afro-latin@ forum
presents
Afro-Latin@s Now!
Strategies for Visibility and Action
November 3-5, 2011
New York City
Limited seating available. Check with info@afrolatinoforum.org .
Enrollment Options:
$25 - General Registration (includes lunch & conference materials)
$0 - CUNY Student Registration (Must show student ID at check-in; does not include lunch)
$0 - GC Faculty Registration (Must show ID at check-in; does not include lunch)
Venues
Thursday, November 3rd
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd.
New York, NY 10037
Friday, November 4th
8:30am - 6:00pm
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Saturday, November 5th
12:00pm - 6:00pm
El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Conference Program
Thursday, November 3rd
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Plenary Conference Opening
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Miriam Jiménez Román, director, afrolatin@ forum
Luz Benítez Delgado, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Juan Flores, chair, afrolatin@ forum
Round-table discussion with
James Counts Early, Director Cultural Heritage Policy Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution,
and
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Maria Rosario Jackson, Urban Policy Institute
Silvio Torres Saillant, Syracuse University
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, New York University and ENCUENTRO, INC.
Cultural Presentation
Kwami Coleman, afrolatin@ forum, performing "El Manicero"
Friday, November 4th
8:30am - 6:00pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York
8:30-9:30
Arrival and registration
9:30-11:00
* In and Out of Focus: Media and Representation
Moderator: Laura Rivera, afrolatin@ forum
Yvonne Latty, New York University
Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking and The New School
Lori Robinson, BLAC Detroit Magazine, and VidaAfroLatina
Iván Román, former Executive Director, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
* We Count: Identity, the Census and Visibility
Moderator: Guesnerth Josué Perea, AfroColombia NY and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
Angelo Falcón, National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP) and Chair, Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population
Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas, North Carolina Central University
11:15-12:45
* Gender & Sexuality within Afrolatinidad
Moderator: Zenaida Méndez, National Dominican Women's Caucus
Panelists:
Bertha Isabel Arzu, Enlace de Mujeres Negras de Honduras
Leticia Peguero, Robert Woods Foundation
Charles Rice-González, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD)
* Community Building: Activism, Policy Issues, Networking
Moderator: Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Graduate Center- CUNY and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
Luis Barrios, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY
Mirtha Colón, Casa Yurumein/Hondurans Against AIDS
Carlos Flores, Afro-Latin@ Institute of Chicago
Carlos Russell, Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College-CUNY
12:45-1:45 Lunch
2:00-3:30
* Filling the Gaps: Youth and Education
Moderator: Melissa Valle, Columbia University and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
Manuela Arciniegas, The Legacy Circle
José Luis Vilson, Educator, New York Public School
Hernando Viveros, Phelps Stokes Foundation, and Afro-Colombian youth activist
* Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues
Moderator: Ricardo Millett, Millett and Associates, Chicago
Panelists:
Stephanie Alvarez, University of Texas-Pan American
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Tanya K. Hernández, Professor of Law, Fordham University
Joseph Jordan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
4:00-5:30
* Afro-Latinidad in the Visual Arts
Moderator: Tashima Thomas, Rutgers University and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
Firelei Báez (NY)
Michael Paul Britto (NY)
Miguel Luciano (NY)
* Afro-Latin@ Historical and Cultural Flowszzzzzzzzzzzzzz; current Transnational Research
Moderator: Roberto Marquez, Mount Holyoke College
Panelists:
"'Como Ayer': A Performance of Citizenship in New Jersey's Cuba of Tomorrow"
"Black Cuban, Black American: Reading Afro-Latino Identities"
"Negros Macheteros": Afro-Latino Martial Arts in the Popular Imagination"
Laurence E. Prescott, Pennsylvania State University
"Remembering the Source: Reflections on Afro-Latin American Resistance and the Impact of the African American Struggle"
Jill Richardson, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
"Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
* Tradition, Resistance and Representation of Afro-Latin@ Discours(s): Current Transnational Research
Moderator: Juan Flores, New York University
Panelists:
Ashley D. Aaron, San Francisco State University
"Afro-Latina/os Online: Filling a Gap in the Discourse of Afrolatinidad"
Sandra Andino, Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc.
" Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia: Stories from El Barrio"
Kaysha Corinealdi, Yale University
"Bridging Communities, Reconfiguring Identities: Afro-Latin@ Educators and the New York City Ethno-Racial Landscape"
Natasha Gordon-Chipembre, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
"My Mother and Her Sisters: the Paradox of the Afro-Costa Ricans from Jamaica"
Kimberley Simmons, University of South Carolina
"Stirring the Sancocho and Gumbo and Seeing Africa: Afro-Dominican and African American Identity in the Context of the African Diaspora"
5:30-6:30
Exhibition: Afro-Latinidad in the Visual Arts
Saturday, November 5th
12:00pm - 6:00pm
El Museo del Barrio
12:00-1:45pm
Workshop: Afro-Latin@ Youth and Identity
Facilitators:
Ejima Baker-Morales, afrolatin@ forum
2:00-4:00pm
Panel: Writing and Teaching Afro-Latin@ Perspectives
Moderator: Willie Perdomo
Panelists:
Carmen Mojica (Hija de mi madre)
4:00-6:00
¡Now y Para Siempre! Afro-Latin@ Open Mic
In memory of Piri Thomas (September 30, 1928 - October 17, 2011)
Emcees: Enmanuel Candelario & Frank Lopez, The Peace Poets
Featuring:
Institutional Sponsors
Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
El Museo del Barrio
Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City University of New York
Institute of International Education
WK Kellogg Foundation
New York Council for the Humanities
Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity Programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | The New York Public Library
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
WNYC.org
Promotional Partners
The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
City Limits
Afro-Colombia New York
NoMAA
Individual Sponsor
Ruth Gilmore, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
For further information
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