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April 27–30, 2016 • Columbia, Missouri
AFRO-CUBANARTISTS:
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Day 1: Wednesday, April 27
Time Information Location
4:40 pm Transport to Opening for out-of-town guestsHampton Inn Lobby
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Conference Opening, Reception and Gallery Exhibition
• Welcome by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Conference Chair
• Welcome by Alisa Carlson, Curator of the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology
• Welcome by Michael O’Brien, Dean of the College of Arts and Science
This special exhibition focuses on two of the most celebrated contemporary Cuban artists, Manuel Mendive Hoyo and Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar.
MU Museum of Art and Archaeology at Mizzou North
7:30 pm
Play
Letters from Cuba, by Maria Irene Fornés
Based on decades of correspondence between Fornés and her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time, space and spirit, revealing the ties between Francisquita, a young dancer in New York, and her relatives in Cuba.
MU Corner Playhouse
Day 2: Thursday, April 28
8:00 am Check-in Hampton Inn Foyer
9:00 – 10:00 am
Keynote Welcome by Michael Middleton, University of Missouri Interim System President and Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Conference Chair
Inaugural Words Nancy Morejón, Cuban Academy of Language
Hampton Inn Missouri/Stephens Rooms
10:00 am Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
1A PANEL: The Poetics and Landscapes of Afro-Cuban Literature Chair: Dawn Stinchcomb, Purdue University
The Ashé Poetry of Nicolás Guillén Thomas Edison, University of Louisville
Reverse Ekphrasis: The visual poetics of “Amo mi a Amo,” by Nancy Morejón Cathy Callaway, University of Missouri
Nancy Morejón: A writer who paints (Una escritora que pinta) Gabriel Abudu, York College of Pennsylvania
Hampton Inn Stephens Room
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
1B PANEL: Afro-Cuban Religions as Transcultural Movements Chair: Lisa Rathje, Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education
Bilongo: The Racialized Exoticism and Cultural Imaginary of the Afrocubana Stephen Cruikshank, University of Alberta
La Regla de Ocha Ifá. Más allá de las fronteras de la transcultración Hugo Garcia, Western Washington University
La Regla de Osha-Ifá dentroy fuera de Cuba. Un devenir en movimiento René Rubi Cordovi, Texas A&M University
Hampton Inn Missouri Room
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (additional ticket required)Hampton Inn Columbia Room
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
2A PANEL: Afro-Cuban Women: Between Text and Image Chair: Mamadou Badiane, University of Iowa
Poéticas de la transculturación: Danza afrocubana entre texto e imagen Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
Magdalena Campos-Pons frente a José Antonio Robés: dos maneras de proyectar la imagen de la mujer afro-cubana Ana Zapata-Calle, University of West Georgia
Hampton Inn Stephens Room
2B PANEL: Representations in Puerto-Rican Art Chair: Gwendolyn Diaz, St. Mary’s University
Maternidades puertorriqueñas: pintura, grabado y collage Ivette Guzman Zavala, Lebanon Valley College
En primera persona plural: Arte en el contexto de una comunidad afrodecendiente Daniel Lind-Ramos, University of Puerto Rico Humacao
Hampton Inn Missouri Room
2:30 pm Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Keynote Welcome by Flore Zéphir, Director of the Afro-Romance Institute
Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and Artistic Creation William Luis, Vanderbilt University
Hampton Inn Missouri/Stephens Rooms
4:30 pm Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guests Hampton Inn Lobby
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal Exhibition, Artist’s Gallery Talk and Reception
MU Bingham Gallery
6:15 pm Film — Olazábal: Un hacedor de objetos / A Maker of ObjectsMU Corner Playhouse
Day 3: Friday, April 29
8:30 am Check-in Hampton Inn Foyer
9:00 – 10:00 am
Keynote Welcome by Pat Okker, Senior Associate Provost
Speaking from Historical Silences: Gloria Rolando’s 1912: Voces para un silencio / Breaking the Silence Flora González Mandri, Emerson College
Hampton Inn Missouri/Stephens Rooms
10:00 am Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
3A PANEL: Reflections and Interpretations: Afro-Cuban Visual Arts Chair: Gwendolyn Diaz, St. Mary’s University
WORD and IMAGE in recent works by Manuel Arenas and Roberto Diago Marilyn Miller, Tulane University
The Ship in Cuban Visual Thinking: Media and Migration Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, RWTH (Rheinland-Westfalen Technische Hochschule) Aachen, Germany
Mute Screams: Althusser Between Lam and Álvarez-Ríos Bécquer Seguín, Cornell University
Hampton Inn Stephens Room
3B PANEL: Memory, Resilience, and Identity Through Afro-Caribbean Music Chair: Dawn Stinchcomb, Purdue University
Endangered Rhythms and Musical Arrangements in Contemporary Cuba: The Case of La Colmenita and Dr. Seuss Nicole Keating, Wordbury University
La parranda de Calzada: memoria afroboricua Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz, The University of New Mexico
Hampton Inn Missouri Room
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (additional ticket required)Hampton Inn Columbia Room
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
4A PANEL: Aesthetics of Religion and Film Chair: Mary Barile
Transculturación, sincretismo y palimpsesto iconográfico entre la Virgen María y las deidades africanas en Cuba Yumary Alfonso Entralgo, Texas A&M University
Heavy Ears: Sound and Labour in the Ontologies of Nicolás Guillén Landrián Veronica Brownstone, University of Pennsylvania
Hampton Inn Stephens Room
1:30 – 2:30 pm
(continued)
4B PANEL: Toward Ecological and Racial Harmony in Latin-American Spaces Chair: Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri
La ecología según la percepción de las comunidades indígenas en Latino América y cómo aplicarla en la actualidad María Elena González Ruelas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de la Costa and Nelly Hostein, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour / Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de la Costa
Identidad racial en Cuba: estereotipos decimonónicos y retórica de la igualdad en “Los dioses rotos” Lídice Alemán, Wayne State College
Hampton Inn Missouri Room
2:30 pm Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Roundtable: Artists and Keynotes
Welcome by Charles Henson, Interim Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Facilitated by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
Hampton Inn
5:30 pm Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guestsHampton Inn Lobby
6:00 pm
Manuel Mendive
• ReadingbyMilbreBurch– The Separation of Heaven and Earth and other Patakís from the Santeria tradition
• Film – El mundo mágico de Mendive / The Magical World of Mendive
MU Corner Playhouse
Day 4: Saturday, April 30
8:30 am Check-in Hampton Inn
9:00 – 10:00 am
Keynote Welcome by Hank Foley, Interim Chancellor
Afro-Cuban Heritage Tradition-Bearers: Reflections on Community and Country Identities and Cuban Cultural Policy
James Counts Early, Former Director Cultural Heritage Policy at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Hampton Inn Missouri/Stephens Rooms
10:00 am Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room
Thank you to the local committee members from both MU and the community who have given so much time to this project. Particular thanks to those who have hosted people in their homes and served as translators. Additional thanks to the students from the Cambio Center, including Eva López for her work on publicity.
Day 4: Saturday, April 30 (continued)
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
5A PANEL: Afro-Cuban Creativity: Exploring Cultural and Social Mobility Chair: Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University
Reclaiming Rights to the Revolution: Afro-Cuban Womens’ Voices as Power Devyn Spence Benson, Louisiana State University
Filmmaking as a Transnational Gesture Towards Community in Works by Leonardo Guevara Navarro Andrea E. Morris, Louisiana State University
Inle: Exploring a Trans-Caribbean Poetics in Afro-Cuban Mythology, Literature, and Art Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University
Hampton Inn Missouri Room
5B PANEL: The Urban Performance of Afro-Cuban Religiosity in Public Art Chair:GeoffroydeLaforcade,NorfolkStateUniversity
Creación artística, marginalidad y turismo: entrelazamientos y malentendidos ElíasAsseffAlfonso,CallejóndeHamel
Símbolos religiosos de ascendencia africana en el arte cubano contemporáneo Lázara Menéndez, University of Havana
Conviviality, Discursive Dissonance, and the Aesthetics of Public Art in a Working-Class Community of Havana: The Callejón de Hamel GeoffroydeLaforcade,NorfolkStateUniversity
Hampton Inn Stephens Room
5C PANEL: Three women artists, three generations, three ethnicities, three mediums: the Aesthetics of Engagement and Resistance Chair: Dorothy Payne, Revolutionary Poets Brigade and ArtInternationale
The Insistent Gaze: Appropriating the Tropes of Individualism to Elicit Liberating Critical Re-Visioning in Poetry and Painting Dorothy Payne, Revolutionary Poets Brigade and ArtInternationale
Reconciliation and Revision: The Critical Imagery of Subjective and Shared Re-Memory in Black and White; an African Artist in Exile Fatimata Vetu, Artinternationale
The Valoration of Experience: The Past as a Bridge to Empower and Transform — Visual Narratives and Poetic Proclamations Denise Ward-Brown, Washington University in St. Louis
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (additional ticket required) Hampton Inn
1:30 – 4:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
6A PANEL: A Question of Time? Blackness, Cubanness, Justice in Art and Literature Chair: David Lisenby, William Jewell College
Non-Redemptive Mourning in Eusebia Cosme’s “Mamá Dolores” Erin Finzer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Cuadros de costumbres y cultura visual en Cuba en el siglo XIX Daylet Domínguez, University of California, Berkeley
“Stories only wise fish can tell”: Afro-Caribbean Spirituality in the Poetry of Adrián Castro Emily Maguire, Northwestern University
“Dios será una mujer”: Retro-Futurist Peregrination in Fulleda’s Historical Theatre David Lisenby, William Jewell College
Hampton Inn Missouri Room
6B PANEL: Literary Discourse: Remembering the Ancestors Chair: Lucy Lee, Truman State University
El vodú: protagonista y arma revolucionaria en “El reino de este mundo,” de Alejo Carpentier Francis Agbemade, Arizona State University
Commemorative Struggle: Slave Rebellion, the Cuban Revolution and the Art of Remembering Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Washington University in St. Louis
Histeria femenina en “los Cuentos negros,” de Lydia Cabrera María Vazquez, Eastern Connecticut State University
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
6C PANEL: Cuban Artists: In Search of African Heritage Chair: Jack Draper, University of Missouri
Experimental Autoethnography: “Yoko Osha” and “Bare-Faced” filmworks Lázara Rosell Albear, Filmmaker
Afrocentric Journey through Cuba: a Reflective Interview with Afro Cuban Artist Choco about the Application of the Nguzo Saba Paulette Pennington Jones, City Colleges of Chicago
Hampton Inn Stephens Room
5:40 pm Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guestsHampton Inn Lobby
6:00 pmEduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar presentation
• Film – Choco
MU Student Center Leadership Auditorium
7:00 pm Cuban-themed Dinner & MusicMU Student Center The Shack
MU Museum of Art and Archaeology
MU Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program
George Caleb Bingham Gallery
MU Afro Romance Institute
MU Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs
MU Lectures Committee
SPONSORS and CONTRIBUTORS
MU Department of Theatre
MU Department of Art
MU Department of English
MU Department of Black Studies
Cambio CenterSantiago Rodríguez Olazábal
Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar
Manuel Mendive
MU Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative
Missouri School of Journalism — Strategic Communication
Norfolk State University
MU Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Laura Pérez-Mesa
MU Department of Art History and Archaeology
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