December 12, 2019 (Thursday)
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Panel 16: 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”
Mario Suárez, 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”
Chair and Moderator: Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene
Panel 17: 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: “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-Medinaa, 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”
Moderator: April J. Mayes, Professor, Pomona College
Chair: Zaire Dizney-Flores
Panel 19: Inequalities, Social Policies, and Citizenship: Intersectional Portraits of Contemporary Brazil
- Jeana E. Morrison, Postdoctoral Associate, Boston University
“Black University Students, Expertise, and Global Policy Processes”
- 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: 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.
Round Table: Arqueología de Afro-latinoaFor the sake of continuity, I'd give Round Tables designated as such a sequential number for easy finding. So, this would be Panel 20: Round Table, Arquelogia de ETCmericanos 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
· Jamesson dos Santos Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
· Marguerite L. De Loney, Stanford University
Panel 21: 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 22: 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 23: 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 24: 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 25: 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 26: 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 27: 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 Maria Florencia Guzman, 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 28: 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”
- Roberto Zurbano. Writer/Activist, Researcher/ Casa de las Américas
“Nuevos activismos en el Caribe: alianzas regionales antirracistas en Cuba y vacíos y desafíos de la conciencia racial caribeño en el siglo XXI”
Chair: Matti Steinitz
Moderators: Julia Roth and Matti Steinitz
Panel 29: 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 30: 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: Paulina Alberto
Moderator: Lea Geler
Panel 31: 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”
· Chinyere K. Osuji, Professor, Rutgers University, Camden
“Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race”
· 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 32: La luca 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 33: 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 34: 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