# Wednesday, December 11, 2019 ## expand\_more ### **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](/people/alberto-d%C3%ADaz-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](/people/cristian-b%C3%A1ez-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](/people/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](/people/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](/people/juan-eduardo-wolf) ### **Panel 2: Cosmovisiones, ontologías y geografías** - [Patrícia dos Santos Pinheiro](/people/patr%C3%ADcia-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](/people/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](/people/c%C3%A9line-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](/people/patr%C3%ADcia-dos-santos-pinheiro) Moderator: [Yilver Mosquera Vallejo](/people/yilver-mosquera-vallejo) ### **Panel 3: Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latino Digital Decolonization** - \*[Eduard Arriaga](/people/eduard-arriaga), Professor, University of Indianapolis “PretaLab: Afro-Latin American Women Making a Digital Decolonization” - [Maya Anderson-González](/people/maya-anderson-gonz%C3%A1lez), Professor, Université Paris EstMarne-la-Vallée, France “Mapping Afro-Cuban Digital Communities” - [Camila Daniell](/people/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](/people/tania-lizarazo), Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County “Utopian Archives: Collaborative Digital Collections in the Colombian Pacific” Chair: [Eduard Arriaga](/people/eduard-arriaga) Moderator: [Tania Lizarazo](/people/tania-lizarazo) ### **Panel 4: Afro-Latin American Politics** - \*[Andrew Janusz](/people/andrew-janusz), Professor, University of Florida “Afro-Brazilian Political Representation: Legislator Behavior in the Brazilian Congress” - [Marcus Johnson](/people/marcus-johnson), Professor, Baruch College, CUNY “Slavery, Violence, and Elections” - [Danilo Antonio Contreras](/people/danilo-antonio-contreras), Professor, College of the Holy Cross “The Illusion Trap” - [Jana Morgan](/people/jana-morgan), Professor, University of Tennessee “Ethnoracial Marginalization and the Limits of Democratic Values” Chair: [Andrew Janusz](/people/andrew-janusz) Moderator: [Gladys Mitchell-Walthour](/people/gladys-mitchell-walthour) ### **Panel 5: Artes, visualidades y negritudes** - [Aldones Nino](/people/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](/people/dunia-roquetti-saroute), PhD Candidate, Università Ca’Foscari di Venezia “Afro-Brazilian Visuality at the Venice Biennale” - [Liz Moreno Chuquen](/people/liz-moreno-chuquen), Professor, Idaho State University “Narrativas visuales afro en los archivos oficiales del siglo XX” - [Ryan Morrison](/people/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](/people/rafael-acosta), Researcher, Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello “Imágenes de una ausencia: fotografía y racialidad en Cuba” Chair and Moderator: [Liz Moreno Chuquen](/people/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](/people/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](/people/devyn-spence-benson), Professor, Davidson College;[Danielle Clealand,](/people/danielle-clealand) Professor, Florida International University “Privileging the Silenced: Afro-Cuban Oral and Political History in the United States” - [Rosemary G. Feal](/people/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](/people/rosemary-g-feal) ### **Panel 7: Historias frodescendientes in Colombia: Region, Identity, Politics, and Culture** - [Jazmín Puicón](/people/jazm%C3%ADn-puicon), 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](/people/sharika-crawford-0), Professor, United States Naval Academy “Between Blackness and Foreignness: The Raizales of San Andrés and Providencia Islands” - [T.J. Desch-Obi](/people/tj-desch-obi), Professor, Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos, Universidad Icesi “An African Diaspora Perspective on the Zurrigo” - [Yesenia Barragan](/people/yesenia-barragan), Professor, Dartmouth College/Rutgers University “Final Abolition and the Problem of Autonomy in the Colombian Black Pacific” - [Brandi Waters](/people/brandi-waters), PhD Candidate, Yale University “Afro-Colombians, Slavery, and the Ethics of Colonial Medical Jurisprudence” Chair: [James E. Sanders](/people/james-e-sanders) Moderator:[Joshua M. Rosenthal](/people/joshua-m-rosenthal), Professor, Western Connecticut State University Comentator: [James E. Sanders](/people/james-e-sanders), Professor, Utah State University ### **Panel 8: Advances in Afro-Peruvian Studies from Conquest to Independence** [Claire Maass](/people/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](/people/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](/people/maria-d-ballesteros), Researcher, CAIINNO “Afro-Latin American Women in 19th Century Representations” - \*[Pollianna Freire](/people/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](/people/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](/people/pollianna-freire) ### **Panel 10: Music and Blackness in Latin America** - [Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian](/people/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](/people/michael-birenbaum-quintero), Professor, Boston University “Between Legibility and Alterity: Black Musical Self-Making in Multicultural Colombia” - [Petra R. Rivera-Rideau](/people/petra%C2%A0r-rivera-rideau), Professor, Wellesley College “What is the Urban in Latin Urban Music?” Chair and Moderator: [Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian](/people/marcelo-boccato-kuyumjian) **3:30-5:00 p.m.** ### **Panel 11: Esclavitud y abolición: abordajes históricos** - [Leticia Canelas](/people/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](/people/lloyd-belton), PhD Candidate, University of Leeds “Afro-Latinos in the Age of Inter-American Abolitionism (1791-1863)” - [Magdalena Candioti](/people/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](/people/maur%C3%ADcio-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](/people/magdalena-candioti) Moderator: [Leticia Canelas](/people/leticia-canelas) ### **Panel 12: Perspectivas actuales sobre raza y derecho en Colombia** - [Ana Margarita González](/people/ana-margarita-gonz%C3%A1lez), Activist, Ilex Aacción Jurídica “Política de drogas y derechos humanos de los afrocolombianos: perfilamiento racial y abuso policial en Bogotá” - [Audrey-Karina Mena-Mosquera](/people/audrey-karina-mena-mosquera), Researcher, Illex Acción Juridica, Colombia “El reconocimiento jurídico de los aportes culturales negros en Colombia” [Daniel Gómez-Mazo](/people/daniel-g%C3%B3mez-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](/people/dayana-blanco-acendra), Researcher, Ilex Accion Juridica, Colombia “Avances jurídicos para combatir la discriminación interseccional por raza y orientación sexual” - [Maryluz Barragan-Gonzalez](/people/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](/people/maryluz-barragan-gonzalez) ### **Panel 13: Public Policy and the Politics of Blackness in Brazil** - [David De Micheli](/people/david-de%C2%A0micheli), Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University “Racial Reclassification and Political Identity Formation” - [Gladys Mitchell-Walthour](/people/gladys-mitchell-walthour), Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Intersectional Blackness” - \*[Reighan Gillam](/people/reighan-gillam), Professor, University of Southern California “Black Consciousness at Work: Race and Work in the Mainstream Media” - [Sales Augusto dos Santos ](/people/sales-augusto-dos-santos%C2%A0), Researcher, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil “Quota System for Blacks: White Opportunism, Frauds, and Hyper-racism in Brazil” Chair and Moderator: [Reighan Gillam](/people/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](/people/dawn-stinchcomb), Professor, Purdue University “ALARA: Recovering the Neglected History of Forgotten People Who Left an Unforgettable Legacy” - [Jacqueline Alvarez-Rosales](/people/jacqueline-alvarez-rosales-0), Professor, Spelman College “Connecting Academia to Social Organizations and Social Movements: ALARA and Its Commitment to Strengthening the Diaspora” - [Antonio Tillis](/people/antonio-tillis), Professor, University of Houston “PALARA and the Interdisciplinary Chronicling of Afro-Latin American Studies” - [Sarah Soanirina Ohmer](/people/sarah-soanirina-ohmer-0), 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](/people/dawn-stinchcomb) ### **Panel 15: Subjetividades y emancipaciones simbólicas** - [Isabela Fraga](/people/isabela-fraga), Graduate Student, University of Chicago “Nostalgic Subjects of Colonial Medicine: Trajectories of Sentimentalism in Iberian Slavery” - [Jessica A. Krug](/people/jessica-krug-0), Professor, George Washington University “Fugitive Masculinities and Gender Outside the State: Black and Latinx Outside the Archives” - [Jéssyka Sâmya Ladislau Pereira Costa](/people/j%C3%A9ssyka-s%C3%A2mya-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](/people/jessica-krug-0) **5:00-7:00 p.m. December 11, 2019 (Wednesday)** Reception in Thompson Room, Barker Center