Schedule of Events

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¡Aquí Estamos! Afro-Latin@s Now! Film Series
Every Friday in October 2011

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Thursday, November 3rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Plenary Conference Opening 

Welcome

• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  
• Miriam Jiménez Román, Director, afrolatin@ forum
  
• Luz Benítez Delgado, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  
• Juan Flores, Chair, afrolatin@ forum
  

Round-table Discussion

• James Counts Early, Director Cultural Heritage Policy Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution
  
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
  
• Maria Rosario Jackson, Urban Policy Institute
  
• Silvio Torres Saillant, Syracuse University 
  
• Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, New York University and ENCUENTRO, INC.
  

Cultural Presentation

• Kwami Coleman, afrolatin@ forum, performing “El Manicero”
  

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Friday, November 4th, 8:30am - 6:00pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York

8:30-9:30am

• Arrival and registration
  

9:30-11:00am

1A. In and Out of Focus: Media and Representation 
Moderator: Laura Rivera, afrolatin@ forum
Panelists: 

• Yvonne Latty, New York University 
• Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking and The New School
• Lori Robinson, BLAC Detroit Magazine, and VidaAfroLatina
• Iván Román, former Executive Director, National Association of Hispanic Journalists

1B. We Count: Identity, the Census and Visibility
Moderator: Guesnerth Josué Perea, AfroColombia NY and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists: 

• Angelo Falcón, Latino Policy Institute
• Jocelyn Géliga Vargas, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
• Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Universidad Nacional de Colombia·
• Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas, North Carolina Central University
  

11:15am-12:45pm

2A. Gender & Sexuality within Afrolatinidad
Moderator:  Zenaida Méndez, National Dominican Women’s Caucus
Panelists:

• Bertha Isabel Arzu, Enlace de Mujeres Negras de Honduras
• Javier Cardona, Rehabilitation Through the Arts
• Leticia Peguero, Robert Woods Foundation
• Charles Rice-González, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD)
  

2B. Building Community: Activism, Networking, and Policy
Moderator: Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Graduate Center- CUNY and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:

• Luis Barrios, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY
• Mirtha Colón, Casa Yurumein/Hondurans Against AIDS
• Carlos Flores, Afro-Latin@ Institute of Chicago
• Carlos Russell, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College-CUNY
  

12:45-1:45pm

• Lunch
  

2:00-3:30pm

3A. Filling the Gaps: Youth and Education
Moderator: Melissa Valle, Columbia University and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:

• Manuela Arciniegas, The Legacy Circle
• Khary Lazarre-White, Executive Director,The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
• José Luis Vilson, Educator, New York City Public School
  
• Hernando Viveros, Phelps Stokes Foundation, and Afro-Colombian youth activist

3B. Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues
Moderator: Ricardo Millett, Millett and Associates, Chicago
Panelists:

• Stephanie Alvarez, University of Texas-Pan American
  
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
  
• Tanya K. Hernández, Professor of Law, Fordham University
  
• Joseph Jordan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

4:00-5:30pm

4A. Afrolatinidad in the Visual Arts
Moderator: Tashima Thomas, Rutgers University and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:

• Liliana Angulo (Colombia)
• Firelei Báez (NY)
  
• Michael Paul Britto (NY)
  
• Miguel Luciano (NY)

4B. Afro-Latin@ Historical and Cultural Flows: Current Transnational Research
Moderator: Roberto Marquez, Mount Holyoke College
Panelists: 

• Maya Berry, University of Texas at Austin
  

“’Como Ayer’: A Performance of Citizenship in New Jersey’s Cuba of Tomorrow”

• Aisha Cort, The Rivers School
  

“Black Cuban, Black American: Reading Afro-Latino Identities”

• T.J. Obi, Baruch College, CUNY
  

“Negros Macheteros”: Afro-Latino Martial Arts in the Popular Imagination”

• Laurence E. Prescott, Pennsylvania State University
  

“Remembering the Source: Reflections on Afro-Latin American Resistance and the Impact of the African American Struggle”

• Jill Richardson, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

4C. Tradition, Resistance, & Representation of Afro-Latin@ Discourse(s): Current Transnational Research
Moderator:  Juan Flores, New York University
Panelists:

• Ashley D. Aaron, San Francisco State University
  

“Afro-Latina/os Online: Filling a Gap in the Discourse of Afrolatinidad"

• Sandra Andino, Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc.
  

“ Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia: Stories from El Barrio”

• Kaysha Corinealdi, Yale University
  

“Bridging Communities, Reconfiguring Identities: Afro-Latin@ Educators and the New York City Ethno-Racial Landscape”

• Natasha Gordon-Chipembre, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
  

“My Mother and Her Sisters: the Paradox of the Afro-Costa Ricans from Jamaica”

• Kimberley Simmons, University of South Carolina

“Stirring the Sancocho and Gumbo and Seeing Africa: Afro-Dominican and African American Identity in the Context of the African Diaspora”

5:30-6:30pm
Closing Plenary: Dialogue & resolution

• Miriam Jiménez Román, Director, afrolatin@ forum
  
• Ejima Baker-Morales, afrolatin@ forum
• Karen Juanita Carrillo, Journalist
• Miguel Lopez, Jr., afrolatin@ forum
• Laura Rivera, afrolatin@ forum
  
• Lori Robinson, BLAC Detroit Magazine, and VidaAfroLatina
  
• Melissa Valle, Columbia University and afrolatin@ forum
  

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Saturday, November 5th, 12:00pm - 6:00pm 
El Museo del Barrio

12:00-1:45pm
Workshop: Afro-Latin@ Youth and Identity
Facilitators: 

• Ejima Baker-Morales, afrolatin@ forum
• Jadele McPherson, Lukumi Arts
  
• Yamila Sterling, afrolatin@ forum
  

2:00-3:30pm
Panel: Writing and Teaching Afro-Latin@ Perspectives 
Moderator: Willie Perdomo
Panelists:

• Dahlma Llanos Figueroa (Daughters of the Stone)
• Ray Felix (Bronx Heroes)
  
• Torrey Maldonado (Secret Saturdays)
• Carmen Mojica (Hija de mi madre) 

• Kevin Sabio (Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro-Latino)

4:00-5:30pm
¡Now y Para Siempre! Afro-Latin@ Open Mic
In memory of Piri Thomas (September 30, 1928 – October 17, 2011)

Emcees: Enmanuel Candelario & Frank Lopez, The Peace Poets

Featuring:

• Anthony Morales, Spoken word artist
• Conjunto Folklórico of Alianza Dominicana 
  
• Frantz Jerome, The Peace Poets and 2050 Legacy
• Mariposa, Spoken word artist
• Tato Laviera, Spoken word artist
• The Legacy Circle Women's Drum Cypher (TLC-WDC)

All interested artists are welcome!