December 11, 2019 (Wednesday)
8:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m. Welcome Remarks
11:30-1 p.m.
Panel 1: 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: 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”
- Rafael Cesar, PhD Candidate, New York University
“Changó, El Gran Putas: significante yoruba, significado bantu”
- 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: 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: 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: 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: 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”
- 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”
- 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
Panel 7: Historias frodescendientes 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”
- Sharika Crawford, Professor, United States Naval Academy
“Between Blackness and Foreignness: The Raizales of San Andrés and Providencia Islands”
- 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
Comentator: James E. Sanders, Professor, Utah State University
Panel 8: Advances in Afro-Peruvian Studies from Conquest to Independence
Claire Maass, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, coauthor José Luis S. C. Alcalá, Researcher, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
“Proyecto de unvestigación 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 Gomez, 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: 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”
- *Pollianna Freire, PhD Candidate, Universidade de Brasília/Universidade de Barcelona
“Memória, tradição literária e feminismos ancestrais em narrativas de Carolina Maria de Jesus e Conceição Evaristo”
- 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: 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: 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: 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 Barragan-Gonzalez, 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 Barragan-Gonzalez
Panel 13: 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: "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: 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