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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30-9:30 Concourse Lobby: Coffee and Registration
9:30-9:45 Proshansky Auditorium:
Greetings and Opening Remarks: Anamaría Flores, Ph.D.
Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Dr. Gail Smith, Director of The Graduate Center’s
Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity Program
- Dr. James de Jongh, Director of the The Institute
for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and
the Caribbean
9:45-10:45 Proshansky Auditorium: Keynote Address
Rosa Clemente “Who is Black? A Puerto Rican
Claims Her Place in the African Diaspora.”
Session I: 11:00-1:30
1) Room C197: Explorations of Identity: Latino/a Performance
and Hip-Hop;
Moderator: Nick Powers, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Assistant Professor, Syracuse
University
“Performing Latinidad: Affective Connections Across
Latina/o Groups and the African Diaspora”
- Crystal-Elisa Aldamuy, Undergraduate, Queens College,
CUNY “Islands and Bridges: Afro-Puerto Rican Identity”
- Amari Chris Johnson, Undergraduate, Columbia University
“Loma y Machete: Cimaronismo and the praxis of Cuban
Hip-hop”
2) Room C203: Latino/a Ethno-scapes: Musical Elaborations
of Place
Moderator: Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi, Queens College, CUNY
- Noriko Manabe, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center,
CUNY “Musical Characterization of Mixed-Blooded Femme
Fatales in Cuban Zarzuelas”
- Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
“‘Me Pongo y Me Quito’: Afro-Xicano/a
Diasporic Aesthetics”
- Kristie Dorr, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Berkeley “Not-here to Stay: The De-localization of
Place in Afro-Peruvian Musical Performance”
3) Room C204: Educational Reflections: Visions, Movements
and Afro-Latinidad
Moderator: Devin Zuber, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Adjoa Jones de Almeida, Research Assistant, The Center
for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY “Unveiling
the Mirror: Afro-Brazilian Identity and the Emergence of
a Community School Movement”
- Bianca Ivette Laureano, Ph.D. Candidate, University of
Maryland, College Park “Doing it and Doing it, and
Doing it...Well? Does Sexuality Education Do
Race?”
4) Proshansky: Predicaments of Afro-Latinidad: Cultural
Crisis, Literary Histories, and the Politics of Race
Moderator: Jorge Soriano, Borough of Manhattan Community
College
- Oilda Martinez, M.A., City College of New York, CUNY “Black
and Cuban: the Black Cuban Problem and the Black Cuban’s
Problem”
- Antonio López, Assistant Professor, George Washington
University “Lo negro, lo mulato and Cuban-American
Literary History”
- Christina Violeta Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Howard University
“‘Creating' A Nationality: Race and Gender in
the Dominican Republic, 1930-1961”
5) Room C205: Reading, Writing, and Race
Moderator: Dr. Duncan Faherty, Queens College, CUNY
- Khamla Dhouti, Assistant Professor, California State University,
San Bernardino “Testing the Colorline: Multi-consciousness
and Language in Down these Mean Streets”
- Susan Mendez, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Riverside “‘required blood’: Combatting
Violence in Loida Maritza Perez’s Geographies of Home”
- Jill Toliver, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Dominican Women and Dominicanyork: Alternative Constructs
of Race, Home, and Identity in How the Garcia Girls Lost
their Accents, Geographies of Home, and Soledad"
6) Room C201: Questioning Cuba’s Black Question
Moderator: Freddy Fonseca, Queens College, CUNY
- Odette Casamayor Cisneros, Ph.D., Visiting Research Scholar,
SUNY Stony Brook
“Lo negro como arma de sobrevivencia ética
en la
sociedad cubana actual”
- Michelle Hay, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“‘I have been black in two countries’:
Afro-Cuban Identity in the US”
- Judith Mulcahy Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“The Contest for Cuba in the Nineteenth Century African
American Imagination”
7) Room C202: Establishing Roots or Seeing the Invisible
Moderator: Stacie McCormick, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Wellinthon Garcia “Latino Politics From the Vantage
Point of the ‘Other’: The Case of Dominicans”
- Sandor John, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“African Slavery in Bolivia”
- Sonia Robertson, M.A. Candidate, Clark Atlanta University
“The People of Loiza, Puerto Rico and the Legacy of
Cimarronaje”
1:30-2:45 Lunch
Session II: 2:45-4:15
8) Room C201: Labors of Identity: Cultural Hiding Places
of the Afro-Latino
Moderator: Dr. Robert Reid-Pharr, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Jonathan Scott, Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, CUNY “The Demonization of Pan-American
Nationalism”
- Kellie Jean Hogue, Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University
“‘Not a Zoot Suit Boy’: Labor and Afro-Latino
Identity, 1942-1947”
- Talia Weltman, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University
“La chingada meets el jarocho: (Re)Mapping Afro Identity
in Contemporary Mexican Culture”
9) Room C204: Seeing Ourselves: Reclaiming Representations
Moderator: Alan R. Takeall, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Cecilia Salvatierra, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center,
CUNY “Ungovernable Haiti: Image Making and the US
Occupation”
- Ayana V. Jackson, Photographer, and Marco Villalobos,
Poet “African By Legacy, Mexican by Birth”
- Anthony Ratcliff, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts
”Shared Cultural Spaces: The Black and Puerto Rican
Arts Movements in Chicago, 1960s-1970s
10) Room C202: Reading, Writing, and Race (El Segundo)
Moderator: Dr. Meena Alexander, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- María DeGuzmán, Director of Latina/o Studies,
UNC-Chapel Hill "The Case of Cecile Pineda's Cara:
The Implications of Latina/o Studies for African Diaspora
Studies and Vice Versa"
- Atreyee Phukan, Ph.D. Candidate, Rutgers University “Rural
Culture and Urban Migrations: West Indian Identity in Wilson
Harris and David Daabydeen”
- Dorsía Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Puerto
Rico “The Negative Portrayal of Puerto Ricans’
African Heritage in Rosario Ferré’s The House
on the Lagoon”
11) Room C205: Blackness and Latiness: One? None? Both?
Between?
Moderator: Jill Toliver, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Wilfredo Gomez , Undergraduate, Haverford College “Soy
Boricua y Muero Pa' La Isla Bonita: Living & Dying Red,
White, and Blue”
- Jameelah Medina, Ph.D. Candidate, Claremont Graduate University
"Afro-Latin Identities: Cutural Schizophrenia and Ethno-Racial
Tug-of-Wars"
12) Room C197: All Mixed Up? Discussions of Mestizaje
Moderator: Alliyah Sharif, Fisk University
- Lisa Calvente, Ph.D. Candidate, The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill “Isn’t This My Home Too?!?: Between
Latinidad and the Black Diaspora, A Puerto Rican’s
Story”
- Vielka Cecilia Hoy, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Berkeley
“Y Tu Abuela, Donde Esta?- The Process of Racialization,
Ethnicity, and Identity for Black Latinos”
- Tianna Paschel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Berekely “Fighting the Invisible: Racial Politics
and Mobilization among Afro-Colombians”
13) Room C203: Drumming Up Our Past, Present, and Future
Moderator: Angelique Harris, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Petra Raquel Rivera, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Berkeley “Bomba Ideology: Cultural Representations
of Race and National Identity in Puerto Rico”
- Monika Gosin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
San Diego “Celia Cruz and the Complexity of Panlatinidad”
- Angelina Tallaj, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center,
CUNY “Drumming for Blackness: Vudu, Palo Music and
the Creation of an African Identity in the Dominican Republic”.
14) Proshansky: The Afro-Latino Project: Research, Documentation,
Activism
Moderator: Dr. Barbara Webb, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Miriam Jiménez Román, Coordinator, The Afro-Latino
Project
- Juan Flores, Associate Professor in the Department of
Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College,
CUNY, and Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center,
CUNY
- George Priestley, Director of Latin American Studies at
Queens College, CUNY
4:30-5:15 Proshansky Auditorium
Performance by the Iliana Santamaría Orchestra
5:30-7:00 Proshansky Auditorium
Afro-Latina/o and Afro-Latin American Identity
in the New Millenium: A Roundtable
Introduction: Richard Pérez, Ph.D. Candidate, The
Graduate Center, CUNY
Moderator: Juan Flores
- Lyn Di Iorio Sandín, City College of New York,
CUNY, author of Spanish is Dead
- Miriam Machado-Cooper, Co-producer of BET Latin-Jazz
- Esperanza Martell, Coordinator of the ProLibertad Campaign
to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners/POW's and end US
colonialism in Puerto Rico
- Ariel Fernandez, Cuban Minister of Hip-Hop
Closing Remarks: Ejima Baker, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate
Center, CUNY
7:00-8:00 Concourse Lobby
Closing Reception featuring Armonia 4
For additional information
contact: IRADAC@gc.cuny.edu
or Call (212) 817-2076
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