INTERROGATING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: AFRICAN DIASPORA IDENTITIES

2005 GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

 

August 6th, 2005

FIU Biscayne Bay Campus,

Wolfe University Center, WUC 155

 

 

8:30 – 9:00: Opening Statements

Dr. Raul Moncarz, Vice-Provost, Biscayne Bay Campus

Dr. Doug Kincaid, Vice-Provost, International Studies

Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, Coordinating Faculty, Interrogating the African Diaspora

 

Mapping the African Diaspora: Fragmented Geographies and Positionalities I

Chair: Dean Wagstaffe, Florida International University

 

9:00 – 9:15 Remembering Angola: The Construction of Cuban National Memory during the Angolan Intervention

Marisabel Almer, University of Michigan

 

9:15 – 9:30 Heirs and Pioneers Coming Home: Remapping the African Diaspora from Ethiopia

Giulia Bonacci, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

 

9:30 – 9:45 On the Corner of 125th and 7th: Constructing Allies in the Cuban and African American Press, September 1960

Devyn Spence, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

9:45 – 10:00 The Freedom of Difference: Decolonization in Nigeria and Chiapas

Tryon Woods, University of California, Irvine

 

10:00 – 10:15 Discussant: Dr. Gaurav Desai, Tulane University

 

10:15 – 10:30 Open Discussion

 

 

Mapping the African Diaspora: Fragmented Geographies and Positionalities II

Chair: Nzinga Mack, Florida International University

 

10:30 – 10:45 The ME in My Identity: How Diaspora Identities are Constructed in the Ghanaian Diaspora in the U.K.

Elvina Quaison, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

 

10:45 – 11:00 Creating a Modern and Authentic Haiti: Intellectual Cooperation Between Haiti and the U.S. after 1934

Chantalle Verna, Michigan State University

 

 

11:00 – 11:15 Black Immigrants and Social Mobility: A Dream Derailed?

Andrea Queeley, City University of New York

 

11:15 – 11:30 Diaspora and Africanness: Historic Relations Between Africa and Columbia

Mario Diego Romero Vergara, Universidad de Valle, Columbia

 

11:30 – 11:45 Discussant: Dr. Percy Hintzen, University of California, Berkeley

 

11:45 – 12:00 Open Discussion

 

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break

 

 

Cultural Politics of the African Diaspora

Chair: Janice Giles, Florida International University

 

1:30 – 1:45 Reconstructing Blackness: Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth

Kai Wood Mah, McGill University

 

1:45 – 2:00 Representation of Slavery in the Montreal Gazette, 1785-1805

Tamara Extian-Babiuk, McGill University

 

2:00 – 2:15 Repossessing the Black Body: Identity Construction and Appearance in the African Diaspora

Sybil Dione Rosado, University of Florida

 

2:15 – 2:30 Discussant: Dr. Felipe Smith, Tulane University

 

2:30 - 2:45 Open Discussion

 

2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break

 

The African Diaspora: Hybridities Against Race?

Chair: Dr. Tometro Hopkins, Florida International University

 

3:00 – 3:15 Una e Indivisible: Accounts of Haitian-Dominican Relations in the Island of Saint Domingue/Hispaniola

Irmary Reyes-Santos, University of California, San Diego

 

3:15 – 3:30 Performing Community, Creating Diaspora

Carol Subino-Sullivan, Indiana University

 

3:30 – 3:45 Making Blackness Invisible: The Politics of Identity Formation in Jamaica

Maziki Thame, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

 

3:45 – 4:00 Discussant: Dr. Dionne Stephens, Florida International University

 

4:00 – 4:15 Open Discussion

 

 

The African Diaspora: Contesting the Heteronormative

Chair: Richard Fantina, University of Miami

 

4:15 – 4:30 Consuming the Black Male Body: Capoeira, Tourism, and Ethnosexual Encounters in Bahia, Brazil

Dara Schoenwald, Florida International University

 

4:30 – 4:45 Questioning Queer: Examining the Black Queer Subject in the Post-Apartheid (Black) Public Sphere

Xavier Livermon, University of California, Berkeley

 

4:45 – 5:00 Romancing “The Folk”: Re-reading the Nation in Caribbean Poetry

Christian Campbell, Duke University

 

5:00 – 5:15 Precious African Links of a Mighty Chain: Amy Jacques Garvey and the Politics of Pan-Africanism, 1944-1948

Reena Goldthree, Duke University

 

5:15 – 5:30 Discussant: Dr. Layli Phillips, Georgia State University

 

5:30 – 5:45 Open Discussion

 

5:45 Closing Remarks: Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, Coordinating Faculty, Interrogating the African Diaspora

 

 

6:30 Certificate Distributions

 

7:00 Dinner

 

 

 

This Lecture series is made possible thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation and the support of FIU’s Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC).