justin D. García, Professor, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
“‘Who, and What, Is ‘Latino’ Anymore’?: Teaching Latino/a Studies In an Age of Afro-Latinidad, Intersectionality, and Anti-Essentialism in Trump’s America”
- Paul Joseph López Oro, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
“Queering Garifuna: The Diasporic Politics of Black Indigeneity in New York City”
- Rocío Gil, Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
“Without Documents. Understanding Blackness from a Borderland Perspective”
Chair and Moderator: Paul Joseph López Oro
Panel 27: Kresge Foundation Room
Spectres of Slavery: African-Descended Women and Liminal Freedom in Colonial Spanish American Port Cities
- Ana María Silva Campo, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Fragile Fortunes: Afro-Descended Women, Property Seizures, and the Remaking of Urban Cartagena de Indias”
- Ana María Díaz Burgos, Professor, Oberlin College,
“In-between Prosecution and Sentence: Afro-Descendant Women and Inquisition Carceral Spaces in Cartagena de Indias”
- Beau D.J. Gaitors, Professor, Winston Salem State University
“African Descendant Women in the Urban Milieu: Freedom and Slavery in Late-Colonial Veracruz”
- Danielle Terrazas Williams, Professor, Oberlin College
“Speaking the Same Language: Free Women, Maroons, and Parallel Expectations"
Chair: Michelle McKinley, Professor, University of Oregon Law School
Moderator: Ana María Silva Campo
Panel 28: Barker Center 211
Myriad Sites of Struggle: Black Women’s Politics and the State in Latin America
- Diane N. Ghogomu, Graduate Student, Tulane University
“Bem-Viver o Bem-Gozar: Towards a Black Feminist Pleasure Praxis for Afro-Brazilian Women in Brazil”
- Erika Denise Edwards, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Co-author María Florencia Guzmán, Researcher, Conicet/Geala-Universidad de Buenos Aires.)
“María Remedios del Valle, ‘The [Black] Mother of a [White] Nation’: Reclaiming Argentina’s Black Past”
- Marianela Muñoz, Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica
“Detour to National Politics: Afro-Caribbean Women in the Costa Rican (White) State”
- Meztli Yoalli Rodriguez Aguilera, PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
“Grieving Geographies/Bodies: Black, Indigenous, and Poor Mestiza Women Against Environmental Racism in Oaxaca, Mexico”
- Prisca Gayles, PhD Candidate, Williams College/ Bolin Fellow in Africana Studies
“‘I’m not your fetish’: Cultivating a ‘Black Feminist Capital’ to Combat Institutional and Quotidian Racism in Argentina”
Chair and Moderator: Erika Denise Edwards
Panel 29: McFadden Room
Hemispheric Dialogues and Black Transnationalism in Afro-Latin America: Movements, Cultures, and Networks of Solidarity
- Asfilófio de Oliveira Filho, activist /DJ / fimmaker/ CULTNE TV
“Lembrando o movimento Black Rio: musica soul e consciencia negra no Brasil dos anos 1970”
- Julia Roth, Professor, Bielefeld University (co-author Matti Steinitz, Research Associate and Coordinator Black Americas Network, Bielefeld University)
“The Black Americas as Research Perspective: Fusing Approaches from Afro-Latin American and InterAmerican Studies”
- Melva Lowe de Goodin, Author, President of Sociedad de Amigos del Museo Afro-Antillano de Panamá
“Bridging Diasporas: The West Indian Experience in Panama”
- Yvette Modestin, Founder/Executive Director, Encuentro Diaspora Afro, Boston
"Beyond Borders and Language; Centering the African Experience"
Chair: Matti Steinitz
Moderators: Julia Roth and Matti Steinitz
Panel 30: Barker Center 316
Pueblos afrodescendientes en América Latina: realidades y desafíos
- John Antón Sanchez, Professor, Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales IAEN, Ecuador
“La agenda política afrodescendiente de América Latina en el marco del decenio”
- Silvia García Savino, Consultora de Organismos Internacionales
“Una reflexión en torno a la situación de las organizaciones y redes afrodescendientes en América”
- Marcia Santacruz Palacios, Researcher, Corporación Amigos de la Unesco
“La agenda política afrodescendiente de América Latina en el marco del decenio”
- Carlos Viáfara López, Professor, UniValle
“Problemáticas de los afrodescendientes en la región (presentación de índice sintético)"
Chair and Moderator: John Antón Sanchez
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Panel 31: Thompson Room
Buenos Aires disputada: afrodescendencia y categorías racializadas en clave históricay contemporáneas
- María Florencia Guzmán, Researcher, Conicet/GEALA-Universidad de Buenos Aires
“Identidades y categorías racializadas en tiempos republicanos y de abolición de la esclavitud, Buenos Aires, 1813-1840”
- Lea Geler, Researcher, Conicet/GEALA-Universidad de Buenos Aires
“ Los afroporteños y las políticas de vivienda en Buenos Aires (fines del siglo XIX y siglo XX): construir la blanquitud”
- María de Lourdes Ghidoli, Researcher, GEALA-Universidad de Buenos Aires
“Entre lo grotesco y lo heroico: afrodescendencia y cultura visual en publicaciones para la infancia, Buenos Aires, década de 1930”
- Eva Lamborghini, Researcher, GEALA-Universidad de Buenos Aires
“Expresiones culturales afrolatinoamericanas en una ciudad “blanca”: articulaciones entre política, memoria y performance en Buenos Aires contemporánea”
Chair: Lea Geler
Moderator: Paulina Alberto
Panel 32: Kresge Foundation Room
Blackness and Brazilian Ideologies of Race Mixture
- Alvaro Jarrín, Professor, College of the Holy Cross
“Blackboxing Miscegenação: Racial Mixture, Exceptionalism, and Scientific Racism in Contemporary Brazil”
· Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Professor, University of South Florida
“Child’s Play: Negotiating Blackness and Racial Mixture Among Brazilian Children”
· Jasmine Maria Mitchell, Professor, State University of New York, Old Westbury
“Mulatas and Morenas: Telenovelas and Managing Racial Mixture”
- Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor, Fordham University Law School
“Northern Migrations of Latin American Race Ideologies”
Chair and Moderator: Jasmine Maria Mitchell
Panel 33: Barker Center 211
La lucha contra el racismo en el siglo XX
- Elaine de Souza Almeida, Researcher, Universidade de São Paulo
“Teatro experimental do negro e os palcos de São Paulo: espaços de disputa e luta contra o racismo”
- Orlando César Deávila Pertuz Professor, Universidad de Cartagena
“The Politics of Racial Democracy in Cartagena During the Twentieth Century”
- Paul Cruz Rosa, PhD Candidate, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
“El panafricanismo y la Asociación Universal de Desarrollo Negro en Puerto Rico, 1920-1926”
Chair: Elaine de Souza Almeida
Moderator: Orlando César Deávila Pertuz and Paul Cruz-Rosa
Panel 34: McFadden Room
Comparative Subjectivation and Transnational Diasporic Linkages Among Afro-Descendant Women
- Diogivânia Maria Silva, Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
“A Requiem of Memories of Slavery: An Ode to Hope”
- Iasmim Vieira, Graduate Student, Universidade Estadual de Campinas/UNICAMP
“A construção da identidade feminista para as trabalhadoras rurais do nordeste brasileiro: uma nova forma de ser mulher rural”
- Isis Natureza Oliveira da Silva, Undergraduate Student, UNIRIO
“Dos quiombos às favelas: mulheres negras e as Jornadas de Resistência na diáspora latino-americana e caribenha”
- Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, México
“Participación política de mujeres en el movimiento negro-afromexicano”
Chair: Diogivânia Maria Silva
Moderator: Isis Natureza Oliveira da Silva
Panel 35: Barker Center 316
Educación e Inclusión en Brasil
- Allyne Andrade e Silva, PhD Candidate, Universidade de São Paulo
“Are race-conscious remedies in Brazil building a new concept for race?”
- Amilcar Araujo Pereira, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
“O movimento negro brasileiro na luta por educação: história e antirracismo nas escolas e nos currículos”
- Andréa Lopes da Costa Vieira, Professor, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
“Para além da Inclusão: Ação afirmativa no Brasil, Ensino superior e a formação de uma nova geração de intelectuais negros.”
Chair: Amilcar Araujo Pereira
Moderator: Andréa Lopes da Costa Vieira
5:30-7:30 pm
Boylston Hall 403
Taller de Pre-Textos con profesora Doris Sommer
December 13, 2019 (Friday)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panels
Panel 36: Thompson Room
Round Table: Security and Human Rights in the International Decade of Afro-Descendants
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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”
- Crystal Yuille, Program Coordinator of the Patricia Roberts Harris Public Affairs Fellowship, Howard University,
“Searching for Peace in Spite of the Police State: Similarities and Distinctions in a Brazilian and Colombian Case Study”
- Melissa M. Valle, Professor, Rutgers University, Newark
“Framing Progress: Urban Branding and the Symbolic Economy of Race and Place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”
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Anthony Dest, Instructor, Sociology & Anthropology, Spelman College
“Disenchanted with the State”: Confronting the Limits of Multicultural Statecraft in Colombia
- Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Director for the Andes, Organization Member of Washington Office on Latin America
“Fighting for Ethnic Rights in Colombia’s Peace”
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Ofunshi Oba Koso, Traditional healer/Babalawo, Yoruba-Cuba Association
“The Need for Spirituality: Peace and Rights Challenges Facing Afrolatinos”
Chair: Juan D. Delgado
Moderator: Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
Panel 37: Kresge Foundation Room
Representaciones y agencias afrodescendientes I
- 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 38: Barker Center 211
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 39: McFadden Room
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”
- 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: su presencia 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 40: Barker Center 316
Black Subjecthood: Religion and Performance in the Colonial Atlantic
- 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 41: Thompson Room
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”
- 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 42: Kresge Foundation Room
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 43: Barker Center 211
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”
- Mireya Morales, Universitat de Barcelona/ Dirección General de Regularización Territorial, México
“Centro histórico de la Ciudad de México: sitio de memoria de la esclavitud africana”
Chair and Moderator: Dora E. Careaga-Coleman
Panel 44: Mcfadden Room
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
Panel 45: Barker Center 316
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 Guedes 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 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Panel 46: Thompson Room
Hermandad Negra a Través de la Diaspora / Black Sisterhood Across the Diaspora
- Luz Marquez-Benbow Just Beginnings Collaborative Fellow
“Afrolatinidad and Child Sexual Abuse: Building in Hermandad to end Child Sexual Abuse”
- Silvani Dos Santos Valentim, Professor, Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais
“Female Black Students in Medical School: Sisterhood in Latin America Negro Diaspora”
- Cecilia Alfonso, Alfonso Consultants, “Learning from Combahee River Collective: Black Latina Perspective”
Panel 47: Kresge Foundation Room
Políticas afirmativas e produção de conhecimento de intelectuais negros
- 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”
- Danielle Boaz, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
“Admitting Black Students but Not Black Gods: Education and Discrimination in Brazil.”
Panel 48: Barker Center 211
Decenio internacional para la población afrodescendiente: experiencias en Brasil, Colombia, y Honduras
- Ana Barreto, Graduate Student, The New School
- Edwin Álvarez Norales
- Lina Hurtado
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