Spring
2007 CONFERENCE
Beyond
Visibility: Rethinking the African Diaspora in Latin America
University of California, Berkeley
March 1-2, 2007
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for Papers · Conference
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Afro-Latino Working Group
Sponsored
by the Andrew W. Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology
Tentative
Schedule
Thursday, March 1, 2007 – Heller
Lounge, MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley
5:30 – 5:45
Welcome Remarks
5:45 – 7:30 “Bridging
Activism and the Academy Panel”
Ms.
Aya de Leon, University of California, Berkeley/Poetry
of the People
Ms.
Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez,
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Dr.
Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Universidad
Nacional de Colombia
Dr.
Carlos Muñoz, University of California
- Berkeley
Moderator:
Nelson Maldonado Torres, University of California - Berkeley
7:30 – 8:30
Opening Reception
Friday,
March 2, 2007 – The
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome Remarks
9:15 – 9:45
Opening Speaker – Dr. Mark Sawyer, UCLA
9:45 – 11:15 “Politics
of Belonging: Race and Citizenship in Latin America ”
Sharika
D Crawford - “The Other Colombian
Caribbean: The Afro-Caribbean Islanders of San Andres and
Providencia 1903-1912”
Tanya
Maria Golash-Boza - “Yo soy negro:
Local and Global Discourses of Blackness in the Making of Identities
in Peru ”
Sonia
Song-Ha Lee - “'Eso es de lo negro:' The
Color of Puerto Rican Politics in New York City, 1960s and
1970s”
Rodrigo
Penna Firme Pedrosa - “Commodification
of poverty: rural black communities and nature conservation
in Brazil”
Moderator: Tianna S. Paschel, University of California, Berkeley
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00 “Complex
Representations: Afro-Latinidad in Literature, Music and
Visual Art”
Dixa
Ramirez, “The African Diasporic
Presence in Contemporary American Literature”
Jonathan
Ritter, “Hybridity, Politics, and the Marimba
on the Ecuadorian ‘Black Pacific”
Christina
Schramm, “An analysis of the
novel Limon Blues by Anacristina Rossi: The Afro-Caribbean
Migration to the Costa Rican Coast”
Cameron
Patterson, “Cuban Poster Art
circa 1970: The Visual Politics of Race and (Trans)nationalism”
Moderator: Petra Raquel Rivera, University of California, Berkeley
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch (provided)
2:00 – 3:30 “Transgressing
the Nation: Migration, Transnationalism and the Making of
New Diasporas”
Judith
M. Anderson, “Ima(in)ing Black
Identities in Argentina : Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Argentines
in Buenos Aires ”
Paul Joseph Lopez
Oro, “Formation of
the Garifuna Identity in La Ceiba, Honduras: 1903-1965”
Monika Gosin,
“The Complexity of Panlatinidad:
Representations of Celia Cruz in the News”
Jennifer
Shoaff Schroder, “Defining the
Limits of Migrant Mobility: Haitian Market Women and the Dominican
State”
Moderator: Vielka Cecilia Hoy, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 – 4:00 Keynote
Speaker: Dr. Peter Wade
4:00 – 5:30 Faculty
Roundtable
Dr.
Edward Telles, University of California ,
Los Angeles
Dr.
Juan Flores, City University of New York /
Hunter College
Dr.
Miriam Jimenez Roman, Institute of Africana
and African American Studies, New York University
Dr. Breny Mendoza, California State University
, Northridge
Dr. Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Moderator:
Dr. Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley
*We
would also like to thank our other sponsors, which include
the following UC Berkeley Departments/Institutions:
Department
of African American Studies,
Department of
Anthropology, and
Department of
Spanish & Portuguese
International and Area Studies
Graduate Division
Center for Race and Gender
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