EQUITY, JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT: PEOPLE OF AFRICAN

DESCENT IN LATIN AMERICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Cartagena, Colombia, MARCH 21 to 23, 2011

Sponsored by Sephis, the IGDS, UWI & the University of Cartagena

(In Recognition of the Bicentennial of Independence in Cartagena and the

United Nations International Year for People of African Descent)

Draft Programme

DAY TIME ACTIVITY PARTICIPANTS PAPER

TITLE

VENUE

20th

March

2011

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ALL PARTICIPANTS N/A RAFAEL

NUÑEZ

AIRPORT

21st

March

2011

8-9 Registration ALL PARTICIPANTS N/A PARANINFO

RAFAEL

NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

9 – 10:30 1st Plenary

Lecture

Chair: Prof. Michiel

Baud (IISG, the

Netherlands & Co-

Chair, Sephis)

Speaker: Prof. Hanan

Sabea (American

University of Cairo,

Egypt & Sephis STC)

"Passages

through Time and

Space: Labor,

Mobility and the

Remaking of the

Disposable Body"

PARANINFO

RAFAEL

NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

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CARTAGENA

10.30-

11.00

Snack Break ALL PARTICIPANTS N/A

11-12.30 Panel 1:

Slavery,

Abolition &

Commemoration

Chair Alfonso

Cassiani (Asociación

Proceso de

Comunidades Negras)

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CLAUSTRO

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Panelists:

1.Ahmed Reid

2. Verene A. Shepherd

(UWI & Sephis STC)

3. . Celia L. Cussen

(Universidad de Chile)

4. Alex van Stipriaan

Luiscius

“Confronting

Injustice:

Enslaved

Resistance to the

Transatlantic

Trade in

Africans”

“The University

of the West

Indies & Its

Slavery Past””

Slavery and

History in Chile:

Uncovering the

Traces of

African Slavery

on the Frontiers

of Colonial

Spanish

America

Maroons and

the challenges

of the ongoing

communication

revolution in

the

interior of

Suriname.

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

12.30 –

2.00 Lunch ALL

PARTICIPANTS

N/A TBA

2.00-

3.30

Panel 2:

Structural

Discrimination

Against People of

African Descent

in Education &

Health

Chair: Carlos Díaz

(FUNSAREP)

Panelists:

1. Rita Pemberton

(University of the

West Indies, St.

Augustine Campus)

“Discrimination

in Access to

Health Services

in the Caribbean

1834-1900 with

special reference

to Trinidad and

Tobago”

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NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

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AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

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CARTAGENA

2.José Luis Petruccelli

(Instituto Brasileiro de

Geografia e Estatística,

IBGE, Rio de Janeiro,

Brasil.)

3: TBA

“Brasil:

desigualdades

raciales en la

educación y

acceso a la

universidad”

3.30-

5.00

Panel 3:

Structural

Discrimination

Against People of

African Descent

in Education

Chair: Dorina

Hernández

(Corporación Jorge

Artel)

Panelists:

1.Andrea Queeley

(Florida International

University, USA)

2. Bernd Reiter

(USA)

3. Aaron Kamugisha

(University of the

West Indies, Cave Hill

Campus, Barbados)

“Somos

Iguales…Pero No

Somos Iguales:

Contradictory

Narratives and

Narrating

Contradiction in

Contemporary

Cuba”

“Beyond the

black Atlantic:

Democracy, the

law & racialized

exclusión in the

Colombian

Pacific”

“Citizenship and

coloniality in the

contemporary

Anglophone

Caribbean”

PARANINFO

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NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

5.00-

10.00

Cartagena City

Tour

ALL PARTICIPANTS N/A The Historic

District

22nd

March

2011

8.00-9.30 2nd

Plenary

Lecture

Chair : Nadia Celis

(Bowdoin College,

USA)

Speaker: Dr.

Alfonso Munera

(University of

Cartagena;

conference co-chair)

“Afrodescendientes

en la

Independencia y la

formación de la

República:

Cartagena de

Indias”

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RAFAEL

NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

9.30-9.45 Snack Break ALL

PARTICIPANTS

N/A TBA

9.45 -

11.30 Panel 4: Citizenship,

Rights, Justice,

Reparation

Chair : Nilson

Magallanes (Centro

de Cultura

Afrocaribe)

Panelists :

1. Cesar Rodríguez

Garavito

(Universidad de Los

Andes, Colombia)

2.Christiano Santos

Rodrígues (Universidade

Estadual do Rio de

Janeiro)

3: Claudia Mosquera

Rosero-Labbé

(Universidad

Nacional de

Colombia, Sede

Bogotá)

“Justicia, política y

discriminación

racial: la

juridización de las

luchas

afrodescendientes

en Colombia y

América Latina”

“Democracy, black

social movements,

and

multiculturalism in

Brazil and

Colombia”

“Ethnic and racial

reparative justice:

tensions between

memory and

transformation”

PARANINFO

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NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

11.30-

1.00 Panel 5: : Culture,

Ethnicity,

Identity (1)

Chair: Lewis León

(Universidad de

Cartagena)

Panelists:

1. Alfonso Cassiani

(Asociación Proceso

"Normatividad y

movilización social

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AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

de Comunidades

Negras)

2. Christian Cwik

(Universität zu Köln,

Viena)

3. Luciana Contarino

Sparta

(Universidad de

Buenos Aires,

Argentina)

4. Melina

Pappedemos

(University of

Connecticut, USA)

5. Carmen

Hutchinson-Miller

(Institute for Gender

and Development

Studies: Nita Barrow

Unit, Barbados)

de los

afrodescendientes

en Colombia"

"Africanizidad de

la mala gana: los

zambos y el

problema de la

identidad en el

Caribe

centroamericano"

“La población de

origen africano en

la Argentina y su

complejo camino

hacia la

visibilidad”

“Politics & black

activism in the

early Cuban

Republic”

“Jamaican Legacy:

Contributing

Factor in the

Construction of

Afro-Costa Rican

black Identity”

DE

CARTAGENA

1.00-2.00 Lunch ALL

PARTICIPANTS

N/A TBA

2.00--

3.45 Panel 6:

Knowledge

Production,

Race &

Representation

Chair: Lázaro

Valdelamar

(Universidad de

Cartagena)

Panelists:

1. Richard Angelo

Leonardo Loayza

(Universidad

Nacional Federico

Villarreal, Perú)

2. Janice Mayers

3. Amzat Boukari-

Yabara

(Rapporteur at the

“Representación,

estereotipo y

exclusión en la

narrativa

afroperuana del

siglo XX”

“Race&

Representation in

Caribbean

Textbooks”

“A linked history

of Afrodescendant

people in the

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UNIVERSIDAD

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National Court of

Asylum (CNDA),

State Council

(Conseil d‟Etat),

Paris

4. Nadia Celis

(Bowdoin College,

USA)

intellectual

dynamic of the

global South”

“Cuerpos y poder

en el Caribe y

Cartagena de

Indias”

3.45-4.00 Snack Break ALL

PARTICIPANTS

N/A TBA

4.00-6.15 Panel 7:

Gender,

Ethnicity &

Economic

Power

Chair: Rutsely

Simarra (Asociación

de Mujeres Graciela

Cha Inés)

Panelists:

1. Doris Lamus

Canavate

(IEP – UNAB,

Colombia)

2.Maguemati

Wabgou

(Universidad

Nacional de

Colombia Sede

Bogotá, Colombia)

3. Sanjeev K. Sobhee

(Dean of Faculty of

Social Studies and

Humanities

University of

Mauritius)

4. Diana Sanchez

Betancourt

(Human Sciences

Research Council of

South Africa (HSRC)

“Afro-

organizaciones de

mujeres del Caribe

colombiano”

“Mujeres de la

diáspora africana

en América Latina

y mujeres del

África

subsahariana:

Representación y

participación

política”

“Equality of right

to empleoyment

among women as a

catalyst to reducing

income inequality

in developing

countries: The

case of Latin

Amerocam & Sub-

Saharan African

Countries”

“Lessons from

South Africa‟s

black economic

empowerment

strategy”

PARANINFO

RAFAEL

NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

8-10 PM Cultural Show TBA TBA TBA

23rd

March

2011

8.00-9.30 3rd

Plenary

Lecture

Chair: Chair: Prof.

Verene A. Shepherd

(UWI, Mona.

Conference co-chair

& Sephis STC

member)

Speaker: Dr. Richard

Goodridge

(UWI, Cave Hill)

African Development: The Struggle for Equity and Justice since the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”

PARANINFO

RAFAEL

NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

9.30-9.45 Snack Break ALL

PARTICIPANTS

N/A TBA

9.45-

11.15 Panel 8:

Culture,

Ethnicity,

Identity (2)

Chair: Enrique

Muñoz (Escritor e

Investigador de

Música Afrocaribe)

Panelists:

1.Luis R. Paredes

2.Kwyza Joanna

Fideles P. dos Santos

3.Pedro A. Cubas

Hernandez

(Instituto Cubano de

Investigación Cultural

Juan Marinello,

Cuba)

4. Sergio Mosquera

(Universidad de Los

Andes, Colombia)

“La construcción

de la danza y el

ritmo: La

africanización de

„Perú Negro‟”

“Reggae &

legitimacy in

Brasilian pop

music”

“La juventud

cubana: La

expresión de sus

conflictos de

identidad y de

afrodescendencia

a través de la

música urbana”

"Choco: la lucha

por la inclusión en

una territorio de

afrodescendientes"

PARANINFO

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NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

11.15 –

1:00 Panel 9:

People of

African Descent

in the

Chair: Muriel

Vanegas (Universidad

de Cartagena)

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NUÑEZ,

CLAUSTRO

Decolonization

Movement & in

the Construction

of the New

nations in LA

Panelists:

1.Armando Garcia

2.Edith Ortiz Diaz

(Instituto de

Investigaciones

Antropológicas,

Universidad Nacional

Autónoma de

México, UNAM)

3. Lea Natalia Geler

(Universidad de

Buenos Aires,

Argentina)

4. Esther Aillon Soria

(Universidad Mayor

de San Andrés, La

Paz, Bolivia)

“Towards and

African-centred

study of José

Martí‟s

anticolonialism”

“Blacks, Mulattos

& Castas in late

colonial

Soconusco,

Chiapas, México”

“Tensiones y

disputas entre los

afroporteños

frente a la

inclusión en la

blanca Nación

Argentina a fines

del siglo XIX”

“Una comunidad

de origen africano

en la construcción

nacional de

Bolivia”

SAN

AGUSTÍN.

UNIVERSIDAD

DE

CARTAGENA

1.15- 5

.00

FIELD TRIP ALL

PARTICIPANTS

N/A Maroon

Palenque

24th

March

2011

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DAY

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