AFRICAN DIASPORA SUMMER LECTURE SERIES 2004

July 12 th, 2004 6:30 PM FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center, room 155	MOVING CONCEPTS OF RACE AND RACISM: Travel, Emotion, Resistance Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine
July 19 th , 2004 6:30 PM FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center, room 155	POST-NATIONALISM AND BLACK POLITICAL THOUGHT Michael Hanchard, Northwestern University
July 26 th , 2004 6:30 PM FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center, room 155	BLACK PERFORMATIVES, RACIAL ASSEMBLAGES: Politics and the Political in the African Diaspora Barnor Hesse, University of East London, The United Kingdom
August 2 nd , 2004 6:30 PM FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center, room 155	BLACKNESS AND MODERNITY: Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon and the African Nation Abiola Irele, Harvard University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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).

 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE 2004

 

IMAGINING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: GENEALOGY AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS

August 7th, 2004

FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University BallRoom

8:30 – 9:00 : Opening Statements

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

Dr. Joyce Peterson, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences

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

9:00 – 9:45 FRAGMENTED GEOGRAPHIES AND LOCAL/GLOBAL IDENTITIES: THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA I

Chair: Sabrina Collins, Florida International University 

• The Role and Implication of Trans Saharan Trade on the Genealogy and Social Construction of the African Diaspora

Elias Nankap Lamle, Katholieke Universitiet Leuven , Belgium

• Whither the African Diaspora? A Preliminary Look at African Ontology and the Challenge of Transnationalism

Chambi Seithy Chachage, University of Cape Town/University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Voices From South Africa : A Redefinition of the African Identity Paradigm

Maria Taglioli, University of Padua , Italy

Discussant: Dr. James Sweet, University of Wisconsin

9:45 – 10:00 Open Discussion

10:00 – 10:45 FRAGMENTED GEOGRAPHIES AND LOCAL/GLOBAL IDENTITIES: THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA II

Chair: Dean Wagstaffe, ABD, Florida International University

• Global Networking For Local Transformations: Afro-Peruvians In The African Diaspora

Daphine Washington, University of South Florida 

• Here there and everywhere: The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean

LaToya Beck, University of California-Berkeley

Discussant: Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University

10:45 – 11:00 Open Discussion

11:15 – 12:30 THE MAKING/IMAGINING OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVES

Chair: Dr. Rita Koyame, Florida Memorial College

• The Tropics in New York : Race, Banking and Empire in the Caribbean

Peter James Hudson, New York University 

• The Contemporary as Absurdity: Reflections on Denials of Citizenship in the Anglophone Caribbean Postcolony

Aaron Kamugisha, York University

• (Re)Imaging Self: Revisionist Discourses of the Afro-Caribbean Intelligentsia, 1838-1950s

Melisse Thomas-Bailey Ellis, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad & Tobago

• Jamaican Professional Return Migrants: Agents of Social Transformation?

Mikaila Brown, Columbia University

Discussant: Dr. Percy Claude Hintzen, University of California , Berkeley

12:30 – 12:45 Open Discussion

12:45 – 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:00 THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF POLITICS I

Chair: Dr. Heather Andrade, Florida International University 

• Queering African Diaspora: BallRoom Performance and Queer “World-Marking.”

Marlon M. Bailey, University of California-Berkeley

• A União dos Homens de Cor: Brazilian Black Movement after the Second World War

Joselina Da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Canada’s Modern Caribana, 1967-2002

Lyndon Phillip, University of Toronto

Discussant: Dr. Layli Phillips, Georgia State University

3:00 – 3:15 Open Discussion

3:15 – 4:00 THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF POLITICS II

 Chair: Dr. Terry Rey, Florida International University

• Invoking the Spirit: Public Culture and the Politics of Nationhood in Trinidad

Nicole Castor, University of Chicago 

• French Caribbean Films and the Genealogy of Black Performativity

Sophie F. Saint-Just, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Discussant: Dr. Dionne Stephens, Florida International University

4:00 – 4:15 Open Discussion

4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:30 THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF POLITICS III

 Chair: Dr. Tometro Hopkins, Florida International University

• Black Peoples, Black Gods: A Comparative Analysis of the Nation of Islam and Rastafari, 1930-1950

Maboula Soumahoro, Université François Rabelais-Tours, France

• The Making of Black Canadian Identities: The Official Multicultural Act of 1988

Andrea Fatona, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto

• Conjunctions and Identifications: South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries

Stephane Robolin, Duke University

Discussant: Dr. Felipe Smith, Tulane University

5:30 – 5:45 Open Discussion

 

 

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).