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The Ninth Biennial International/Interdisciplinary Research Conference of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association (ALARA)

 “(Con)textualizing Afro-Latin/American Studies in the 21st Century” 


August 7-10, 2012

San José, Costa Rica

Hotel Presidente

PROGRAMA EN FECHAS / PROGRAM DATES

August 7, martes / Tuesday (Arrival)

7:00 p.m.                     WELCOME INTRODUCTION / COCKTAILS / REGISTRATION

Sala Américas

(Site for all conference events)

August 8, miércoles / Wednesday

8:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m.                COFFEE / PASTRIES / REGISTRATION

10:00 a.m-11:15 a.m.               Medios sociales e identidad afro: nuevas latitudes / Social                                      Media and Afro Identity: New Latitudes

MODERADOR/A: Daniel Mosquera (Union College)

Del automatismo a la complejidad: representaciones afro-latinoamericanas, tecnología y arte en la globalización contemporánea. Eduard Arriaga (SUNY-Albany)

The AfroLatin@™ Project: Afrodescendiente Citizenship in the Digital Age, Amilcar Maceo Priestley (The Afrolatin@ Project)

 

Navigating African Descent at the Frontiers of Nation and Diaspora: The Forgotten Afro Descendants of Chile’s Far-flung North, Sara Busdiecker (Texas A & M University)

15 min. BREAK

 

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.                           Literatura, nación y afro-centroamericanos / Literature, Nation, and Afro-Centroamericans.

MODERADOR/A: Sheridan Wigginton (California Lutheran University)

Quince Duncan’s A Message from Rosa as a Mascon Structure of Latin American Literature, Dellita Martin-Ogunsola (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Razonamiento y consideraciones hacia la literatura afropanameña: el caso de Gaspar Octavio Hernández, Karina A. Clarke (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Contextualizando la dinámica regional: Afrodescendientes y redefinición identitaria en Centroamérica, Diana Senior Angulo (Universidad de Costa Rica)

12:30 p.m. -1:45 p.m.                          LUNCH BREAK

1:45 p.m -2:45 p.m.       Nuevas lecturas sobre la esclavitud en las Américas /

                                    New Readings on Slavery in the Americas.

MODERADOR/A: Flore Zéphir (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Harriet Jacobs’s Alternative Narrative and the Revision of the White Transcript: The Female Slave Author and the Dialogic of Discourses in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Paula Sanmartin (University of California-Fresno)

Untold Histories: Rewriting Blackness in Hazel Robinson Abraham’s No Give Up, Maan! Christopher Dennis (University of North Carolina-Wilmington).

15 min. BREAK

3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.       Cuba: Raza, identidad y el siglo diecinueve / Cuba: Race, Identity, and the Nineteenth Century.

MODERADOR/A: José Batista (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

Between Racism and Patriotism in fin de siècle Cuba: Ricardo Batrell’s Creative Resistance, Alexander Eastman (Washington University-St. Louis)

Essays of a (Mad?) Black Cuban Woman:  The 1889 Writings of África Céspedes in Minerva, Marveta Ryan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

 

Plácido and Manzano and the Black Component of Cuba's Emerging Literature and Culture, William Luis (Vanderbilt University)

5:00 p.m. -6:30 p.m.     Literatura y cultura afrocostarricense / Afro-Costa Rican Literature                           and Culture.

MODERADOR/A: Dorothy Mosby (Mount Holyoke College)

Franklin Perry  (Professor and Cultural Critic)

Delia McDonald (Poet, and Cultural Critic)

Alder Senior  (Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica)

Carol Britton Gonzalez  (Executive Director Flores de la Diáspora Africana Festival)

Karla Araya Araya (MA Candidate, Universidad de Costa Rica-Sede Occidente),  

Shirley Campbell Barr (Poet and Cultural Activist)

August 9, jueves / Thursday
 

8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.      COFFEE / PASTRIES

9:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m.    Música, identidad y cultura de las Américas / Music, Identity, and Culture from the Americas.

MODERADOR/A: Christopher Dennis

Culture Clash: Making Sense of the Tangling between Gender, Rap  & Participation, Portia Hemphill, University of Michigan

 Forging Afro-Panamanian Identity through Hip Hop, Sonja Watson (University of Texas-Arlington)

 ¿Un santo negro para un pueblo blanco?: Apuntes críticos sobre las fiestas de San Pacho en Quibdó, Chocó, Daniel Mosquera (Union College)

             10:30 a.m-11:45 a.m.    Legados culturales y étnicos de África en las Américas / African Cultural and Ethnic Legacies in the Americas.     

                                                MODERADOR/A: Norma Rosas-Mayén (University of Southern Indiana)

 

Coplas, Chilenas Y Son De Artesa En La Costa Chica De México, Manuel Apodaca (University of Southern Indiana)

                Blackness in Mexico: The Case of the Costa Chica, Christina A. Sue (U of Colorado-Boulder)

El impacto de la comida de África Occidental en la cocina de las Américas, Norma Rosas-Mayén (University of Southern Indiana)

15 min. BREAK

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.                 Globalizing Black Studies: Where Should We Begin? MODERADOR/A: Deborah Atwater (The Pennsylvania State University)

The Mating of Ideas:  Fusing Literature and Economics as a Model for Success, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas (Indiana University)

How Do We Answer the Questions?: Black Studies and Globalization, LaVerne Gyant (Northern Illinois University)

1:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m.                        LUNCH BREAK

 

2:00 p.m. -3:15 p.m.                  Movimientos y activismos sociales y políticos / Political Movements and Social Activism.

MODERADOR/A: Daniel Mosquera (Union College)

            Negotiating Democracy and Socialism: Cultural Activism in Contemporary Venezuela, Robin Garcia (Claremont Graduate University)

            Finding the Intersectional Opportunity in Constraint: Political Strategizing among Domestic Workers in Brazil, Joaze Bernadino-Costa (University of Brasília) & Jaira J. Harrington (University of Chicago)

Remapping Geopolitics of Knowledge: Greek Idiomatic Articulations of Democracy and Citizenship in Afro-Hispanic Literature, Elisa Rizo (Iowa State University)

  

15 min. BREAK

3:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m                    Identidad, política y derechos humanos afrocostarricense / Afro-Costa Rican Identity, Politics and Human Rights.  

MODERADOR/A: Dellita Martin-Ogunsola (University of                                                      Alabama at Birmingham)

Quince Duncan (Writer, Human Rights Activist)

                                Rodolfo Meoño  (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Instituto de Estudios  

Latinoamericanos-IDELA, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica)

Diana Senior (Sorbonne/Universidad de Costa Rica)

 

August 10, viernes / Friday

              8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.      COFFEE / PASTRIES

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.     Obra de Zapata Olivella: perspectivas intertextuales y transculturales / Zapata Olivella's Ouvre: Transcultural and Intertextual Perspectives. MODERADOR/A: Emmanuel Harris (University North Carolina-Wilmington)

Fraternal Touches and Smiling Faces: Soft Power Machinations in the Eyes of Manuel Zapata Olivella’s 1952 Visit to China, Megan Ferry (Union College)

Heroic Martyrdom: Zapata Olivella’s Chambacú, corral de negros and Malraux’s La Condition humaine as Political Novels, Roland Bush (California State University, Long Beach)

10:15 a.m-11:15 a.m.     Triangulation On August Wilson’s Theater: African Diasporic Literature In An Interdisciplinary Perspective Panel.

MODERADOR/A: Christine Clark-Evans (The Pennsylvania State University)

                            Deborah F. Atwater (The Pennsylvania State University)

Beverly J. Vandiver (The Pennsylvania State University)

                               Christine Clark-Evans (The Pennsylvania State University), Respondent

15 min. BREAK

11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.   Cuerpo negro y la literatura latinoamericana / Black Body and Latin American Literature.

MODERADOR/A: Ingrid Watson Miller (Clafin State University)

The poetics of the female Body in Limón Reggae by Ana Cristina Rossi, Wendy McBurney (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Manifestations of the Afro-Latino, tragic heroines within the writings Isabel Allende and Mayra Santos-Febres, Rosetta Codling (Independent Scholar)

La imagen de los negros en el Martín Fierro de José Hernández, Moses Panford (Virginia Tech)

12:45 p.m -2:00 p.m.     LUNCH

2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.      Literatura afro-costarricense con Eulalia Bernard / Afro-Costa Rican Literature With Eulalia Bernard.

                                    MODERADOR/A: Dorothy Mosby (Mount Holyoke)

3:15 p.m. -4:15 p.m.     GENERAL BODY MEETING

                                    Palabras de clausura / Closing Words

                        4:30 p.m. -5:30 p.m.     EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

           7:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m.              CONFERENCE BANQUET

(Location TBA)

August 11, sábado / Saturday

Salidas / Departures

Excursión / Excursion