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Important notes:1) This program is subject to change. The final program will be posted online in early
July, and will include scheduling for special events and plenaries
2) To accommodate as many participants as possible, and to encourage dialogue, someindividual presenters have been added to existing panels.
DRAFT PROGRAMMEFIFTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION
FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORLD-WIDE AFRICANDIASPORA (ASWAD)
ON THE THEME
“AFRICA, DIASPORA AND PAN-AFRICAN AGENDAS”
ACCRA, GHANA, AUGUST 2 – 6, 2009
DAY 1 – SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2009
9: 00 AM – 11: 00 AM
Panel A1: “World Wide Underground”: Sonic Transnationalism & Black FeministDiasporic Politics in the Movements of Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone and Eartha
KittVenue: Alisa - AFRAM
Chair: Farah J. Griffin, Columbia University
Presenters
Imani Perry, Rutgers School of Law: “Sounding like a Movement: The Advance ofMakeba’s Retreat Song”
Salamishah Tillet, University of Pennsylvania: “Liberian Calypso: Nina Simone’sDiasporic Movement(s)”
Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University: “Planet Eartha: Afrocosmopolitanism, SonicTransnationalism and the Diasporic Politics of Eartha Kitt’s Cabaret”
Shana Redmond, University of Southern California: “Flight: Nina Simone, CulturalDiplomacy and the Arts in Afro-Diasporic Exchange”
Panel A2: “Diasporic Encounters: Slavery, Pan-Africanism and Contestation overthe Meaning of the Past”
Venue: Alisa - VOLTAChair: Joseph K. Adjaye, University of Pittsburgh
Presenters
Joseph K. Adjaye, University of Pittsburgh: “Slavery Monuments and theProblematics of Memory in Ghana and Haiti”
Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University: “Translating Pan-Africanism for the AfricanMasses: The A.M.E. Zion Church in Southeast Ghana”
Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan: “Who Owns the Past? The Legacy of Pan-Africanism in Ghana”
Jerome Branche, University of Pittsburgh: “Feeding Ghosts: D’Aguilar’s MiddlePassage Epic, the Slave Ship and Colonial Sovereignty”
Panel A3: The Medium and the Message: Media and the Gendered Politics ofGlobalized Black ImagesVenue: Alisa - ASANTE 1
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Jonathan Roberts, Mount Saint Vincent University: “Michael Power and Pan-AfricanGuinness Masculinity”
Damion Thomas, University of Maryland: ‘“Spreading the Gospel of Basketball’: TheState Department and the Harlem Globetrotters, 1945-1954”
Julio Tavares, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: “Obama PresidentialElection’s Impact in the Brazilian News”
Panel A4: Women and Leadership in the Africana World
Venue: Alisa - ASANTE 2Chair: TBA
Presenters
A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland – College ParkOyeronke Oyewumi, State University of New York – Stony BrookStanlie M. James, Arizona State UniversityFilomina C. Steady, Wellesley College
Panel A5: Knowledge Factories: Liberatory Ideologies in Pan-Africanist ThoughtVenue: Alisa - BOTSIO
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Kwabena Akurang-Parry, Shippensburg University: “Through the Lens of Anti-Slavery: James Hutton Brew’s Gold Coast Times and Pan-Africanism in the Gold Coast(Colonial Ghana)”
Glen Richards, University of the West Indies-Mona: “Pan-Africanism and EthnicDivisions in Africa: The Case of George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Fight forGhanaian Independence, 1947-1966”
Indhu Rajagopal, York University: “Messiahs and the Liberation of the Colonial Body:Nkrumah and Ghandhi”
Panel A6: Remembering the Past, Rethinking the Present, Imagining the Future:Biographies of Pan-Africanist Thought
Venue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOMChair: TBA
Presenters
Christine Levecq, Kettering University: “Cyrille Bissette and Black AtlanticCosmopolitanism in the 19th Century”
Walter Allen, University of California and Tracy R. Rone, Morgan State University:“Revisiting Charles Valentine: Dismantling Cultural Perceptions as a Pathway toFreedom and Liberation”
Kwaku Korang, The Ohio State University: “E.W. Blyden: Pioneer Philosopher ofBlack Humanity, Black Nationality and Black Modernity”
Zahida Sherman, Northwestern University: “"A Kingdom Divided: The Exile andRepatriation of Agyeman Prempeh I, King of Asante"
Panel A7: Stories without Borders: Hispanic Bubi Tales across the AtlanticVenue: Highgate – SUITEChair: Joanna Boampong
Presenters
Dorothy Odartey–Wellington, University of Guelph: “Stories without Borders:Introduction and Theoretical Framework”
Justo Bolekia Boleká, University of Salamanca: “Presentation of Cuentos Bubis de lasIsla de Bioko (Bubi Tales from the Island of Bioko) in Spanish”
Adwoa Badoe, Writer/Storyteller: “Retelling of Bubi stories in English”
DAY 2 – MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009
9: 00 AM – 11: 00 AM
Panel B1: Re-reading Wright and other Black Intellectual Migrants: Narratives ofTravel, Internationalism and Pan-Africanism
Venue: Alisa – AFRAMChair: TBA
Presenters
Eve Dunbar, Vassar College: “The Multiple Frames for a Dynamic Diaspora in RichardWright’s Black Power”
Anja Becker, Vanderbilt University: “The Intellectual Black Atlantic: AfricanAmerican Scholars and Activists in Europe, Africa, and Asia since the Late EighteenthCentury”
Randal Jelks, University of Kansas: “A Gold Coast Colonial Subject in America and anAngry Black Mississippian in Ghana: Revisiting the Travel Accounts of J.E. KwegyirAggrey and Richard Wright”
Panel B2: ‘Stories to Pass On’: Gendered Literary Interventions on Nomadism,Exile, Nationalism and Resilience
Venue: Alisa – VOLTAChair: TBA
Presenters:
Medha Nirody Karmarkar, Rutgers University: “Magrebine Mothers and Daughters,Nomadism and Exile in Malika Mokedden’s Je dois tout à ton oubli and L’Interdite”
Kirk Sides, UCLA: “Home and Away: Nationalism and Exile in Africa’s LiteraryImaginations”
Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie, Coppin State University: “Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone:Using Adinkra Symbols to Frame Critical Agenda in African Diasporic Literature”
Ayo Coly, Dartmouth College: “Anxious Masculinities in the Novels of AlainMabanckou”
Abobo Williams, University of Ghana, Legon: “Whose Sons and Daughters are We?The Afro-Diasporan Experience of the Parable of the Bat; A Case of Identity andIntegration Challenge: An Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and AmaAta Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost”
Panel B3: Encounters with Race and Research 1: West AfricaVenue: Alisa – ASANTE 1
Chair: Benjamin Talton, Temple University
Presenters
John C. Willis, University of Virginia: “From Stranger to Spouse: NegotiatingSubjectivity and Belonging in a Yoruba Town”
Carina Ray, Fordham University: “Identity Politics: Race Research and Reshaping theField of African History”
Benjamin Talton, Temple University: “Race for Data: Racial Affinity, Research andthe Quest for Objectivity in Rural Northern Ghana”
Oghenetoja Okoh, New York University: “On Coming Home…. Again”
Panel B4: Catalysts, Activists and ‘Sturdy Bridges’: Resisting Women in Africa andthe African Diaspora
Venue: Alisa – ASANTE 2Chair: TBA
Presenters
Robyn Spencer, Lehman College: “Black Internationalism in the Era of Black Power:Connie Matthews’ Anti-Imperilaist Activism in Europe and the US”
Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: “Theoretical and StruggleComplexities in the study of Women of Africa and the African Diaspora”
Thovoethin Paul-Sewa, Lagos State University: “Gender, Religion and PoliticalParticipation in Africa”
Brandy Thomas, Ohio State University: “A Comparative, Exploratory Study of theRole and Place of African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights and SouthAfrican Women in the Struggle against Apartheid”
Panel B5: The Rise of Africa’s ‘Black Star’: Pan-Africanism, Ghana and theEvolution of a Nation
Venue: Alisa – BOTSIOChair: Zahida Sherman
Presenters
Abena Asare, New York University: “Human Rights and Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana”
Jean Allman, Washington University: “Nkrumah, African Studies and the RadicalPolitics of Knowledge Production in the Black Star of Africa”
Marc Goulding, College of Wooster: “The Anti- Imperial Front: Accra, 1936”
Panel B6: Finding a Place in a Hostile Space: African-American Struggle forEmpowerment in the Early Twentieth Century
Venue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: TBA
Presenters
Glenn Chambers, Texas A & M University: “Finding a Place in a Hostile Space:African-American Struggle for Empowerment in the Early Twentieth Century”
Louis Lee Woods, Middle Tennessee State University: “The Government-SponsoredGhetto: The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Origin of Redlining, 1935-1968”
Jahi Issa, Delaware State University: “The 1958 All African People’s Conference,Accra, Ghana, and The African Diaspora”
Vanessa Jones, Cleveland State University: “The Real Memo: Ruff Draft”
Panel B7: The Role of the Spoken Word as Cultural Identifier in the EverydayLives of Africana WomenVenue: Highgate – SUITE
Chairs: Tia Smith Cooper, University of the West IndiesTraci Currie, University of Michigan
Presenters
Tia Smith Cooper, University of the West Indies
Traci Currie, University of Michigan
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Panel C1: Invoking Aural Spirits: Comparative Expressive Politics of Jazz, Kumina,House and Vodoun
Venue: Alisa – AFRAMChair: TBA
Presenters
Isaac Nii Akrong, York University, Canada : “Ghanaian Gome and Jamaican KuminaPerformance: West African Influences”
Joseph McLaren, Hosftra University: “Jazz as an African Diaspora Signifier”
Joyce Scott, Wheelock College: “Ancient Texts and New Technologies: Innovations ofthe Spirit in Popular Music Videos of Bénin”
Panel C2: Voicing Freedom: Place, Displacement, and Healing in Black Women’sLiterature from Africa and the Diaspora
Venue: Alisa: VOLTAChair: Elizabeth Brown–Guillory, University of Houston
Presenters
Violet Bryan Harrington, Xavier University of Louisiana: “Integration of Language,Culture and Consciousness in the Works of Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard”
Juluette Bartlett-Pack, DeVry University: “Women, Conflict and Displacement inTess Onwueme’s Then She Said It”
Elizabeth Brown–Guillory, University of Houston: “Place, Displacement, and Healingin Plays by Ama Ata Aidoo and Efua Sutherland”
Panel C3: Encounters with Race and Research 2: The DiasporaVenue: Alisa – ASANTE 1
Chair: Quincy Mills, Vassar College
Presenters
Beth-Sarah Wright, Spelman College: “Emancipative Bodies: A CorporalEpistemology of Black Women’s Experience”
Quincy T. Mills, Vassar College: “Sojourns in the Barber Shop: Untangling the Locksof History, Freedom and the Black Public Sphere”
Harvey Neptune, Temple University: “Undressing Scholarly Privilege: Oral Historyand the Politics of Perspective in the British Caribbean”
Panel C4: Returning ‘Home’: Transnational and Generational Politics ofRepatriation, Remittances and Information Technology
Venue: ASANTE 2Chair: TBA
Presenters
Robtel Pailey, Scott Family Liberia Fellow/Special Assistant for Communications:Untitled
Victor Adetula, University of Jos: “Nigerian Diaspora and their Contributions toDevelopment Processes in the Homeland”
Baffour Takyi, University of Akron: “African Encounters and the Neo-Diaspora: TheSecond Generation, and Socioeconomic Developments in Contemporary Africa”
George Meyiri Bob-Milliar, University of Ghana: “Diasporan Africans AssumeDevelopment Responsibilities in the ‘Motherland’ (Ghana): The Institution of theNK_SUOHENE/HEMAA”
Reginold Royston, University of California: “Akwaaba Online: (Re)connections in theGhanaian Digital Diaspora”
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Panel C5: Interrogating the Sacred: Meditations on Christianity, Rastafari and Pan- Africanism
Venue: BOTSIOChair:
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Presenters
William Ackah, Birkbeck College: University of London: “Faith of Our Fathers?Reflections and Reactions to Pan-African Christian Identities”
Devon Dick, Jamaica Baptist Union: “History of Biblical Hermeneutics by AfricanJamaicans 1783 – 1865”
Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies: “Rastafari as an Integral part of thePan-African Tradition”
Ashton Welsh, Creighton University: “Ghanaians and the Christian Beginnings of CóteD’Ivoire”
Panel C6: Enslavement and Gendered Visions of Freedom in the African DiasporaVenue: Highgate – CONFERENCE Room
Chair: Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University
PresentersRosanne Adderley, Tulane University: “Her Majesty’s Abolitionist in Havana:Transnational Struggles over Black and Freedom Dignity in 19th-Century Cuba”
Jessica Millward, University of California: “‘To Make a Man of Me:’ GenderedDiscourse among Emancipated and Free Born Emigrants to Liberia”
Brandi Brimmer, Vanderbilt University: “Making Claims. Contesting Widowhood:Southern Black Women and the Post Emancipation State”
Erica Alane Hill, University of Illinois: “Emancipation Memory: The Promise ofFreedom in Coastal Tanzania”
Panel C7: Re-evaluating Depictions of HistoryVenue: Highgate – SUITE
Chair: Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies
Presenters
Ashley Bowden, Ohio State University: “Conjuring Participation ThroughPerformance: A Case Study of Elmina and Colonial Williamsburg”
Melissa Crum, Ohio State University: “Pushing for Pan-Africanism: The Challenge ofIntra-Racism and Ethnicity Politics in Ghana”
Dawn Miles, Ohio State University: “Resisting Slavery in Their Own Obscure Ways:Black Women and Resistance in Barbados”
Maggie Morehouse, University of South Carolina: “Finding the African Diaspora:Fieldwork in the American South”
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Panel D1: Ruptures Amid Alliances: Charting Pan-African Tensions across theDiaspora
Venue: Alisa – AFRAMChair: TBA
PresentersZawadi Barskile, New York University: “Pan-Africanism Amid Tension: AfricanIndentured Labourers and Afro-Jamaicans”
Nathalie Pierre, New York University: “Pan-African Solidarities in Dubois’s Phylon”
Greg Livingston–Childs, New York University: “Carpentier’s Pan-Africanism”
Laurie Lambert, New York University: “Women Writing Revolution: FeministPerspectives on the Grenada Revolution (1979-1983)”
Panel D2: New Visions of Pan African Coalition Building
Venue: Alisa – VOLTAChair: Christina Greer, Fordham University
Presenters
Christina Greer, Fordham University: “Black Ethnic Intra-Racial Identity, CoalitionBuilding, and the American Dream”
Robin Hayes, Santa Clara University: “African Liberation, Black Power, and DiasporicUnderground”
LaTasha Levy, Northwestern University: “Engendering the Pan-African Movement:Women’s Work in Local Struggle since the Sixth Pan-African Congress”
Panel D3: Gender, Pan–African Identity and the African Caribbean Diaspora inCanada (Roundtable)
Venue: Alisa – ASANTE 1Chair: TBA
Presenters
Amoaba Gooden, Kent State UniversityRhonda Hackett, York UniversityCharmaine Crawford, University of the West IndiesSimone Hammond, George Brown Community College
Panel D4: Rethinking Gender Violence in Africa and the DiasporaVenue: Alisa – ASANTE 2
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Nicole Alijoe, Northeastern University: ‘Crumping the Colonial Archive: Writing Backto the Violence of the Middle Passage in M. Nourbese Philip’s Zong!”
Zétoile Imma, University of Virginia: “Area Boys: Writing Violence, Space and theBlack Male Body on Poverty Street”
Regine Michelle Jean–Charles, Boston College: “Visionaries, Violence and VisualImages: Documentary Film and Sexual Violence”
Shawn McGuffey, Boston College: “Rape and Racial Appraisals in the U.S. and SouthAfrica”
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Panel D5: Forging Paths to Liberation: Gender, Resistances, Radicalisms andProtests in the African Diaspora
Venue: BOTSIOChair: TBA
Presenters
Aisha Finch, University of California: “Gendering the Path toward Freedom: Afro-Cuban Women in the Slave Resistance Movements of 1844”
Aisa Leeds, University of California ‘“The Higher Type of Womanhood’: NewspaperPortarits, Diasporic Citizenship and Garveyism in Costa Rica, 1921-1938”
Frances Peace Sullivan, New York University: “The Universal Negro ImprovementAssociation in Banes, Cuba: Garveyite Pan-Africanism in Agro-Export Enclaves”
Panel D6: ‘Receptacles of Memories’: Transformative and Restorative Powers ofMaterial and Visual Cultures
Venue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOMChair: ?
Presenters
Barbara P. Josiah Richardson, City University of New York: “Overlooked Factors:African Continuities and the Establishment of the Jewelry Industry in Guyana”
Pearlie Johnson, University of Missouri-Kansas City: “African and African AmericanQuilts: An Intra-Diasporic Exchange”
Rael Salley, University of Chicago: “Bill Bidijoka’s L’Ecriture Infinie # 3 (2007):Learning Writing, History and Diaspora”
Roberta Bonetti, University of Bologna: “Funeral Objects and Media in the Sub-Saharan Diaspora”
Panel D7:Retracing Their Footsteps: Legends and Legacies of Pan-AfricanismVenue: Highgate – SUITE
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Kwame Zulu Shabazz, Harvard University: “Intimate African Unions and theGeopolitics of Afromance”
Ogbo Ugwuanyi, University of Abuja: “From Pan- Africanism to Pro- Africanism:Proposal for a Review of the Philosophy of Pan-Africanism”
DAY 3 – TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Panel E1: Black Sexualities in the African Diaspora: The Black Gay Men’sResearch Group: Advancing an Agenda for Research, Policy and Service in the
Interest of Black Gay Men (Roundtable)Venue: Alisa – AFRAM
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Leo Wilton, State University of New York at BinghamtonMarlon Bailey, Indiana University-BloomingtonLaRon Nelson, University of Rochester
Panel E2: The Field of African Diaspora Studies: Moving Our Collective WorkForward (Roundtable)Venue: Alisa – VOLTAChair: Jualynne Dobson
Presenters
Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State UniversityKim D. Butler, Rutgers UniversityVivian Ojong, University of KwaZulu NatalElorm Dovlo, University of Ghana, Legon
Panel E3: Imagining Pan-Africanism: Literary Discourses on an Ideal, an Ideologyand a Movement
Venue: Alisa - ASANTE 1Chair: TBA
Presenters
Maureen Eke, Central Michigan University: “Interrogating Pan-Africanism and BlackLiberation in Tess Onwueme’s Riot in Heaven”
Philip Whyte, University of Tours: “African-American and West African LiteraryRepresentations of the Pan-African Ideal”
Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Creighton University: “Pan-Africanism in Peter Abraham’sFictional and Autobiographical Writings”
Panel E4: ‘In the Castles of Our Skins’: Art, Architecture and Spaces of ResistanceVenue: Alisa – ASANTE 2
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Rebecca Shumway, University of Pittsburgh: "The 'Castle Slaves' of the Gold Coast inthe Era of the Slave Trade"
Courtnay Micots, University of Florida: “Art and Architecture of Anomabo, Ghana: ACase Study in Cultural Flow”
Rafael Sanzio Araújo dos Anjos, Universidade de Brasilia: “Quilombos-Geografia-Cartografia: Territórios Africanos de Resistência no Brasil”
Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College: “Space, Law and Football: Constructing Identitiesin South Africa, 1950-1970”
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Panel E5: Decision in Africa: Mid Twentieth Century Diasporic RadicalismVenue: Alisa – BOTSIO
Chair: Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western University
Presenters
Eric McDuffie, University of Illinois: “Garveyism in the U.S. Midwest: Pan-AfricanAgendas in the American Heartland, 1920-1965”
Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University (Japan): “The Sixth Pan African Congressand the International Struggle for Black Power, 1969-1974”
Panel E6: The State of Women’s Literature in Worldwide African DiasporaVenue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOM
Chair: Michelle Simms-Burton, Howard University
Presenters(this was proposed as a roundtable; we added Williams)
Kokahvah Zauditu – Selassie, Coppin State University, "Bearing Witness: ADiscussion of Critical Fluencies and Spiritual Confluences in Afrcian Women'sLiterature"
Carmen Phelps, University of Toledo
Jennifer Williams, New York University: “Melancholy Cosmopolitanism in AfricanDiasporic Women’s Texts”
Panel E7: Intra-Cultural Dialogues: A Model for African Descended PeopleConfronting Our Own Myths and Stereotypes (Workshop)
Venue: Alisa – AFRAM
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Patricia Canson, Medgar Evers College:Maria DeLongoria, Medgar Evers College
DAY 4 – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
G1: Theorizing Queerness in African Diaspora StudiesVenue: Alisa – AFRAM
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Jafari Allen, Yale University: “Black ‘Queer’, Here and There”Keguro Macharia, University of Maryland – College Park: “Intimate Diasporas”Matt Richardson, University of Texas: “The Queer Limits of Blackness”
Panel G2: Zora’s Daughters, Part 1: The Quilt: Re-imagined/Re-engagedVenue: Alisa – VOLTA
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Renee Alexander Craft, University of North CarolinaMeida Teresa McNeal, Brown UniversityMsha_ Mwangola, Aga Khan UniversityQueen Meccasia Zabriskie
Panel G3: ‘What is Africa to Me?’: Blacks in the New World Debate on theDiaspora
Venue: Alisa – ASANTE 1Chair: Margaret Washington, New York University
Presenters
Leslie Alexander, Ohio State University: “’We Are a Distinct People’: Emigration andIdentity in the Age of Emancipation”
Walter Rucker, Ohio University: “’I Knew Him in Coromantee Country’:(Re)configurations of Identity in the Gold Coast Diaspora”
Jason Young, State University of New York: “Join Th’Angelic Train”
Mawuena Logan, The University of the West Indies: “Pan-Africanism, ColonialLegacy, and Black Aesthetic”
Comments: Michelle Scott, University of Maryland
Panel G4: The ‘Re-invention’ of Africa: Land Rights, Economic Developments, andNEPAD
Venue: Alisa – ASANTE 2 Chair: Catherine Cole, University of California
Presenters
Mberengwa Ignatius, Addis Ababa University: “Human-Environment Relations inZimbabwe”
Yvonne Captain, George Washington University: “Partnerships between AfricanOrganizations and External Organizations: Some Limits, Some Possibilities”
Anthony Andrews, Governors State University: “Sir Arthur Lewis, Kwame Nkrumahand Strategies in Economic Development: The Case of Ghana and the Caribbean, Past,Present and Future”
Richard Goodridge, University of the West Indies: “Boundary Adjustments andCurrency in Africa: The Case of Cameroon”
Panel G5: Herskovits at the Heart of BlacknessVenue: Alisa – BOTSIO
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Llewellyn Smith, Vital Pictures, Inc.
Christine Herbes–Sommers, WGBH
Vincent Brown, Harvard University
Kevin Yelvington, University of South Florida
Panel G6: Collaboration and Cooperation across the Diaspora using DigitalLibraries
Venue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOMChair: TBA
Presenters
Ira Revels, Cornell University
Loretta Parham, Atlanta University Center
Camille Andrews, Cornell University
Kara Keeling, University of Southern California: “African Cinema and the DigitalRegime of the Image”
Panel G7: ‘Pivoting the Center’: Pan-Africanism, Pan-Asianism and AfricanDiaspora Studies
Venue: Highgate - SUITEChair: TBA
Presenters
Furukawa Tetsushi, Otani University: “East Asia, Africa and the African Diaspora inWorld History”
Keiko Araki, Tokai University: “Pan-Africanism and Pan-Asianism: Some JapaneseViews on Marcus Garvey”
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Panel H1: Roots and Routes: Historiographies of Slavery in Venezuela, Brazil andGhana
Venue: Alisa – AFRAMChair: TBA
Presenters
Evelyne Laurent–Perrault, New York University: “Rape and Punishment in theProvince of Caracas, 1796-1797: The impact of Patriarchy on African Descendent Girlsand Women in Colonial Venezuela - Maria Juliana’s court case”
Yuko Miki, New York University: “Beneath the Black Wave: Popular Politics andAbolition in Brazil, 1884-1889”
Kwame Essien, University of Texas at Austin: “Ripples in a Brazilian Pond: TheHistory of Disputes over Land, Inheritance and Sites of Memory in Tabom Communitiesin Ghana”
Panel H2: Zora’s Daughter 2: The Quilt-In: A Site of Diasporic Exchange(workshop)
Venue: Alisa - VOLTAChair: TBA
Presenters
Nicole Castor, Texas A & M UniversityEbony Noelle Golden, Betty’s Daughter Arts CollaborativeAbra Johnson, City Colleges of Chicago
Panel H3: Interrogating the Africa-Diaspora Nexus across Time, Space, andDisciplines
Venue: Alisa – ASANTE 1Chair: Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
Presenters
Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University: “Africa, Diaspora and Development in the 21st
Century”
Robin Vander, Xavier University: “Africa, Diaspora, and Development in the 21st
Century”
Soyini Madison, Northwestern University: “Performing the Black Body/Performingthe Black Diaspora”
Ibrahim Seck, Cheikh Anta Diop University: “Performing the Black Body/Performingthe Black Diaspora”
Jemadari Kamara, University of Massachusetts: “Sports and Black Folks”
Okey Ihedura, Arizona State University: “Global Black Politics”
Michael Williams, Aya Centre: Respondent
Shadrack Nasongo, Rhodes College: Respondent
Panel H4: Rights of Passage: Pan-Africanist Movements Past and PresentVenue: Alisa - ASANTE 2
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Azaria Mbughuni, Spelman College: “Pan African Freedom Movement for East andCentral Africa and the Quest for Unity and Independence”
Lazare Ki-Zerbo, Comité International Joseph Ki-Zerbo: “From AAPC to the EighthPan-African Congress”
Claudius Fergus, University of the West Indies/St. Augustine: “The African Union’sSixth Region: Global Africa, The Legacy of Marcus Garvey”
Panel H5: Deal Breakers: Reappraising Black Pan-Africanist Thought….Venue: Alisa – BOTSIO
Chair: Pierre
PresentersBayo Holsey, Duke University: “Staging the Past: The Joseph Project and the Hazardsof Discourse”
Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University (Japan): “A Line Of Steel: The Organizationof the Sixth Pan African Congress and the Global Contours of Black Power, 1967-1975”
Jesse Shipley, Haverford College: “Sonic Nationalism and Diasporic Disjuncture:Hiplife Music and First Generation Ghanaians in the Bronx.”
R. Scott Heath, Georgetown University: “Signs of Opulence: Iterating the African inAmerican Hip_Hop Text”
Jemima Pierre, The University of Texas at Austin: “Diaspora Studies, Pan-Africanism, and the Dialectics of Black Globality”
Panel H6: Identity, Agency and Achievements of the Enslaved People in the InternalAfrican Diaspora
Venue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOMChair: Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
Presenters
Cynthia Becker, Boston University: “Hunters, Sufis, Soldiers and Minstrels: Trans-Saharan Slave Trade and the Arts of the Moroccan Gnawa”
Yacine Daddi Addoun, York University: “Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place:The Fate of Enslaved Africans in Colonial Algeria”
Chouki El Hamel, Arizona State University: “Constructing a Diaspora: The GnawaBlack West Africans in Morocco”
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh: “North Africa: A Key Region in the OldWorld Diaspora from Sub-Saharan Africa”
Bruce Hall, Duke University: “The Role of Slaves as Agents of the Trans-Saharan SlaveTrade: Evidence from a Ghadames-based Commercial Network in the Niger Bend, 1850-1900
Panel H7: Beyond Color-Blindness: Contemporary Brazilian Politics, Policies andPedagogies
Venue: Highgate – SUITEChair: TBA
Presenters
Kia Caldwell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: “Black Activists and the‘Racialization’ of Public Policy in Brazil”
Erika Ferreira, Universidade de Brasilia: “Trajetorias Escolares e Vivencia Academicade Jovens que Ingressaram na Univeridade de Brasilia Pelo Sistema de Cotas”
Andréia Lisboa de Sousa, The University of Texas at Austin and Eliane Cavalleiro,University of Brasilia: “An African Diasporic Cosmovision: Black Characters in theBooks”
Alexandra Nunes, Federal University of Bahia – Salvador - Brasil: “African Studiesin Brazil in the Context of Law 1639 and the Fight against Racism and Afrofobia”
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Panel I1: Teaching the Caribbean: Towards A Pan African AgendaVenue: Alisa – AFRAM
Chair: Rita Pemberton, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad andTobago
Presenters
Marcia Burrowes, University of the West Indies: “The Cultural Narrative in theCaribbean Text: Refocusing the African-Continuum”
Janice Mayers, University of the West Indies: “Strands of Pan-Africanism in SelectedCaribbean History Textbooks”
Rita Pemberton, University of the West Indies: “Uprooted: Africa in Primary andTertiary Level Education Programmes in the Caribbean”
Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies: “The Black Family During Slavery:Confronting Stereotypes, Restoring Truth”
Panel I2: ‘Turning Our Eyes to Look Back’: Akan, Igbo, Yoruba and ‘Internal’African Diasporas
Venue: Alisa - VOLTAChair: TBA
Presenters
Mariana Candido, Princeton University: “Diasporas within the African Continent: TheDisplacement of People form Benguela to São Tomé, 1850-1870”
Kwasi Konadu, The City University of New York: “On Diaspora and the Akan in theAmericas”
Ian E.A. Yeboah, Miami University: “Ghanaian Immigration Trajectories andSettlement in the Greater Cincinnati Area”
Nnanna Arukwe, University of Nigeria-Nsukka: “Diasporas within the Diaspora: TheCase of the Igbo and its Implications for the African Diaspora”
Olukoya Oken, Obafemi Awolowo University: “Migration, Inter-Regional Trade andthe Yoruba Diaspora in West Africa”
Panel I3: In Search of Pan AfricanismVenue: Alisa – ASANTE 1
Chair: Leslie Alexander, The Ohio State University
Presenters
Jermaine Archer, SUNY, College at Old Westbury: “William Wells Brown: Pan-Africanist and Cultural Critic”
Jason Perkins, The Ohio State University: “Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah: GhanaianIndependence and Its Impact on Black Radicalism”
Curtis Austin, University of Southern Mississippi: “International Solidarity, PanAfricanist Thought and the Black Panther Party
Nicole Jackson, The Ohio State University: “Fighting for the Black World: AfricanAmerican Anti-Apartheid Work, 1950-1990”
Panel I4: Black Miasma: Performing Race, Gender, and Morality in the Nineteenthand Twentieth Centuries
Venue: ASANTE 2Chair: Kali Nicole Gross, Drexel University
Presenters
Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans: “The Roots of Prison Reform: African-American Women and the End of the Convict Lease System”
Kali Nicole Gross, Drexel University: “’A Mulatto, with Well-Defined AfricanFeatures, but a Sharp Clear Eye’: Tabbs vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1887”
Cheryl Hicks, University of North Carolina: “The Case of Hanna Elias: InterracialIntimacy and Civil Rights in Early Twentieth-Century New York”
Julia Robinson–Harmon, University of North Carolina: “Masculine Pulpits andFeminine Pews: Black Baptist Churchwomen and Black Male Leadership in the NorthernBlack Church"
Panel I5: ‘The Writing “I”: Narratives of Travel, Transnationalism and Pan-Africanism
Venue: Alise – BOTSIOChair: TBA
PresentersAmma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe, New York University: “The Battle for the Souls of BlackFolk: Black Performance in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition”
Tara Bynum, Towson University: “To Talk to Books: Gaze and Encounter in Equiano’sNarrative”
Susan Rosenfeld, New York University: “A Culture of Letters: David F. Dorr’s andFrederick Douglas’ Travel Narratives as Early Pan-African Texts”
Kwasi Konadu, The City University of New York: “On Diaspora and the Akan in theAmericas”
Panel I6: ‘Black Folk Here and There’: Repositioning African Diaspora(s) in andBeyond Europe
Venue: Highgate – CONFERENCE ROOMChair:, ?
Presenters
Nadine Golly, University of Giessen: “Black Diaspora and Emancipation Trajectories inthe Context of Black Adoption Migration between Germany and Denmark”
Elisa Joy White, University of Hawaii: “The End of Nigerian Ireland: An Examinationof High Profile Deportation Cases in Ireland”
Charles Quist-Adade, Kwantlen Polytechnic University: “Children of the Cold War:The Life and Plight of African Russians”
Mitsy Chanel-Blot, University of Texas: “Fatal Junction: Constructions of Blackness inFrance”
Oyeniyi Okunoye, Obafemi Awolowo University: “Identity Construction and thePoetics of Performance in Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poetry”
Panel I7: Sound Worlds: Counter-Hegemonies of Samba, Funk Carioca and SayaVenue: Highgate – SUITE
Chair: TBA
Presenters
Denise Barata, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro: “Displacement and Stays ofAfrican Archaic Heritage in the Samba of Rio de Janeiro”
Adriana Lopes, Federal University of Tocantins: “The Hybridization of NationalIdentity in the Funk Carioca”
Adriana Facina, Universidade Federal Fluminense: “Novas Batidas, Velhos Batuques:O Funk Carioca como Música Diaspórica”
